The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-31
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Dance tonight.-Kellam Halliday.
On a voluntary induction. Guy A.
Carr, of Oklahoma City, will be sent
tomorrow by board No. 2 to Fort
Benjamin Harrison, where he will join
the engineers.
The Rev John A Bright returned
Friday night from Lovewell. Kan,
where he made an address at the Old
Settlers reunion He went to Kan
sas City today to attend the funeral of
Mrs. w. E. Skinner.
There will be a revival meeting
conducted at Mt. Olive NJ. E. church,
corner of Twelfth and Buchanan
streets, beginning Sunday. September
/, at IL o'clock by the Rev. Mrs.
o. S. Snellgro of Los Angeles, Cal.
Miss Rose Lemen. switch board
operator at the fire marshafs office
will leave Monday on her vacation
She will be Joined in Kansas City by
her mother. They have planned to go
on to Chicago, where Miss Lemen's
sity of Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Patton, $40
West Sixth street, have received word
that their son, George Marion. ar
rived safely overseas July 90. He en-
listed in the United States navy jan
uary and left for Great Lakes train
| ing station March %. From there he
was transferred to Hampton Roads.
Va.
| The Swedish Baptist church has
| started construction on a dining hall
at the fair grounds. The building will
cost $500 and will be so constructed
as to be a permanent fixture on the
grounds. 1t will be seventy-five fee
long with front of twenty-four feet.
| The building will be completed by
! September s.
Another call for limited service men
is to be filled by local board Mp. l
with five men who will be entrained
September 4. They are: William
! Fletcher Woodford. 1884 Buchanan;
1 William Warren Rutter 900 Fillmore;
Ray E. Wilson, 1412 Tyler; Paul Will
liza m Anderson, 1101 Tyler. and Austin
Henry Wallace, 1920 College.
Police Judge Paul Heinz returned
from his vacation Friday in time to
clean up the slate" in police court
Victor Flores, a Mexican, was fined
SO for riding a bicycle on the side
walk. r. A. Arnett, George Shirley
and E. A. Dean, arrested a few days
ago for speeding, were fined from SO
to SIS each
The Spalding Reading circle, an
organization of women of the Cath
Ole church in Topeka. devoted to
charity. will have meeting Tuesday
dedicated. The meeting will be held
in the Knights of Columbus club
rooms in the Aetna building A num-
Der OF nurses who have volunteered
for foreign service, who are members
of the club, will have stars in the flag.
A Marion county Y. M. C. A. organi-
zation has been completed and Roy
H. Weeks, of Topeka, has been CHOSEN
as secretary. He will begin his new
work at once. Weeks was formerly
employed by the Santa Fe in Topeka.
He attended the Y. NJ c. A. training
NJ Tcfn III
The organization of county units of the
association is being conducted by C.
A. Caster of the State Y. NJ. c. A, with
his office in Topeka.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. w. Schmitt and
their young son, of Des Moines, Ia.
are visiting Mrs. Schmitt's sister, Mrs.
c. A. Caster. and Mr.. Caster The
Schmitt family is on the way to Bar
tlesville, Okla. where Mr.. Schmitt has
accepted position as physical direc-
tor of the Y. M. G. A. Mrs. S. j.
Oviatt of Bay City, Mich, the mother
of Mrs. Schmitt and Mrs. Caster, is
also guest at the Caster home. Mr..
Casters sisters, Miss Lovena Caste-
and Miss Irene Caster, accompanied
by Mrs. Thomas Wilson and Mrs. G.
w. Logsten. all of Albany, Mo-, are
visiting at the Caster home.
George Archer, age 40, was arrested
Friday evening by Detective George
Frost and Officer Ferguson and book
ed at police headquarters on the
charge of being drunk. Neighbors in
the 900 block on North Monroe street
. said he had a gun and that a fight was
going on, but when the officers ar
rived everything was quiet and the
gun, if there was one, had disap
/ peared. He had become engaged in
5 a brawl with George Green and the
t blood both had shed indicated that the
fight had been a strenuous one. Arch
: er handed his wife a black eye during
, the course of the excitement. Green
/ is about so years old.
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