The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-17

this week. however Last week was
low on cases of communicable dis
/ eases. There were reported one case
each of tuberculosis, diphtheria, social
/ disease and scarlet fever, and seven
/ teen cases of smallpox
The members of Topeka branch No.
| 291, Aid Association for Lutherans
will hold a meeting Tuesday evening
at their club rooms. Fourth avenue
and Harrison street. B. e. Mayerhoff
of st. Paul. Mimi, general field man
ager of the association, will deliver n
lecture on the origin and history of
the association. John Frommer of
Atchison, state representative, will tell
OF the work of the organization in
Kansas.
Mrs Esther Orson. 423 Larch street.
today was granted a divorce from
Frank Orson by Judge James Mcclure
in the Shawnee county district court.
Mrs. Orson charged her husband with
extreme cruelty, testifying that he had
kicked her and threatened to kill her
and that he sometimes went for weeks
without speaking to her. Her title to
an S0-acre farm in Lyon county was
confirmed by the court and Orson
barred from any interest in the prop
erty.
Nurses from all parts of the state
will meet at Kansas City, Kan, in
the eleventh annual convention of the
Kansas State Nurses association, to
be held there May 2 and 3. Officers
of the organization are Mrs. Alma r.
O'Keefe. Wichita. president; Mrs w
r. Saylor, Hutchinson, first vice presi-
dent; Miss Pearl Laptad, Lawrence,
second vice president; Sister Mary
Helena, Eldorado. secretary; Miss
Carolyne Barkemeyer, Halstead,
Mrs. Edith Wykert was granted
divorce in the district court Saturday
afternoon from Edward ). Wykert.
said now to be living in Salt Lake
City. She charged that he cursed
and swore at her, unjustly accused her
of infidelity and that he beat their
small son unreasonable. In Decem- !
Der, 1920, while they were living in |
Doniphan county, she said, he COM |
married at Westmoreland, Kan, in I
January, 1903.
The daily production of automobiles |
at the Dodge Brothers plant in De-
troit is zoo cars instead Of 20: as was
stated in The State Jour
nal on Saturday. w. H. lines, head of |
the lines Motor company. Dodge |
agents in Topeka, stated today that
the average output of cars during the |
war, and during the peak business
Immediately following the war, was
about 500 cars per day. Last year
business in Dodge cars on this basis
as normal, was about 125 per cent,
while automobile business on the |
WAAOAGs was eADOAk IL ~ ~~--N'
said today.
George Mitchell, formerly of To-
peka but now of Chicago, is spending
a few days here with his father, ]. F.
Mitchell, ticket auditor of the santa
Fe. Starting in 1902, Mitchell was
reporter for The Topeka State Journal
but finally decided upon railroad
career and went with the Santa Fe
in 1905. From the Santa Fe he went
to Washington as an accountant for
the Interstate Commerce commission,
and is now auditor of the Manufactur-
ers' Junction railway which maintains
system of industrial lines used chief
" by the Western Electric company
in Chicago.
Lester V. Workman. an alleged de
serter from the army, was arrested
oy Robert Pendleton, deputy sheriff,
Sunday afternoon on Weir avenue be-
-ween Eighth avenue and Ninth street
The man is said to have been at lib
arty two years and told Pendleton that
Turing that time he had been in all but
four states IN the Union He is said
% have first deserted at Fort mellow
I'll in December, 1919 and after be-
ng arrested, escaped from a guard
while being returned to the fort He
will be taken to Fort Riley and turned
,ver to federal officials Tuesday. it
vas said. Workman came to town /
night and Pendleton, having
eceived a tip as to where he was stay
ng, drove out, parked his car near the
louise and waited. When Workman |
anne out and walked down the street,
oendleton placed him under arrest.
The state supreme court today dis
olved a restraining order granted
ONE time ago against the receiver
hip for the Kansas Casualty & Surety
ompany of Wichita. By its action
he court permits continuance of the
york of a receiver appointed by the
edgwick county district court. Dor
ey Dunn and others connected with
management of the affairs of the
Wichita Surety company applied for
he receivership in the Sedgwick
ounty court. Later an opposing fac
ion in the organization alleged mis-
and irregularities in
andling of the affairs of the COM
any and secured an order from the
upreme court which restrained the
eceivers from taking further action.
he court today set aside it's tempo
airy order and placed the situation in
he hands of the Sedgwick county
curt.