The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-27
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AT HOME NEWS

ger agent for the Kansas City South
ern railroad, stopped in Topeka Tues
day.
F. C. Fox, general manager of the
Santa Fe, and Edward Raymond.
general superintendent, were in Kan
sas City Tuesday.
The Woman's Benefit association of
the Maccabees, No. 90. will hold their
annual picnic at Gage park at 5
o'clock Friday afternoon.
A marriage license was issued from
the office of the probate Judge today
to Charles r. Chandler, Atchison, age
80, and Mary Corinne Pulliam, To-
peka, age 80.
The Rev. C. G. Fishback, of the
Shiloh Baptist church of Cleveland,
Ohio, preached here Tuesday night at
the Shiloh Baptist church, where he
was formerly pastor.
w. E. Guy, district manager of the
Union Pacific Tea company, left To-
peka Monday for the east, where he
will assist in liquidating the tea stores
of Illinois, Indiana and Ohio. He will
return in two weeks.
Frank E. Dams. 1926 North Mon
roe street; William Fauerback, of
Maple Hill, and Joseph Keller enlisted
in the United States navy Tuesday,
Dams as machinist; Fauerback as a
fireman, and Keller as an apprentice
seaman.
The Decatur county association will
hold their second annual picnic at the
country home of Mr.. and Mrs. D. E.
Logan, one mile north of the Shorey
car line, on the Rochester road, July
4. Mr.. Logan has issued an invitation
to all former residents of the county,
living in Topeka and vicinity.
J. F. Haskell, president and general
manager of the Beatrice Creamery
company, who has been i'll for nearly
q To h iS of
433 Lincoln street, was able to walk
about the house Tuesday. Overwork
while on a business trip in Texas was
given as the cause of his illness.
w. D. Beymer, a former Santa Fe
employee, has accepted a position as
comptroller of the Illinois Central
railway, headquarters at Chicago. He
will go to his new position July 1. For
the last 10 years he has been with the
Central Georgia railway, at Savannah,
going there from the Santa Fe offices.
James L. Accord, an employe in the
material yard of the Union Pacific,
suffered a compound fracture of both
legs Tuesday afternoon when rail-
road frog fell from a frame. striking
him. The right leg was fractured
near the thigh and the left was just
below the knee. He was taken to the
Union Pacific hospital at Kansas City.
The Topeka Chamber of Commerce
To-Day dDp1leQ LOT Il0H1DOISlllP III IAC
Chamber of Commerce of the United
States of America, which has head
quarters at Washington, D. c. The
national organization deals mostly
with legislation at Washington and is
looked upon as mouthpiece of bust
ness organizations in the United
States.
1t was decided Tuesday night that
the Civilians Military Training COM
pany meet for it's next drill, and there
after during the summer, at the north
steps of the state house, instead of at
Hamilton hall as heretofore, the newly
selected place of assembly being much
more conveniently located for most
of the members. The next drill will
be at 80 o'clock Thursday evening.
Mrs. w. 1. Jamison whose appoint
ment as chairman of the workers
committee of the proposed co1ored
Red Cross in Topeka, as announced
in the Topeka State Journal Tuesday,
asserted today that she was not pres
authority to use her name. She says
she has already subscribed to the Red
Cross and is a supporter of its work,
but believes there should be but one
organization in Topeka.
The next step in an apparently end
less number of steps toward relieving
Armenians will be for Phil Eastman,
Topeka's publicity man, to send let
tiers to 1000 prominent Kansas citi-
zens asking them to form local Ar
menian relief societies and endeavor
to get a number of citizens to sub
scribe certain sums to be paid in
monthly installments. That was
decision reached today noon at a
meeting of the Armenian Relief So
ciety at the Chamber of Commerce.
Warrants have been issued from
the court of Topeka for John and
Iz11;z OH HI,r xxyho
live in a shack down on the river,
charging them with receiving stolen
property. 1t is charged that the
property, consisting of mems wearing
apparel, was stolen by children and
that the Kiles knew it was stolen
when they received it. The property,
it is stated in the complaint, belong
ed to the family of John Petit. The
Kiles pleaded not guilty when ar
raigned in court and the case was set
for hearing Juyly 8.
Margaret Hoberg, widow of Gus
tave Hoberg who died in 1906, has
filed suit in the district court of
Shawnee county for a division of the
20-acre estate left to her and the chill
dren and other heirs of the late Gus
tave Hoberg. The land is valuable
bottom land north of the Kaw river.
All the heirs are now of age Since
the death of Gustave Hoberg one of
| the children, Carl, has died and Mar
garet Hoberg claims ten eighteenths
of the property. Originally she was
given nine-eighteenths. She claims
the undivided share of the deceased
son.
Subscriptions for raising $500 as a
permanent camp fund for military
units in Topeka was started at the
| Chamber of Commerce today. Gov
ernor Arthur Capper headed the sub
scriptions with a donation of $25. This
| money will be used in purchasing
articles for the comfort of soldier boys
not provided by the government. For
| instance, Battery A on the border
| last summer found the government
| furnished all the ice needed but die
not provide a refrigerator to store il
| in. So company fund was initiated
and with the money collected a re-
frigerator was purchased.