The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-05-17
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Co. 533 Ea0SdS aSenue--AoN
Florence H. Miller today filed a petition
for a divorce from Grover r. Miller. Adam
donment is charged. They were married In
1907.
Mrs Alta Brengle and daughter, virginia,
Of Streator Ill, Will arrive in Topeka
Tuesday for a visit with Mrs. Brengles
grandparents Mr. and Mrs. g. T. Mattingly,
I'LL Lincoln street.
longing to Byron Willcuts, 40 Taylor
street. was stolen Sunday from in front of
the Elks club. 1t bore license number
81 oil and its engine number was 80. a.
The Rev. Ernest c. Sibberson, of Love-
land, Colo, delivered a sermon Sunday at
the First Lutheran church. The church is
now without pastor The Rev. Mr.. SID
the charge.
The Farmers Co-operative union will
hold an open meeting at Menoken school
house Wednesday evening at o'clock.
A program will be given. after which X.
{. ObrechC will speak on organization OF
farmers unions.
A smallpox card kept William L. Petit,
clerk in the office of Fire Chief Hanlon,
away from home, but it could not keep out
the Stork, which arrived at the Petit home
Oh May and deposited twins. Petit did
not get to see them until week later, then
thru a window.
DR.. Earle e. Brown, city health officer,
was in more jubllant spirits today than he
out. Reason: one small daughter age
two days, weight T$t pounds. The stork
called at the Brown residence, ITO Car
field avenue Sunday morning. The young
lady was named Josephine Camilla Brown.
The following building permits were is
sued saturday: 10 Shawnee investment
company, 1870 CORTLAND, dwelling. $500;
49, Courtland. dwelling, $500; 115 Court
Ian, dwelling, $500; III CORTLAND, dwell
ling, $500; 10 y. Quinton boulevard,
dwelling, 5000; 133 y. QuintOn, dwelling,
5000: to Mrs. J. ID. Mare, 1S2S Fillmore,
sleeping porch, S12J.
Fifty cent luncheOns were served today
at the Chamber Of Commerce. This is an
increase of ten cents over the old price.
Members recently voted, to l. in favor
of retaining the present portions and
menus and raising the price TO fifty cents.
The new arrangement calls for three diff
feFent classes of tickets, depending on the
kind of meal desired.
The field registration booth was moved
this morning to keene's drug store Mt
Seward avenue and Grafton street, where
voters will be registered today, Tuesday
and Wednesday. City Clerk COvell hopes
the registration at the new station Will
be heavier than it was at Seventeenth street
and Kansas avenue. where only 40 per-
sons signed up the last three days of last
week.
number of whoOping cough cases in the
city. They had doubled over the reports
Of the preceding week; Forty5five cases
were reported during the seven-day period.
Measles also showed an increase, with
forty five cases and one death reported.
The total number of contagious diseases
reported during the week was III, includ-
ing one case of meningitis.
Owing to the inability of Rev. +. J.
Gardner, pastor of the Trinity Methodist
church. to appear in the pulpit due to an
operation on his left eye, services are be-
ing conducted by visiting ministers and
laymen of the church. The Rev. L. G. Cut
Ter. formerly Methodist minister at
Cawker City, delivered the sermon Sunday
morning. George Hoyes, y. NJ. c: A. secre-
tary with the Thirty-fif division in
France, spoke in the evening.
1t took Minnie Krisak, CTS Monroe street.
just fifty seven days to decide in her mind
that her husband, Mike Krisak, was guilty
duty. Those charges were filed against
Krisak in petition for divorce filed to-
day, in thu, office of Mrs. Mary E. Chaplin,
clerk OF the district court Mrs. krisak
also states in her petition that her husband
wrongfully accused her of disloyalty to
him. They were married March IL, 1920.
4. W. Dare, formerly of Topeka died
May 10 at Santa Barbara, Ca. Dare won
national prominence last fall as the re-
ceiver OF the first human express ship
ment. Miss Doreen Steer. an adopted
in England under the care of agents of
the American Express company. The
Dares then lived at 907 Lincoln street.
1.-THE family moved to Santa Barbara last
January. The body of Mr.. Dare was taken
to Gardner, Kan, for burial.
In 1908 when the latest map of Shawnee
county was drawn /. b. Alter, a Rossvile
banker, owned a farm in Silver Lake town
ship on the north side of the river. Since
that time the kaw river has changed its
course and Alters farm is on the south
side of the river After called at the
county assessors office last week to ascer-
tain if he should pay taxes in. Silver Lake
township on the north side of the river or
Rossville township on the south side of the
river. was told to continue paying on
the Silver Lake side.
Judge George II. Whitcomb in an opin-
ion handed down Saturday held that Thorn
as Horsfield, grocer. guilty of break
ing the Sunday closing law by selling beef
steak and milk and other articles on Sun
day; The case was hotly contested. Hors-
field was charged with violating a statute
providing restrictions on all articles on
sunday excepting drugs, medicines and
other articles of immediate necessity"
Judge Il. Hazen, Horsfieid's attor-
ney. announced that be would appeal to the
Kansas state supreme court.
Topeka citizens had the opportunity Sun
day for the first time to see an airplane
flying thru clouds. disappearing COMPLETE
" at times to break into sight again a
went out OF sight. Pilots of the Curtiss-
Kansas Aircraft company were going up
to dust the clouds; The roar Of the motor
could be heard all the time. When some
first heard the noise of the exhaust they
looked in vain for the machine. They
could tell it was close from the noise. but
did not see 1t until it came down below
the clouds.
I'VE worship God as the highest exaIta-
non or our ideals, as great, loving
grasp the thought of infinity. We talk
about God as infinite, but that is on1y n
way of covering the ignorance of the finite
mind. These were thte statements of
the Rev. Mark Mohler, pastor of the IJni
tartan church. in his sermon on Person
ality and LEFTY" at the O'Clock service
yesterday afternoon 's\OtUithstandinr
! our limitations. in our search for God. in
our reaching out after the infinite in our
effort to contemplate God in essence we
have found the greatest source Of our own
development. Whatever we have accom-
plished as race may be truly said to rest
upon our power TO seek and TO find God
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