The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME news


II you want to hear the sweetest klnd OF
music,
That play upon the heartstrings' deepest
tone,
Just listen when the bell begins to Jingle,
And you hear a voice from Kansas on the
phone,
The world somehow just seems to lose Is
bigness,
The cold indifferent tnrongs are less like
You can smile upon that sea of stranger
When you hear a voice from Kansas on
the phone.
-Nels Yingle.
Mrs. w. c. Jones, 22O Madison
has received word of the safe
arrival overseas of her husband, w.
c. Jones, of the coast artillery. He
enlisted about June IS.
A man giving his name as Henry
Howard was picked up Friday after
noon by the police while in the act
of begging in the west part of town.
He was given sentence of 100 days
in Jail but paroled to leave the, city.
Proceedings were begun today in the
United States district court against the
Kansas City Southern railway for vio-
Iations of the "2S-hour law" The law
provides that stock cannot be confined
in a car more than % hours at one
time.
Charles Pinkston. who is with the
8 5th infantry, has arrived in France,
according to word received by his ia
Their, Kirk Pinkston. of the Topeka po-
lice force. Another son of Kirk Pink
ston. Louis Pinkston, has been in
France several months.
J. w. Ewing. who was arrested
Thursday o a vagrancy charge, was
fined $50 and sentenced to fifty days
in Jail by Judge Paul Heinz in police
court Friday afternoon. 1t was said
that the mans chief occupation was
shooting craps. He was denied an
appeal bond.
The regular county teachers exami-
nations are being held in the office of
! Fred A. Seaman, county superintendent.
Owing to the prevalence of influenza,
certain teachers ares given certain
hours for the test in order that there
will not be too many in the room at
the same time.
A petition in bankruptcy was filed
Friday afternoon in the United States
district court by Bert. E. Brown, a
travelling salesman of Lawrence His
liabilities were given as $4,000 with
no assets. Brown formerly was sec
rotary of the state senate and has
been active in Democratic politics.
Word was received in Topeka today
of the death at the Great Lakes train
ing station of Henry Merrill Orr, who.
before enlisting at Kansas City, was
an employee of the Thompson Hard
ware company, in Topeka. He was
a victim of Spanish Influenza His
parents reside in Independence, Ia.
Shawnee county men in the Is and
81 to As year classes probably will not
received their questionnaires for some
i time. it is intimated by 1. D. Graham,
secretary of the county draft board
owing to the immense amount of work
still before the board. Nine new filing
cases have been installed and it is
thought they will all be filled with
questionnaires by the September regis
tration.
A petition was filed Friday in the
office of the district court by Lyman
H. Streeter. asking divorce from
Emma L. Streeter. The petition claims
| that since their marriage in 1915 his
wife has neglected her duties. failed
! to prepare his meals and attend to the
| upkeep of his clothing. She left home
! he says, taking part of the furniture
/ with her and he now asks that the
! court grant him a divorce and tht
ownership of the balance of the house
| hold goods.
-Altho she says her husband weigh.
$40 pounds, Mrs. Effie Morgan de
! clares that he employed the use of
chair to knock her down with. Thi
/ plea was in her petition filed Frida.
| IN the office of the Shawnee count,
district court asking a divorce from
/ Robert c. Morgan. She charges Nor
gan with extreme cruelty: says he ha
beaten her md called her vile names
She wants the court to issue a re
straining order during the pendanc
of the suit to keep her husband ava.
from her place. They were marrie'
in 1909.