The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-09
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| Il
There will be no services at the
Westminster Presbyterian church to-
noon
The w. c. T. U. will meet Tuesday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. E. v. Bissell 141S North Kan
sas avenue.
L. P. Wikidal, of 420 Harrison
street, has left for Little Rock. Ark.
| to enter the central officers training
school at Camp Pike.
Eleven new cases of influenza were
reported today. Sixteen families were
released. No deaths were reported
during the night or this morning.
The Washburn rural high school
J will open Monday, and all classes Will
meet the same as before the closing
! order, according to announcement
made today
The Employed Girls club leaders
held a meeting at the Y. w. C. A. Fri
day night, and were addressed by Miss
Lima Bresette, secretary of the state
| welfare commission. Her subject was
Industrial Conditions Among Wom-
| en-"
! The Red Cross women workers of
Topeka are to be photographed in the
moving picture at the state house
grounds Sunday. They are asked to
meet at 2 o'clock at the south entrance
of the state house, wearing their Red
| Cross costumes.
! The Free Public library will open
Monday, November IL, at 10 o'clock.
All books returned November IL to 10,
| inclusive, will be free from fines. This
also applies to books that were delin-
| quent before the closing order went
into effect October 6.
Leslie M. Partridge, head of the
commercial department of the Topeka
h.. high school, has left for the Great
ridge has gone to Kehosho, Wis,
where she will teach. She had a
| teaching position in that city before
her marriage.
T. D. HUMPHREYS, battalion sergeant
major of the Ninth battalion state
guards, has been promoted to the rank
| of captain and assigned to the duty
of battalion supply officer. by order of
P. B. Hamlin, major of the Ninth
battalion. K. T. Erwin, captain and
adjutant, signed the order.
| d. o. Coe, a local feed store man
who has been prominently identified
with war activities in Topeka. has
! been appointed to succeed Clay Ham
| ilton as a member of the county draft
| has received an appointment to the Of
ficers' training camp at Camp Taylor.
Alleging that she abandoned him a
year ago, William A. Cross today filed
a petition in the office of the Shawnee
| county district court asking a divorce
from Elizabeth Mary Cross. The pc
! tition states that the parties were mar
ried in November, 1910, but that they
afterward separated and were mar
ried again in September. 1914.
r. A. Obey of the Santa Fe tele-
graph department has returned home
from Hays, Kan, where he was called
| by the death of the wife and 15-year-
old son of his brother, Will H. Obey,
an Ellis county farmer. Mrs. Obley
and the boy were victims of the influ-
enza epidemic which was particularly
severe in Ellis county.
Mrs. Fred Woodbury. and her son,
| Howard Woodbury.. of Olivet Kan,
! have been in Topeka few days.
Howard Woodbury. has been in the
city to make application for entrance
| into OFFICERS training school in Cali
fornia. Mrs. Woodbury. will remain
in Topeka week. She is the guest of
| Mrs. Anna Blower Patten at present,
and will visit Mrs. H. L. Shirer, Mrs
P. c. C1evenger. and other friends be-
fore returning to Olivet.
Glenn Rogers, who is at a point of
embarkation ready to sail for Europe,
has received his captains commission,
according to letter received by Mai
| X. Neil Rahn- Before enlisting, Cap
tain Rogers had a position in the ad-
jutant generals Office, and was for
merly member of Battery A. He at
tended officers training camp, 5, and
was commissioned second lieutenant
Last spring he was advanced to the
rank of first lieutenant. He is the son
or Joe Rogers, of Topeka.
Upon her promise that she will ca II
on the Jiggs" stuff, NJ. L. Lippincott
who filed petition for divorce from
PearI L1ppincott a few days ago, has
to further action. In his petition Lip
pincott stated that his wife, in her
| treatment of him, had emulated the
method of bringing Up Father" as
practiced by Maggie on the immortal
Jlegs- The two children also played
an important part in the affair but
that is all forgotten now, for they in
| tehd TO live happy ever after.
The Gage -Washburn rural
hlgh school case will come up for
hearing before Fred A. Seaman, coun-
ty superintendent, in his office at 10
O'Clock Monday morning. A motion
filed by James A. Troutman, attor-
ney for the eighteen Gage park tax
payers who are against detachment of
the territory from the rural high
school. contending that the county su-
per1ntendent had no jurisdiction in the
| case, was ONerruIed. Seaman requests
that all persons interested in the case
appear at the hearing Monday morn
ing.
In the press dispatches of Friday
was paragraph stating that Ameri-
can troops of the First army had con-
tinued its offensive east of the Mouse
and had gained some ground after
desperate fighting. Topekans known
to be in the Fifth U. S. regulars. in
cluded under this dispatch are Stuart
A. Ripley, Ted Mason and Lawrence
Merriam. all of the Seventh U. S. En-
gineers. Mason and Merriam had beer
in the hospital, but probably returned
to duty some weeks ago. Ripley's las,
letter received by his people was dated
September 10.
Claude L. Dougherty, formerly
with the State journal advertising de-
partment. has purchased a half in
terest in the Boyle Printing company
Fifth and Jackson streets. Dougher-
ty before coming to the State Journal
was foreman on the Daily Capital for