The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-08


To be sold by the "aeher!''
The Ladies' Bible class OF the Su ed
ish Bethel Mission church will meet
Thursday afternoon at the home of
Mrs. o. Eastberg. 1918 Grove street
Ex-Mayor j. B. Billiard and former
Chief of Police Winfield Eaton were
seen drilling with the Topeka Home
Guards on Capitol square Tuesday
evening.
The Yeomen picnic. scheduled for
this afternoon at Gage park, has been
indefinitely postponed until later
date on account of the illness of q
number of the prominent members.
Claims against the estate of he
late Jacob Lutz filed by his two sons,
Henry and David, were allowed by
Probate Judge Cav. The boys de-
clared that their father had offered
to pay them 500 a year to work on
his 5O0-acre farm after they had at
tanned the age of 81 years.
The Capper pavilion at the fail.
grounds will be turned over to nation
al guardsmen at the fair grounds and,
if desired, a Y. NJ c. A. branch will
be established there There will be
Sunday services at the fair grounds
camp. DR.. Edmund j. Kulp, pastor
of the First Methodist church, will
conduct the services next Sunday.
Governor Capper has been asked by
Mrs. Grace Sheldon of 1437 North
Polk street to assist her in finding her
! two sisters. Their names are Gertie
Smith and Ethel Smith. The children
in the family have been separated for
many years. Mrs. Sheldon says the
last known of her two sisters one OF
them lived in Oklahoma and one in
Texas.
Hugh NJ. Nichols, 1917 Mulvane
street, assistant manager of the Con-
sumers' Gas company, will leave
Thursday morning for the naval train
| ing at the Great Lakes. He enlisted
nearly month ago but was not called
| until Tuesday. Nichols attended
Washburn college for three years
where he was member of the Kappa
| Sigma fraternity.
A farewell reception will be given
| to Rev. and Mrs. j. E. Ingham at the
Central Congregational church, Thurs
! day evening, to which all of their
| friends are invited. Rev Ingham for
! fifteen years has been superintendent
| of the Congregational Sunday schools
| of the state with headquarters in To-
| peka. He goes August 16 to Idaho,
where he will engage in similar work.
In the Topeka exemption board
story in the State Journal last evening
| it was stated in referring to W.. B.
Frantz, 625 New England building,
| that in asking for draft exemption he
| pursued similar tactics to those OF
| Dicks" 1t was meant that Frasntz
| filled out a blank in Topeka rather
| than to go to his registration home
| in Oklahoma, as did a man named
| G. Dicks who was mentioned in the
story.
A meeting of all union men in the
city to discuss the new buying system
| of the Trades Union Cooperative
| Buying association has been called for
| a Ia IA he
! first cooperative delivery of groceries
| under the new system will be tried ont
| Friday morning, and the report of the
associations committee to arrange the
| delivery will be heard. Under the as
| sociation's arrangement, groceries are
| ordered a day in advance, and the
merchants sell to members of the as
| ISOLATION, thru the association, at less
| than regular prices.
! Walter Frost, negro, is in the county
| jail a federal prisoner, charged with
counterfeiting. Walter, federal Off
Gals say, discovered a method of MAX
, ing a one dollar bill look so much like
a five dollar bill that he could collect
on it. 1t was simple. too, his process.
The charge is that he gently removed
| the 81 mark and pasted on a IS mark.
When the job was done none but an
| expert could detect it. Frost was ar
rested upon complaint of Lee Menden-
hall, proprietor of a negro restaurant
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| claimed to have been the recipient of
one of Frost's works of art.
Notwithstanding the request of
| President Wilson that notaries public
| render a patriotic service by making
out the affidavits for exemption of
| drafted men free of charge complaints
are reaching the state house from Ga
| lena. letter from J. B Ranch of
Galena to ]. T. Botkin, secretary of
! state. is to the effect that tn notar-
les in that city are charging the draft
ed men so cents for making out an
| affidavit. That is even more than the
legal charge in Kansas. Twenty five
| cents is the full legal charge. Cover
nor Capper has full power to revoke
the commissions of notaries and it is
possible such action will be taken in
cases where drafted men are held up.
The governor suggests that drafted
men go to county clerks with their
affidavits and get the work done for
nothing.