The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-29
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Regular church services will be held at
Tecumseh Sunday afternoon with preach
ing Mt o'clock.
been held at the Shawnee golf couls Sc
Thursday was postponed on account Of The
heavy blanket of snow that covered the
course
Boston and Topeka have nothing on
Atchison. Today this reporter found two
Atchison BARRIERS Fading ancient history
from volumes as big as dictionaries
Atchison Globe.
Lieut.. II. W. Shuck, a former Topekan
who has just returned from France, wss
IN the b city M and
Z. Martin, 1926 Buchanan street.
Something new in the government of
high school students Is to be tried in To
peka with the establishment of n student
advisory council which will meet once 4
month with the principal and go over mat
tiers relating to student activities. he
council will be composed Of tine president
and vice president Of each organized class.
A petition was filed this morning in the
office of the district court by Mrs. Alta
owen, asking divorce from Peter Owen.
The plaintiff charges that her husband has
been guilty of intimate relations with otacr
s she sanss he cnstoaS Of
child, alimony, attorneys fees and COSTS
of the suit.
Thanksgiving day was replete with
attendance of Topeka citizens and soldn rs
from Camp Funston. number of indoor
baseball, basketball and vOileybail games
were played in the evening, some of them
hard fought and !ntere sting. The Y. W. {.
A. has the exclusive use OF the bowllr 6
alleys on Thursday evening and twenty :
five members were on hanu.
The meeting of the local branch of the
Anti-horse Thief association, scheduled TO
be held Friday evening in the Chamber of
Commerce rooms, has been postponed on
account of the influenza closing order.
1t was announced today: The object OF
basis. Arrangements for a meeting viii
be made As soon is consistent with
safety.
Fred G. Austrom, who enlisted in the
United States air service in June, 1911,
and received his training as an aviation
pilot in France, is reported to have been
Der 4, according to news received here to-
day from Coffeyville, where his sister re-
sides. For several years prior to his , en-
peka as an electrician by the Santa Fe.
His father lives at Independence.
The last Of series Of lectures covering
tonight at the Unitarian church by Mrs.
Jennie Croft, of the Unity School of Chris
tianity, Of Kansas City. Mo. Works" will
gin at O'Clock. Mrs. Croft is staying at
the home Of Mrs. X. NJ. johnson. of Col
lege avenue. but will return to Kansas City
which was to have been given in her honor
by the Rotary club has been abandoned on
account OIL the INFLUENZA cOnOltlUuS.
Preceding a banquet and dance at the
Elks club Thursday evening, seventy five
new members were taken into the knights
of Columbus at their hall on West Seventh
street In the afternoon. The principal Ld-
dress at the banquet was maze by Father
Damien Lamery, head of st. Benedict col
lege of Atchison. Father Patrick Nc
| Inerney and Father NJ G. OLeary, OF
| Topeka, also made addresses and a shori
| talk was given by Lieut.. l.. L. Bresette
formerly of Topeka and now of the U. S
| navy. The tables were arranged jim con-
formity with the board Of health rhles and
| the rooms were we'll ventilated to prevslt
the spread of influenza germs. p5E
Roy johnson, a sailor from the Great
Lakes training station, was arrested Thurs
| assault on Chester l.. WilsoX, a printing
| pressman. 1t is said that johnson engaged
| III a quarrel at the state guard ball Wed,
| nesday night and struck a second Heuten
ant from Camp Funston; wilcox, it is SAID
| interfered end a civilian took the saflc1
| from the hall. Wilsox said that hii
| way home he was stopped by the saIiol
| and three other men, one Of whom struci
him a blow over the eye, cutting big
| cash. Wilcox is said to have entered tDt
oxford restaurant, where he tainted aftel
| asking for a glass Of water. johnson wa.
! released on bond.