The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-02-28
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

that sixty- marriage licenses were
issued this month as compared with sixty
seven for February. 1918
At the Central Y. NJ. c. A Fellowship
luncheon Sunday afternoon at $40 O'Clock.
port, Iowa, viii make a talk, aud Mrs. n.
". Benning will sing.
A. L. OIinger, secretary Of the Chamber
Of Commerce, will deliver an address to-
ganization." There will be a big COM
muuity sing preceding the address.
The Third Presbyterian church, corner of
Fourth and BraHner, will launch a New
ing a group of student volunteers from
Washburn college will conduct a mission
airy service.
Frank p. MaeLennan returned from St
ut Kansas City three hours account of
frozen raI tr and snow eioEgsa switches Rail-
of Kansas this morning.
The members of the Topeka lodge of the
Loyal Order of Moose will hold a celebra-
ton Monday night, March TO- at their
membership under the leadership of the
district director, Billie Lane, which has
been very successful
The basketball team OF the Y. w. C. A
Will 60 to Emp0ria tomorrow to play the
State Normal team. The members will be
accompanied by Miss nellie Thorpe and
seetor Of thu " G lhegp seurn
to Topeka Sunday afternoon.
Beginning Tuesday. March 4, until the
close Of the registration period March II,
will be open from o'clock in the morning
until 10 o'clock in the evening to permit
the registration of workers who do not
have the opportunity to register during
the day.
A suit to quiet the title to sixty acres
of land in the northeastern part of the
tret Court Was bn leJ John HoIt AGAINST the
county commissioners of Jackson county
and eighteen other parties. Holt says he
that o the DEFENDANTS Claim some interest in
it. it. ' 'N'''' '''''' '''''e
vesper services at the Y w. c. A. SuH-
day afternoon at 4 10 Will be in charge of
McCarter wiIr be the speaker. Miss Silver
thorpe will sing, and Mis- Alice More re
| social hour, which will follow the Service,
| Lois Ferguson and Iris Laughart each
will give a reading.
Miss Ina Shaw, daughter of Jesse Shaw,
of 1214 East Sixth street, returned to To-
peka Thursday. Miss Shaw is field sec
Rotary of the Womens Baptist Home Mis-
sion &c and ID, has been sick In
| s. Miss Shaw will sail for Porto Rico with
Mrs, westfaIl. secretary Of the association,
for the purpose Of visiting the various mis-
sion fields in Porto Rico.
| Lucfe LoIley was granted divorce from
Albert Loiley. 1211 North Taylor street. by
Judge Robert Carver in the first division
| The wife charged her husband with ex-
IRENE cruelty, alleging that he had, on
struck, beat and bruised her. Loiley was
| awarded the come property. and the furni-
ture and other posse ssions we're divided
| They were married in July, 1918.
The Topeka Elks lodge is arranging for
a big home talent musical show, a comedy
! called THE White Elephant to be given
at the Grand tseateE April :, , and 4 4
| home talent shows, Will come to Topeka
with his force of assistants about the mid.
| the sixty Topeka persons who are to take
pare In the performance. The committee
In charge Of the arrangements claim that
| show ever put on in Topeka.
| Edward Reddkk. GIG Buchanan. street,
the 17-year-oad youth who was arrested
sy rse fn Gn aoT fnars when
relatives. it IS said. made good the 50 it
is claimed he had obtained from the Har-
Curry pool hall ON Quincy street he is al
legged to have obtained by passing fraudu-
charge. according to the police. but as the
complitnants Gid not wish to prosecute the
| youth after they had been reimberssd, he
| was released, it Is said.
I Charging that two diamonds she had Sc
and that he hsd refused to refund her
the court Of Topeka to recover S122 from
A. s.. Thomas, proprietor of the santa Fe
Watch company. Mrs. Pope says she first
| she made a payment Of 81, bat as it did
not suit her. she returned It and selected
additional addition Isl, she says. Il Decidine that
| this did not suit her, she says she re-
turned 1t but failed to find another dia-
| mond in the house that was satisfactory.
| Thomas would not refund her money, she
says, altho he gave her memorandum
| for $122 in merchandise.
DR.. Karl A. Menninger has returned from
l;oston where he was a member of the staff
OF the Boston psychopathic hospital for
mental and nervous diseases. He will join
Netherton, of Kansas City. will also join
DIR. Menninger. DR.; Netherten was for
Kansas City. Mo. He was recently placed
! on inactive duty after military service with
p Dee s'1 Mass. br. Mennneer y was an a ns
| sistant surgeon in the United States naval
reserve: DR.. c. F.. Menninger is moving
| his office TO the Mulvane building to make
| room for his new associates. He will con-
fine his own practice exclusively to inter
nal medicine and diagnosis. Recently dis
charged from the army, another physician
who has taken offices in the Muivane build
ing, is DIR. Robert Stewart. He expects
| to confine his work exclusively to surgery.
/ twenty five hogs sold by John Parr to the
Wolff Packing company of Topeka. the
Peoples State bank of Rossvilfe today filed
suit in the district court asking Judgment
of $I45-3S from the packing company The
| witness in the case in which Parr Ross
Vile farmer, was tried in the second divi-
sion of the district court on the. charge Of
selling mortgaged property a few weeks
ago. He was acquittedby jury when the
case came to trial several months after he
had been arrested when he returned home
| on a furlo from the Great Lakes naval
training station. The bank now claims
that In December. 1917. Parr delivered to
them his chattel mortgage on twenty-five
head Of hogs to secure the payment of a
81, 225 note, but that he afterward sold the
hogs in different lots to Wolff. The bank
| claims that the packing company knew the
hogs to be mortgaged at the time they
were purchased and asks judgment for
their total value, in the sum Of S7543s.
/ Earl Robinson, 14-year-old boy living
near the kaw Valley school. was arrested
Thursday evening by Robert Miller. under
| sheriff on the charge of forging s.
J check. He was turned over to the proba-
ton officers. The check was drawn on the
Shawnee State bank and had the name of
Clayton Hummer. North Topeka man.
| signed tn II. The hnr Il ALLEGED haze