The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-29
Another Warning to Kaiser on
Way to Funston. )
Mothers, Sisters and Sweet
hearts Bade Them Farewell.
DASH OF SPIRIT AT STATION
Men Leave in Best of Spirits
for Training Camp.
Display Enthusiasm for New
Duty of Democracy.

Fathers mothers, sisters and sweet
hearts wore liberty bond buttons
Sons and brothers wore smiles that be-
spoke the fact that they were about
to wear olive drab. By these express
sions, the spirit of 1918 was never SO
gallantly displayed as at a Topeka
railroad station this morning when
sixty-three Topeka and Shawnee coun-
ty selective servicemen were whisked
away on a special train to Camp
Funston. The men comprised the
quotas of the three local boards in
the draft call of April 25. This aft
ernoon, only an hour or two after the
departure of the sixtythree men who
by this time are getting into uniform,
a similar scene was ena cted at the
same station as eleven men comprised
of a negro call and special inductions
entrained for the same cantonment,
making a grand total of seventy-four
men sent to Camp Funston from
Shawnee county today.
The SiNty-three men who took their
departure this morning were COM
prised of nineteen from the county
board. twenty-one from city board No.
and twenty-three from city board
No. 2. County men reported at 4
O'Clock Sunday afternoon in the rooms
| of the court of Topeka, where they
listened to an address by Rev. w. w.
Burks of the First Christian church.
| Promptly at 10 O'Clock this mornings
/ they reported agaiI, at the railroad
depot. City men reported this morn-c
ing at the city hail to their draft,
boards, and later II arched to the sta
ton in body, seemingly an optinis-
tic, joking and energetic lot that an
swered heartily the greetings of
friends along the avenue.
Relatives Saw Them Off,.
ts-< a t the station scores of friends anE
relatives of the men gathered to bid
I them farewell. As they swung in
marching order onto the platform the
ranks were quickly broken by the
waiting men. women and children.
4 Squad leaders and draft officials
! made arrangements for lunches en-
route while the men and those they
] were to leave behind formed a crowd
of jostling, milling and laughing
humanity 1t seemed more like the
farewell to an outing party than any
| thing else.
, The selective service men were
''rearin' to 60" They demonstrated
that fact when a passenger train
pulled in. Instantly they broke forth
scowled when turned back and told
! tfat a later train would be theirs A
belated special finally pulled in and
the men scrambled aboard. Windows
sides We're even rows of heads and
shoulders. the former decorated by
an interrupted row of grins. One i'm
peutuous youth produced a snow
white, freshly laundered handkerchief
and feigned sorrow. His imaginary
tears seemed to be about the only ones
just then. A series of screams from
the engine, warning for all to get
| aboard, was a signal for cheers from
the train and platform and much
waving of farewells. 1t was then. and
not until then that the sorrow of fare
well seemed to fall. Eyes of mothers
and sisters and sweethearts and strong
men that had been dry until the train
moved were dampened. Not So how
ever. with the departing men They
continued their cheers. Darwin Brad
ley, Topeka vocal artist. stood on the
! platform and waved glass of milk at
a newly discoN red friend in the crowd
with disastrous results to himself and
the car platform. He seemed to be-
moan the loss of the milk and gave
ing
Other Men on Train.
AS the special pulled past carrying
the Topekans far ahead, men from
other districts bound for the same
destination sang and shouted cheers
tall individual from the jack-oak
hills of the south Missouri country
leaned over the railing on the rear
platform of the last car and waving
his elongated arms, called:
so long girls, see you all after the
, war;"
The county man went to Funston
/ under the leadership of Leon E
! Damn, Rossville. Squad leader 70,
; board No. l was Phil. J. Movers and
Ward NJ. Keller was elected to head
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