The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-08
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Elks' dance Friday night.-Adv.
Free Seeds at State Savings Bank
Adv.
Dance tonite-Wrightman Nov
city Orchestra-55c per couple
Steinberg' s.-Adv.
All issues OF Liberty Bends bought
and sold. The Shawnee Investment;
Co. 534 Kansas avenue.
The Alumni club of the Phi Delta
Theta fraternity held it's regular week
ly luncheon and meeting today noon
at the Chamber of Commerce. About
twenty men were present.
Division No. of the Ladies' Union
of the Central Park Christian church
| will hold a food sale at Warren M.
Crosby's store Saturday. Home made
pies, cakes, salads and doughnuts will
be sold.
The state charter board today ap
proved an application for charter for
dotte county. The bank is capitalized
for $4,000.
The Leavenworth Bridge company,
L of Leavenworth, today filed petition
! in voluntary bankruptcy in the federal
court. listing liabilities at $44, 443.39
| and assets at $40,9S0.67.
The county commissioners this af-
ternoon were opening bids for the con-
struction of a concrete bridge over
Il
Central avenue road leading to Meri-
den.
An ex-service man who burned his
discharge papers and later needed
them, has recovered his discharge rec
ord thru finger prints. He was as
sisted in the work by the local Red
Cross chapter. He is patient in the
hospital for the insane.
Notice has been received that the
Colorado Short Line railroad, from
Colorado Springs to Cripple Creek,
will not be operated this summer. The
tourist prospects are not sufficiently
enticing to persuade the receiver to
start trains rolling over the road
which is famous for its scenery.
Steinberg's dance hall was packed
to capacity Thursday night for the
first appearance of Sgd Wrightman's
novelty dance orchestra, a famous
dance music producing orga nization
which has played for large number
of photograph records. The Wright
man orchestra will play again tonight.
Herman Blidiessel, a painter and
paper hanger, was bound over to the
district court today for trial on the
charge of abandC-4ing his five chill
dren. He asserted that he had not
been financially able to support them
since the death of his wife a few
months ago, but denied that he had
deserted them.
Mary Klamm today filed a petition
in the district court asking a divorce
from Theodore Klamm, charging
neglect and cruelty. She asks for a
half portion of twenty-five acres of
land they own in Wyandotte county
and ten acres three miles east of To-
peka- The Klamms have been mar
ried twentythree years.
The Misses Anna and Susanna
Walsh, Irishwomen. spoke at the city
auditorium Thursday night, urging
support and recognition of the Irish
republic" by Americans. The Misses
Walsh are finishing an extended tour
of the United States, in the interests
of the Irish government. Both speak
erS expressed the utmost determine
ton to fight England until their cause
was won, or there is no one left in
Ireland.
The Shawnee Chiropractors' society
met at lunch Wednesday noon at the
Chamber of Commerce and listened to
an address on .chiropractic conditions
by Doctor Colvin of Wichita. Those
present were: DR.. Anna M. Foy, DIR.
Madge Gabriel, DR.. Emma Morrison,
DR.. May Alexander. DR.. Nettie Gish,
DIR. Grace Keiser. DIR. Gertrude Han
nah, DR.. ]. P. Colvin, DR.. ]. H. Ga
briel. DIR. C. P. Mitchell, DR.. W. W.
Davis and DR. F. Shelton.
Charley" Carter. negro. was today
bound over to the district court for
trial on a charge of stealing 'two
Plymouth Rock hens and one cream
colored hem from Mrs. Martha
Slaughter. negro woman. Willie Reed.
a young negro. was arrested when he
was trying to sell the chickens to the
Copes. He implicated Carter. Mrs.
Slaughter's husband died last winter
Reed testified that Carter had said,
while God was KILN the ole man I
was KILN his chickens" Mrs.
Slaughter said she identified a rooster
she had seen at Carter's place as her
rooster because he was blind and had
the Group"