The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-15

Marshalrs band will give a munich
pal concert at Chesney park Friday
evening.
G. W. Rourke, assistant general
manager of the Rock Island. left
Tuesday for st. Louis.
An ice cream social and program
will be given Thursday night at
o'clock at the Bethel chapel
Robert Carver, county attorney,
who has been spending the summer at
Ludington. Mich, has returned and
was at the court house today.
Hugh Larimer, sheriff. went to
Hutchinson to visit the state reform
atory on business Tuesday, and will
probably return Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. c. Glenn, All West
New Castle and Philadelphia, where
they will spend few weeks visiting
their parents.
The sheriffs force is serving sub
poenas today upon men who have
been drawn for jury service in the
two divisions of the district court for
the terms beginning September IT.
The Buds of Promise, Sunday
school class of the East IndiaIola
cream social tonight at the Hama
maker home, on the Lower Silver
Lake road.
Lieut. E w. Wingart, formerly AS
sociated Press correspondent in To-
peka, is home from Fort Riley on
furlough. He is visiting his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Wingart, 1884
Fillmore street.
The office of the clerk of the dis
trict court looks like a wreck today.
The old lime floor. covered with limo
leum is being torn up. The county
commissioners have authorized new
floor and new linoleum.
Mr. and Mrs. r. NJ johnson of Osa-
watomie, new members of the L. M
PenweH Undertaking company, have
moved to Topeka and have esta blished
johnson is the new secretary of the
undertaking company.
Robert Yates, police judge. who
went to the officers training camp at
Fort Riley for three months returned
to Topeka today and will be back on
the job in police court. NJ. o. Locke
has served as police judge in his alb
sence.
Application for divorce was filed
in the district court today by Allen A
Nipper against Anne E. Nipper. The
petition states that they were mar
ried October II. 1916, and that Mrs.
Nipper has been guilty of gross neg
IeCI ana extreme cruelty.
j. NJ. Kirkpatrick. William Biby, j.
V. Abrahams, George Crawford, A
W. Fulton, F. NJ. Bonebrake and Dr.
o. l. Peak, national officers of the
knights and Ladies of Security, from
Topeka, will leave Sunday to attend
the national fraternal congress in Chi
cago.
Elizabeth Barr. in addition to car
rying on her literary work, has re-
I'm fn a al
| woman, according to word received in
Topeka Tuesday night. She will go
on the force at Junction City. Miss
Barr was formerly on the Topeka po-
lice force.
DR.. F. ]. Ernest and DR.. C. NJ
Hensley, both Topeka physicians, left
this morning for Fort Riley where
they will enter camp to train for army
service. Both doctors have been COM
missioned as first ieutenants in the
medical reserve corps and will enter
three months training.
Two dogs were fighting at the fair
grounds Tuesday. "Pinkie' Beales, a
former Washburn football star and a
member of Battery A, and another SOL
der lad attempted to separate the
combatants. Beales suffered a badly
bitten hand as a result of his efforts
to enforce peace.
By mistake two men who passed the
| physical examination given by the
draft board were placed in the list of
those who were discharged because of
disabilities. They are James Robert
Beers Twenty-F'irst and McVicar
streets. and Fred Kingsley, living in
| the country. Both passed the exami-
nation.
A country lad, a member of Mai.
| Seth Hammers field hospital at
Washburn campus, was doing guard
duty for the first time. A man ap-
! sDsB
demanded the youth. Officer of the
day" was the answer What the
ARE you doing out here at night ?''
demanded the youth.
Edward Wilson, 2O4 Ohio street,
and Lee Johnson, 81 Madison street,
| both Topeka men. enlisted in the navy
! this morning and will be sent to Kan
/ sas City Thursday. Wilson enliste
as a fireman and johnson as an ap-
| prentice seaman. The third recruit,
| Curtis Thompson of Havensville, Kan,
enlisted as an apprentice seaman.
The latest innovation in entertain
ment will be introduced tonight by
Columbia Council No. SO, Knights and
Ladies of Security, provided that
| pleasant weather is on hand. Every
member of the order has been asked
| to join in a street car ride over the
| entire city railway system. The cars
will leave Seventh and Jackson streets
| at o'clock.
! John c. Hoyt, hydraulic engineer of
the surface water department of the
United States geological survey, will
arrive in Topeka August 20 for his
| annual inspection of the work done
| by the local office. He will remain in
Topeka several days and will prob
ably conduct an investigation of pro-
posed plants and observatories on the
| Blue river, and at Bonner Springs on
the Kaw. He will go to Denver after
! leaving Topeka.
An ingenious and enterprising young
man who works in one of the popular
! luncheonette emporiums of Kansas
avenue has hit upon a scheme to
make the pies he serves look just like
those mother used to bake Pies
\ bought from a baker do not have the
meringue baked on as home made
J pies do and are not SO tempting. But,