The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-29
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

A special meeting Of the Topeka Indus
trial council will be held at Labor hail
Wednesday evening Mt o'clock
VIII II. Hetherington has returned from
France and resumed mis- old position
assistant ticket agent for the Union Pacific
railroad here
While using gasoline as an exterminator
an explosion occurred causing fire Mon
day afternoon at the home OF Mrs q.
Garrett. 800 Monroe street
Judge W. +. Schoch Is IN Colorado
Springs, according to word received by
friends. Unfavorahle rodd conditions will
Lake. he said
Western Union Telegraph employees ire
taking advantage Of the two weeks vac4-
tion with full pay offc=. W: {. Fox.
manager, will visit relatives in Kentucky,
Illinois and Missouri about August J.
Ray Morand was given a divorce from
Beuah MOrand by Judge Robert Carver
in the district court Monday Jennie Van
Horn was given a divorce from W. e. Van
Horn and her maiden name Of Barnett re-
stored. t
state employees under civil service are
saved from discharge under the new state
nepotl<m act, according to ruling by
the attorney generals office. This law
prohibits the employment Of blood rela-
lives 70 a head of n department or related
TO assistants or chief clerks.
Competition among state schools In OBJ
tnining the services OF teachers mpiOyrd
BY other schools in the state will eea Sc;
Of administration In the future. one
college Institution can't offer teacher
In another institution an Increase in sal
airy and rob the other school Of the teach
ers services
An average Of 5000 pieces OF mail pour
into the outgoing sacks at the pOstoffice
between 6 aud 30 o'clock every evening.
The boxes on the avenue are always filled
with mail about 5 O'Clock when stenos
raphers leave the offices Better service
could be had. It Is believed. II more mail
/ were posted during the day instead q
waiting until after ) o'clock.
! The annual picnic Of the Sons aad
Daughters Of Justice will be held tomorrow
night at Ripley park. The members of the
fratePnni OrganiZs ton and their families
VIII 60 70 the PARK shortly after O'Clock
I the evening There viii be swimming.
I dancing, games and athletics. Steinberg $
orchestra will furnish the music for the
occasion
| Imri Zumwalt. state printer. IS in Calf
| fornia. Mrs Zumwalt accompanied him. At
/ the state printing plant today there seemed
| to be some uncertainty as to whether Zum-
walt contemplated making a business trip
! out OF his journey by inspecting the Cali
/ was merely a summers VACATION trip In
/ past years the California plant has been
carefully examined by state officials
lawsuit covering years OF litigation
has ended IN the district court with n
I Judgment for the defendant. In 1914 Mrs.
/ Gertrude f Moon. sued her mOther-in-la
Mrs. Mary J. Moon. and brother-in-law.
Edgar Noon. for 4 share in $4,000 estate
on the Dover road She given 4 verdict
on the first hearing, but the decision was
| Robert Carver has held that she cannot re-
cover share Of the property.
Some one has informed county officials
that bailiffs Of the district court are sup
I posed to act deputy sheriffs or tax col
fecters when there Is court Heretofore
! the bsiIiffs have been idle whom court was
! idle The county attorneys office said the
I law had never been enforced here and
Sheriff Larimer expressed doubt that any
! thing would be gained from change in the
present system. a. he would have to hire
I new deputies when court convened again.
( The question OF whether some govern
ment employe Is turning over the names
l 81 prospective buyers Of government army
the mind Of County Commissioner A A
Rodgers Some time ago he wrote to the
government Tor some niahkets ana other
goods advertised at certain prices NO re
! ply was received. but Monday an agent for
} the Federal Distributing company Of San
4 Antonio. called on the commissioners with
a line af ex-armv goods. The commission
ers ordered 100 fine wool blankets. but that
don't prevent Rodgers from wondering
Miss Gertrude Thompson Of Topeka
while spending her vacation In New York
/ has accepted a position with the Owens a
Recrs Music company there as special
demoRStrator Of Fictroias After her stay
! IN New York she expects to spend month
/ At the Victor factory at Camden. y. J..
/ where she VIII take a salesmanship course
and attend the Victor Educational eonven-
I tion the last OF August before returning
her work as head Of the victrnia depart
! tment Of the R0ehr Musie company.
| The Kansas City. Kaw Valley & West
erh railway today applfsd 70 the pubic
/ utilities commission for Increases in freight
I snd passenger rates. The application calls
: for an increase Of from to % per cent In
7 freight rates The present passenger rate
/ from Kansas City 10 Bonner Springs is -
! cents. The application calls for n 20 cent
rate The rate from Kansas City TO Law
renee is % cents The proposed new rate f.
fl-os. Like Increases are asked for the in
terurban lines running from Joplin to
I Pittsbure and from pfttsburg 20 Colurabus-
] The same interests own Joplin and the
Lawrence lines.
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