The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-14
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

George E. Lerrigo of Canton, China,
| addressed the students at Washburn
| college today.
Dean Frank t. Lee will speak to-
! night at the Central Y. NJ. c. A. on
Bible Study by Books
The state house grounds are dotted
with yellow dandelion blooms today.
Work of attempting to get rid of the
pests has begun.
DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon will speak
before the brotherhood of the Central
Congregational church tonight. A sup
per will be served at $50 o'clock.
Thousands of Topekans took advan-
tage of the sunshine Sunday and went
on walks. Two thousnand-more or
less-of them landed >at Gage park.
The annual gymnasium exhibit of the
Central Y. NJ. c. A. will be held next
Friday and Saturday evenings. The
members of the classes are training
for the event.
E. F. A. Reinisch, superintendent of
parks, has receive 25 small willow trees
from the United States department of
agriculture. They came from China
and are of a variety that has not been
named
John F. Stanton is drawing plans
for a $4,000 city hall building which
Will be erected at Concordia. The
building will be of brick construction
and police departments.
Jackson street, below Fourth street,
looks like a railroad yard. There were
at least half dozen cars on the tracks
of the street railway company today.
They were loaded with brick that will
be useo in the new paving the
street.
Charging that her husband abandoned
her about two years ago Edna Brown
filed suit for divorce this morning
against her husband, Charles Brown.
They were married at Emporia, Kan,
December %, 1907, she says. Two chill
dren born to them both are dead.
The Central Y NJ. C. A. younger
juniors defeated the. Lincoln school
late Saturday in game of indoor base
ball at the Central Gym The score
was eight to six. The batteries-For
Y. NJ. c. A, Maunsell and Wood; Lin
coin. Armstrong, Lowe and Cochran.
An objection to kicking in the door
of the opera house in North Topeka
Ralph johnson and Ralph Marsh on
charge of disturbing the peace. The
complain was sworn to by w. F.. Rat
lift. Both men were drunk it is said,
at the time they grew bofsterous.
The last of this month mass meet
ing will be called to listen to an adj
dress at the y. w. G. A. by a Miss
Baylor, of Santa Barbara, Calf, on
the subject of the dance hall evil.
Some facts will be presented at the
meeting that have been cleaned in con-
nection with investigation of local
dance halls.
Failure to provide for herself and
children and alleged abuse was the
grounds charged by Mrs. Nettie Boyle
in a suit for divorce against w. NJ.
Boyle. filed this morning They have
two children, Edgar, years old, and
Daniel years old. She says her hus-
band is foreman at the Rock Island
roundhouse and earns from $50 to SIS
a month
S. E. Davis, of the Missouri state de-
partment of education was in Topeka
today to obtain information relative to
the working of the normal training
law. Missouri has passed a law pat
termed after the Kansas enactment
which will become effective the next
school year. Mr.. Davis visitor
at session of the normal training
class of the high school today.
At nine o'clock Saturday night the
county poor commissioner was notified
of a case at n rooming house where
a woman had become suddenly ill. She
was hurried to the Providence in an
ambulance and was carried to the sec