The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-21
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The visit of the Belgian commission
aroused considerable talk about the
Belgian hares and Brussels carpet.
Elizabeth Kelly, of the State Y. M.
c. A, will leave Sunday for Elmda1e
where she will spend week at the
Y. M. camp.
The Lillian Mitchner w. C. T. U.
will meet with Mrs. Bagby, 1928
Buchanan street Thursday at 230
O'Clock. The subject, Home Keepers
Symposium
AL. -regg, boys secretary of the
State Y. M. C. A, left this morning
for Estes Park, where he will be in
charge of the boys work of the Y. M.
c. A. training school.
Miss Lottie Milan, assistant club
leader for Kansas girls clubs, wishes
to meet the girls sewing clubs at East
Indianola, at the East Indianola
; school house at 1920 Monday morn
ing.
THE Trial and Triumph of Faith
Job" will be the subject of DR.. Arthur
S. Henderson's lecture to his Bible
class Sunday at 10 a. m, at the
First Congregational church, corner
Seventh and Harrison streets.
Union services of the central
churches of the city will be held on
the west side of the state house Sun
day evening. Rev. Arthur Henderson
be furnished for the services by a I'M
ion choir from all the churches.
w. T. Davis, district commercial
agent of the superintendent of the
Western Union, stopped in Topeka
this morning on his way to Fort
Riley. He will look over the installa-
| ton of a new station at Funston, the
new army town, just outside Fort
Riley.
Harvey Shannon, driver for the Col
lege Hill bakery, who was injured
Thursday morning when he was
thrown from the wagon, suffered a
| fractured pelvis, according to an ex-
animation of the injury held Friday.
1t will probably be two months before
| he will be able to walk.
| The identity of the lady riding in
the automobile with members of the
Belgian commission has aroused no
end of conjecture. 1t was Mrs. Samuel
Jones, of Fort Riley, sister-in-law
| of Baron Moncheur. Mrs. Jones and
| her husband, Colonel Jones, met the
baron and his party at the Santa Fe
| depot.
! w. c. Carswell, manager of the To-
peka Office of the Western Union, re-
ported to his office this morning mot
quite ready to fight He was grant
ed an indefinite leave of absence last
the meantime, making several short
| trips around Topeka and just gener-
( ally enjoying himself.
| The Rev. Joseph P. Hicks will
| preach Sunday morning at the Second
Presbyterian church on 1.-THE Peace
| of a Christian Like a River and His
/ Righteousness as the Waves of the
! Sea- The subject of the address of
! the Rev. Joseph P. Hicks next Sunday
morning before his Bible class will
be 1.-The Ruthless Invader"
Benjamin SPOTS, colored laborer,
working at the new elevator on East
| Crane street, was seriously. injured
Friday afternoon when a heavy timber
| tured by the blow and an operation
will probably be necessary to relieve
| the pressure on the brain. SPOTS lives
east of Topeka near the Kaw river.
! Arthur C. Carver of Erie, Kan,
bears the distinction of filing the last
application for the quartermaster' S
corps to be accepted. He enlisted in
! Topeka last week. John A. Roth of
Iowa City, Ia, was also accepted this
morning at the local recruiting sta
ton. He enlisted in the Sixth Artillery
/ band, and was sent to Fort Worden,
Wash.
Application blanks for passports
| into foreign countries may be obtained
from the clerk of the federal court ar
/ Topeka, according to new policy
announced from Washington Kan
sans going abroad may obtain the
/ blanks here and send them on ahead
to Washington and thereby save con-
siderable time, as it takes from two
to four days for the department to I'M
wind the necessary red tape
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