The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-03
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AT HOME NEWS

The West Side W. C. T. U. met this
afternoon at the home of Mrs Har-
riet Tichenor, 32S Hawthorne avenue.
DIR. F. E. Iserman, who underwent
an operation for appendicitis last
week, has sufficiently recovered to be
taken home from the hospital
The Owl groceries are selling eleven
pounds of sugar for a dollar Owing
to a typographical error in their ad
Thursday sugar was advertised ten
pounds for dollar.
The Norton Telegram sympathizes
with Topeka's desire to have an army
encampment located here. 1t consoles
the capital city by stating that it al
ways had plenty of soldering around
the state house.
Dick Travers. Essanay star. will visit
Topeka again next week. If Dick will
wear the yelling green sweater he
wore in the movie parade on Kansas
avenue last August, everyone will
recognize him.
The fourteenth annual picnic of the
Snokamo camp of the M. w. A. was
Baseball games, athletic contests, mu-
sic and patriotic addresses were the
features of the program
All persons having finished work
for the Red Cross are requested to
send It to the Red Cross headquarters
before noon Saturday. The work
rooms at Crosby Brothers will be
closed from Saturday until Septem-
Der L.
Charging simply that she has aban-
doned him for a period of more than
one year, Charles H. Rigby filed suit
for dis-oree against Bertha M. Rigby
in the district court today The
Rigbys are the parents of two chill
dren, Floyd, aged II. and Mary.
aged Is.
Leonidas Miller filed suit for d.
vorce in the district court today
against Eta M. Miller. He states that
they were married in October, 1913
and charges that she has been guilty
of gross neglect and cruelty. without
specifying what the charges consist of.
Mrs Viola Moore, 7O9 Adams street,
whose children have been Guaranteed
with the whooping cough, tore down
the quarantine sign from the house
ana is now racing warrant for arrest
charged with violating CITY ordi-
nance The warrant was sworn to by
DR., H. L. Clark, city health officer
Altho Eureka, discovered years ago
by the Grecian physicist, is on the
map of Kansas. one traveller from the
wild and woolly west arrived in Topeka
this morning and was inquiring how
far Eureka was. He said that he had
examined every railroad station in
Kansas but he hadn't found Eureka.
Shipments of Kaw valley potatoes
Thursday were reported very light,
due to an unsettled market and few
sales. The shipments were destined
as follows: Tulsa, 8; Fort Worth, L;
Puebloc, 4; Topeka, 1; Trinidad, 1;
Denver. 1 Kansas City, 1; Hobart. 1:
Altus, Okla, l. Wichita, 1 Oklahoma
City, 2; Oklahoma, 1.
A card was received Thursday after
noon by Mayor House from wife in
Wakeeney asking about her husband.
He is charged with wife desertion and
is within the draft age. She is MAX
ing a canvass of all registration rec
ords in an attempt to find him. The
wife has filed complaint against the
husband for wife desertion-
Mai. A. NJ. Harvey and Otis Hun
gate, Topeka attorneys, have been en-
ployed to carry the anti-poll tax fight
into the courts. Petitions will be cir
culated TO raise money to finance the
fight. The Topeka Industrial council
is expected to decide to join in the
fight with the East siders and Santa
Fe shopmen The Industrial council
will meet tonight.
with from twenty-six to thirty po-
lice officers enforcing peace, the
MAYOR acting as chief and a prospee-
tive chief sitting on the lid at the
station, the city jail holds just one
poor bum Topeka has been so peace
ful for week that police force
has hardly been necessary. When big
things fail to happen little things be-
come big and there was real excite
ment around the station when man
reported that five boys threw can
of rusty water thru a window on
his bed while he was asleep.
The .Triar GLE of the First Metho-
dist Episcopal Young People will meet
Monday night at 7:45 o'clock. o. j.
Bowman, the director of religious edu-
cation of the church, has returned
from his vacation and will at that
time begin the course in The His
tory of the Early Church" He will
also take up the regular course of
study in the Sunday morning class
for young people at $3.50 o'clock. The
GAS Epworth league meeting will
have for it's topic, My Ultimate Pur-
pose in Life'-"Where there is no
vision the people perish
Carelessness in leaving a bottle of
caustic potash in an unoccupied house,
nearly cost the life of Helen Penrod
2-year-oId daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Thursday Strenuous work of pfysi-
clans summoned is all that saved the
life of the child. The little girl with
her mother was visiting an aunt at
2O34 Quincy street. On the rear porch
of a vacant house next door, the girl
found a bottle containing some sticks
and a solution of caustic, somewhat
similar to I've. She swallowed some
of the contents of the bottle and when
discovered the child's lips were
burned.