The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-20
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AT HOME NEWS

The Topeka company of engineers
needs only seven more men to place
the company at war strength. The
headquarters and supply companies
are enlisted up to full war strength.
French lessons are being taught to
number of Topeka guardsmen by
Miss Stella Ewing. 701 Tyler street.
Lessons began Tuesday evening at the
office of c. 1. Martin, adjutant general
Moving of the furnishings of the
Kansas Academy of Science from
Memorial Hall to the University of
Kansas started Tuesday. Four mo-
tor trucks will be used in carrying the
goods overland to Lawrence.
Mrs. c. I. Hay of Wakarusa was
taken to Bethany hospital, in Kansas
| City, Sunday, where she is being
| treated for cancer. Her condition was
reported this morning as improving
| rapidly. Her husband is in Kansas
| City with her at the present time.
If a blind man would pass the cor
ner4of Eighth and Kansas avenues be-
| tween and o'clock on a quiet sum-
| mer afternoon he would wonder if he
were in a drug store. The scent sof
! powder. perfume and toilet water is
equal to that found in any drug store
in Topeka.
| The South Side Civic Improvement
club will dedicate the new Shunga-
nunga park, at Twentieth and Kansas
| avenue this evening. Music for the
occasion will be furnished by the
Santa Fe Apprentice band c.. H
Griggs and Capt. c. H. Titus will be
the speakers of the program.
/ Dan Malloney, district deputy of the
national council of the knights and
| Ladies of Security is in Colorado
| Springs inspecting a site offered by
| that city for the home and hospital of
the order. The Colorado Springs
| Gazette of June 16, devotes consider
able space to outlining the prospects
/ of that city obtaining the half million
dollar home and hospital.
Il With $1,000 on his hands, appro-
i priated by the last legislature, F. w.
Knapp, state auditor, has learned that
he is legally unable to spend it. The
money was appropriated as an addi-
tiona1 sum for the use of the civil
service commission. However, law
enacted in 1915 prohibits the expendi-
ture of more than a specified sum by
the commission each year.
i All of the forty-one wireless stations
in Topeka ordered dismantled by the
government a month ago are down.
/, Their owners took them down, boxed
them and William Province, in charge
of the navy recruiting station here,
has been sealing the boxes. The last
plant was sealed Tuesday. There will
be no more amateur wireless plants
in Topeka until after the war is over
and the war department relinquiShes
it's hold on the apparatus.
Spinal trouble developing from a
fall caused the death of Margaret
Hertzel, granddaughter of Mrs. NJ
Hertzel of 1929 North Topeka avenue.
Margaret Hertzel was visiting here
when she fell downstairs at the home
of her grandmother. She was not Sc
riously injured at the time but later
spinal trouble developed and she died
at her home in Roosevelt. Okla. The
funeral was held June IS in Roose-
welt. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. Hertzel left
Topeka Saturday to attend the ser
vices.
By reading the family Bible the
mother of Werner Kavanaugh OF
Belleyille. discovered that while he
had supposed he was only twenty
seven years of age he was in reality
thirty-two, therefore too old to reg
lister for consumption. The Bible die
not satisfy the agents for Uncle San
and Kavanaugh was arrested and held
| at Kansas City, Kan, while an in
l. vestigation was made. Among otheI
| things they discovered, according t.
L Fred Robertson, United States distric
attorney, is that if Kavanaugh is thir
/ ty-two years of age he has a sistel
just three months older than he. Hi.
| school records show him to be twenty
| seven and the officials are satisfied
| that is his age. After the official
| ed to be permitted to register but i
| was too late. What will be done will
| him is up to Mr.. Robertson.
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