The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


Foe AviatorA
Now send me some good paper"
Was an airmans late request.
So they sent him some "fly-raper"
AS appropriate and best!
Dance tonight-Kellam Hall.-Adv.
F. M Newland, city water commits
sioner, is ill at his home, 1921 East
Sixth street.
I Capt Charles Younggreen is in To-
peka spending part of his ten-day
leave OF absence. He is stationed at
| field.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. E. Drennon, of 423
Larch street, have received word from
| their son, Roy, who has reached Eng
land. He is in Com any L. 355 in
fantry.
C. C. Booher, 41s East Fourth, has
received word that his son, Earl
Booher, has arrived safely overseas.
Booher Is with the aviation section and
was trained at Kelley field, Texas
| A patriotic effect was made the
| other evening by the parking of three
cars in front of the Novelty. The
cars were a red Stutz, a white War
rem and a blue Haynes, parked in the
order given.
The local teamsters' union will give
Ia smoker and ice cream party at labor
| hall Friday night for the boss team
sters. All employers of the city who
have members of the union working
for them are invited to attend. A pro-
gram will be arranged.
Byron P. Souders of SIS Harrison
street has volunteered in the tank
corps, and will be sent to Jefferson
Barracks for training. Later he will
go to Camp Colt, Gettysburg. Pa. He
has been in the employ of the Rock Is
land Railway company.
|
tons was formed Asst. Louis, Mo-,
Monday by representatives, of more
! than 200 banking Institutions in the
United States William Macferran, of
| Topeka, was elected second vice presi-
dent of the. new council. a.
| w. o. Rigby, postmaster. announces
| that word has been received from the
postoffice department that raise in
| salary has been granted to acustodians
This will mean an advance to eleven
men in the department in Topeka and
will amount to $3.50 a. year each.
The Lowman W. C. T. U. will hold
a public meeting "Wednesday evening
at O'Clock in Lowman Memorial
church. The Rev. Wei. Herwig, state
superintendent, of the Anti-Saloon
league, will make an address on War
Time Prohibition. Miss Nina Nc
lLatchey VIII sing, 81 Know HILL" by
Whelpley, and THE Star" by Rogers,
accompanied on the piano by Miss
Winona McLatchey. The 'Lowman Or
lchestra will also furnish music.
Lawrence was named as the scene
of the next convention of the Kansas
State Firemen's association and the
Kansas State Association of Fire
Chiefs at a meeting of the executi We
committees of the two bodies at the
Chamber of Commerce Monday after
noon. Chief Han1on, of Topeka, is a
member of the executive COMMITTEES
and member of both organizations.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the First Methodist church
will meet Wednesday morning at $3.50
o'clock with Mrs. T. c. Whiteker, 1906
West Twelfth street. The assisting
women are: Mrs. S. H. Pitcher, Mrs.
Eva Bunker, Mrs. Mary Andrews, Mrs.
IF. B. Parker, Mrs. r. Sawyer, Mrs.
D. B. Knox, Mrs 1. l. Better, Mrs.
| Eugene Bacon, Mrs. George Bowman,
Miss Mary Bunker and Miss Mabel
Smith.
| Everett E. Hose, who is wanted in
Topeka charged with wife desertion
and the passing of worthless checks,
has been located at Salt Lake City,
Utah. The police in that city arrested
him saturday and notified the author
tiles here that he had been arrested
and would be held until the sheriff
could arrive with requisition papers.
Sheriff Hugh Larimer has left for Salt
| Lake City 10 DTlnS Hose BACK with nj
and will return the last of the week.
A petition has been filed in the Of
flee of the Shawnee county district
court by George and Maggie Rogerson.
asking that Edward E. Cozad a farm
err. be restrained from taking his =
lyear-old daughter out of the jurisdic-
ton of the district court. Cozad was
recently awarded custody of the child
by the court, on the condition that he
permit occasional visits by the Roger
sons, who have been the girls foster
parents since she was a baby. The
petition states that they believe Cozad
intended to take the child to Mexico.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. C. Patty, well TO
do people of Butler county. Missouri,
are looking for their son, Clarence
Patty, boy Is years of age, who dis
appeared from his home a few days
ago. His parents believe that he is
somewhere in Kansas, either with his
uncle, Alvin W. Slayton, or looking
for him. Clarence Patty and his
uncle, Slayton, were brought up to-
gether, and besides being relatives,
are good friends. Slayton came TO
Kansas early in June, and the last
word the Patty family had from him
was from Topeka
Regardless of what the calendars
distributed by the Red. Cross at the
time of the second war fund drive
say, Washington is not the place 20
pay pledges nor is William G. Nc
Adoo the man to pay them to, accord
ing to a statement by Horace L. Hall