The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Dennis Alden. of fire station No. l.
has accepted position in the Topeka
pOstoffice.
A marriage license was granted
Wednesday to Irwin S. Hummer. "a,
and Margaret Foster, 20, both of Ell
mont.
An ice cream social for the Sons
of Veterans and its auxiliaries will be
held tonight at the home of S. R.
Boyer, 522 West Sixth street.
The Young Peoples society of the
Swedish Bethel church will give
lawn social Friday evening at the
home of Sam Nygren, ADJ Lane street
William Jeffries. general manager;
J. P. Carey. superintendent; w. 5
Basinger, general passenger agent; h
G. Kali, general freight agent; j. o.
agent, of the Union Pacific railroad.
stopped in Topeka Wednesday ON
their way to Fort Riley.
An ordinance was placed on second
reading and passed today by the city
commissioners making it unlawful for
any motor truck, or other vehicle to
intercept a funeral procession. The
ordinance also makes it unlawful for
vehicle to join a funeral procession.
The fine for failing to comply with
this ordinance may range from IS to
800.
Harry L. Hart, former Topekan, has
been granted a commission as cap
tain of the quartermaster's reserve
corps at Washington, D. c. A mes
sage announcing his appointment has
been received in Topeka by his rela-
tives. Hart came to Topeka from
Westmoreland, Pottawatomie county,
in 1905. He was employed in the
ticket auditing department of the
Santa Fe for several years. Later he
went to Washington where he worked
in the audit department of the treas
ury office.
George P. Hayden, city attorney. to-
day presented an opinion to the city
commissioners that the s12,799 in ex-
ira taxes paid by Fifth ward property
owners for their sewer should he re-
funded to them. Those owning prop
erty in the sewer district at the time
the sewer was constructed will receive
their percentage in rebates, according
to the number of payments made by
them on the Improvement. They must
show receipts for the payments. None
of the money will be refunded before
September 1, Commissioner Tandy an
nounced.
The family of Clyde Anderson, in
Guiding a wife and four children, is
reported in desperate circumstances,
the result of fire which completely
destroyed the Anderson home at
Twenty-seventh and Adams streets,
Cunningham Heights. One of the
children came running into the yard
Wednesday to tell the mother that
papers in the rear of a stove were on
fire. The mother rushed in to find
the house in flames. The entire home
was burned. Anderson had recently
purchased it intending to pay on the
installment plan. The house con-
tanned only two rooms.
A complete card index of all en-
listed men from the different Sunday
schools of the country will be kept,
according to action taken at this sum-
mer session of the International Sun
day School association which has just
ended. F. E. Gates, rural superintend-
ent of the Kansas Sunday schools. was
a delegate to the training school al
| Lake Geneva The work of the Sun
! day schools of the country will be in
| cooperation with Red Cross and Y
| M. c. A. work during the war. Mem
bers of the classes, that remain al
home, will prepare special boxes OF
| equipment and foods for the enlisted
| men.