The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-10-27

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Jess Jaco, bringing suit in the dis
trict court for divorce from his wife,
Catherine, charges that she is guilty
of extreme cruelty, gross neglect of
duty, drunkenness and desertion. Jaco
says that his wife has left him without
cause for so doing, and is now walk
ing the streets"
| sEiothing and furniture are badly
needed by a family composed of a
mother and six children, discovered
by Miss Kate King and IKiinaurs-
| King, welfare workers. The father of
the children deserted the mother and
she is forced to do washing for liv-
ing for herself and children.
Robbers took jewelry valued at sew
eral thousand dollars from a jewelrS
| store at Enterprise Tuesday, and the
Topeka police force has been warned
to be on the lookout fer them. The
| thieves took six expensive watches
and several Ingersolls, 125 gold rings,
! along with gold knives, watch chains,
and other gold jewelry.
The front of a brownstone building
on Kansas avenue is being cleaned
by sand blast. Passersby cannot
help getting an eyeful-literally--
| the results of the operation. The
workmen wear heavy masks, Sand
| from the blast and from the abrasion
| of the stone work of the building,
Members of the COOPERATIVE club
! could never have been more "tacky''
than they were at their "tacky" party
| Tuesday night at the Elk's club.
| Wives of the members were guests
for the evening, and they also were
pumpkin pie and other refreshments
appropriate for then season were
served.
| The Washburn high school now has
a Hi Y" club, organized Tuesday by
o. w. Hascall. boys work secretary
of the Central Y. w. c. A. Officers are
| Charles Everett, president; Charles
| Brown, vice president, and Robert
Baker, secretary-treasurer. The club
| will meet once a week in class rooms
and plans to have addresses by To-
peka business men.
| half hour of grace is to be allowed
persons with water bills to pay during
the first ten days of every month,
Commissioner Wilbur A. Stanfield~an-
nounced today. Instead of closing at
O'Clock as has been the custom of the
office heretofore, the office will res
main open until $3.50 O'Clock on the
first ten days of November and sue
ceeding months.
| The strong tendency of people OF
the east and north to come to the
southwest to farm and raise livestock
was emphasized in Topeka Tuesday
| by C. L. Seagraves of Chicago, super
lntendent of the agricultural promo
| ton department of the Santa Fe rail-
road Seagraves' has large numbers
of inquiries regarding farming and
stock raising possibilities in the west.
Both the local Y. w. CHA. and Y.
M Z. A. will assist in caring for the
thousands of teachers who will come
to Topeka Thursday, Friday and Sat-
urday- Free check stands for teach
ers' baggage will be operated at both
| association buildings. Enlarged cafe
terra service is arranged for at both
places. AT the Y. W. C. A. building
the high school Y. w. c. A. girls will
Iconduct a Japanese novelty sale.
| The falling of the beautiful autumn
leaves delights the poet and the artist
| and the kid who loves to scuff his feet
| along thru them and hear them
| crackle- But the street car motorman
doesn't appreciate their beauty. For
him they mean slippery tracks. brakes
which may or may not work, and
| switches which are apt to jam. Ever
| since the leaves began to fall the sand
cars have been doing extra duty in To-
peka.
"A hunter in the waiting room of the