The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-09
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


Frank Sturges, city passenger and
ticket agent for the Santa Fe, return
ed from Lake View this morning.
The Topeka high school class OF
1915 has planned its first reunion for
tonight at Gage park
The Altar society of the Holy Name
church will meet Thursday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. ]. Noll, 500 Fill
. more street.
Frank C. Boggs, of Waverly, Kan
| sas, received his appointment this
morning to first lieutenant of the
! medical corps.
the r. R. Y. NJ. C. A. left this morn
! ing for Lake Geneva, Wis. where he
will attend the summer school of the
Y. NJ. c. A.
| Homer Herrick. assistant secretary
at the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. will re-
turn Tuesday from HOLSTER. Mo,
where he has been arranging affairs
for the summer conference of the Y.
w. C. A.
Better conditions will arise from the
present war and man to man will
brother be- after the clouds of battle
disappear, according to DR.. C. w.
Maggart, who conducted a union
meeting on the east steps of the state
house Sunday night.
/ Chauffeurs are needed for the regu
lar army in the quartermasters corps,
| according to a call issued this morn
ing by the local recruiting office, 425
Kansas avenue. Other branches of
the army have been reported as filled
with the exception of the infantry and
a few good positions in the signal
corps.
The Railroad Y. NJ. C. A. is more
prosperous this year than last, accord
ing to the financial report of the in
stitution presented to the state office
Saturday. Twenty-Five new members
have been secured in the last month
ed $50. The financial end of the
building shows an increase of $531.71
over the same month last year.
Men in the trenches are religious.
according to letters from wounded
and dying soldiers on the French
front that were read at the union
church, East Side Methodist and the
Second United Brethren churches
Sunday night. The Rev. S. B. Alder
son, pastor of the Third Presbyterian
church, was in charge of the services.
Five Public Health nurses have been
given commissions as sanitary inspec-
tors by City Clerk Coveil. The COM
missions give the nurses civil authority
to compel Topekans with unsanitary
premises to clean up. The following
women received the commissions: Miss
Davis, Miss Elizabeth Aldridge, Miss
! Mary Mitchell and Miss Mary Kanode.
Miss Lois Bacon entertained her
Sunday school class and teacher, Miss
Grace Carlson, at her home, 1907
j Park ave-, the occasion being her 18th
birthday. The invited guests were:
Miss. Grace Carlson, Leona Blevins,
4 Marion McMaster, Frances Rogers,
Helen Doyle, Ethel May, Louise Wal
lace, Pauline Smith, Vivian Barnett,
Florence Barnett, Lois and Doris Ba-
Il con.
Coppersmiths, pipe coverers, drill
ers and shipwrights are needed for
4 the service in the national ship yards
4 according to a message received Sun
day by officers at the federal build
z ing. The Philadelphia ship yards
4 yards at Norfolk, Va, and at Charles
ton, S. c., are all in need of these
workmen. Application may be made
3 at the office of Leroy Powell, at the
q postoffice building.
NJ L. McSpadden of 2025 Lincoln
street went to Kansas City Saturday
4 and forgot his registration card. Sat
urday night the Kansas City police
made a clean sweep of the city for
strange young men who looked like
4 registration material and McSpad-
den was caught. Hugh Larimer, sher-
iff verified by telephone McSpadden's
q statement that he had registered and
the boy was released.
b Apprehension as to what action Her
bert C. Hoover, will take in the food
i control situation, has placed Topeka
grain business at almost a standstill
a The millers, they declare, are not max.
7 ing any great effort to stock up fol
a the future because is believed Hoover
) will set the price below So when au.
II thorized to take charge by congress
y The millers, pending the outcome o.
u the situation, are only filling order.
Il as they come in.
There are two petitions filed will
q the county commissioners asking fol
a paved roads east to the county line
one road following the TecumseI
d route and the other going southeas
n thru Watson. The Watson petition
a was filed last and now the Tecumsef
a petitioners have filed another, arguin.
n the point. They hold that the lin,
n they propose will be three miles short
81 er than the Watson route and tina
II the cement paving thew DroDose will