The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-07


Sleeping sweetest sleep-as are the dead.
Nell Scribbler.
The Argonauts will meet Saturday
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
c. G.. Nicholson, $50 Lane street. Mrs.
George w. Whitlock will read a paper
on THE Women of Latin America"
and Mrs. George w. Schenck will con-
duct the lesson. Special music has been
arranged.
The farm of Del Valentine, near
Overlook, boasts ore of the most
motherly shepherd dogs in Kansas.
A Topekan who was at Overlook Fri
day asserts that he saw the dog TAX
ing care of two orphan lambs and that
he was told it had been doing SO for
some time.
What we need is a motor truck. -
| said Lieut.. James c. Hughes, of Bat
terry A. "Other companies of Kansas
are receiving trucks and a whole lot
| of other equipment but A will have
to use its old wagons. In modern war
fare, we will be a relic. What we need
is truck. second hand or new, we
want truck that will run
| Friday at midnight the New Eng
| land Mutual Insurance company, one
of the few companies that were still
standard, put a war clause into effect.
Chas. S. Lecklane. Topeka agent, was
notified of this by wire and was told
the company has made no definite
plans for handling war risks.
1.-The House That Jack Built" a
safety first film, will be shown to the
Santa Fe employees at the auditorium
April IL and 10. The employees will
be admitted by ticket and at s o'clock
the doors will be opened to the public.
Commissioner Isaiah Hale will talk.
MI. Hale has been making trips over
the Santa Fe system for some time
showing his safety first picture.
Three Topeka men were called into
service when the president signed the
war resolution. Joseph Ryan, fire
man from station No. 4; c. E. Hile-
man, 631 West street! John E. True
! love, 1929 North Kansas avenue, are
members of the naval reserve and are
They have not received any orders
yet but are looking for a telegram any
moment.
DIR. Levi Chubbuclz of Riverside,
| Cal, for more than twenty years iden-
tilted with the United States agricul-
tural department, wired his brother
in-law, r. w. Mitchell in Topeka,
that he would be here Sunday morn
/ ing, on his way to ST Louis, Mo-, to
attend the war food congress, which
convenes there on Monday, April 9, by
order of Secretary Huston of the
| OhiISO States
Doctor Chubbuck made a soil survey
| of parts of Alaska for the government
in, 1904 and '05 and is an authority on
soils and productions.
| With war threatening, insurance
companies have become concerned. A
meeting of the district agents of
the Mutual Life Insurance company
was called last night at the general
| offices of the company in Topeka. Old
policies are good and new ones will
| be written on the present basis, unless
| the holder leaves the shores of the
United States. Then an additional
charge will be required. A limit of
| $1,000 for insurance of men in mill
tory service is provided. District
agents here for the meeting were
given dinner at the Throop hotel.
Those present were: H. H. Stevens, of
Hartford; J. r. Beasely, of Dodge City:
H. J. Brown, of Baldwin; S. E. Gaus-
tod, Of lola; Seth L. Cox, of Topeka,
and B. F. Parker, general agent at
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