The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-07
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AT HOME NEWS
acknowledgements.
Elks, dance Friday night.--Ad1


Elks, dance Friday night.--Adv.
Dance OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Nov
city Orchestra-55c per couple
Steinberg' s.-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bonds bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment
Co.. bS4 Kansas avenue--Adv.
E. H. Hogueland, traffic commerce
counsel for the Topeka Traffic asso-
citation. is in Kansas City today attend
sentatives of the Interstate commerce
commission.
Governor Allen will return to To-
peka Friday morning from his home
in Wichita, where he has been spend
ing a couple of days. The governor
went to his home town Tuesday night
to look after matters connected with
his newspaper and other personal
business.
Charging that he had failed to sup
port her, altho earning SITS a month.
Vera N. Crozier today filed a petition
in the district court asking a divorce
from W. A. Crozier. She says she was
compelled to leave their home in
Texas and come to Topeka to live with
her father. She asks for S45 month
alimony.
Lincoln Circle No. 1,iLadies of the
Grand Army of the Republic, will pre-
sent a large flag to be hung on the
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afternoon at 2 o'clock. The presenta-
ton speech will be made by Mrs.
Helen NJ. Whitney, patriotic instruc-
tor. Short talks will be made by a
number of others.
While A. L. Smith was living in
Pitcher. Okla, his work took him out
of the city. When he returned home
in the spring of 1919 he found that
his wife, Ruth Smith, had taken all
her personal belongings and departed.
These are the allegations contained in
his petition for divorce, filed today in
the district court. Smith says he
does not know his wife's wherea bouts.
They were married in July, 1918.
Emphasis should be placed on pre-
vention and not so much on cure was
the theme of the address given by the
Rev. Frederick Siedenburg of Loyola
university, Chicago, before the Spald-
ing Reading Circle Wednesday night.
He pointed out that the cost of crime
in the United States is greater than
the cost of education. The Rev.
Siedenburg was a member of the Chi
cago board of censorship for a num-
1 Der of years, and is in close touch
with education work of the nation.
George G. Tunell, of Chicago, gen.
eraI tax commissioner for the Santa
Fe, does not anticipate any great in
crease in taxes for 1921, over the $12,-
100000 paid by the road during 1920.
i Inc taxes pdlQ 1917 were III per
tcent greater than those paid during
1919, when the roads were under gov
eminent control. There was an addf-
tional increase of twelve per cent in
Kansas, on account of additional
equipment in this state, during 1920.
compared with the ten per cent for
the entire system.
Property owners have protested suf-
ficiently to prevent the city's intended
grading and paving of the alley be-
tween Lane and West, Ninth and
Tenth streets, according to the pro-
test presented to the city commission
today. The protest of property own
ers on Lafayette street between Tenth
and Fourth streets against paving of
that street unless storm sewer be
constructed, was recognized. There Is
no way in which the city could con-
struct the sewer desired by residents
of that section.
An old automobile tire attached to a
rope provided a great deal of amuse-
ment for some boys in the vicinity OF
Washburn college last night. The tire
was placed in the middle of the Sew
enteenth street road near Jewell ave-
nue.. The majority of autoists upon
seeing the tire applied the brakes and
hurried back after the tire only to see
it disappear as they were ready to
pick it up. Then a roar of laughter
would emerge from the invisible boys.
only to die down when a new pair or
headlights appeared.
A bulletin of the Automobile
Trades association, issued this week
from the office of the secretary, A.
L. Oliger, in Topeka, is devoted almost
entirely to consideration of the legis-
lation which was passed at the last
session of the state legislature, and
which affects the motor dealers. The
IegisIa tive committee of the associa-
ton saved the motor car dealers and
owners of Kansas a total of S2,161 ,41O,
or S144 each, it is estimated in the
bulletin. The saving was accom-
plished thru reduction in the license
fee which was assessed under the new
motor license law, and in the laws
regulating the purchasing and han
ding of cars.
Elks' dance Friday night.-Adv.