The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-23
North Side NeDs
MEALS IN A CAR
Union Pacific Solves Problem
of Feeding Riley Employees.
Road Is Conducting Expert.
ment With Women LabOrers.

Road Is Conducting Expert
ment With Women LabOrers.
The Union Pacific has large num-
Der of men employed at Camp Funs-
ton. There are no facilities on the
grounds for feeding civilians. So the
company installed a dining car, re-
| moved it from the trucks and made a
permanent eating hall of it. The car
seats rs men. Meals are served to
Union Pacific employees there at cost
The Union Pacific is preparing to
meet the enormous pressure that will
| soon be exerted its lines when the
| transporting, feeding and equipping
! the newly drafted army becomes an
immediate necessity. At present the
traffic is very heavy. But soon the
requirements of the fort will far ex-
coed present demands and a great ac-
cession of railroad equipment will be
! imperative. The road is at present
making arrangements with other lines
and large assignments of rolling stock
are expected.
In the material yards in North To-
peka ten colored women dressed in
overalls are at work sorting scrap iron.
The road is conducting the experiment
| with women labor in anticipation of
a marked shortage of man power
when the draft has called the men
| to the colors.
Selling Scrap Iron Pays.
Dealers in old iron and junk are do
ing an excellent business. The price
| of scrap iron. old rubber bottles brass
and all such materials has risen N 4
marked degree in the last year. Farm
| erS now, instead of allowing worn out
machinery and implements to rust in
the fields and yards haul them to town
| and realize something on the metal in
them. The high price of rubber has
| 1mpelled the owners of old auto tires
to bring them to the dealers. Worn
| out tires bring from so cents ia $3.50.
Bottles are not as numerous as in thu
| good old days. but a goodly number
| with suggestive labels somehow find
a resting place in the junk dealers
shop.
Fought Over Stove.
A short fistic argument took place
on North Kansas avenue in the 500
block Wednesday morning. Two men
became heated" over a stove, which
| did not prove satisfactory to the pur-
chaser. The action was short but
| warm.
Reception for WaIIce.
| reception was given at Lyman
| school Wednesday evening in honor of
David Wallace, for the last five years
principal of the school. Mr.. Wallace
viii leave Saturday for Fort Sheridan,
where he will enter the officers train
ing school. over two hundred guests
attended the reception from the Ly-
man district, and from over North To-
| peka A short musical program was
| given and refreshments served Wal
lace had been offered the principalship
of the school for the coming year but
resigned to enter the training school.
he mas been very popular among the
people of the district since be>og
| there, and has many friends in North
! Topeka. Miss Bertha Kistler has been
appointed principal in his place. She
mas taught for several years at Ly-
man. Miss Ethel Hannah will take
the intermediate department of the
| school; Miss Elliott the primary, and
Miss Eva Willard will teach music
| Social and Personal.
Mrs. Glenn Morehead entertained
few friends for her brother, George
| Jacques, at her home, 1851 North
| Kansas avenue. Mr.. Jacques expects
to leave soon for Fort Sill with his
| company. The guests were Mr. and
Mrs. John Lawheen, Ralph Lawheen,
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank jacques, Mary
| Hohnbaum, M. c. Morehead, Lancelot
| Jacques, Daisy Dessenberger, Clarence
| Anderson, nellie Mason, Wilma Des-
| senberger, Fred Jacques, Lynn More
head, Gladys Wilson, julius Jacques,
| Gleda Dessenberger and Mr.. and Mrs
| Glenn Morehead
Jay Smith, of Ottawa, is visiting at
| the w. M. Van Ness home. Mr. Smith
has been commissioned a second lieu
| tenant from the Riley training school,
and exects to leave soon for Funston
| to take up his work with the new
| army.
DR.. Charles o. Byerley was in Kan
sas City Wednesday attending a meet
| ing of vetinarians.
| Thomas and Ferdinand Voiland re-
| turned today from a months vaca tor
trip among the Michigan lakes.
Victor Council No. meets this eve
ming at the hall, 1000 North Kansas
| avenue.
A. NJ. Petro, the Druggist.-Adv.
| A temperance service will be held
| Sunday evening at the Central Avenue
Christian church Sunday school
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Berry have
returned to their home in Ashton
Idaho, after a weeks stay in North
| Topeka. Mrs. Frank Berry is the guest
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ Van Ness
Friday evening the Loyal Sons end
| Daughters class of the Christian
| church Sunday school will give a din
ner at their fair grounds for three
members of the class who are encarnI.-
| ed with their units there, The bows
are Clyde Wilkerson, Floyd Whitehead
and Fred Whitehead.
The Union prayer meeting this eve
ming will be held at the Kansas Ave-
nue. Methodist church The Pew
Jones of the Christian church will
lead the meeting.
Adam Earn left for Buda Springs
today to visit his daughter, Mrs
l. IL