The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


social c. p. mo-. Kellam hall.-Adv.
Tomorrow night, Jan. II, Operators
Ball, Kellam Hall. Admission so cents.
Adv.
Radiator covers for all makes of
cars.-Rehkopf Bros, 212 West 9Th
St.-Adv.
The Womans Benefit association,
No. 26. hold the regular meeting FRI
day afternoon in Royal Arcanum hall.
day to Willis Magi1l. %, Victoria,
Kan, and Gertrude M. Belshaw, 81,
Seneca.
Alleging extreme cruelty Alex Lau
bach today filed suit in the district
! court for divorce from his wife, Kate
Laubach.
Pearl Lage. who has sued her hus-
band for divorce, has discovered that
he is somewhere in France" with the
Canadian contingent of the British
| army.
| Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Real. of Manhat-
tan, visited friends. in Topeka today.
Mr.. Real. who was formerly with the
Rock Island in Topeka, is now station
agent for the road at Manhattan.
Thieves who entered the office of
| DR.. Alvin Harrison, 71S Kansas ave-
nue., last night didn't want anything
| but dope They took two 50-grain
phials of morphine and left the costly
| instruments alone.
| S. s. Frank of the Frank Furniture
Co., left yesterday for Grand Raplos,
| Mich where he meets with twenty
! two syndicate furniture buyers in con-
vention at Grand Rapids, next week,
after which Mr.. Frank will visit other
eastern furniture markets
| The engineering department of the
| Rock Island is working on a. history
of the construction of the road, and
| 1yl1n
all along the system, who may know
of some of the interesting incidents
which occurred when the Rock Island
was in course of construction.
| Litigation on the West Tenth street
road case terminated this week when
Judge G.. H. Whitcomb ruled that
| the road should be built under the
Hodges good roads law. 1t is under
stood that the case will be carried to
| the state supreme court and If lost
| there will go on to the United States
| supreme court.
| Elliott Carriger has filed a cross Pc
| tition to the application filed for di-
| Vorce by his wife, Neva Harris Car
riger. The young wife was at one time
! Carrigers pupil in school. In her pc
| tition, filed in October, Mrs. Carriger
asks that she be given division of
her husbands property in this county.
She charges abandonment, in her petit
thing in his petition filed Tuesday
Twelve conductors on the Kansas
| division of the Rock Island have re-
ceived honorable mention in the ROCK
Island employees magazine for their
services in securing extra passenger
trade, for long hauls on their road.
| Two train porters received common
| dation for the same service. The road
is urging cooperation among all its
| employees and is using the honorable
mention system as method OF Sc
curing the team work desired.
Capt. John Marshall Hite has been
| relieved from the command of Battery
A in u special order issued Tuesday by
/ Adjutant General c. /. Martin 1t is
understood Captain Hite will attempt
to get a commission in the regular
army In the same order, Senior First
Lieutenant William P. MacLean is
| made captain; Junior First Lieutenant
| James Hughes becomes senior first
lieutenant and other commissioned Of
ficers are moved up one notch.
| BEGINNING today, the city plumber
will look after tie defective water ser
vices, instead of leaving them to the
| consumers in line with the recent de-
| cision of the municipal waterworks
| department. new motor truck mas
| been added to the equipment of the
department in order to facilitate the
| work The reduction of the minimu m
rate will not go into effect until the
| new scale of charges has been worked
out by the clerks in the department.
| The new rate will probably be made
| effective next week.
Battery AS military ball in Kellam
/ hall last night was one of the largest
! military affairs given in Topeka for
some time. Most of the enlisted men
and on-commissioned officers of the
| battery were present. as were Capt. J..
M. Hite, Lieut. w. P. Mclean. Lieut..
| NJ E. Pennica mp, Lieut.. Richard Por-
ter, Lieut.. Paul T. Mcfarland, Col.
L. NJ. Penwell and Lieut.. A. c. Bar
tel. The trumpeter sounded the calls
for the opening and closing of the
dance, and the hall was decorated
with flags. Many officers from the
various national guard organizations
| of the state who are attending the
officers school at Topeka were pres
| ent-
| Moving Picture Operators First An
Ill.