The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-07

The corner where you are.
Roland Pribble has taken a position
with the sales force of w. H. lines &
Co.
Amity Lodge. No. 231. knights of
Pythias. will meet Monday night, to
initiate men into the third rank.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Wilson 1919 Cen
trail avenue. will leave Sunday for
Spokane. Wash. where they will
make their home.
Charles Plath, new boys secretary
of the Central Y. NJ. C. A, left today
for secretaries conference of Y. NJ.
c. A. workers at Elmdale camp.
A building permit was Issued We'd
nesday to F. A. Anton for the erection
of a $4,000 addition to his house on
Western avenue.
The Modern Woodman Of America
has moved its rooms to the hall above
the Shawnee County State bank.
Meetings will be held every Friday
night.
The Rev w NJ Jackson and his
| family nave returned from a 5000
mile cross continent automobile trip
He is pastor of the Second United
Presbyterian church.
The guardsmen encamped at the
! fair grounds will give a concert to-
night in Motor Hall. The program
will probably be the last concert that
the soldiers will hold before they
! leave.
! P. Wellington Brink, former report
er on the Topeka State Journal, later
editor OF the Manhattan Nationalist
! has accepted a position as pubhclty
agent for the Texas agricultural col
! lege, at College Station, Tex.
! Miss Susie Sweet will entertain the
| Young Women's Auxiliary of the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
at o'clock this evening at her home,
| 231 Topeka avenue, to meet MISS
Myrtle Pider. a missionary from
| Japan.
Ernest Baker, worlds champion
one-handed pool player, gave an ex-
hibition Thursday night at a local
| pool and billiard parlor. He made the
| 100 balls in lis shots, counting seven
| breaks, without the use of the rest or
| bridge.
| Mrs. Alvarado Fuller, local chair
| man, asks all members of the Red
| Cross society wishing to share picnic
| luncheon baskets with one or more
soldiers at Gage park next Sunday, to
| notify J. Will Kelley at the Chamber
| of Commerce.
Fishing season opens a. the Gage
| Park lake, September IA, according
to an announcement made Thursday
| by w. l.. Porter, commissioner. A
| good crop of bass, crappie, sun perch
and catfish are said to be in the two
north lakes of the park.
Two more alleged care.ess drivers
were arrested by the police today.
Ray Cross, a barber, and Charles Guy
err, a driver were charged with jay
| driving Bonds of SIS each were put
up and to date that has been the size
| of the fines assessed upon drivers ar
| rested.
Ed. Davis negro, out of Jail a week
| or two, was arrested by the police
| Thursday night with five cases of
1 whisky In his possession. He was
| driving along peacefully when the
! officers stopped him. The cases had
been dumped into sacks and there
| were 100 ha1f-pint bottles
| Dutro Harris, a negro dope fiend,
almost wrecked the city jail Thursday
/ night, armed with nothing but his
head He butted the stove over and
it was removed to the back yard. He
butted everything loose that would
move. then started in on the walls. He
was placed in cell finally where he
couldn't gain such momentum in his
rushes. DIR. H. L. Cook, city physi-
clan, treated him later.
Capt w. P. MacLean has invited
Rev Mamie Simmons of Chicago to
address the soldiers at the fair
| grounds, Sunday morning at
o'clock Her subject will be THE
Divineness of Courage" Mrs. June
! Chapman has been asked to give an
entertainment for the soldiers, the
/ program to be furnished by a group
of kindergarten children dressed in
| costumes of the national colors. Miss
| Nanon Herren will give a number of
short readings.
Two recruits for the naval reserve
to be stationed for the period of war