The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-26
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AT HOME NEWS

]. Frank Smith will speak to big
Nemaha county good roads meeting
at Seneca Friday evening
The Rev. C. F. Sandstrom, of Min
neapolis, Mimi, will speak Thursday
night at the Swedish Lutheran
church.
The Topeka Home Guards will
meet this evening Plans for taking
part in the parade for the Russian
commission will be discussed.
All members of the quartermaster's
corps are ordered to assemble at the
adtutant generals office at the state
house at o'clock tomorrow morning
to take part in the parade.
Suit to collect on a note for $35214
and one for $29.22 was filed Wednes-
day in the district court by Noel Wei
ty Lumber company against the
Agard Planning mill.
The three knights of Pythias lodges
of Topeka will hold a union picnic
Saturday afternoon at Gage PARK
Rev. John Bright will be the speak
ers of the program.
Harry Leaf, former Topekan, has
been appointed torpedo inspector of
the United States navy, according to
word received Wednesday by his
mother, Mrs. c. Leaf, who was in To-
peka this week. His experience in
the Santa Fe shops, she claims, won
the appointment for him.
If one wants to hear a highly dra-
matte and descriptive story he should
hunt up the Topeka titney driver who
took Ringing Bros Cinderella to the
fair grounds in his car and didn't
know her identity until it was too late
10 strike up conversation.
Members of field hospital No. 1 are
asked tc report for duty at o'clock
tomorrow morning at the armory, 112
East Seventh street. The field hos
pital will march in the parade on
Kansas avenue in the morning in
honor of General Roop of the Rus
sian army.
The cooperative buying plan of the
labor unions will be perfected tonight
and actual buying will probably start
leader of the movement. Wives and
members of the Industrial council
are invited to the meeting which will
be called tonight at Labor hall, AIS
Kansas avenue.
A social will be given Friday night
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Forbes, Cedar Heights. A feature of
the program will be an address by
Mr.. Folker, Shawnee county farm
agent. He will not speak at Wanna
maker school house, as announced
this morning, but will make his ad-
uIGSS DIT the OIDCo AlOIilS-
H. w. Spangler, the mayor of LIE
compton drowned in the Delaware
rive Tuesday night, had been secre
tary of the Odd Fellows lodge at
Perry 70: twenty-five years. The
night he was drowned he had resigne /
his sec-etaryship and was making his
last trip across the river so far as at
lending lodge was concerted.
William Grandon, Cincinnati, Ohio,
-. II IL,
lice station with knee swollen to
twice it's normal size. He said he
went to board a freight train at Nc
Farland and sprained the member.
He chung to the train and succeeded
in crawling into a car and alighted
here. A yard crew found him and
notified the police.
Topeka newspaperman, who was
buried today, is being told Lewis
had just one arm and one day he was
walking down Kansas avenue and met
beggar with only one arm. The
beggar asked for money. Say, guy"
said Lewis, get over the street, Pm
working this side.'' Lewis often told
this joke and laughed heartily when
telling it.
If one doubt the prosperity of Kan
sas he lost all doubt if he attended
the circus Wednesday evening and
noted that all reserved seats were
taken and only one-half the SOC seats
were taken. Then he would have the
idea further dissipated if he stood at
the safe of the fair grounds and
watched the motor cars driving thru
those gates in a steady string for
nearly an hour.
The Sunflower restaurant, between
First and Second streets on Kansas
avenue, run by John Barclay, was
raided today by Sergeant Sturm, De-
tective Frost and Officers Ottinger
and Schaenfelt. One hundred and
three packages of cigarets were found
in Barclays rooms next door. up
stairs. Barclay is booked at the sta
ton on a charge of having cigarets in
his possession. He gave 800 bond
for rlease.
Frank NJ. May and Leland Boards
lee, both of Lebanon, are the first
recruits to be secured for the avia-
ton service of the signal corps. May
enlisted as a chauffeur and Boards
They were both sent to jefferson bar
racks. Roy Cromwell and Joseph
Cromwell, brothers, from Route 8,
Topeka, went sent to the barracks this
afternoon. They both enlisted in the
bakers section of the quartermaster' S
department.
son who both claim to be represent
tatives of an Omaha farm paper, were
arrested Wednesday. The search at
the police station of both mems
clothes revealed dope needles, and
several ounces of drugs Theu ara