The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-08-13
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The airplanes with nests on washburn
| field had to be strapped to their moertngs
during the gale that blew last night
The Topeka Railway company - paint-
+ ing over the poles that were decorated mo
Stop" and stop" during the skip-stor
period OF fuel saving during the var.
child desertion. was paroIed in the court
of Topeka Tuesday by Judge Rad Lee
upon his promise to support his family.
| The victory arch" still waves in the
breezes at Eighth and Kansas avenue. II
is a fluttering monument to Topeka's well
come to the soldiers-also a tribute to To-
peka's refusal to admit that the war is
over.
A new picnic oven is to be erected soon
in Gage park, according to Commissioners
east of the lake New ovens have recently
been constructed in Garfield park and in
Ripley park.
H. NJ. Young, formerly with the Crosby
also with the Warren aH X Crosby store for
several years and Edward Jordan. recently
accepted positions with the Frank Furni-
ture company, 626 Kansas avenue.
Railroads here have lifted the embargo
placed last week on perishable goods due
places The embargo worked a hardship
on local shippers, IL is claimed, leaving
large quantities Of poultry on their hands
Charles Carter, a negro. was fined $25
in the court of Topeka Tuesday for steal
ing sack of oats from w NJ. Mather,
the negro by his buggy tracks and arrived
in time to find him feeding the oats to
his horse.
Scores Of motor cars silt.i with tourists
and baggage and plasG s.ad with clay Gust,
sometimes mud, pass thru Topeka ddaily,
going east and west Tie western tourists
the eastern motorists have that longing
look for home.
Frank L. Campbell has been appointed
a member of the house committee OF the
Chamber Of Commerce with special instruc-
tons 10 take care of the needs of the
billiard room New cloths are to be put
them, and the pool and billiard equipment
is to be given general overhauling.
A petition asking an injunction against
A r. Snyder, Indian agent, TO prevent the
as farm 0 before @e March @ Ts. ifG ea
Tuesday in the federal court by Ora Ely.
Ing to an Indian named Pat Wabaunsee on
the Pettawatomie reservation for 10 years
and that Snyder now threatens to move
him.
Selection OF a site on the battlefield at
Yicksburg is left to three Kansas men, Ira
F.. Collins, Sabetha; W. W. Bowman. To-
The memorial was authorized by the last
legislature and the committee was ap-
pointed by Governor Henry ]. Allen. The
week.
Tomatoes and cucumbers have increased
In price. Tomatoes selling at so cents a
basket have increased to 20 cents. Pota-
toes selling for $3.50 a hundredweight IN
carload lots have advanced to $325. Dry
weather and the heat are given as reasons
Whiteker Brothers Mercantile company.
Retail prices Of potatoes dropped 81 a
hundred pounds in Chicago Tuesday
Histories studied By Kansas youths dur
ing the winter will be up-to-date. The
Foster history used in the schools and
commission will have In them a short re-
sumo of the signing OF the armistice and
other events in the worlds history occur
ring st that time. The Kansas history
sold in the state this year will include the
election Of Henry Allen as governor.
Six divorces were granted in the district
court Tuesday by Judge George H. Whit
In the lot who was given decree when
he was divorced from Bertha Swan son.
other divorces granted were: Mabel Zach
arias from Albert L. Zacharias; Ina Ruth
Stinson from James A. Stinson; Lola Gun
ningham from Earl Cunningham; Grace
Kinsiey from Harry Kfnsley and Grace
Witchewah from Harry witchewah. The
case Of Ethel Moore against Christopher
Moore was taken under Amusement
suit brought by George Gebhart of
Kansas City, in the district court of
/ Wyandotte county 10 collect $4,000 dam
City railway company was transferred to
the federal court here today. Gebhart
claims that when he boarded a Minnesota
avenue car on June Is the conductor and
motorman assaulted him with a switch bar
beat him up and threw him off. He
suffered fractured skull. conclusion of
the brain and other permanent injuries, be