The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-20

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Dyeine daily. Topeka Laundry Co
Adv
1t is the duty of every woman in
Topeka to pledge one day or a part
of a day out of every week to sewing
for the Red Cross.
The Political Science club will hold
its next meeting in the assembly room
of the National hotel Friday. October
26. The session will begin at 2
o'clock.
Club girls of the Y w c. A will
have charge of the vesper services at
the association building Sunday Mrs.
Barton Phelps, of Duluth, Mimi, will
speak.
Charlie Thomas, a negro. was ar
rested at the Santa Fe depot today by
the police. Several pints of whisky
We're found in a suitcase Thomas was
carrying, the police al1ege.
1.-The Book of Revelation" will be
the subject of DIR. Arthur 5. Hender-
sons lecture to his Bible class Sunday
at 10 Il. m. at the First Congregational
church, corner Harrison and Seventh
streets
Leland Schenck advertising man of
Topeka, was notified Friday that ne
had qualified for emergency work in
the Office OF the CflSI engineer OF the
war department. He accepted the
position and will leave next week for
Washington to take up his new duties
The chorus choir of Lowman Me
mortal church will give CARROTS Har-
vest Cantata Sunday evening. The
solo part swill be sung by Miss Lora
Barnes, Miss Adams, Miss Sylvia Sill
verthorne, Miss Winifred Nash and
Mrs. p. B. Morrison. Miss Jennie
Blinn is organist and choirmaster.
When J. R. Fix. a Watson store
keeper, drove his automobile into a
light spring wagon owned by William
Russell Police Officer Frazier was
near He took them to police head
quarters where a satisfactory settle
wagon was badly damaged. The ac-
cident occurred near the Rock Island
station
Francis H. Brown, 1909 Dread, Law
renee, Kan, enlisted in the navy Fri
day as an apprentice seaman. He en-
listed at the local recruiting office in
the federal building. Robert &.
Pritchard, 1910 East Sixth street, also
| enlisted. Both men We're sent to Kan
sas City, where they will be examined
and sent to the Great Lakes training
| school.
Eleven Shawnee county negroes
will be included in the next quota
! the quota are: Louis William Nicker-
son, Twenty-fourth and Madison
streets; Benjamin Rush SPOTS, Route
g. Alonzo William Tyler, Route 2S;
Lee Martin Brown, Route 5, North
Topeka; Elmer Lloyd Lee, Bur
lingame; w. d. Gurden, Route 2S;
William Ivory Larkins, Twenty-second
and Jefferson streets; William Ed
ward Allen, Twenty-fourth and Adams
streets; James Gurden, Route 27;
Clark w; Shannon, Route 81; Harold
David Myers, Twenty-first and Adams
streets.
The Rev. Edward S. Farrand, for
mer pastor of the Westminster Pres
byterian church, died Friday morn
ing in a Pullman berth as he was
travelling from HOLSTER, Cal, to Los
Angeles The Rev. Mr.. Farrand was 81
years old and had been engaged in
ministerial work for more than thirty
five years. He left Topeka nearly
twenty years ago to fill pulpit in
California He was born in Danville
KY, and was a graduate of the Ale
gheny college at Pittsburg, Pa. The
Rev. Mr. Flrrand is survived by
a wife and six children. A brother
Fountain r. Farrand, is now pastor
of the Bethlehem Presbyterian church
at Sacramento, Cal