The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-06

A. A. Hyde and C. Q. Chandler. both
of Wichita. spoke at the regular meet
ing of the Salvation Army Thursday
night.
The West Side W. c. T. U. which
was to have held a meeting today
with Mrs. F. G.. w. Travers will meet
with Mrs. Travers April 20, instead.
Kite Day has been postponed until
Saturday, April a. according to w. p.
MacLean, of the physical education
department of the schools. The boys
have all been busy and a large num-
Der of entries are expected.
A contract was let Thursday to the
residents of Jewell avenue for the eX-
tension of the water main on that
street from Fourteenth to Fifteenth
street. The customary bond of $40
was filed with the city commissioners
Frank B. Reed left for Ada, Ohio,
Thursday to visit his son. Rainier,
who is in college there. Upon his re-
turn to Topeka he will take his mother
and his niece, Juanita Dignon, to Seat
tie with him. His mother has been
ill in Topeka for some time.
The Topeka Chapter of the Amer
lean Red Cross society will meet at
s o'clock this evening at the Cham
Der of Commerce to formulate plans
for active work in Topeka. Mayor
Jay Ee House is president of the
Topeka chapter and Judge Robert
Yates is secretary.
From twenty-five to thirty members
of the Topeka Rotary club will go to
Lawrence tonight to install officers of
a Rotary club recently organized in
the university city. Robert Stone, for
mer governor of this district, will have
charge of the installation. The Topeka
Rotarians will leave at o'clock.
Captain Sam Fairchild. an officer in
the Hutchinson company of national
hospital with appendicitis. He has
been employed in the office of the adj
jutant general since the legislature
adjourned. During the session he
served as private secretary to Presi-
dent w. Y. Morgan of the senate
Loyalty day was observed in the
high school this morning at a special
assembly. Patriotic music and
short talk on patriotism were the
main features. The whole fourteen
hundred students rose to the first
chords of the Star Spangled Banner"
and sang with an enthusiastic air of
patriotism. Plans for the afternoons
program were discussed.
David S. Houston, secretary of the
agriculture department, has wired the
several state secretaries of agriculture
of the United States, and a number of
the presidents of agricultural colleges
in the food producing belts, to meet
him in St. Louis on Monday, April 8,
at the jefferson hotel, to hold war
food congress- to devise ways and
means to increase the food and forage
products of the country at this grave
period.
Fire Chief Hanlon is disappointed
and pleased at the same time. Five
days of this month have passed and
he has not had a sight of q blaze. The
department received two calls. one,
false alarm and thes-other. from st.
". II,
pipe sprung a leak The roof fires
from falling sparks have nearly been
forgotten. Spring showers and the
retiring of the coal men are the causes,
he states.
The picture of his Satanic Majesty
Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, was turn
ed to the wall in Topeka. The picture
hung on the wall in the history class
room at the high school. When Miss
Ethel NJ. Aldrich, teacher of history
entered her room this morning, she
found the face of the cherubic, royal
exponent of German kulture turned
td<fhe wall Miss Aldrich did not turn
the likeness about face and says she
has no intentions to do So
A truck belonging to the Owl Gro
Gerry company, driving along Jackson
street without headlights Thursday
night, ran down Loehr Rigby, 16-year-
old son of NJ. f. Rigby at Fifth and
Jackson street. Dung 16lSDy, WHO
was riding his bicycle was smashed
into and thrown to the pavement. He
was severely bruised but not seriously
injured w. C. Paisley was driving the
truck and was later arrested. charged
with driving after dark without lights.
Santa Fe railroad men, their fam
lilies and the public have been in
vited by Commissioner of Safety
Isaiah Hale of the Santa Fe to attend
a safety motion picture show at the
auditorium the nights of April 2 and
13. The play will be 1.-The Home That
Jack Built" which has Macy thrills.
including a railroad collision. Seats
will be held till o'clock for Santa
Fe people; after that the public will
be admitted. Commissioner Hale will
make talk.
Charging abandonment and nom
support, Estella Sipes filed suit in the
district court today asking for a di-
vorce from Paul Sipes. She states
that they were married in Topeka
March %, 1906, and that they are the
parents of a son, 8 years of age. She
charges that he abandoned her. their
child and their home and that she has
been compelled to work and support
herself and child ever since their mar
riage. She asks for the divorce and
the custody of the boy.
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