The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-12

| s Estey, the minister, as the speaker.
/ These services are to be continued on
| Thursday evening with DIR. E. J. Kulp
! as speaker, and on Friday evening
| speaker. cordial invitation. is eX-
| tended to all to attend these services
Mrs. Lille Mitchell, sos East EIev-
enth street, today filed a petition in
| the district court asking a divorce
/ from William Mitchell. She charges
| he is guilty of extreme cruelty,
habituaI drunkenness and gross neglect
| of duty and AYERS that because of his
| treatment she was forced TO seek
/ refuge in her fathers home. He has
| frequently knocked her down and
beaten her, she says. They are the
parents of four minor children
Mrs. Elizabeth Lane. for seventeen
years assistant to the paymaster OF
the Santa Fe at Topeka, is in the
santa Fe hospital as a result of in
juries received Tuesday when she
slipped and fell in front of 9f5 Harri-
son street. Mrs. Lane lives at the
home of her sister, Mrs. H. +. Guth-
RE, 1925 Harrison street. After suf-
fering severe pain Tuesday and Tues
day night, Mrs. Lane was reported as
being slightly improved this morning.
At the regular luncheon of the To-
peka Builders club, held at the Cham
of Commerce at noon today and fol-
lowed by an informal meeting of the
directors, IL was decided that-the next
general evening meeting of the club
Will be held Wednesday, May 8. The
next meeting will be held at the new
club house which has been purchased
by the Enthusiastically owned by
John NJ. Leeper, seven miles west of
Topeka. program of speeches and
entertainment will be arranged for the
meeting.
The members of the Topeka Asso-
citation of the Blind for Service hold
a work day meeting every Thursday
when visitors are welcome to visit
their workshop and inspect the work.
The meeting tomorrow will be held
at the home of Miss Lovelia Hilty, 626
Topeka boulevard. This association
is rapidly gaining a reputation for ar
tistic and useful articles, the work OF
the blind members, and every encour-
agement should be given to the asso-
citation to become self supporting as
well as to enable its members to earn
independence. An invitation to visit
the work rooms and to inspect the
work accomplished by members is eX-
tended to everyone
Suit to force the payment of So
600 judgment which she obtained
against Chauncey Dewey, former
Kansas stockman and land owner, in
March, 1917, was filed in the federal
court at Topeka Tuesday by Mrs. Har
riett NJ. Berry, administrators of the
estate OF the late Buchard B. Berry.
Other defendants in the action are
and T b Richmond. The case dates
back to the famous Dewey-Berry feud
in 1903 when several members of the
Berry family were killed, and is the
second of the kind now pending
against Dewey in federal court In
each action, it is charged that Dewey
has transferred much of his property
to the other persons named as de-
PENDANTS.
Mrs. Louise B. Martin, S15 Para
more street. has finally accepted the
challenge of her husband. James o.
Martin, an employee of the Topeka
Iron Foundry, and applied for divorce, |
according TO her petition filed today in
the district court. She declares that
he would twist her hands and when
she would plead with him to desist he
would say: THE best thing you can
do is to get a divorce" She says she |
has been compelled to wash and sew
to earn her own living during the last |
five years. in spite of the fact that he |
was making good wages. Lately |
when he would go into his 'tantrums" /
she says he would ask for his revolver /
and one night slept with it under his 1
pillow She says she fears he will do /
her bodily harm. They were married /
in 1903 and are the parents of four !
children