The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-07
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The colored cavalry organization
will meet tonight at Metropolitan
hall, 404 Kansas avenue. Attendance
of every enlisted man is expected.
The Spalding Reading circle will
give its last program of the season to-
night at the Knights of Colum bus hall.
Miss Mary Fitzgerald will be in
charge.
The Lincoln Circle Literary and
Sewing society will hold an all-day's
meeting at Lincoln Post hall tomor-
row. dinner will be served. The af-
fair will be public.
A marriage license was issued from
the office of the probate judge today
to Joseph NJ. Schuman, Oklahoma
City, age 81, and Florence M. Will
diams, Oklahoma City, age Is.
The motor car driven by Mrs. Ar
thur Merritt of 635 Horne street col
| lided with a street car Sunday aft
ernoon. The car was lightly damaged,
but none of the occupants were in
jured.
| A part of the proceeds taken in at
the box office of the New Gem theater
the week of May IA to 10, will be
turned over to the United Commercial
travellers for the entertainment of the
grand council here June L and 2, II
was announced today.
Word was received in Topeka to-
| day of the marriage of Miss Bessie
Nolan and Stanley R. Olson at Clair
moe Okla. Miss Nolan is the daugh-
ter of Mrs. C. w. Simmons of 232
Monroe street The groom also is a
| Topekan.
Word has been received here of the
death of Alexander Erskine of Kill
J bourn, Wisconsin. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
James Erskine of this city. He is sur
| vived by James J. Edgar, Helen
Marion and Mrs. c. E. Strawn of this
city, and brother Robert of Bradley,
Ill.
| Five men will be taken rom the To-
peka post office when the national
guards are called out AS a result calls
have been sent out for five men eligi-
BILE to service. Two men will go to the
Battery A, two to the Second regi-
ment band and one to the hospital
corps. In addition to these one man
was called with the naval reserves.
The school of instruction that has
| been conducted by the police depart
ment for motorists for the last week
| is closed. If an auto owner doesn't
| know now how to regulate his lights
to conform with the city ordinance he
is simply in hard luck For that will
not save him from arrest. Policemen
have instructions to arrest from now
on.
| Two concerts will be given by the
| Sunday school of the First Methodist
| church to raise money with which to
of these will be given by the junior
chorus May II, and the second, by the
young peoples chorus. May IS. Both
| concerts will be given in the Sunday
school temple of the First Methodist
| church.
| Topeka boy scouts who wish to be
| instructed in caring for trees will meet
at the Washburn campus Tomorrow /
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. instruction
will be under the direction of Mr.
signaling and tracking will be given
| by Prof. H. L. Woods. In the evening
the scouts will be instructed in as
tronomy by Prof. Woods.
| Topeka newspaper men who leave
| in a few days for the military training
camp at Fort Riley will be entertained
Tuesday evening by the Topeka Press
club at Pelletier's Tea room. Com
plete plans for the program will be
made at a meeting of the entertain /
ment committee this afternoon. Cllf
Stratton, E. Wayne Wingart, Joe Nick ,
oil and Don Heath are the guests of
honor.
The Sons and Daughters of Justice
will hold their district meeting Tues |
day night at Masonic hall. The ses- |
sion will open at 1890 o'clock with |
Walen F. Shaw, presiding Mr.. Shaw ,
is national secretary of the organiZa-
ton. A tour of the city is scheduled
for o'clock in the afternoon. In the
evening the local council, No. 5, will
meet and initiate a large class of can
didateS.
Two lectures on foreign missionary
work were given by Mrs. j. Hal Smith
of Dayton, Ohio, to the congregation
of the First United Brethren church. |
Mrs Smith is educational secretary of
the foreign missions of the United
Brethren churches She will leave to-
day for lola, where she will attend
] . he Of 6n ion
Missionary association. { I
The members of the police force
were measured Saturday night for
new uniforms which will be ready
for wearing about June l. They will
not be blue as they have been hereto
fore. Blue, as a color, is too hard to
get. They will be of forester green
and the caps will match. The con-
tract for the uniforms was let to n.
H Wolff & Son, a Topeka tailoring
concern. There will be thirty-two
uniforms in all.
The Sunflower male quartet will
give a special concert this evening at
the high school auditorium for the
benefit of the Redden chapel fund
Each of the singers will sing a solo
and the quartet will sing all the favor
! lite quartet selections, including THE
Arab Love Song" de Coppah Moon"
Memberships Hunting Song" and
two folk songs. Hugh Smith, tenor,
will offer Sing to Me, Sing which
was introduced to Topeka some years
ago by Mrs. Sidney Homer, wife of
the composer.
Clark Miller, known at the state
penitentiary as "Old Newt was pull
ed from a blind baggage ,of Santa Fe
No Sunday night by Special Officer
Gregg. Miller escaped from the peni-
Tertiary Saturday night. He is sixty
four years of age and has spent most
of his life in penitentiaries and re-
formatories. His usual condition is
that of a trusty and some times he
walks away 1t never takes long to
find him and he makes no fight Mil
Ter was placed in the county Jail to
be held until penitentiary officers call
for him