The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-16


Social dance tonight at Ke1lam hall.
Admission 35c.-Adv.
M. Crosby & Co, have returned from
a two weeks business trip in New
York.
A marriage license was issued
Wednesday to Harry Van Tasel, p.
| of Burlingame, and Erma E. Aikens,
%, of Topeka.
The lobby of the Orpheum theater
has been remodeled and redecorated.
Indirect lights have been placed in
| the lobby and the walls of the room
have been retinted with blue and
! white.
Members of Topeka's labor unions
plan to raise sufficient money to fl
nance the Labor day celebration, Sep
TENDER 8, by the sale of buttons on
which is inscribed the. insignia of or
ganized labor There will be another
big parade, an address by Capt. Jo-
| seph Waters at Garfield park and a
| program of sports.
| The novel method of entertainment
planned by the Knights and Ladies of
Security, council No. so, which was
scheduled for Wednesday night has
| been postponed until tonight. Mem
| bers of the lodge will meet at Security
hall at 1880 O'Clock and will leave
Seventh and Jackson streets at
| o'clock. The body will make a COM
plete tour of the city on special street
cars leased from the city railway
company.
The Coover sisters, Misses Ethyl
Leita and Mildred, will give a COM
plete musical program Friday night
| at the fair grounds for the encamped
soldiers. The sisters will give their
program under the auspices of the
Central Y NJ. c. A. A second mu-
steal program is scheduled for the
camp August "a, and will be directed
| by Carlton Wood, violinist. The serv-
ices of the four musicians will be
given free to the boys
| Henry Theodore Schmidt, PIP Eu-
| cid avenue, Topeka, was the only To-
peka man who, enlisted in the navy
today. He was sent to Kansas City
this afternoon. Two other recruits
| were also sent for final examination.
They are: Glenn William Wilson of
| Quenemo and Edward Clark of Sen
eca. Schmidt and Clark both en-
| listed as seamen and Wilson as a
| fireman.
Twenty-Five Mexicans were arrested
Wednesday afternoon in a raid on an
alleged gambling house at III Adams
street The men were taken to police
station where search revealed two
bits hidden in the ear of one of the
offenders and $25 stored in the boot
of another. Juan MARQUEE was charged
with being the proprietor of a gam
bling house and the other twenty
eight men were charged with fire.
quenting gambling den.
| Two men were exa mined today by
Fire Chief Hanlon's EXEMPT board
Both were accepted for military serv-
ice. One was Willard WhiDple, regis
tered at st Louis. and ling at 10
| West Fifth street. The other was
| Herbert David Kestler. registered at
Fort Madison, Ia. an assistant at the
Santa Fe apprentice school, Author
the local boards by exemption boards
at Fort Madison and St. Louis
Col. A. W. Smith, of Topeka will
spend month at rs boyhood home
in Maine. following week at the ma
tional G. A. r. encampment in Bos-
ton. He will leave with the party of
| Topeka veterans for Boston. Friday
afternoon. Il expect to visit my old
home in Maine before l return to To-
| peka and am going for a fishing trip
to the old lake where l used to catch
| pickerel." said Colonel Smith. THE
old house was built 90 years ago and
I am planning for the time Of my life -
Hazel Mulvane is no longer Hazel
| Mulvane. Friends have announced
that she and Bert o. Swink, of To-
peka, were married at Independence,
Mo, July II. Mrs. Swinki is the
daughter of DR.. and Mrs. ]. G. Null
vane- Mr.. Swink is the son of Mrs.
NJ. NJ. Swink, of 217 East Eighth
street. Mr.. and Mrs. Swink are liv-
ing with Doctor Mulvane at GIG Tay-
Tor street until Mr.. Swink leaves To-
peka with Company A. signal corps.
He will leave with his company for
Fort Sill August 20. Before existing
in the national guard Mr.. Swink was
a hoseman with the ToDeka fire de-
partment at station 4. 1t was in 1905
that Hazel Mu1vane created a sensa-
ton in Topeka by marrying spec"
Hurlburt, a ball player with Topeka
team in the old Western association.
Later a divorce was obtained and Miss
| Mulvane married n. P. Koontz a
travelling man. Her name did not
| continue Koontz long. She obtain
ed a divorce and married Lon Good
win. son of Topeka dentist. She
obtained a divorce from Goodwin last
summer
.