The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

In fashions latest scheme of things
They don't seem as they orter
For men look longer every day,
| just when the skirts look shorter.
Cir cingle.
Miss BeuIa BartIeson left this week
! for Guthrie, Okla, where she will WIS.,
! it relatives. She will later go to Vir-
ginia for short visit.
! The Ladies Aid society of the Low
! man Memorial church will hold its
regular. meeting Thursday afternoon
at the home of Mrs F. w. Lantz. 531
| College avenue.
| Iona Bartleson has resigned her po-
sition with the, Eldridge Rating bu-
! reau and has accepted a Dettton as
+ law clerk with Judge John MarSAa6
| of the supreme court.
Rev. Maurice Simmons will conduct
another meeting at Chesney park
| Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock His
subject will be. How to Pray Alright
for the Soldiers
The Missionary Clinic a play, will
be presented Thursday evening by the
women of the Central Park Christian
church. Members of the church and
! friends have been invited 10 attend
Rosa Galloway filed a divorce pc
/ tiuon in the district court today
against Thomas Galloway, alleging
non-support since July l, 1915 She
states that they were married in To-
peka April II, 1912.
George Bauerschmitt, president of
/ the B. r. B. Clothing company, who
| has been ill for several davs. left this
| morning. for Excelsior Springs. where
| he will spend a few weeks before go
| ing back to his work
Clifford Pierce, state secretary of
! the Y. NJ. C. A, returned to Topeka
Tuesday night after spending the
summer at Estes Park, Colo, where
| he conducted several classes in the
Y M. c. A conference school
Charles r. Phipps, head of the de-
i partment of agriculture at the nor
mai, went today to Topeka, where he
| Will deliver a series of lectures before
the Shawnee County Teachers insti-
ture, which is in session this week.
EmPoria Gazette.
Lightning Tuesday night struck a
| tree in front of the residence of Mrs
James A. Mccartney, 1924 Lane street
Several electric light fuses and tele-
| phones in the neighborhood were
| burnt OUT by the electric disturb
ance between and 10 O'Clock
/ Saturday will be sentence day in
| the district court and five convicted
law violators are ready for sentence
Ihey are Mike Richie, assault and
| battery; V. T. Mcmillan. Jim Jordan.
Doc" Wore and Bette Long, ali
| charged with violations of the pro-
hibitory law.
Edmund Slusher, in charge of the
Red Triangle building at Fort Leav-
enWorth, was in Topeka this afternoon
ana 1iled an application for another
assistant. The work at Fort Leaven-
| worth has grown so rapidly in the
| last Few months that third secretary
is needed at the camp Y. NJ. C. A
Children of Topeka are more fond
of books than the grownups. accord
ing to statement made by the librar-
ian at the city public library. Rec
| ords for the first Is days OF this month
| showed that children had taken AL
books from the library, while adults
had taken only 3,067 in the same
period
H. M. Wolfe, district manager of
the Topeka district of the Brother
hood of American Yeomen, will leave
Topeka the last of this month to take
up his duties state mana ger of Uta h
and Wyoming. He will probably es-
tablish headquarters in Salt Lake
City. Mrs j. G. Sain, deputy under
| Wolfe, will succeed him in the Topeka
organization.
The Lannan and Lannan grocery
| company, 900 East Fourth street. is
now in voluntary receivership. w. F.
Weber has been appointed receiver for
| the company and will sell the stock
| out for the partners J. J. Lannan,
one of the partners is former city
councilman and has conducted his
store on Fourth street for many years.
c. E. Lannan is the other member of
| the firm.
soup bone cooked dry and burn
ing up on the stove nearly caused a
genuine fire scene Tuesday night. A
call was sent to the fire station, re-
porting that smoke was coming from
the kitchen window of the residence
at 1885 Boswell avenue. The alarm
was turned in by neighbors. Investi-
cation proved that the housewife had
run on an errand and had left the
bone on the stove.
DIR. A. S. Embree former pastor OF
the First Methodist chursh and a Civil
War veteran, will preach to the sol
diers encamped on the fair grounds
Sunday morning at 1890 c clock. The
meeting will be soldier meeting. The
Rev. A. S. Embree was a member OF
the Fortieth Indiana Infantry of the
Civil War and served for nearly three
years in the army. His :alk will be
"A Plain Talk to Young Soldiers from
| a Veteran.
A well known Topekan who is said
| to have been terribly afraid he would
have to go to war conscript de-
cided he would have a better chance
to escape if he lived on a farm. And
so. before registration day. he moved
to the country. became an agricultu-
raj enthusiast and thought he was
safe. But he guessed wrong. Had he
remained in Topeka he would not
| have been called until the second OIL
/, third draft, and maybe not then. But
being registered from the county, he
was called on the first draft and was
denied exemption when he claimed it
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