The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-08

-Cir-Cingle.
afternoon, a band concert will be given
| at Gage Park by Marshalfs band.
The concert will be given by the city
and will be free to the public.
Boilermaker H. c. Mills is the naval
recruiting officer at Topeka this week
| in place Of Shipfitter A. w. Hierholt-
ger, who has gone to the central part
| OF, the state on recruiting business.
Members of the Junior Auxiliary to
the American Red Cross OF the Holy
Name school will have their Red Cross
| work on display at the school rooms
Thursday morning. The display Will
be open to the public.
| Lieut.. Harry Price Better has been
| granted authority to practice law In
Kansas by the supreme court. Lieu
tenant Better is with the 80 field
artillery. which is stationed at Camp
Meade, Nd. He is judge,advocate or
his regiment.
All persons enlisting in the army
will be given ten days time to settle
fup their business affairs according to
orders received at the local army re-
cruiting office. School teachers who
enlist in the navy will not be called for
service until school closes.
| A call has been issued thru the
| local draft boards that the nation is
! in need of blacksmith and
q brakeman who will report thru
| either local draft board l or 2. The
| men are to be registrants, and if they
have been placed in other branches Of
| the service, their transfer will be Of
| ficially made.
Lieut.. Dwight Thatcher Harris of
Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga, formerly
| a well known Topeka newspaper man
| is in Topeka on account of the illness
| of his son, who recently underwent
I -s<tp- b fol
| His wife is i'll at Louisville, KY, where
Lieutenant Harris was stationed until
| a short time ago when he was trans
ferred to the Georgia post.
At the annual choosing of the Saga
! more fra ternity of Washburn college
in the college chapel Tuesday Glenn
Kassebaum, Harry Anderson, Clair
Menninger and Robert Webb were
called. Dean A. ]. Harno of the law
school and Ernest Bearg, the new
coach, were named as honorary mem
bers. The Sa gamore is a society with
but six members chosen each year as
the most representative all around
| men in the school.
The contagious diseases in the city
are now rapidly on the decrease.
| There are still some cases of scarlet
| fever, smallpox, and mumpS One
| of the principal agencies for the quick
| decline in the prevalence of disease,
I
| duty in the schools. A helper for
the regular school nurse was appointed
| about two weeks ago, and between, the
time of her appointment and the first
of May, the scarlet fever contagion
| was greatly reduced.
| Third liberty = loan bonds to the
amount of $2326)O were sold by the
lCo-operative club in the drive, accord
ing to the report of w. r. Falkiner
secretary of the club, at the regular
meetings of the Co-ops at the Elks
club Tuesday evening. The original
quota of the club was $4,000 The
speaker of the evening was Coop E
Claude Smith, who explained the
principles OF osteopathy and the ef-
| forts osteopaths have made to be rec
ognized by the military medical au-
| thorities.
Habeas corpus petitions were filed
| Tuesday afternoon in the office OF
Frank L. Campbell, clerk of the Unit
| ed States court, asking the release OF
| forty-five prisoners at the federal pris-
on at Leavenworth. The men were
| sent to prison from Oklahoma on a
| charge of a conspiracy to obstruct the
enlistment and recruiting act. The pc
| titionS set out that the alleged acts
were committed before the law went
| into effect. T. w. Bell, a negro lawyer
at Leavenworth who makes specially
of habeas corpus proceedings, filed the
petitions.
Coal dealers from all parts of the
state have been invited to attend a
| convention in Topeka May Is in an
effort to perfect a statewide coal deal
| ers' association. The action was TAX
en- at a meeting of the local coal
dealers association Tuesday night.
The May Is, convention will be an
a1l-day affair held at the Elks club.
Harry Taylor of Kansas City, district
zone manager; Emerson Carey, state
fuel administrator, and Governor
Capper will be on the list of speakers
at the convention.