The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


You know they say that flattery
Oft turns a wOmans head,
BIT lacking that, peroxide
VIII do the trick instead,
-Cir-cingle
Lieut.. Wayne Baird, of Chicago,
was the guest of his cousin, Mrs. o.
w. Devine, over the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. r. Koontz and
their daughters, Grace and Marguer-
lite, and Miss Jean Koontz. left Thurs
day for Santa Fe, N. Mex.
Thelma Houston has gone to Chi
cago where she will take up summer
work in expression under Doctor Cur
ry of the Curry School of Expression.
R. H. Wade, past grand command
err of the Knights of Pythias, left Sun
day for st. Louis, where he will at
tend the supreme lodge meeting this
week.
Blue post No. so and. Blue corps No.
5 will hold a social at $3.50 o'clock to-
night in Redman hall All members
of the post and corps are reque sted
to be present.
A. l. Bowman, formerly with the
I city engineers office, will leave Tues
day for Chanute, Kan, where he viii.
take up his duties as highway engi-
neer for Neosho county.
DIR. and Mrs. o. F. Narcotic leave
today for a short vacation at Black
Lake and Ottawa Beach, Mich They
Union Pier, Mich, before returning
home.
Another anti-poll tax meeting will
be held Wednesday night at Ripley
park. At that meeting reports will
be made by chairmen of committees
appointed to raise funds to fight the
tax
Field Hospital company No. of
North Dakota, passed thru Topeka
Sunday on their way to Deming, n. M
Seven coaches of state troops from
Iowa were added to the train and
were also going to New Mexico.
The same good looking girl in blue
bathing suit and white and ed bath :
ing cap was swimming in the lake at
Gage park Sunday afternoon ant a
number of the same admirers were
sitting around wondering who she was
Work was given in the first three
degrees of Masonry Friday and Sat
urday nights for the soldiers who
may soon leave the city. Watermelon
ing's entertainments.
Tom Powell, of the Scotch Wooien
Mills, has been appointed to assist in
recruiting for the Canadian tnd BRIT
ish armies, according to word received
at the local recruiting office, 425 Kan
sas avenue. Enlistment blanks may
be obtained from him.
Mrs. B. H. Pugh will return Tues
day from Seattle where she has been
spending week with her mother who
has been seriously i'll for some time.
The resignation of NJ. o. Locke as
police judge was accepted today by
the city commissioners. The appoint
ment of r. NJ. Yates to the position
was confirmed. Judge Yates resign
ed while attending the officers train
ing camp at Fort Riley.
when food passed thru the hands
of Jesus" the Rev. Willis L. Gold
smith. of the Central Congregational
church declared, there was plenty
| for the entire multitude, when for
merly there had been starvation" This
is the basis of his plea for a single
food administrator which he made at
his Sunday meetings. 1t is based on
| the Bible and is the solution of the
present food situation he declares.
! A Topeka club at Fort Sheridan
made up of Topeka men who are TAX
ing the officers training course viii
| proba bly, be formed, according to
plans of several of the appointees for
| the camp. A meeting of the APP
| pointees will be held this evening at
the Y M c. A. to esta blish the club.
| Dwight Thatcher Harris. Topeka news
paper man, is promoting the PROPOSE
| ton.
tute for teachers of Shawnee county
opened this morning at the manual
| training building of the Topeka high
school. The meeting was under the
direction of Superintendent Fl. B. Will
son of the Topeka public schools
/ Problems in class work and outside
! interests of the school children were
I the main topics discussed. The meet
| ings will be held each day all week
ending Saturday evening.
A woman went into her neighI lr-
! pint of milk for break fast. She ha
rushed out to get fabrication for her
| hubbys breakfast food. She was little
more than half awake, but when she
| handed the grocer cents and he re-
| turned the penny, stating that he was
going back to the old rate, the shock
| opened her eyes wide and the plea sa n;
surprise made the days outlook much
| brighter.
1T is not whether God is on oul
side or not that will win this war;
Farley P. Womer, president of Wash.
burn. stated Sunday at the unioT
church meeting on the state houst
| steps. But what will settle this wal
is whether we are on Gods side. Ma
tions have bloomed into apparen
fame and have become firm institu
tions but have been shattered to tn,
foundation by trying to force God Il
their side instead of attempting to b,
on Gods side" he declared.