The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-07-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The Topeka Provident association
has an unusually large number of
cases of destitute families where there
is sickness.
Sixty-five jitney busses are now run
ming in Topeka, according to figures
given out by G.. t. Mattingly, city Ii
cense collector
The concrete for the first floor of
the new building of the Palace Cloth
ing company was poured today j. NJ.
Leeper is the contractor
w. D. Armentrout instructor in the
ed assistant professor of education in
the Kansas State Normal school, Pitts
burg.
The Rev. G. D. Olden will preach
at the B. Street Baptist church Sunday
evening at o'clock on THE Crisis of
Race of This Country"
The city summer school where the
pupils are making up back work will
close next Friday The Harrison
school where advance work is being
done will not close until two weeks
from next Friday.
w. w. Bowman, secretary of the
Kansas Bankers association, has re-
ed the meeting of the agricultural
commission of the American Bankers
asSC citation
Rev. S. b. Anderson will preach at
the Third Presbyterian church tonor-
row morning and evening. Rev. Az
derson is occupying the pulpit while
the Rev. E. Irwin Gilmore is away on
his vacation.
George H. Hoyes, secretary of the
Central Y. NJ. c. A, will have charge
of the church services at the Methodist
church at Dunavant in jefferson coun-
ty in place of the Rev. A. j. CLAM who
will be out of town.
Lodges No. 2 and No. 757, Fraternal
Aid Union, will serve ice cream and
cake after the close of the business
meeting next Tuesday evening. An
orchestra also has been engaged to
furnish music for dancing.
Mrs Nellie Templin has filed suit
in the Shawnee county district court
says in her petition she is working in
a laundry to support five children and
that Templin does not help.
The Kansas State Fair association is
offering sixteen prizes for the best dis
plays of work in amateur photography.
Nothing but outdoor scenes will be
accepted. Here is a chance for the
Topekans who have the camera
fever
Ida Humason, 23O Monroe street
has been fined 500 and sentenced to
serve 80 days in Jail by Judge A. W.
Dana of the first division of the Shaw
nee county district court. She en-
tered a plea of guilty to maintaining
a liquor nuisance.
Alleging that her former husband
has not complied with an order of the
court directing him to pay her "a a
week Mrs. Maud NJ. Billings who was
divorced from Charles Evendorff, in
August, 1914, has asked the district
court to enforce the decree.
Alleging that the defendant failed
to deliver 1850 barrels of flour pur-
chased py the plaintiff December 16,
1914, Daniel F. Grove, a baker, living
at Fourteenth and Brooklyn avenue,
Kansas City, Mo, today filed suit for
S3,125 against the Forest Park Mill
ing company of Ottawa in the United
States district court at Topeka.
Upon motion of attorneys represent
ing Walter S. Stadel, his suit for di-
vorce from Ethel Stadel was dismiss
ed in the Shawnee county district court
today. According to the petition Mrs.
Stadel eloped with Glen Scott, a for
mer acquaintance who rented a room
in the Stadel home. After the suit was
filed Mrs. Stadel returned home and
was forgiven.
late I. D. Flory manager of the Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma and Kansas district
for the Court of Honor, is in Topeka.
He spoke at the meeting of Shawnee
teau has for some time been manager
for the Kansas City district, and was
only last week appointed state mana
ger
owner of two farms in Brown county
was found to be such that Mrs. Thos.
B. Lyrick has asked the Shawnee
county district court to free her from
Lyrick. Mrs. Lyrick, who is in charge
of a millinery store in Topeka. asks
5000 for attorneys fees, $50 suit
money and 5000 for maintenance
pending the outcome of the suit, and
permanent alimony to be determined
in amount by the court. She married
Lyrick November IL, 1913.
Another chapter was added to the
Westlawn park Fairgrounds fight to-
day when a petition several yards in
length and signed by hundreds of citi-
zens of the district was presented to
w L. Porter, commissioner of parks.
The signers Of the petition f>yor
keeping the Fairgrounds at the park.
Recently a protest was made the
city commissioners against the play
grounds on the contention that the
children disturbed the neighborhood
| by making too much noise.