The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-28
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS
More to the Purpose.

More to the Purpose. -,
Pulling chorus girls around in cars
Is not the noblest goal.
That strong man should have shown his
strength
In hauling loads of coal.
The Topeka battalion of the Kansas
State Guard will have a meeting at
the auditorium tonight, beginning at
1870 O'Clock.
I'm October, 1914. the defendant
destroyed plaintiffs clothes by fire,
broke up the furniture in the house,
broke out the window light, and threw
a table leg at him. Those are the
allegations in suit filed today by
G.. 6. Smith against Bede Smith. The
plaintiff asks for a divorce.
Elmer L. Hewitt of 424 Shawnee
avenue has enlisted in the regular
army and will leave Friday for Jeffer-
to the coast artillery. Jesse F.
Chatham of Burlingame enlisted in
the navy and has been assigned to the
seaman's branch. He went to Kan
sas City today.
The extension department of the
state university will start a beginners
class in French Monday evening at
taught by Prof. G. A. Derry. For the
last three months Professor Derry has
had French class in Topeka meet
| ing Tuesday evenings. This class has
| entered its second term of work.
c. l.. Toler, assistant city food in
spector, announces as the result of
his visits of inspection that he finds
the hotel and restaurant proprietors
and employees anxious to observe all
possible kitchen economy and to fol-
low the governments regulations on
food to be served. Mr.. Toler is ques-
toned by nearly every business house
in town as to details of the conserva-
ton program.
On account of the endemic of
measles and mumps in the city, which
confine many of the bread-winners to
the house and thus keep them out of
employment, calls on the Provident
association are continuing almost as
numerous and imperative as they were
during the severe weather Mrs. Myrtle
Callahan, of the association, says that
clothing is especially needed, particu-
larly garments and shoes for children
Alfred Bradford. an 1s-year-o old
colored boy, who escaped from the
waiting to begin his sentence at the
reformatory, was captured by Special
officer w. f. Cowdry, of the Rock
Island railroad, near the company's
round house. His previous offense was
the breaking of g. Rock Island freight
and the theft of twelve bushels of
wheat.
The February meeting of the To-
peka Poultry Breeders association
will be held tonight at the Chamber
of Commerce. The principal speaker
will be Prof. w. A. Lippencott head
of the department of poultry hus-
bandry at the state agricultural col
lege- The principal subject for dis
cussion will be the raising of more
poultry and the reduction of the cost
of living.
In suing j. E. Thomas, an employee
of the Wells-Fargo Express company
here, for separate maintenance in the
district court today. Anna Thomas al
legeS that the defendants mother is
tine cause of ''all the trouble" She
asserts that the defendant has tried
to force her to live with his mother
and she tried to twice as a duty to
her husband, but couldn't because the
mother-in-law possesses a "spiteful
and irsscible" temper The plaintiff
asserts that the mother-in-law has
already separated her other child from
her husband, and has insulted and
Inundated the plaintiff.