The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-21

money getter. Mr. Estey has a Phi D.,
A NJ, A B and D. D. and is one OF
the most heavily degreed men among
Topeka clergy
The Topeka high school basketball
team will battle with Holton high
school Saturday afternoon The men
going on the trip are Mclean. Mckib-
ben. PIath. HoIcomb. Jones. Baker and
LindeH- Captain Mckfbbeu will act
as captain until a successor to the
double crowned leader can be chosen
Suit for divorce has been filed in
the Shawnee county district court by
A A Jones against Eva Jones The
couple were married in March 1915
For cause Of action the husband al
Ieges that his wife became abusive six
weeks after the marriage and forced
| him TO leave home Curtis. Mote.
Rooney and CrossIey filed the petit
ton
For the first time in the history Of
| the Topeka high school prices for
| the senior class play have been low
IS and so This is caused by the
| fact that the play. Esmeralda' VIII
be given in the high school auditorium
| which was recently built and save
| theater hire
Julia Myrtle is the name that Provi-
/ dent association officers have bestow-
ed upon little negro girl whose
mother works occasionally at the
building. The child of four summers
! was still answering to BABY .'Yo'
know I've jest nacheraIly run out Of ar
names said the mother of nine
What would yo' do if yo was
facin' a similar predicam ent2" Julia
I Myrtle" was suggested and accepted
An unassuning woman stepped up
to the desk at the National hotel last
night and signed the register in a big,
masculine hand Mrs Sidney Homer
/ The hotel clerk waited in an expeetant
mood for some special request some
thing in keeping with a musical tenn
permanent. ard was prepared for any
thing unusual She. however retired
! TO her room and following the concert
slipped down to her sleeper on the
Santa Fe tracks
Following their arrest at Alma on q
charge of raiding the hencoops of L
P Stock of FaTview. SABBATH De
Moss and J. Thaddeus Stewart. two
negroes, confessed their guilt when
being brought back to Topeka by
Hugh Larimer. undersherifE Speckfed
chicken feathers in the wagon they
used TO haul the chickens in led to
the arrest The Two aI-o implicated
I Richard Blackwell. another negro, in
the theft Blackwell has been under
arrest for some time
\ young man with pretty brown
eyes almost goIdbricked a ministers
wife living on Topeka avenue Wednes-
day He was taking subscriptions TO
magazines and claimed that if he could
get SO many the magazine would send
him to college The minister's wifi
had bitten once before and turned
him down He went next door and
told the neighbor that the minister
wife had endorsed him The neighbor
subscribed and let him take some
money TO the drug store to make
change She Is still waiting for the
change
Suit for s2.fs1-30 has been filed II
the district court by Ewen STipp
against Maud Candy Ship in Ms
com plant alleges that in November,
1918. he purchased the Aurora thu
alter. sIz Kansas avenue, from the
defendant He paid her $4,000 for
the business he says Because the
condition Of the theater was nisrep-
resented. according TO allegations 81
Ship. he wants the court to compel
Mrs Candy to return the money Fle In
vested Part OF the 5000 was paEd II
notes and the plaintiff asks that they
be recovered