The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-04
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

The Y. M. c. A. dinner party for the
new members recruited during Sep
TENDER, will be held Tuesday evening
at 6:30 o'clock
H NJ McKeen, who will be student 4
secretary Of the Kansas Y. NJ. G. A.,
has arrived in Topeka from Leaven-
worth, to make his home in this city.
Warren B. Grant who is a student
in Washburn college. has the position
of office secretary at tie Central Y.
NJ. C. A. He takes the place of Carl
Alright, who has left in the army
The Argonauts will meet with Mr..
and Mrs. E. F. Stanley. 1917 Garfield
avenue, Saturday night. Miss Anna
Kelly will review THE Martial Ad-
ventures of Henry and Me-" by Will
liam Allen White.
Miss Neva Dalrymple and Mrs.
James Orr have returned from the
Great Lakes training station, where
they visited Mrs Orr's son, Forrest.
He has just recovered from the Span
ish influenza. ~ -
MARCEL }Desher, the little boy who
was injured by ,colliding with an auto
mobile when coasting down a drive
way Wednesday, is at Stormont hospi-
tai. His condition this morning was
slightly better.
A large brown expectoration spot
on the pavement this morning is all
that is left of a two-hour battle be-
tween two civil war veteran war ex-
perts who fought over the war in front
of the State Journal bulletin board
last evening. .-t f''fiafi,.
The Current Topics club of the Cen
meeting of the fall, Monday evening.
October 4. Justice Henry F. Mason
Is president of the club this year. The
lecture for first meeting will be ,on
1.-The, Western Battle 'FRONT.'" and will
be given. by H. G. Larimer. so eAGI
aarOne, two, three, four" in stern
voices is heard on the college hill
sleeping porches early these mornings
as the S.. A. Z. c. boys take their
dawn hikes. The children of. the
southwestern part of the city now go
to bed with taps-but they don't
awaken in the morning with reveille.
Mr.. and Mrs. John D. Rogers and
their three children arrived in To-
peka recently from Altus, Okla,
where Mr. Rogers was a leading at
torney of the Jackson county bar for
many years. He has been appointed
general attorney for the Aetna Build
ing & Loan association. with offices
at lis West Seventh street. "a
Mrs. Gale Hayes. sos West Twelfth
street, swOre to a complaint in the Of
flee Of the court of Topeka ,ti.N morn
| ing charging Tommy Ross with hav--
| ing committed a statutory offense
against her 17-year-old daughter,
Ruth Hayes. Ross is now said. to be
| in Oklahoma and officials intimate
that unless he returns and marries the
girl he will be prosecuted.
| A total of twenty-eight cases on the
! criminal docket of the Shawnee county
district court. were dismissed Thursday
on the motion of Hugh T. Fisher,
| county attorney. The nature of the
cases covered unlawful possession, sell
ing mortgagedt property, selling ana
maintaining, burglary, grand larceny
| and statutory offenseS. A number OF
| the defendants are in the army.
The ner displayed by A. d. YER
| gil, an employe at the garage at 4lS
Jackson street, Thursday night at 10
| O'Clock when he pushed blazing
Marmon belonging to Richard Stewart.
| out the back door was all that averted
| what, might have been serious fire.
The Marmon baekfired when cranked
and caught fire from spark. The
blaze was extfnguished with water and
blankets before the arrival of the fire
department. -.ie
John J. Main, recently sentenced to
serve six months in the county Jail on
the charge of selling liquor at his
grocery store in Highland Park, was
declared insane. in the probate court
Thursday afternoon and committed
.
using liquor very freely, the autheri-
| ties say, and was in the habit of open
ing a new bottle every time he wanted
a drink and forgetting where he put
the remainder = JlA Nu="a 90 -.
Charles Sessions and Fred jackson
l spoke in the interest of the fourth lib
! erty loan at the Indian Creek grange
| fair after the chicken pie dinner served
this noon. A ball game was to be
staged, together with athletic contests
for all ages. The fair opened Thurs
day with a smaller crowd than. was
expected, but it is believed that the
attendance today will be much larger.
The dairy department is the feature
of the fair this fall.
| Miss Elizabeth Dickson. of the To-
peka Public Health Nursing associa-
ton, and a graduate of Christ Hospi-
tai, is one of the Topeka nurses who
has responded to the government call
to go on nursing duty at Camp Fun
ston in the influenza epidemic. She
will return to Topeka when her serv-
ice at the camp is no longer needed.
She has been with the Public Health
Nursing association since last April
Her territory in the city is the district
south of Tenth street. =
E Charging that he has failed to pro-
vide for her since their marriage in
February, 1918. and that he has re-
fused to buy household furniture or
make her a home, Hazel Crisman to-
daysfiled petition in the office of the
district court asking a divorce from
E. D. Crisman. Mrs. Crisman declares
that her husband has been moving
from place. to place ever since their
marriage and that lately she has been
compelled to live with her parents.
Judge and Mrs. o. L. Moore have
returned from a two months trip to
Portland and western Washington.
The Heighloa Hawaiian quintet and
Miss Jessie Tobias furnished the
Masons with a big program Thurs
day evening at the temple. A num-
Der of readings were given by Miss
Tobias, from, Lincoln junior high
while the Hawaiian quartet played
and sang a number of late Hawaiian
airs, closing the program with a hula