The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-05
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AT HOME NEWS

Rigid Censorship.
I'VE sent ten Germans straight to H"
Wrote Uncle Sans reporters.
But this was censored. as it referred
To the Germans own headquarters!
A false fire alarm was turned in
from 632 Lake street this morning
at IL o. o'clock ant the department waS-
OILS that made the run had their
trouble for nothing.
The roof of the Second United
Presbyterian parsonage was slightly
damaged by fire late Tuesday after
noon. The house is occupied by the
Rev. w. NJ. Jackson.
As the result of fall down the
stairs at her home, 1900 Fillmore
street. Mrs. F. r. Foster, one of To-
peka's oldest inhabitants, was unable
to attend the old settlers meeting to-
day.
y missionary pageant at Seabrook
e church will be given Friday night,
December Z, by the young people of
the Central Congregational church.
Following the pagea@t NUT pie and
apron social will be held.
Judge Francis c. Price and A. J.
johnson, members of the Second dis
trict appeal board at Wichita, were in
Topeka Tuesday obtaining informa-
ton on different phases of the draft
question and the QUESTIONABLE.
known Topeka physician of the young
er set, has been ordered to Fort Riley
Dec. u for a course of training.
Lieut.. Erickson is a member of the
NJ. o. R. .. and was married about
week ago.
Beginning Monday night, December
o, the four local councils of the
knights and Ladies of Security win
hold-a series@of union, dances The
second dance will be given on Janus
airy 2, and from then on thruout the
winter the dances will be held on the
last Monday in each month.
II. NJ. Banner, agricultural and in
dustriaI agent for the Santa Fe rail-
way, left here today for the Arkansas
river valley of Colorado where he will
stage a two-weeks' dairy campaign,
one of the Santa FEES steps toward
ductiOn along it's lines. The campaign
will be similar to those put on in
Kansas last winter and spring.
Miss Bessie Hamilton, Topeka, died
Monday afternoon at 1 o'clock as the
result of injuries sustained when a
motor car which she was driving
overturned near Lyndon. With her
brother-in-law, E. r. Weldon, who
lives six miles east of Topeka, and
nephew, William Hamilton, years
old. 1911 Kansas avenue, she was re-
turning from a visit with parents near
Gridley Miss Hamilton, it is said,
was trying to eat lunch and drive the
car at the san time when the acct
dent occurred.
Lieutenant Dorsey is back on the
job as local army recruiting officer.
He has been suffering from a slight
attack of diphtheria. The first state
ment officially issued by Dorsey was
to the effect that the stevedore regi-
ment is full and no more enlistments
can be made for this branch. Three
more men left for Jefferson barracks
Tuesday night. They were: John P.
Baker of Lawrence, assigned to the
quartermaster corps; Edward G. Flint
of Bethany Mo, assigned to the coast
artillery, and Theodore L. Mason of
Topeka to the engineers.
The first regular meeting of the
Highland Park Red Cross auxiliary
will be held in the assembly rooms
al the school house Friday, Dec. Z,
at ? p. m. An invitation is extended
to all in Highland Park ard vicinity.
An effort to prevent her husband
from escaping the draft is being made
by Grace Shuck, 1420 King street.
She has filed affidavits with the First
District appeal board to the effect
that he has not supported her or his
children adequately. Shuck is in St.
Paul and was exempted by the St
Paul board on grounds of DEPENDENTS.
Then the Topeka wife heard about it
and filed affidavit.
The great god Torture will rule over
the unfortunates who atte..eS the coun-
ty officials convention the first three
DAYS of next week. And the great
god is well served by his minions OF
the Clan Ake-Pot Ster-Boo. The be-
nighted clansmen are planning to issue
forth from their den on the night OF
Wednesday the twelfth and incarcer-
ate number of unwilling initiates
in their great iron cage. However
between 1880 and s o'clock on that
eventful evening the clan will permit
fond friends a last lingering look al
the unfortunates who will later face
torture that the black masked priests
of the Spanish Inquisition would have
given worlds to know. The funeral
dirge will be faithfully played in tri-
umphant strain by the clans gaze
DO" band which will lead the cortegt
up the main drag of this fair city.
The girls at the Crittenton home
will hold an informal reception fol
the board of directors of the home
and their friends Friday afternoon
Many little articles that the girl:
themselves have made will be on sale
at that time to provide the girls with
a little spending money for Christmas
The Cooperative club member:
now understand all about the new
draft QUESTIONABLE. and have evel
since their noon luncheon at the Elk:
Tuesday. Judge ]. G. Slonecker ex.
planned the QUESTIONABLE, and the
fears of the younger members were