The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-12-15


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The Central Y NJ. C. A. vol1eyball
team won its opening game in the
| Northeast Kansas Y. NJ. c. A. league
Wednesday night by winnings from
the Lawrence ''Y'' team in three
straight games. The results were:
| 1879, 1912, 1916.
Alleging that he had seriously in
| jured her by beating her with his fists
and that he had also failed to support
her, Mrs. Beatrice Harris, 1900 East
Sixth avenue, today filed an petition
| in the district court asking divorce
| from John S. Harris.
| One of the most charming Christ
mas windows in town is the eleetri-
illuminated Christmas tree in
the window of the Topeka Battery
company, at 926 Kansas avenue. The
tree was designed by NJ. P. Olson,
manager of the company.
A finger-print Identification agency,
| managed by w. A. Gregg, has been
opened at 720 Kansas avenue. The
agency is called the Citizens Indenti-
fication and Protection bureau. Gregg
| is a graduate of the University of APP
piled Science, at Chicago
A dinner in honor of B. A. Shuman,
general secretary of the Buenos Aires,
Argentina, Y. M. c. A, will be given
Friday noon at the Central Y. NJ. c.
A. He will address the men at the
| dinner on Personalities I Know and
Admire in South America
Four little tots entered the home
of the Security Benefit association
this week They were from Dodge
CITY Their mother died recently and
their father has been confined to his
bed for eighteen months. They are:
Laura Bessey, age 10; Da&e Bessey,
age Z; Howard Bessey, age 4, and
Edith BesseN age 6.
Robert Brakebil1, Is. negro, was ar
rested by the police this morning and
turned over to the juvenile court on
| a charge of raising a disturbance at
| Washington school. The boy had been
| dismissed from the school last season
and has persisted in annoying the
| teachers, according to the complaints
received by the officers.
DR.. D. NJ. Fisk, veteran sociology
| teacher at Washburn college and Ell
rick B. Davis, professor of English,
will undergo operations during the
holidays. DR.. Fisk will have a. catar-
act Removed from his eye, and Davis
| will be operated upon for appendicitis.
Both men expect to return to their
| classes by the opening of school after
the holidays.
Sloan lodge No. 225, A. F. & A. NJ,
| held it's annual banquet and party at
the Masonic temple Wednesday night.
Nearly 1000 persons attended The
| feature of the program following the
| banquet was the comedy skit, Sup
pressed Desires" given by Professod
and Mrs. E. D. Schonberger, of Wash
| burn college, and Miss Lacy Herrick.
Mrs Nellie M. Baker was elected
master workman of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen at the last meet
ing. Other officers elected were: Mrs
Aleta Moore foreman; William Vardy,
overseer; Mrs. Florence Deckwa,
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j. Wehe. outside guard; Clyde Norton,
financier; Frank Coven, recorder, and
George H Atkinson, treasurer
Burglars Wednesday afternoon en-
tered the home of R. B. Cunningham,
sos Fillmore street, while the family
were away from home, and ransacked
the house. Considerable jewelry and
clothing was overlooked and only
about SO from a chiIds bank and a
small rifle were TAKEN Entrance was
| gained by breaking a glass in a rear
door and unlocking the night lock.
Wednesday night, December IA, two
parties of Topekans enjoyed an out
door picnic in Gage park, E. f. A.
Reinisch superintendent of the city S
parks, announced today. The mid
| winter outing party secured wood and
water from the superintendent, and
cooked their suppers at the camp
stoves. They stayed late and were not
at all uncomfortable, Reinisch says.
Mrs. Mabel Brubaker. SIG Clay
street, filed a petition in the district
court Wednesday afternoon asking a
divorce from Harry H. Brubaker,
| whom she charges with being intimate
with other women and unjustly accus-
| ing her of paying attentions to other
men. She also alleges that he knocked
her down. She asks that her maiden
name of Mabel M. Jillson be restored.
A verdict in favor of the defendant
was returned by a jury in the district
court Wednesday afternoon in case
| in which Walter Smith and Speed
Hughes of Topeka sued J. S. White,
farmer south of Topeka, for the value
of a Holstein COW he had sold them
and which afterward died. The buy
ers contended that the COW was dis
| eased when White sold it to them, but
| the jury held otherwise.
The annual meeting of the Kansas
| Veterinarian Medical association will
be held at Ottawa January and 5.
| Between two hundred and two hun
| dred and. fifty graduate veterinarians
| are expected to attend. 1t is under
] stood that a strong effort will be
| made to bring the 1923 convention to
| Topeka. The state legislature will be
| in session here at that time and it is
| said the veterinarians are expecting
/ to have some measures affecting their
profession before that body for con-
| sideration.
| Milton Blalock, alleged youthful
| check forger, was sentenced to serve
not more than ten years in the state
| reformatory at Hutchinson when he
| entered a plea of guilty before Judge
George Whitcomb in the district court
1 this morning. Francis Darlington,
liz, who confessed to the police Tues
| day that he had stolen 5000 from the
Bryan & Reed grocery store, 2O5 Stew
| ems street, during the three months
he had worked there, also entered a
| plea of guilty and was sentenced to
serve not more than five years at
| Hutchinson.
Judge John c. Pollock has called a
] special day of federal court to be held
i at Wichita, Tuesday, December 20.
| for the consideration Of law questions.
motions and other court matters and