The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-22
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


ONHI OltUIO HI HUiWE UlUO
i The Real Issue.
You think the war or politics q
All, no, It's, Should the pop-c vendor
At the state house, go or stay y
-cr-Cingle.
The swimming pool at Ripley park
was emptied this morning for the pur-
pose of washing the floor with a salt
solution to free the pool of impurities
There will be no more swimming at
Ripley until after S o'clock Thursday
evening.
A fire company from station No. 2
responded to a call from 421 Poplar
street at 1880 o'clock this morning,
where spontaneous combustion had
caused a blaze in the coal shed owned
age resulted.
An effort will be made by the Cham
Der Of Commerce to have the next
convention of the Holstein Breeders of
Kansas come to Topeka H. w. Nc
Afee will go to the Holstein meeting
to try and further this proposition.
Word has been received that First
JSergt. Jess Snyder has been wounded
IN France. According to the tele-
gram, received by his mother. Mrs.
Martha Thompson, 4o6 Van Buren,
street, he was wounded in the right
arm. Snyder was a member of Bat
terry A, of the 18th field artillery.
Capt. C. c. LuI of Topeka. who left
Topeka as a member of the medical
detachment OF Battery A, has been
promoted to the rank of assistant divi-
sion surgeon, according to a letter re-
ceived from him by DIR. w. E. McVey.
Doctor Lull left Topeka with the rank
of lieutenant and was given COM
mission as captain after his arrival
overseas.
For disturbing the peace at Ripley
park, Jack Frost, arrested Monday,
was fined SO in police court Tuesday.
Judge Heinz then paroled the boy for
so long a period as he behaved him
self. The other two boys, Henry Gill
and Denver Byrd, who helped Frost
start the fight with a West side boy,
were turned over to the county juve-
nile officers. .
The reading of a letter from a
brother overseas on active service was
one of the features Of the birthday
party of Master Ralph McHenry Mon
day. The house was decorated in
flags and as a part Of the fun the
children invited to the party sang the
star Spangled Banner Ralph Nc
Henry is the S-year-old son Of Mrs.
Bert McHenry. 22S Tyler street
Dr. Lafe Bresette, Topeka young
man who enlisted in the navy and re-
ceived a commission as assistant sur
geon, is one of a class of sixty young
men who are taking three months
course in the United States Naval
Medical academy at Washington, ac-
cording to the Washington Star, in
which his picture. appears. They are
naval reserve officers and will go into
active service after their graduation.
A mass meeting of the colored citi-
zens of Topeka will be held Monday
evening, August rs, at Metropolitan
hall, 404 Kansas avenue. The purpose
Of the meeting will be the considera-
ton of matters in connection with the
interests of the Topeka Industrial
Council and Educational Institute. 1t
is urged that all people. young and
old, interested in the welfare of the
school, attend the meeting. The meet
ing is called by F. Roundtree. presi-
dent of the Civic League.
Judgment in favor of the plaintiff
was. rendered in the court of Topeka
today in the case of H. H. Marsha
against the Ideal bakery company.
Marsha was asking for the recovery
of $50, which he claimed the Ideal
bakery. which was represented by L.
P. He'll. one of the proprietors, owed
him for certain recipes which he was
to furnish the defendant according to
contract. The bakery company had
declined to pay the $50 remaining
received the proper information and
that many of the recipes they had re-
ceived were of no use to them. Judg-
ment was rendered for $50 and costs.
An opal ring which was found Tues
day afternoon in a local pawnshop by
George Frost, plainclothes man. was
identified by Mrs. Geo. P. Fraser as
the one which was stolen when her
house at 213 E. Eleventh street was
entered last March and several arti-
taken. The ring was among several
other articles in a suitcase which was
pawned some time ago by Edward
Johns. who is now in the county Jail
facing a charge of forgery. Circum-
| stances have led the police to believe
that Johns is the man who entered the
house and further efforts are being
made to recover the balance of the
| goods.
The Rotary club will hold a special
| meeting Friday, August %, at 1915
at the Chamber of Commerce. The
Fred Voiland, who are going into
and w. A. Johnson, who is going to
| of directors is expected to have some
thing to say about their president
going away just after he started his
years work. Burt Bartlett will offer
some music as part of the program,
| and information concerning just what
the men are going to do in their new
tainment list. Since the adoption of
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