The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-09-08

Wild animals grow tame, with sound
OF photograph. so mild
And yet. that very sound has caused
Cir -cingle.
You are invited to the opening
dance tonight at Kellam hall-Adv.
Dr. D. E. Esterly has moved his
office to rooms 1914 Mills Bldg
Adv.
There are a few boxes left on the
race course at the fair grounds Res
ervations may be obtained by calling
C. L. Mitchell, phone 80.
The banks of the city will close at
noon Tuesday and Thursday of state
fair week. H. D. Wolf. manager of the
Topeka Clearing House association.
announces today.
A call for more vegetables for the
city tuberculosis hospital was issued
Friday by DIR. H. L. Clark. city health
officer Unexpected big crops in the
back yard should be reported to the
officer.
Fred Leaf, blacksmith from Kan
sas City, enlisted in Battery A Friday
afternoon. The company now has 1873
men in spite of the transfer of twenty
one men of the battery to the Ammu-
milton train.
Owing to the large number enter
ing night school Monday, September
IT. we ask all new and former stu
dents to arrange to enroll some time
during the next week. Strickler's
Business college.-Adv.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. E. Williams, 800
East Laurent street celebrated their
seventy-fourth wedding anniversary
Thursday evening. The celebration
was a complete surprise to the couple
and was given by Blue Post No. $50
and w. R. c. No. 5.
Miss Louise Kieninger, who lived al
n I'LL md rhn lnft lx1
about four months ago. was in the
unit stationed at the hospital bombed
by German airmen in France. No
word has been received by relatives
here.
Robert Thomas Kinble, Route No.
2, Topeka, whose name appeared in
a list of those not appearing before
the local examining board, has been
in training since July 81 at jefferson
barracks and at Fort Riley. He en-
listed in the quartermaster's corps.
w. W. Wright of Newton has been
employed as assistant to A. D. Folker'
Shawnee county farm agent The
work in the newly created department
became so heavy that an assistant was
necessary. Mr.. Wright graduated
from the State Agricultural college a
year ago.
Dr. Charles M. Sheldon of the Cen
trail Congregational church has re-
turned to Topeka for months stay
before he leaves for England, where
he will work in the interest of pro-
hibition. Doctor Sheldon will fill his
pulpit Sunday morning and the Rev.
Grey will preach at the evening serv-
| ices.
Seventeen hundred comfort kits
have been sent to the sailors in the
| making. now stationed at the Great
| Lakes training school, in Illinois, by
| the w C. T. U. societies of the state.
of will raTO1x
men on board the training ship, U. S.
Kansas.
| Headquarters of the Military Sis
terhood will be tablished at the fair
grounds during fair week in the Lib
| erty Circle, it was announced today by
Mrs. c. l. Martin. A band concert in
front of the headquarters will be CIV
en- every morning and evening of the
| fair by either the Third Regiment or
Kansas Field Artillery bands.
A concert tomorrow evening by
MarshalPs band will officially close
| the season at Garfield PARK. Col. C. C.
Matthews, owner of the concessions,
been one of the most successful in
years. This is the sixth year that
Garfield park has been open. Skat-
ing will continue Wednesday, Friday
| and Saturday evenings.
Ed Davis. caught by the police with
session, has been turned over to the
county on a warrant. Davis is look
ed upon as a persistent violator" and
| Douglas Graham, clerk of the court
of Topeka, fixed his bond at $4,000
| today. That sized bond is not obtain
able by Davis and his attorney made
a vigorous protest but to date the
bond stands.
Katie Mayes filed suit for divorce
in the district court today against
James Mayes. She states that they
were married in Oklahoma, October
9, 1909, and that they have three chill
dren. She charges non-support and
desertion. Her petition states that
she has not heard from him since
May 20, 1917. She asks for a di-
costs and an attorney fee.
A new time card, issued today for
wall suspension by the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fee railway, is probably
one of the most simple and complete
| that has ever been distributed in To-
peka by any railway. The card, be-
sides bearing the train names and their
| time of departure as does the ordinary
one, gives the time of arrival and
destination, as well as stating the time
| of arrival at the latter place.
I Duane Van Horn, son of Dr. c. B.
Van Horn, 1915 Mulvane street, is in
Leavenworth with a Red Cross unit
endeavoring to wipe out the typhoid
fever epidemic in that city Van
| Horn is an assistant to the bacteriol-
| ogist The unit includes DR.. ]. G.
| Wilson, assistant surgeon in the Unit
ed States public health service. a san
! itary engineer, one bacteriologist. an
assistant, a dairy inspector, four
dwelling inspectors, two nurses, bus
mess manager and clerk
THE Present War in the Light of
Prophecy will be discussed at s
o'clock Sunday evening at the Saliva
ton Army hall, 400 Kansas avenue,
by the Rev. W. NJ. Smith. The Rev.
Smith was in Topeka two years ago
and won many friends and admirers.
He is looked upon as an excellent
speaker and in addition to the Sunday
night sermon will speak at O'Clock
this evening at the hall, at IL o'clock