The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-07-09
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Co, 534 Kansas avenne.-Adv.
The two clinic rooms at the city
board of health are receiving a new
coat of white paint. The office of
Commissioner r. d. McGiffert is also
being reprinted.
The county clerks office today was
preparing for the delivery of 100000
worth of road improvement bonds,
which have, already been sold. Some
of the bonds run for ten and some for
twenty years and draw five per cent
interest.
Word has been received in Topeka
of the purchase of the lease. furnish
ings and fixtures of the Livingston
hotel in Grand Rapids, Mich, by Fred
Benner, who formerly lived in Topeka.
Associated with Benner in the hotel
enterprise is Bert A. Hayes. The two
operate a chain of successful hotels.
| Locomotor ataxia being a serious
| disease is not funny. But the city
board of health has had a good laugh
over the name of the disease. MY
boss is not able to work any more"
a visitor to the health office said, ac-
cording to DIR. Earle G. Brown, city
| health officer. He can't walk at all.
They say he has locomotive attach
ments."
/ Without insinuating that the
| damp attractions over the Canadian
|
railroad officials declare that passen-
ger traffic to Michigan and Wisconsin
| points is much heavier this summer
than usual. Colorado, however, con-
| tinues to get its share, the warm
weather driving many tourists to the
cooler region.
The hunting licenses for the coming
year, beginning July 1, have been re-
ceived by Douglas Graham, county
clerk, and may now be obtained at his
office. Tom Powell received the first
license issued. There will be no free
licenses issued this year to ex-service
men owing to the act of the last legis-
from the statute.
Oran Ogee. who was shot and seri-
ously wounded by Charles Bremen in
a quarrel over boat in North Topeka
Friday morning, has a chance to re-
cover, according to physicians. The
bullet passed entirely thru Ogee
body, puncturing his right lung. Bren-
ner is being held in Jail pending a
more definite statement concerning
the wounded mans condition.
A petition asking for writ of ha-
beus corpus to obtain possession of
his 14-year-old daughter, Theresa
Marie Blitz. was filed in the district
court Friday by I. NJ. Blitz, local
pawnbroker For several years
Theresa has been staying with her
grandmother, Mrs. Mary Erickson,
PA Tyler street. For the last month,
the father claims. she has been denied
permission to see him.
George Pratt was reelected presi-
dent of the Eastern Kansas Beekeep-
ers' association at the meeting held
Friday afternoon at the Pratt home on
route 2. Roy Clark was elected vice
president, and j. w. Sw.ckard secre-
tary. A feature of the program for
the afternoon was a demonstration of
swarm control by o. A. Keene. There
were twenty five beekeepers from this
section of the state in attendance.
A free baby welfare clinic will be
held in Wakarusa next Wednesday
morning. July Is. under the direction
of DR.. II. A. Alexander, assisted by
Miss Frances Hoy and Mrs. Edna
Trickett, it was announced today by
Miss Mary Alexander, supervisor of
the Public Health Nursing associa-
ton. Miss Hoy and Mrs. Trickett are
Red Cross nurses on the staff of the
Public Health Nursing association.
If other Topeka citizens owning co.,
ner lots along car lines were like Will
liam H. Stanley, 1906 Fillmore street,
waiting for street cars would be a
pleasure, provided of course, if one
was not in too big a hurry. By the
aid of a convenient tree and trolley
post. Stanley has provide a seat for
folks who wait for the cars on his
corner. 1t required only few minutes
to construct the bench and it is in use
good share of the day. Stanley IS a
deputy in the office of the state fire
marshal,
Farmers who invested in the stock
of the Associated Mill & Elevator
company of Kansas City have ap-
pealed to the state tax commission
to remove their stock from the tax
rolls The investors told the state
commission that they bought the
stock under the theory that it was
non-assessa bic for direct taxes in
Kansas and that the corporation was
in reality a cooperative affair. The
mill and elevator company Is capt.
talized for 100000. There are 5000
stockholders in Kansas, some of them
owning as much as $4,000 worth Oh
the company's securities.
The yearly benefit social of the
Young Ladies' Sodality of the Church
of the Assumption will be held on the
parish house lawn Monday night, July
IS. There will be many attractions on
the ground, including the country
articles, also groceries of all kinds.
Contributions should be left at the
parish house. The committee in
charge: Miss Sophia Brandt, chair
man; Miss Jennie Finn. Miss Agnes
Heery, Miss Ann Sebert, Miss Mary
McAndrews, Miss Anna Lawn, Miss
Gussie Losh, Miss Isabel Cannon, Miss
Laura Morgan and Miss Winifred
Hartley.
The consolidation of the various
agencies for the relief of former serv-
ice men is practically completed as far
as the local federal Representatives are
concerned Hitherto a part of the
work has been done at Topeka, another
part at St. Louis, and the final action
taken at Washington. Under the new
system, which is ready for approval
by congress, eX-service men may be
examined and receive medical treat
ment or vocational training thru the
Topeka offices. ]. r. Smiley is acting