The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-27
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

James E. Williamson, of Manhattan,
stopped here few hours to visit his par
ents at 1924 Clay on his way east on a
business trip.
F.. W. Browning, farmer living near
Valencia, was fined So and costs in the
with permitting dead stock to lie unburied
on his place.
An army recruiting officer is in Topeka
advantages Of the air service. He win be
Mt the army recruiting station at Sixth and
Kansas avenue, all day.
A bond for $500 insuring the appearance
of c. Il. Brown in the court of Topeka to
answer to a wife desertion charge was for
feited today at the order of Judge Rad Lee.
U. S, Graham is named as bondsman on the
courts record.
Discussion of methods of strengthening
Shunganunga creek will. be heard Thurs
day night at the Quinton Heights Baptist
church. At present property owners living
in that vicinity are alarmed for fear the
creek will overflow.
A plan is underway to build rural high
school in Shawnee county, including the
East lndianola, Lyman, Rochester and
West Indianola districts. Another plan is
to build rural high school at Silver Lake
and one at Tecumseh
A petition carrying the signatures of
fifteen persons was presented to the city
commissioners this morning protesting
against the paving of the cross alleys be-
tween West and Lane streets and between
Fifth and Sixth streets.
A reception for all the divisions of the
church Wednesday afternoon beginning at
2:30 o'clock. The hostesses will be: Mrs.
A. B. Smith, Mrs. J. F. West, Mrs. C. c.
Nicholson and Mrs. Luce.
The Topeka Provident association is re-
ceiving many calls from men out of work.
according to Mrs Myrtle Callahan: the sec
rotary. She reports majority of the job
seekers are able-bodie men waiting for
the harvest season to open.
The Shawnee county commissioners Mon
day afternoon allowed the Shawnee county
farm hnrPon 81 in 1dditfOu hn
bureaus regular allowance. The money will
be used in experimental work being done
by f. o. Blecha, county agent, and Miss
Irene Taylor. home demonstration agent
Ruth Howell, who was denied n divorce
from DR.. Leland Howell, wealthy veter-
mary living near Silver Lake, today filed
absolute refusal to continue to live with
her husband. and. insists if divorce can
not be granted that she be given separate
maintenance. divorce was denied by
Judge George H. Whiteomb Saturday.
J. J. Schenck, Topeka attorney. today
against the Topeka Hallway company. The
compromise price was $500. The suit was
filed by Schenck for ]. c. Osborn. who
wagon anad to himself to that amount, as
q result 1of being hit by a street car.
Schenck. in explaining his compromise,
old and spawned. that he discovered the
wagon wasn't worth as much as he thought
it was and that other things were not as
they should be.
Arms Inspection. was held by Miss
Nella NJ Woods, city contagion nurse, Mon
day Mt the Mexican school at 12G Klein
street. Attic Miss Woods Wss once con-
nected with the army it was not the sort
of inspection all the soldiers think it was,
rifles and everything like that Just n
lot of vaccinating had been done recently
and the children had to be examined.
One youngster had tied her smallpox
vaccination up with hair ribbon. An
other believed in the cooling effect of
plantain leaves and had tied up her arm
with lot of leaves.
Firemen were busy Monday at station
No. in the city building, cutting out the
old tree that has been there on the corner
for many years. The tree was dying and
nothing could be done to save 1t. For
thirteen years." one of the firemcn said
between fires L have propped my feet. up
against that grand old tree and watched
the world go by. sYou that long stretch
where the bark is all gone, welfI wore
that off just like Commissioner WATSON
wore the holes in his desk with his spurs
But seriously speaking, / hate to see the
old tree 20. We will miss its welcome
shade in the summer"
Since May, 1914, c. p. Bolmar has brought
up the claim he makes against the city of
Topeka for damage sustained by his proper
ty when the city ran a sewer out across
his farm. Again this morning Bolmar
brought up the question. Patiently,
Patiently, 1 have waited for something to
be DONE" said Bolmar. "Persistently and
persistently 1 have tried to get justice on
my claim for damage sustained in the
morning he got results. "By the Fourth
of July said Mayor Corwine, this morn
ing. I'VE will settle the question forever
and forever and forever"