The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-04

from an outing In Colorado.
Mr. and Mrs. J. w. Davis who have been
spending the summer abroad, will sail from
Liverpool for New York and are expected in
Topeka September 20.
Miss Mabel Knowles will return tomor-
row from a visit in Atchison.
Mrs Florence King and daughter Jessie,
returned from Kansas City today.
ture platform not only would be un-
der the social service department of
the Methodist church, but would be
under the joint direction of the coun-
Gil of national defense. When he
first took the pulpit last fall at the
Meridian street church. which is
known as the mother of Methodism
in Indiana" and which is the wealth.
lest congregation of that denomina-
ton in the state, he attracted atten-
ton by his sermons. When the war
situation became near acute and the
United States entered the fray, he
spoke often on patriotic themes.
DIR. Loveland's retirement from the
pulpit leaves the Meridian street
church without a minister, as the Rev.
DIR. Clyde Howard Hale, the associate
pastor, who came here from Kansas
City last January, entered the second
training camp for officers at FIT. Ben
jamin Harrison today.
The matter of a successor will be
taken up at the quarterly conference
September 10, when committee will
be named to consult with the bishop.
recon nlenOaI1On
the annual conference nine days later,
at which time the appointment will
be made, and action taken on DR..
Loveland's request to be transferred.
DR.. Loveland said today that he was
uncertain whether the change in his
plans would mean the removal of his
home from Indianapolis. In the lee
ture work it is likely that he will have
eastern headquarters in New York city
and western headquarters in Topeka,
Kan. 1t is probable, he thought, that
he and Mrs. Loveland will remove to
New York city. Their son, DR.. For
rest L. Loveland, a physician and
surgeon of Topeka, is now in service
with a hospital unit from Topeka.
The other member of the family, Miss
Lo Desca Loveiand, is a concert and
oratorio singer. and has just returned
to New York after a visit to her par
ents. She was heard in a recital at
the reopening of the Meridian street
church last spring.
X X
Justice and Mrs. w. A. Johnston,
who are among the Topeka foster par
ents of French orphans, have received
| from a little 7-year-old French gil.
a letter in acknowledgment of The
financial support she is receiving from.
them. The child has baby brother
which was born short time after the
fathers death.
The letter. in its English transla-
ton, is as follows:
Dear BenefactorS:
l am delighted with your benevo-
! lence. Happy to see that in the great
sorrow which came to me and is bear
ing me down that am helped by your
generosity aItho a stranger.
L am not big enough yet to express
by myself my infinite appreciation
1 commend myself to my mamma to
write you all that which 1 would say.
l am called Berthe and L am years
old. l am commencing to study.
must be very good so that l may not
grieve my mamma who is so saddened
by the death of poor papa. He was
! killed in the beginning of this great
! war at the battle of the Marine, the
! 9Th of September, 1914, after hard
| fight, that which saved Parts for the
I rest of US.
My poor papa! He was so good How
1 regret him, and my poor little
brother who is u years old has never
even seen his para. How sad that is.
So many unhappy ones in the course
of this long war.
Mamma works in a tobacco factory
since two years. Before the war she
/ staid at home and took care of me-
My papa was an engraver on bronze
/ and earned enough for US all and now
ma NINA is alone to bring us both up.
! 1t was also with great pleasure my
mamma received your generous offer
/ ing.
You are such generous American
! benefactors, so good to France and
! our people and especially SO good tc
all our orphans. 1 close in thanking
you very profoundly. 1 am sending
/ big kisses to you.
BERTHE PISSOT.
"a Rue Folie Merlcourt, Paris XXI.
X =
THERE'S n WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who was seen a few days ago
walking thru one of the stores carry
! ing a gorgeous knitting bag, all made
/ of heavy brocade and gold mounted
! fittings, and from start to finish a
dream of costliness.
What in the world are you carry
ing that bag around for?" queried a
friend. you know you can't knit and
won't learn
Why / find plenty of use for it,
she answered back, just little huffy.
! L carry my coin purse in it,
And sure enough she dived into the
depths of that brocade creation and
fished out a diminutive purse about
two by three inches in size and con-
tanning about seventeen cents.
X X x
A letter from Washington, d. c.,
gives an account of the need for knit
ted articles, such as dozens, even hun
dreds of women in town are doing.
/ One occasionally hears that the knit
ting fad is overworked but the gov
eminent bulletin continues to call for
more knitted articles. The letter is
as follows:
More than 5000 wooden garments
! knitted by the workers of the Navy
league comforts committee are being
shipped each week to the men of the