The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-24

Dance tonight.-Kellam Halliday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Drew of 2424
Clay street. have received word of the
safe arrival overseas of their son, Ser
geant Vernon J. Drew. who was for
merly employed in the Santa Fe shops
in Topeka.
The name of Smith APPARENTLY is as
popular in Topeka as it is in other
parts of the country. There are SO
Smith families listed in the local tele
phone directory and 35S Smiths listed
in the city directory.
The Memorial building commission
will hold a meeting in the office of
at 2 o'clock. The committee is pre-
hparing it's biennial report to be pre-
scented to the next legislature.
So many applications have been re-
ceived for hygiene books and circulars
by the state board of health that the
supply has been exhausted and the
| board is being compelled to make up a
reserve list of the applicants and to
notify them that their wants will be
supplied just as soon as possible.
Two bids for the installation of the
new pumps to be put in at the water
works, submitted by the Merkle Ma
chine company and the American Well
| Works. were refused by the city COM
missioners as they were over the esti-
mate of $4,000, he estimate prepared
| by Wynecoup Kiersted. New bids will
be advertised for, to be in not later
| than october 3.
The Kansas State Historical society
| will hold it's forty-third annual meet
ing Tuesday, October is, in the Me-
mortal building. George P. More
house, president, will call the meeting
to order. AS the fourth liberty loan
campaign will be on the society will
| probably omit the evening meeting.
! however. plans may be developed
later for a successful evening meet
ing.
Mrs. Luvinie Fisher filed a petition
in the office of the Shawnee county
district court today asking a divorce
from Jerry Fisher, whom the plain
tiff claims abandoned her nine years
ago and has refused to live with her
since. They were married in Novem-
| Der, 1887. She wants a divorce, the
custody of the minor children and $40
a month alimony toward their sup
port.
/ Monday night the Retail Clerks
Protective association held meeting
in Woodman hall, Sixth and Jackson
| streets. Three new members were
| accepted. After the business meeting
an address was made by Geo. Hughes.
| Two singing numbers were offered, a
solo by Miss Gladys Wilkerson and a
| duet by William Baldwin and Miss
Wilkerson. The evening closed with a
dance and a supper.
petition has been filed in the Of
| flee of the district court by Bertha
Jones, asking a divorce from John
Jones, whom she charges withSneglect
and cruelty. He has often threatened
her with bodily injury she says, and
has at various times abandoned her
In December, 1917. he abandoned her
entirely, she declares, and has refused
to live with her since. They were mar
ried in September. 1910.
4 Mary J. Kaller filed petition in the
office of the Shawnee county district
court this morning asking a divorce
from Mike Kaller. She charges gross
neglect, alleging that Kaller has failed
| to provide for her and that she has
been compelled to support herself and
two small children. Kaller has been
guilty of extreme cruelty, the plain
tiff charges. She declares that on one
occasion he struck her violently and
threatened 20 kill her. He is an habit
ua1 drunkard, she says, and has beer
imprisoned for such offenses. He
abandoned her a short time ago, she
says. The Kallers were married in
November. 1917.