The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-23
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AT HOME NEWS

Al HUME NEW
Harry G. Biles, former Union Pa
cific ticket agent. will go to Fort Riley
today to take charge of the ticket
office of the road there.
State officials with offices on the
first floor of the east wing of
state house are moving out, prepara-
tory for the repairs to begin July 1.
Rev. L. C. Schnake, 1919 Mulvane
street, will preach at the morning and
evening services of the United Presby-
| terrain church at Eighth and Topeka
avenue.
| on their way to Columbus, Ohio where
| they will be the Topeka representa-
| tives of the supreme council of the
United Commercial Travellers OF
America
The Topeka township Sunday school
Park Methodist church Sunday after
| noon at 1880. Mrs. F. A. ChappeH of
| Abilene will be present and will make
an address.
DR.. c. C. Hull went to Fort Riley
| Friday to look over the medical corps
| attached to the First Field Artillery
regiment. Topeka will send nine men
| to Fort Riley in the first field artillery
regiment next week
An open air meeting of the Lillian
| Mitchner w. C. T. U. will be held
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock
with Mrs. Nettie Cross at S22 Madison
street. Subject, Teaching Temper
ance in the Public Schools
Charles w. Smith, jr., youngest son
| of Judge and Mrs. c. w. Smith, has
| Joined the American Marine corps at
Kansas City. Another son, Scion w
Smith, is a student at the officers
training camp at Fort Logan H Root,
Little Rock, Ark.
The Problem of Suffering in the
Servant of Jehovah Passages
Isaiah" will be the subject of DR.. Ar
thur S. Henderson'S lecture to his
Bible class Sunday at 10 a. m. at the
| First Congregational church, corner of
Seventh and Harrison streets.
Mrs. Florence Ruffner and Miss
| Philomena Murphy will give a Red
Cross social this evening at the church,
at Fourth and Monroe streets. Cake
and ice cream will be served for 15
cents. The proceeds of the entertain
ment will be given to the Red Cross
society.
Invitations are being requested by
a number of Topekans to attend an
execution of federal prisoner on the
Fort Leavenworth reservation, Friday,
July 10. It is an exclusive affair and
probably not more than three To-
pekans, besides the United States
marshaIs force, will be included in
the party. The execution will be the
first in Kansas in years and will take
place at dawn.
meeting of the committee of mill
tary relief, of which Mrs. Alvarado
NJ Fuller is chairman, will be held
, Tuesday, June rs, in the Red Cross
rooms of Crosby Brothers store
Members expect to make $50 addi-
tional soldiers sewing kits. These
kits are for the use of Topeka and
enlisted
men of the army. Anyone who wishes
to work on these kits is cordially in
vited to be present on Tuesday.
: Walter Policy. Butler county citizen,
. confined in that county's pest house
} because he had smallpox. heard the
| morning and slipped away from the
! hospital and caught train for To-
| peka. After scattering the germs of
the affliction broadcast by travelling
on a train between Eldorado and To-
peka and riding around this city con-
| siderably, Policy was picked up on or
der of this city's board of health and
landed in the pest house here.
Mrs. A. A Knapp, wife of A. A
Knapp, of the state labor department,
who was severely injured June 8,
when the car in which she was riding
/, | turned completely over, on the Ro-
!, chester road, was taken to st. Francis
hospital this week, where several *
!, bones The pictures show broken
hip, broken right shoulder and her
right arm splintered Her condition
, was reported as rapidly improving
!. this morning. She will probably be
/ confined at the hospital for month
Thirty-eight Shawnee county young
people are taking the regular sum-
mer teachers examinations at the
: court house under the direction of
M'Edna Corbett, county superintend-
ent. Six of them are young men.
; They worked all day Friday and half
{ of today. The Normal institute for
shawnee county will be held the third
week in August, beginning August 20.
Many of the teachers Of the county
about twenty-fve-are attending or
will attend summer schools. A ma
iority of them will attend at the State
: Normal at Emporia.
Harry Whittelsey. proprietor of the
/, Owl bakery 1876 Madison street, was
t found guilty of selling unwholesome
food products by Police Judge NJ. o.
> Locke Friday afternoon The charge
' against Whittelsey was launched when
2 a woman carried a loaf of bread con-
? tanning a cockroach she said she pur-
chased from the bakery to the city
: hall WhitteIsey, in police court Fri
day pleaded not guilty. He appealed