The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Tax exempt Kansas bonds. Shaw
inee Investment Co, 534 Kansas Ave.
Phone b050--Adv-
DR.. E. J. Rock was today elected to
membership in the Topeka Chamoer
of Commerce at the regular meeting
of the board Of directors
The police should keep a close eye
on the kid drivers. me driver IL
cense ordinance apparently is becom-
ing dusty.
BENJAMIN II. Abels cashier of the
Topeka state bank, was taken to Stor-
| mont hospital today. where he under
went an operation for appendicitis
Miss MaybeI Ford. assistant to Mil
ton Tabor, secretary OF the topeka
| Merchants association, left this AFTER
noon for a weeks visit with her sister
in Salina.
Mrs E C. kinley will entertain
! Relief Corps No. "a and their hus-
/ bands. Topeka Post No II, Friday
| afternoon. May Il, at her home, 1916
Polk street
The glaring headlights witnessed on
the streets OF Topeka these evenings
! indicate that the police campaign has
worn out and that it is time to wage
another war against motor hogs
The school grounds all over Topeka
| today are colored with the blue and
yellow caps given away to the boys IN
the Rotary festivities Saturday Hun
dreds of the caps were worn to the
Sunday schools yesterday
The woods around Topeka never
were so beautiful as this year The
shrubbery is perfectly foliaged, the
violets are unusually long sternmed,
the Towering trees are titled out 70
the last branch and there Is singing
everywhere,
The regular dinner and meeting of
the Topeka Cooperative club will be
held at Pelletier's lunch room at 6:15
O'Clock Tuesday evening. An inn
portant amendment to the constitution
of the organization is to be voted on
at that time.
Mrs. Barbara Booker was granted
divorce from Roscoe Booker by Judge
George Whitcomb in the district court
Saturday afternoon. She was given
custody of their minor son, Alfred, and
Booker was ordered to pay into court
$50 a month for his support
runaway team, hauling a hayrack
which was loaded with boys from the
State Industrial school, created havoc
on Kansas avenue between Sixth and
team stopped after smashing into and
damaging, two motor cars. None OF
the boys on the wagon were hurt
Two cases appealed to the district
court, in which Beo Adams, negro, was
charged with keeping swine within the
the CITY when attorneys submitted the
case to the court on agreed statements
of facts Saturday afternoon. Adams
was fined $40 and costs in each case
There were reported to the city
health department during the week
which ended Saturday one case of So
cial disease. four cases. of tuberculo-
sis ten cases of chickenpox, two cases |
of scarlet fever, two cases OF measles,
one case of diphtheria. one case or
Of wrrhn
cough
Thirty-five gallons of whisky. a |
large amount of mash and large still |
we're confiscated Sunday by sheriff |
and government men who raided the |
home of c. Fl. Wilson, 623 West Seven |
was found in a blind cellar. to which 1
the officers gained access by making i
4 hole thru the wall
s. Skipper, a soldier. received a |
cash on the head when he was struck |
by Patrolman Whitley. who arrested /
him near the Rock Island depot Sat
lrday evening. Skipper IS said to |
have resisted arrest and to have /
-alked insultingly TO the officer when /
he was questioned by him. He was
booked for investigation and later re- 1
eased.
The. members OF the American In-t
surance union will hold a business
meeting at o'clock this evening at
hall, 116 East Sixth ave-
nue. This will be followed by a dance
national president of the union and /
George w Hogan, national secretary,
both of Columbus, o., were in Topeka
last week /
In the last week dozens of motor
cars have sunk TO an SOS. stage IN
the Twenty-seventh street road just
west of the Topeka avenue corner OF
the Country club golf links This
treacherous sink hole has been an ex-
pensive piece of motoring to many
roads leading to the Country club has
been almost negligible this year
A communication from c. r. Her
rick, city clerk of Beloit. has been rel
seiyed by Miss Eta CoveI. city clerk
Of Topeka, relative to the anti-carniVal
ordinance which has been passed by L
The Topeka city commission Beloit,
according to the letter of the city
clerk. IS contemplating an ordinance
which will ban the street carnivals,
and is asking for copy of the To-
peka ordinance.
At the regular meeting Of the city
commission Tuesday morning there
will be opened the bids asked for by
W. A Stanfield, city commissioner of
water and electric lights. on the sup
plies of aluminium sulphate and by
drafted lime which are to he used in
the city filtration plant Seven bids
have already been received, and 9TH
ers may be received up to 10 O'Clock
Tuesday morning.
A group of young people OF the
Trinity Methodist church will go to
dolton Tuesday, were they will pre-
sent the play. The Elopement of Ell
en-" The members of the cast are:
Melvin Booth. Elsie Kern, Donald
Nelton, Lester Blank, Rachel Hurley,
Maude Wilkinson and Earl Moistorf.
Kenneth Gleason is business manager
md Arlo Stewart is advertising man
ager. Emery Sinner is stage man
ger.
VACATE TEXAS RATE ORDERS.
Federal Commission Leaves "Shreve-
port Case Tn 10 state.