The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-03-17

Marshal Joseph waidelich. said this
morning
Members of the Trinity Methodist
church will have the pleasure Sunday
| morning of again hearing a sermon
| by their former pastor. the Rev. S. L.
| Buckley, who is in Topeka attending
the Methodist conference. The Rev.
Mr.. Buckney was pastor of the Trinity
| church in 1917 and 1918, but is now
located at Junction City.
The office of DR.. c. A. Mcguire, To-
| Gated for the past twenty-eight years
on the second floor at 622 Kansas ave-
nue., is to be moved to Room GA IN
| the. Mills building. The quarters for
will be used in the course of the re-
modelling operations of the David j.
August Clothing company.
| The two negative teams won in the
dual debate Thursday night between
| the Highland and Oakland high
! schools at the rate of two to one, thus
/ splitting the honors between the two
| schools. The contest was one OF the
| league. The Independence OF the
Philippine Islands was the subject OF
| the debate.
District No. 9, o., E. s.. will meet
with Mrs. Oliver Wyatt, 927 Monroe
street, on the afternoon OF WEDNESDAY.
March %. The following will serve
as hostesses: Mrs. Sol Richardson, Mrs.
Emma Rominger, Mrs George Stew
| enson. Mrs. Cary johnson, Mrs george
A. williams, Mrs. Jess Swager, Mrs:
E. K. Glunt, Mrs. Selden kilgore ana
George L. Tuer.
Charging that he prefers the COM
pany of other women to her own and
that he stays out until and O'Clock
in the morning, Mrs Gertrude Wat
kins, 213 East Second street, today
filed a petition in the district court
asking a divorce from Eugene Wat
kins. She alleges that he has violent
temper and that he has struck and
beat her. They were married in KAN
sas City in November, 1920.
The text books for the beginners
class in Esperanto have arrived and
the membership list is about to be
closed, according to ]. H. Fazel, presi-
ident of the Esperanto association.
The beginners class is for young peo-
pie only and for Girl and Boy Scouts
especially. At the next meeting OF the
advanced ss~arrangements will be
completed for the Esperanto banquet
to be held March rs. Both classes will
meet at the Central Y. M. c. A at
o'clock Saturday evening.
The Reid hotel at southwest cor
ner of Fourth and Kansas avenues,
has been purchased by George H.
Smith, of Cleveland, o., and Chicago.
Smith has been a travelling salesman
for the past twelve years. Frank
Dunlap, proprietor and manager OF
the hotel, will spend the next few
weeks in Minneapolis, Mimi, resting
after which he will again go into the
hotel business. Smith plans to make
no changes in the hotel or its man
agement, for the present. He viii
cater to the trade of commercial
travellers.
The number of cases of communities
BILE disease on the books of the city
health department at the present time,
is smaller than it has been for many
weeks. There are but two cases or
diphtheria, four cases of scarlet fever,
fourteen cases of chicken pox, one
case of smallpox, and one case of ty-
phofd, on the records. Only once
since the opening of the diphtheria
epidemic in August of last year, have
there been as few as two cases OF
diphtheria on the records of the de-
partment. The low mark was reached
December 80, 1921.
An alumni association was organ
lied by graduates of Boston university
Thursday at a dinner held at the Y.
w. c. A. After listening to an address
by DR.. H. R. Harper of Boston on the
growth of the institution, committee
members pledged themselves to raise
$4,000 in support of the theological
school of the university. The new as
ISOLATION elected officers as follows:
President, Rev. S. S. Klyne, of Law
renee; chairman, Rev. Wiley Conrad,