The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-20
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

A full supply of Nor Pow'r Super
Gasoline today at The Uncle Sam OH
Co.'S filling station, 728 Quincy.-Adv.
The West Indianola Sunday school
will have business and social meet
ing tonight at the o. D. Hotchkiss
home.
A Buick car, belonging to James
wall, was stolen from in front of the
Majestic theater Thursday night II
was found later by the Sardou bridge.
Paul L. Klein, sergeant of aid first
class, stationed at Camp Raritan, N. j.,
is in Topeka on a fifteen day furlo
He is a son of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Klein of 209 Tyler street.
L. A McHenry. secretary of the Y.
NJ. C. A. for Washington county, has
left his position to go to Camp Fun
ston in special service. On account
of trouble with his eyes he was reject
ed for regular military service.
r. s. Martin. city electrical inspec-
| tor, has accepted an appointment as
one of the executive committeeman
| for the eastern federation of electrical
wire inspectors. He received word or
| the appointment from William Boyd
of Chicago.
| A car belonging to ]. P. Slaughter
was missing Thursday evening.
/ Slaughter had left it on Kansas ave-
nue., and one of the garage men had
taken it to the garage to be washed.
thinking it belonged to another man
who had engaged him to clean his car.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. - L. Nesbaum re-
ceived word this morning OF the ar
rival of their son, Lewis Nesbaum,
overseas. He belongs to the Ninth
battalion signal corps. His wife and
their son, Lewis, Jr., are with MIS-.
| Nesbaum's sister, Mrs. w. D. Hanson,
of Denison, Tex, where they VIII re-
main until Mr.. Nesbaum's return.
The Topeka Poultry association Will
have meeting tonight at the Cham
her of Commerce to prepare for visit
of a representative of the poultry nus
bandry department of the Kansas
State Agricultural college. who Will
speak in the interests of the back yard
/ poultry keeping movement. He is eX-
/ pected in Topeka the latter part OF
September.
A petition has been filed in the Of
flee of the Shawnee county district
court oy Mary Anderson, or Topeka
asking a divorce from Thomas Ander-
! son on the grounds of gross negieci
and extreme cruelty. She charges tha'
he has failed to provide her win tne
necessities of life ever since their mar
rage in August. 1916. and that, aitne
he is capable of making a fair living
he Is idle and will not do SO.
} Miss Mary Gamertsfelter. who has
l spent fifteen years in the African mis-
sion field, will be in the city ovel
Sunday and will speak at the F1rs
Eyangelical church, Seventh ane
Monroe streets at the Sunday evening
service and also again on Monda!
| evening at o'clock. She has come
. direct from Africa, having arrived II
! America only a few days ago. Sh'
has a live message for the home PEG
pie.
Three colored men will be entrainet
!, for Camp Funston by the county draf
! board September 26. During tn
week beginning October z, thre
white men will be sent to Camp Fun
ston. The colored men are Georg
J w. DeMoss. route 5; Mitchell Slaugh
ter, % Madison and Malon 7. Finney
% Madison. The white men ar
, Bruce q. Gress, Richland; Guilford 1
Pyle, route and Henry F. Stockman
: | Rossville.
r A divorce was granted in the frs
division of the Shawnee county cour
this morning by Judge Carver to {
A. Wiburg from Bette Wiburg. WI
burgs suit was brought on the ground
: that his wife had been guilty of gros
NEGLECT OF duty and extreme cruelt
toward him. She abandoned him, n
, says, in May, 1918, and has refused t
live with him since. Mrs. Wiburg di
not appear in court this morning I
contest the case.
David o. Orr of 1873 Buchana
!. street has letter from his son, Lieu
Col. Harry D. Orr, enclosing a piece Q
| scorched silk which is all that remain
of big German bombing airplan
brought down by an American flye
behind the American lines in Francs
| August 8. Lieutenant Colonel Orr pro
cured the silk as souvenir from
! parachute in which one of the eigh
fren in the airplane tried to descend i
safety when the airplane burst int
| flares.
News has been received in Topek
of the death of Mrs. Cynthia A. MOI
ley, Kansas pioneer, which occurre
at Clyde, Kan, September 5. Mr.
Morley lived in Kansas for fifty-fiv
years She and her husband, Der
. jamin P. Morley, and their two sma
children, came to Kansas from Ohio j
1853, taking a homestead in Washing