The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-13
LOCAL MENTION.

S. M. Thatcher survived a severe surg
ical operation at Christ hospital today.
Miss Rose Ferlet leaves Thursday to
visit relatives at Cottonwood Falls for
two weeks
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs.
A. c. Rice, 1719 VanBuren street, yes
terday.
Matte Wilson entered suit today for
absolute divorce from Walter Wilson,
charging gross infidelity.
Marriage licenses were issued today
to L. C. Prunty and Dretta Bunte and
John Beavers and Louisa Proper, all
parties of Wamego.
Clara May Gibbons, who was married
last November, wants legal separation
from Eugene Gibbons because he called
her bad names and was guilty of ex-
IRENE cruelty.
The season record for shipments of
stock to market was broken by the
Santa Fe Tuesday: 440 cars of fat
stock went to Kansas City and 60 cars
were billed to ST. Joseph
Miss Maude Welsh went to Topeka
this morning for a several days visit
with Miss Ford, who has been one of
the nurses at Welsh's hospital for the
past year-Hutchinson News.
The work of driving piles to replace
those washed out from under the street
car bridge was completed today. The
pile driver will continue it's work until
all the piles which are weakened have
been replaced.
w r. Carter, the Lawrence con-
tractor, has been awarded the contract
for building the new power house at the
Santa Fe shops. The contract calls for
a building costing about $1,000. and it
will be made entirely of brick.
The big pile of dead sparrows in front
of the city library building has been
allowed to rem ain there ever since the
sparrows We're killed by the Sunday
morning storm. There has apparently
been no effort on the part of anyone
to have the sparrows removed, and it
is about time.
T A case was filed in district court to-
day against the Grant Marble company,
foreign corporation, by w. NJ Ryer-
! son, who wants the small sum of 81 $50
| for securing state house contracts He
| alleges that the company contracted to
| pay him that amount for securing con-
| tracts. He does not state how he Sc
/ cured the contracts.
| A change of venue from Jefferson coun-
| ty was filed today, in which Mark P
| Hillyer is defendant and the Cheshire
| Provident institution is plaintiff. The
| change of venue was granted because
| Judge M. Gephart had formerly been
! employed in the case, which was started
| in 1893. The papers show that decisions
| have twice been rendered for the plain
| tiff, but the case still goes on.
Suit has been filed in the district court
| by Asbury Brown against the WacondA
! Oil and Mining company and the prin-
| cipal stockholders, to get possession of
| IA shares of stock valued at $500 each.
Brown was one of the original pros
pecrors who located coal in Jewell
county, and he says the company agree.
| tC give him Is of the original ITO shares
| of stock He claims they have failed
| to fill the contract.
| Increasing the capacity of the Edison
! electric light plant is costing some
money besides that used for building
/ the addition, as the switch boards alone
will cost about $4,000, not including
| cost of worknen to set it up. There
will be two of them, measuring nearly
| 80 feet each in length The measuring
Instruments and copper plating appa-
| ratus are costly things Not one of the
| meters cost less than $685. and others
can not be bought for less than s125
! There will be about half a hundred
/ me tiers altogether. The boards are only
about half finished. for only three or
four men can work on the job at one
time.
Dr.. and Mrs. ]. G. McClintock and
daughter leave for Europe at 6:1O this
| afternoon over the Union Pacific.
Miss Martha Fox and Miss Harriet were
operated on for appendicitis at Christ hos
| pital Saturday and Monday. Both are
nurses at the hospital
/ Mrs. J. w Countermine. who is the wife
i of DIR. j. D. Counterrnine's brother had
| an operation for appendicitis at Christ hos
pital yesterday.