The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-16
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AT HOME NEWS

AT HOME NEWS
Miss Gertrude LoudeKbach, physical |
Wednesasy fo ne chicago visit her reIa
lives until after the holidays.
Miss Elizabeth Burkhoider Of the Y. W.
c. A. west central ffeld. with headquarters
SUNDAY VIM a.s wa ena Grafton
tary OF the local Y. w. c. 4.
:. Walter B. Montgomery and Henry ";
HanPt; both OF Troy. KsDsss. nave opened
store at TO Kansas avenue. The new firm
il featuring nationally advertised apples.
4 Miss Dorothy Levers. Red Cross field
Secretary for northern Kansas. with head
St. Louis. She went TO st. Louis on bust
ness with the southwestern division office.
trip.
Word was received in Topeka today that
Chas. Fountain. former santa Fe en-
ploye here, and n son of Chas. Fountain
charged from service with an overseas
Canadian artillery unit and is returning
home.
The society reporter spoke in her COL
umn Saturday evening of a certain major
who was lin command Of a division" in
explanation to several inquiries and COR
State Journal today it might be mentioned
that he OUGHT to be in command Of the
division.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Miller and their son,
cS SGie With q Mrs Miiers mother ps
A. NJ. Calihan, and Mrs. Myrtle Calihan.
Noble Miller. who is a mining engineer,
America to resume work which he gave
up to enter military service.
Asserting that they have no intention of
becoming strikebr eakers. Topeka girl tele-
phone operators have refused to go to Wich-
| ita to fill the places Of striking. operators
| there. We contemplate no strike here"
said membet e the uni union
| intend to become strike breakers.
1t has been announced by T. H. Beacon,
general manager of the Rock Island lines,
island 'shnll stop for ten minutes at the
Union Pacific station in North Topeka.
This Will sits the Ecu cres. ssntesn wofn
Whatever. may be on the menu for the day.
The-st public utiiitiee eommission to-
aas ofgered Of
Nemaha county. and Summerfield, In Mar
| shall county. on the Kansas city North
| tinued for the period of the war, service
being maintained between Kansas City and
Seneca only. Daily passenger service will
I Several copies Of an Irish newspaper
| printed In Cork have been received by Mrs.
Margaret Rundel. of the Santa Fe tele-
can naval station In Ireland. From ON
AmcEicnn yisTPSint Of 5os.naii SIN the
ads and classified sections, together With
| the death and birth columns make NJ the
f'S %s. sssr it i. k.u.s. or her husband tina.
i petition flied today in the Office Of the
district couxt by John w. Alesnnder; ut
asking n divorce from Louise Alexander.
He says they were married at Savannah,
has always refused to leave her home IN
Missouri to come to kanenA and. live with
| Aubte restored.
Charles II. Guyer, former motorcycle
policeman and now employed at a filling
station at 1o6> Jackson street. 4. stu
| real "shootIn' irons" VINO drove up to his
place Of business Sunday night and
ordered five gallon. Of ~, gasoline uas were yer
in their tank. the men refused to pay for
it and Guyer Immediately notified the
police. But before the officers arrived
the negroes had settled their bin and drove
| on.
| The United States railway administration
about railroad property that may shelter
| records or inflanmable mateliaL Notices
| have been ported about the Santa Fe forbid :
other places whore papers and records are
| stored. The sorlef was issued here by
! T. c: Eek. general manager. The action
/
the railroads of the great amount of proper
| ty said to havo been lost as result OF
| careless smokers.
| In accordance with the action taken By
1.-the city commissioners this morning. on a
| motion presented by Commissioner w. II.
| WATSON, the services IT Frank G. Dreaming
! to act as special counsel for the city In q
| ease against John Richie were engaged
Drpnniny was authorized to make the FL
| deity and Deposit company, of Maryland,
/ a pnrty defendant In the case OF the city
| Of Topeka against John Richie and J. u.
| Hanley, and to recover on the bond given
the city the amount still due by John
Richie for over payment received by John
Richie and J. ID. Hanley in the cOnstruc-
! ton of system Of sewers in sewer district
! No. Pc, MISC TO compel the payment by John
! Richie Of S15. 923 30 with g per cent interest
/; from December a. 1912.
You cail certain number. After waiting
! for several minutes, central says: They
, don't answer" You presume that the party
i is out. In fact the party is there and tine
| party had been attempting to make you
hear but the phone II out Of order. A.
| cording to an attempted explanation at the
| office Of the local telephone company there
informed that this phone Is out of order.
| DESPITE the faHt tat you inform the trouble
| clerk. whAevcr is in charge, that this
+! number is not available. nothing Is done
| and central keeps on with the information
that they don't answer" 1t Is n weakness
| In the local service that is oil the more
| exasperuting when he~'phones frequently
! are out of order for several days and no ap-
| parent effort is made toward repairs. To-
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