The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-13

oils, Mimi, have gone to Philadelphia,
Pa, to make their home. Mr.. Jolly
went east to accept good business
offer, and his family has moved to
Philadelphia. Mrs. Jolly is remem-
bered by her Topeka friends as Miss
Essie Chamberlain.
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Mr.. George Haskell of Lincoln,
Neb., has been chosen by Herbert
Hoover as one of his assistants in his
gigantic work of food supervision. Mr..
Hoover has chosen experts insvarious
branches of food production, and
these men serve without pay.
Mr.. Haskell, as head of the Beatrice
Creamery corporation, was chosen on
account of his knowledge of the pro-
duction and handling of dairy foods.
He is a brother of Mr.. Frank Haskell
of Topeka. He keeps a secretary in
Washington, whom he pays from his
own funds. : 1t is said that this corps
of men who are giving their services
to the government are working hard
er now than they ever worked to
make their own fortunes. One of the
secretaries says that she knows less
about the city of Washington, after
than a sight seeing tourist can find
out in six hours.
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DR.. Lydia Allen DeVilbiss has re-
Gently returned from an extended trip
thru the east. She was the principal
speaker at a meeting of the first Pub
lie Health school conducted in MaSSa-
chusetts under the auspices of the
Massachusetts State Medical associa-
ton. The meeting was held in the
Massachusetts General hospital, and
Doctor DeVilbiss was asked to speak
on Practical Methods of Conducting a
Child Hygiene Department, and of
rousing the public interest in that
work. She was chosen because she
had been in charge of a successful de-
partment which is the only depart
ment of child hygiene in the middle
| west.
The Boston Transcript carried a long
article about Doctor DeVilbiss's ad-
| dress, quoting from it literally.
The doctor, during her absence Wis
tied the New England and middle At
lantic states, investigating public
health work, attending clinics and
making chautauqua addresses. She
visited Miss Lathrop, head of the chill
dren's bureau of the United States at
| Washington. Miss Lathrop is exceed
ingly enthusiastic over the opportunity
| that Kansas has to lead in public
! health and child hygiene, with its bu-
reau already established on a working
basis.
Every organization in Kansas
Doctor DeVilbiss declares, that is
I
to cooperate with the child hygiene
| bureau of this state, in a child con-
Servation drive that the department
| expects to make. During the war time
| is our opportunity. The child is the
most sensitive index to public condi-
tions, and is the first and worst suf-
! ferer from war. It is our intention
to make such a drive as shall defend
and conserve the childhood of Kansas
in spite of war conditions. We con-
slider that the highest form of patriotic
service that we are prepared to rem
der"
| Announcement has been made by
| Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Blood Smith, of
the engagement of their daughter, Eda
Adele, to Capt. Alfred Charles Bartel,
the wedding to take place Saturday,
September Is, at noon, at the Gay
T'Gue hotel, Montgomery Ala.
The marriage has been expected for
some time by the friends of the en-
gagged couple The wedding will be a
Captain Bartel and his bride will go
for a short wedding trip.
Miss Smith and her sister, Mrs.
Arner Robenson, of Fort Riley, left
Wednesday night for Montgomery
where they will join Mr. and Mrs
National Bar association meeting in
Saratoga, n. Y.
Captain Bartel formerly practiced
law in Topeka, and was assistant city
attorney. He left Topeka to take q
position with the Delco Light com
pany. of Dayton. Ohio. Last summer
he was with the Kansas Nationa
Guard at the Mexican border. and he
is now with the First Ohio field artil
lery.
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Dean Edward c. Johnson AMI Mis-.
Frances Brown, of the Agriculture
college, Manhattan. want to meet tht
presidents of all women's orga MIA ton.
in Topeka Saturday afternoon at 3:3(
| O'Clock in the assembly room OF the
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