The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-25
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Ar HOME NEWS

A meeting of the state welfare COM
mission scheduled for today has been
postponed until later in the week.
The Lincoln Circle Literary and
Sewing society will have an all-day
meeting Tuesday at Lincoln Post hall.
Dinner will be served.
The Altar society of the Holy Name
church will meet at the home of Mrs.
J. l.. Wingert, 1714 Clay street, Tues
day afternoon at 2 o'clock.
w. NJ. Gillian has just returned
from New York, where he went to Wis
it Lee Gillian, who belongs to the
coast artillery and who expects to go
to France soon.
A new line of white Milan cushion
Prices just little below what you
would expect to pay for this quality
of hat. Courtney Millinery Parlors.
ADV.
The new state board of admins
tration will hold its first meeting in
| Topeka July 2. The board was named
by Governor Capper two weeks ago.
The last meeting of the old board was
held in Lawrence last week.
Harold E. Day, 1884 Guthrie ave-
nue., received his call to the navy and
left Sunday morning for the recruit
ing station at Kansas City. He with
twenty-five others left today for New
port, r. l., for training.
NJ. E. Mikesell, for the last seven
years connected with the Crosby
Bros. store, has resigned and will ac-
cept a position in Joplin, Mo, as man
ager of the photograph department.
He will leave Topeka the last of June.
Tom Brown will furnish entertain
ment at the Cooperative club lunch
con at the ElkS club Tuesday noon.
! He will talk on the Building and Loan
I association work. Tomorrow's meet
| ing probably will be the last of the
| summer.
Lazaro Medina, Mexican laborer,
| living at 523 East First street, was
arrested Sunday and charged with be-
| ing drunk and carrying weapons con-
| cealed. When Medina was arrested
| he was carrying a knife with five
inch blade.
| Paul VanNess conducted Queen
Esther" a cantata given Sunday night
at the Central Park Christian church.
| Carol White assisted at the piano.
Kenneth Clark, Fabyan Williams and
Elizabeth VanNess composed the spe-
cia1 orchestra for the entertainment.
The medical corps attached to the
First Kansas Field artillery needs ten
more recruits, according to orders re-
| ceived by DR.. c. c. Lull. Twenty men
can be enlisted in the Third Kansas
infantry, these orders stated. Recruits
should apply to the local recruiting
|
| Three hundred and fifty sewing kits
will be made Tuesday, June 26,
when the military committee of the
local Red Cross society will meet for
an all-day session at Crosby Bros.
store. The kits will be given to the
enlisted men of Shawnee county. All
materials for the kits will be- fur
nished.
Emporia women and William Allen
! White desire to cut down the number
of sensation seekers at sex trials and
a petition signed by hundreds OF
women asking that courts hold sex
| trials in small court rooms has been
| received in the state house and re-
| ferred to the supreme court.
Eastern newspapers are giving SEN
| ator Charles Curtis of Kansas great
credit for killing the press censorship
bill in the senate. The vote on the
bill was a tie and thru the efforts OF
Curtis one more vote against was OBJ
tanned and the clause having to dc
with press censorship was killed.
Rev. C. G. F'ishback, A. NJ, D. D.
pastor of Shiloh Baptist church OF
Cleveland. o., and formerly pastor OF
Shiloh church of Topeka, will preach
at Shiloh church June &c. The Rev
Mr.. Fishback is one of the foremost
ministers of the colored race and al
this time is pastor of one of the larg-
He has filled many of the high offices
of his church and he is at present gen.
eral field secretary of the foreign mis-
sionary board.
Appointments of twenty-four men to
the annual encampment of the G. A
r., to be held at Boston, August Is
| to rs, were announced this morning
by A. c. Pierce, commander of the
Kansas department. Following are
the men appointed: w. w Smith
Topeka; ]. H. Wooden, Mankato;
Thomas H. Grisham, Topeka; Jasper
Mix, Topeka; ]. G. Hanna, Hiawatha
S. ]. Stewart, Humboldt; B. F. Pugh
Ottawa; George P. Washburn, Otta-
wa; J. P. Short. Winfield; Samuel
Baughman, Chanute; David Taylor
Emporia; E. G. Moore, cottonwood
Falls; w. w. Palmer, Glasco; L. H
Higgins. Burlingame; Charles Win
grove. Clay Center; E. R. Hayes, Glas
co; George B. Crandall, Jewell City
]. w .McGhee, Beloit; w. H. Mitchell
Hutchinson; j. A. Walter, Great Bend
Isaac Kinney. Newton; Fred jackson
MCPHERSON; S. NJ. Spangler. Newton
George w. Thatcher, Great Bend.
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