The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-18
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we are to repudiate that statement
Are we to make reputation as we
did when Boyd and his little black
troop was slaughtered at CarriZal?'
There will be no MONDAY meeting
tomorrow on account of other meet
ings at the Chamber of Commerce;
However. a meeting VIII De n 1'7iii
Thursday noon and Doctor kulp VIII
again be the speaker.
County Is Organized.
For the first time since war was
declared against Germany, shawnee
county. outside of Topeka, is organized
100 per cent patriotic. Under the di-
rection of c. B. Merriam and his COM
mittee, a captain and workers have
been placed in every school district
and the Red Cross Christmas mem
bership drive is running in both the
CITY and the county, it was declared
today by Morton Albaugh, as well
oiled machine. The Dollar of Mercy"
was today being obtained by collectors
by the scores, the hundreds and the
thousands.
Members of the committee who
have so thoroly organized the county
outside of Topeka. are c. B. Merriam,
H S. Morgan, D. o. Coe, A. D. Folk
er, Ferd Funk and Miss M'Edna Cor
bett.
Miss M'Edna Corbett, county super
intendent and a member of the com
mittee, asserted today that 1877 teach
ers will cooperate with the SO dis
trict captains. I'VE are going to
make the city sit up and take notice.
said Miss Corbett.
All that is needed to make the mem
bership campaign the most intensive
patriotic drive ever witnessed by the
county is for the women workers to
go into action in the residence dis
trict of the city. They have been fully
organized and will start their house
to house canvass tomorrow morning.
Flags Everywhere.
Monday afternoon, when the bust
! ness district workers first took the
/ service flags appeared so rapidly in
Kansas avenue store windows that the
\ thorofare became a confusion of red
crosses. Great flags floating over the
street and from building fagstaffs
/ completed the atmosphere.
| Business firms, factories and scores
of establishments have already proven
/ themselves 100 per cent behind the
| boys in olive drab by every employee
and official buying a membership.
nounced by Mrs. Crosby, purchased
memberships for Christmas presents
to every empIoye.
/ Theater Men Join.
Theater employees and actors, as well
as the managers, are lining up. Mon
]
went behind the scenes and every
stage hand, actress and actor took out
! a membership. Tonight at 4:30
o'clock chorus girls from the Ma
the State Journal on the street. The
money taken in will go to the Red
Cross.
Actors and employees at the Novelty
who subscribed include:
The Columbia City four, Billy Bal
10 Not
Charles Cash; Antie Gibson, Madge
Gibson, Neva Gibson, Paul Barron
Sam Bennett, Harry Havana, Japan
I csc, r. V. Morrison, Truman c. Lord,
ME- and Mrs. Orville Stamm, o. U.
| Gregg, Joe Havana, japanese.
Shawnee county membership No. l,
it is announced by Albaugh, will go to
Master Bobby Jack Rice, 1872 Gar
field avenue. Bobby Jack today lacks
three days of being one year old. Both
Washburn football star, and Lyman
Rice, graduate of the Topeka high
school, are in the service of Uncle
Sam at Fort Pike, Arkansas.
State Journal Employees Loyal.
The Red Cross committee that
called at the State Journal plant this
morning left one hourN later with a
of the office, including the office bows,
who declared they did not want to be
left out, placed their names down on
the list for one or more MEMBERSHIPS.
Attractions at Theaters
The local talented patriots who have
donated their services to the cause
will appear at the Majestic, Orpheum
and Novelty theaters for all shows
tonight. At the Orpheum last night.
owing to a misunderstanding with the
players, the feature was placed be-
tween films with only one perform
ance. This evening there will be a
double Red Cross bill.