The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-13
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AT HOME NEWS

/ The Topeka chapter of the navy
league will meet tonight at its offices,
| sos Kansas avenue.
The Socialist local will hold the reg
| ular business meeting at Comrade
Taylor's, 30S Elmwood at o'clock this
| evening.
If you are not getting entirely sat
| isfactory printing service, your next
step is obvious. Boyle Pig. Co, 5th
and Jackson.-Adv.
| Bill Martin, cashier at the Harvey
house at the Santa Fe station, has re-
! signed his position here and has en-
listed in the army at Kansas City.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. T. Price of Los
Angeles. Cal, have announced the
birth of a daughter. Mrs. Price was
formerly Miss Ruth ogden of 1424
| Tyler street.
Jackson's military band will go to
Kansas City July /, where it will give
a series of concerts at the Lincoln
| Electric park. Their program calls
for two concerts each day running
July l, 2, and 4.
The Aetna Building and Loan asso-
citation has doubled its original $685.
] 900 subscription to the liberty loan
bonds. In addition, every officer, di-
rector and employe of the company
| has purchased a bond.
| A vaudeville show will be given by
| the young people of Grace cathedral
Friday night at Guild hall. The pro-
ceeds of the entertainment will be
used to provide an outing trip for
| the men of the church choir.
The Ake-Pot Ster-Boos will hold
initiation exercises this evening at
their rooms in Hamilton hall for the
| visiting delegates of the Southwest
Waterworks association. Officers for
the coming year will also be installed
| at the evenings program.
| Henry Perry, proprietor of the col
| ored pool hall at 1925 Kansas avenue,
was arrested and found guilty of hav-
| ing liquor in his place of business
| Tuesday and he was sentenced to thir-
| ty days in Jail and assessed a fine of
| 500. The case WIS appealed.
Ernest Olander, the son of Mr.. and
| Mrs. c. E. Olander, 707 Garfield ave,
was graduated today from the engi-
neering department of Illinois univer-
| sity and will return home Friday. He
| will assume a position in the engineer
| ing department of the Santa Fe.
| Kate King city welfare worker, has
volunteered her services to the people
| of the stricken district around Elmont.
Monday the welfare department sent
a truck load of household supplies to
the district and today a load of mat
| tresses, beds and clothing was car
ried there in the police car.
A. c. Pierce, of Junction City, de-
partment commander of the Kansas
G. A RI, is in Topeka today making
| plans for the Kansas delegation to the
national annual encampment of the
organization, which will be held in
| Boston, August 10. Each state Will
send two or more delegates to the con-
| vention.
| A complete survey of the tornado
district thru Shawnee county is being
made by the county commissioners
and j. A. Campbell, county engineer
| When completed it will show every
spot where damage was done, the
amount of the damage, where relief
has been given, the amount and its
nature where relief is still needed
With the aid of this survey, it is ex-
pected that another relief expedition
will go into the storm district Sunday
to give additional relief.
Twenty-Five alleged harvest hands
| labeled by the police department a.
hoboes, took" a Union Pacific trair
| at Lawrence Tuesday night in spite O.
the interference of the train crew ant
ran things with a high hand all the
| way to Topeka. The Lawrence po
lice telephoned ahead to Topeka ant
| Chief Wilson marshaled an army o.
| policemen. They were taken to thu
| junction in North Topeka in the pa
troll wagon and police automobile, lin
ing up on each side of the track
/ | When the train pulled in and thu
harvest hands" saw the lineup the.
tanned down considerably and thir
teen of them marched into the pa
troll wagon Nine escaped. All o
them, except one, who was booked a
a drunk, We're booked for investiga
ton and unless they produce proc
that they registered for army service
being inside the age limits-the.
will be turned over to the Unite,
States marshal.