The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-12
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| No one can we'll deny.
But why a ''smOkelessH soldier boy;
! Why such hue aud cry
Then let the sammies have their smokes ;
The eo soldier Older boy should have his pipe,
| When ne has done his Bit ,-,,,.,,
Amity lodge No. 23I. K. of P, will
hold asregular meeting Monday night
with work in the third rank
The Topeka Fanciers' association
win meet tonight at the Chamber OF
! Cornnerce to complete plans for
poultry fair TO be held in Topeka De-
tcember II to %.
]. f. Haskell, vice president of the
Beatrice Creamery company. VIII talh
| on Operation of a Large Creamery
to the Current Topic club tomsht at
the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Charles w. Powell of Sabetha en-
listed in the army Saturday at the To-
cal recruiting station. He was as
signed to the infantry regular army
He left for jefferson barracks at St
Louis.
| Lincoln circle No. 1 will hold an
| all-day meeting at Lincoln Post nan
Tuesday. Preparations for the annual
bazaar to be held November "a will be
completed at the meeting. Dinner will
be served.
Isaiah Hale, safety commissioner of
the Santa Fe, will give lecture on
! safety First to the members of the
cooperative club at their meeting
Tuesday night at the Elks club. Sup
per will be served at $50 o'clock.
A permit to erect a new $4,000
! frame residence was issued this morn
ing to John w. Harrison from the
office. of Fire Chief Joseph Hanlon
| The residence is to be built at 1901
| Euclid avenue and completed March l.
Sergt w. S. WEIGH and Mrs. WEIGH,
of Hammond, Ind, arrived in Topeka
| Saturday to stay with Mrs. r. B.
WEIGH, mother of Sergeant WEIGH.
Mrs. Welch has been i'll for some time
Sergeant WEIGH is recruiting officer
| at Hammond.
The insurance men of Topeka held
! their regular MONDAY luncheon at
the Chamber of Commerce this noon.
w. S. Eberle acted as chairman at
the meeting. Carey j. Wilson and
| Frank Whitney were the speakers of
| the program.
Mrs. Charles Mathews and daughter
Helen, were the hostesses at dinner
party given at the residence, PIG
East Eighth street, Saturday night,
The party was given in honor of Lieut..
J. J. Smith. now at Camp Funston,
and his aunt, Flora Ward of Topeka.
The fondness of the public for crisp
waffles and maple syrup has enriched
the SOlQl0TS AlQ OF Inc Mill
tary SiSterhOod in the sum of $500.
This sum represents two days work
and means warmth and food in many
a little home where the bread winner
has marched away to war.
Moving pictures will be shown to-
night at the Second Presbyterian
church in North Topeka Four reels
of .'Quo Vadis'' will be shown at the
church as well as an education film
of Norway. The films are furnished
TO the church by the extension de-
partment of the University of Kansas.
No admission will be charged for the
display.
Dr. Alma Webster Powell. whose
revolutionary views on music have
somewhat scandaliZed local critics, is
to appear in a song recital at the high
school assembly on Wednesday morn
ing. This recital is for the edification
of the students and will occupy the
regular weekly chapel hour On Tues
day evening DR.. Powell will address
the teachers from the city schools.
About 100 of the Topeka Poultry
Breeders prize winning birds will be
exhibited at the Heart of America
Show" to be held in Kansas City the
week of November 81. Aside from
the main exhibit of poultry the Heart
of America Show" will feature educa-
tional exhibits from the government
and from the Missouri State Poultry
poultry show close Novembe Is and
are in charge of Charles Grunske.
Henry Reisner, pioneer candy man
of Topeka and early day settler of
Kansas. celebrated his eighty-sixth
birthday recently. Born in 1881, Mr..
Reisner emigrated to Kansas in 1856,
was a farmer and freighter in Kansas
and Colorado until 1875, when he set
| tied in Topeka and engaged in the
candy business. He stayed in this
/ hi
Reisner is a staunch prohibitionist
and hopes of living to see a national
''bone-dry law
The Methodist Women's Home Mis-
sionary society will be held Tuesday
at the Walnut Grove Methodist
church. An elaborate program has
been arranged for the meeting. Mrs.
the society, of Washington, D. c.;
NJ: S. o. j. Bowman, DR.. H. E. Wolfe.
Mrs. S. S. Beggs and many others will
talk at the meeting. A Is cent din
der will be served at noon. The eve
ming meeting of the church society
will be held at the First Methodist
r church
More than 1900 employees of the
International Harvester company have
enlisted or been drafted for the mill
I tary service of the United States. The
) company wants to send each of them
a Iii lSlIldS COilIOFI DOX, out IN many
cases 1t has no record of address. For
, this reason, it is publishing an adver-
} tisement in this issue of the State
Journal asking all such former en-
f ployes to send it the necessary in
formation. Any man in camp here
: who knows of a comrade having been
in the company's employ can help him
to get pleas mt and useful Christ
mas reminder by calling his attention
. to this advertisement.
Those who have joined the home
guard companies, in the various states
IN order to belong to military organ
ization, will find that they have not
altogether Joined a social club. Fol
the same laws and regulations thai
govern such matters in the nationa