The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-26

A woggle-bog is wanted
BY the children for the zoo.
Well. I'd rather see a woggle-bog
Cir Cingle.
DIR. Robert Gordon, pastor of the
First Baptist church, will speak at a
patriotic meeting at Liberal, Kan, to-
night.
Howard Wesley Cochran was in
Quoted into service with the Sixty
sixth engineers by local draft board
No. 1. Cochran was indicted thru the
local board of Oklahoma City.
The BARRIERS union is welcoming
the new unions formed at the Santa Fe
shops with donations of cigars. The
Car Carpenters union was the benefit
ciary Thursday night.
Carol J. Walker of Burns. Kan,
was indicted into the medical corps
of the national army by local board
No. Thursday. Walker was sent to
Fort Riley.
Ira L. White. son of Hays B. White
of the state tax commission, has been
approved by the personnel of the Y.
M G A. for overseas service. White
has been assigned to a post in England
with the American troops.
The Mansion" by Henry Van
Dyke, will be read to the Epworth
league of the First Methodist church
Sunday night at $50 O'Clock. Miss
Bessie Oinklage is the reader. The
public. is invited to attend.
Josephine Hardy, S25 North Kan
sas avenue, today filed a suit for a
divorce from John Hardy. Abandon
ment is charged in the petition. Hardy
is listed in the city directory as an
actor They were married August II,
1897.
The name of Richard r. Lockwood,
Mound City, Kan, appears in the list
drr f0C of ~ hi
training school at Camp Gordon,
Georgia. Lockwood receives recon-
mendation for the appointment as
second lieutenant in the field artil-
lery
The Topeka branch of the National
Security league is arranging a series
of meetings in all parts of Shawnee
county May 8. The purpose of the
meetings is to perfect an organization
to fight all forms of German propa-
ganda.
Theodore d. Hammatt Thursday
was appointed receiver for the estate
of his mother, the late Mrs. Maria C.
made by the probate court The
estate is valued at $4,000 and the old
family home is situated at Tenth and
Tyler streets.
Judge-Rad Lee is in receipt of a
letter from Lieut.. Clyde Cowgirl, for.
merly Topeka attorney. Lieutenant
Cowgirl is in France. The letter states
thirty days ago, Cowgirl expected to
| be at the front in the midst of the
fight in fifteen days.
An increase in rates for electricity
| i'll Wichita has been temporarily halt.
ed by the issuance of a restraining
order by Judge John C. Pollock OF
the United States district court against
| mis- Sin h
/, commission recently complied with E
petition asking for increased rates.
A warrant has been issued fol
Louis P. He'll, president of the Idea
Bakery company, charging him will
operating an unsanitary establish
E,ent. The warrant was prepared BY
the county attorneys office on in
formation from the city food inspec
tor. The trial will be held Tuesday
April 80.
Action looking to the perpetuatiol
of the Grand Army of, the Republi
may be taken at the state encamp
ment of the veterans at Chanute mex
month. The first step toward a full
fillment of the plan was taken by tn
lola encampment of the organization
! who at recent meeting adopted
resolution to change the constitution
of the G. A. r. to include soldier
and sailors of the United States army
navy, or marine corps who have beer
honorary discharged from tn
service
Just two days after Moses Barber
a negro, had obtained a $500 judgmen
against the Union Pacific railroad fol
personal damages. his wife, France.
! Barber, filed a petition for a divorc,
from him. At the same time she
asked for an order restraining tn,
Union Pacific from paying the judg
ment until the suit is settled and tn,
I, alimony question decided upon. Sh,
| also asked for an order keeping Bar
Der from selling a small piece of prop
erty in his name. In her petition To-
a divorce, Mrs. Barber charges gros
neglect of duty and extreme cruelty.
An exhibit of engineering supple
and instruments valued at $500,
4 will be the feature of the sixth annua
convention of the Kansas branch o
the National Association of Stationar,
| Engineers in Topeka May IA TIL,
meetings of the association will b.
held at the Chamber of Commerce
and the exhibit will be installed at tn
auditorium. Speakers at the conven
ton as announced are: S. L. Simmer
/ ing, dean of the engineering school
Kansas State Agricultural college: E
| r. Harper of Kansas City, Fred w
Raven of Chicago, Emerson Carey O
Hutchinson, Judge John s. Dawson O
the supreme court of Kansas ant
Governor Arthur Capper.
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