The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-29
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS
A Non-Essentialc
II reserving coal for the essential
Industries is carried thru.
The vital question is: What will
The legislature dof


Industries is carried thru.
The vital question is: What will
The legislature dot
Storm doors and sash. ]. B. Whelan
& CO. Phone 865.-Adv.
Members of Boy Scout troop No. 13
will meet Wednesday evening at 1880
o clock at Redden chapel.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. King have received
word of the safe arrival overseas OF
their son, Arthur G. KING.
All members Of Company H. Fourth
regiment. K. N. X. will report at the
armory this evening at 1880 o'clock. :
The membership teams of the Y. NJ.
c. A. for the October campaign for
new members reported at a meeting
Monday afternoon. The Yanks, with
Hugh McVey as captain. won So
points, and the Tom.'1ies. headed by
B. E. Cookfnham, scored 1877 points.
Shawnee county registrants will be
notified of their class,fications at the
earliest possible moment, according to
T. D. Graham, secretary of the county
draft board. Glass 1 men have all
been notified and are appearing at the
rate of twenty day for physical ex-
animation.
Mrs. Myrtle Callahan, secretary of
the Provident association, is taking the
vacation. During her absence, the as
| ISOLATION work is looked after by Mrs.
Charles Brooks Thomas. Mrs. Thomas
| will have her desk in the Provident
association office all winter. and will
be there during the forenoons.
The Scottish Rite reunion which was
to have been held in Topeka, begin
ming this week, has been postponed
until November 10 to 81. The post
| ponement was made on account of the
| influenza epidemic. One of the largest
classes in the history of the local Or
| der is expected to take the work at
the reunion. About $50 men will be in
the class.
Grace A. Greene, department secre-
tary of the Woman's Relief corps.
has sent word to Topeka that the
| department president, Mrs. Laverna
Williamson, is seriously ill at her
home in Newton, Kan, and cannot
| complete her tour of inspection now.
/ A meeting of the corps which was to
have been held in Topeka is indefi-
nitely postponed.
Part of the testimony in the pre-
| liminary hearing of Emmett Williams,
| charged with assault on Henry Ken
nedy, a negro, was taken this morn
/ ing before Judge Rad Lee in the
| court of Topeka. Williams struck
Kennedy with a lead hammer while
they were working together in the
garage OF the late John Washburn
on West Eighth street, it is alleged.
| H. C. Farrar, colored. was arrested
Monday afternoon, charged with driv-
, ing a taxi without a license. He had.
lit seems. volunteered to take several
Topekans down town. and when they
arrived at their destination. attempted
to assess a fare. A warrant was sworn
out for his arrest, and he was released
ihrn II yH-oc fnr
driving a car. without proper lights at
| the time.
Alleging that he had deserted her
and her two minor children a few
months ago and that he had been
guilty of extreme cruelty and habitual
drunkenness. Mrs. Thomas Cooney filed
| a petition in the office Of tbs district
court Monday asking a divorce from
| Thomas Cooney. She wants temper
ary and permanent alimony. custody of
the children, attorneys fees and costs
| of the case.
Grace C. Brewer today filed a petit
| ton in the office of the district court
asking a divorce from Lester Brewer,
| who she says abandoned her about
| seven years ago, when they were liv-
| ing in Denver. She states that he Is
now in Los Angeles. where they were
| married in 1888, that he Is making
good money but has failed to send her
| any and that she has been compelled
| to support her two minor children.
According to an announcement al
the office of the United States en-
ployment office, missionaries will be
sent out at once to the employers In
| the war Industries and other indus
tries in which the government labor
department is interested. for the pur-
pose of making a monthly labor sur
| vey. The eleventh district. where the
first survey begins today is composed
| of the following counties: Douglas
| Riley, jackson. Jefferson. Potta.
watomie. Geary. Wabaunsee anc
| Shawnee.
| Clyde Walter. science teacher in the
Topeka high school, has been called
into military service, and will be sue
| ceeded in his teaching position by D
r. Dewey. who was formerly principa
| of the high school at Osawatomle ano
who was elected prin eipal of the Paola
high school this year. Before accept
ing the principalship Of the Paola
high school he was called to service
but was later honorably discharged
whereupon he accepted the position II
| Topeka. Miss Lena Davis took Mr.
| Walters classes after he was called t.
the army until the school closed or
account of the epidemic.
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