The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-29
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS
Dance tonight-Keliam Hall.-Adv.

Dance tonight-Keliam Hall-Adv.
Another fire occurred on the Sixth |
street viaduct Tuesday. 1t started
from sparks from engines underneath.
No serious damage resulted.
Forrest Rice, who has received q
commission as second lieutenant from |
the officers training school at Camp |
Price, is in sTopeka for visit to
friends.
Lieut.. Maurice Tucker, formerly |
with the Derby Grain company, in To-
peka, is stationed at the Payne avia- |
ton field. Westpoint, Miss. He is
visiting Topeka friends a few days.
William Foster. an inmate of the
county poor farm, was horned by a |
bull and slightly injured in the left
arm. The county physician was called
to dress the wound. The man had |
been teasing the bull.
Commissioner WATSON has received |
word that his son. Lieut.. Clyde WATSON.
who was wounded by bursting |
shrapnel some weeks ago, is improving |
rapidly. Lieutenant WATSON says that /
he will neither be disfigured nor dis !
abied as was feared, and that he is |
anxious to get back into the fight.
Word has been receied by Mr.. and |
Mrs. George Patton. of $40 West Sixth |
avenue, that their son, George NJ. !
Patton, has arrived in France. He
enlisted in the navy January 4, 1918, |
Naval school, until the latter part of
March. when he was transferred to
Hampton Roads, Va.
Members of the Ninth battalion, ,
Company C, who will act as guards
at the free fair, are ordered to leave
their names with Sergeant Altman, at
the New Toggery Eighth and Kansas
| avenue. Men in Company G have not
yet offered their services. tho large
percentage of the men in the other
companies have signed UP for the
work. About forty or fifty mcn will
| be used.
Mrs. Albert Knott, president of the
| Bourbon county w. c. L. u, has tele-
graphcd Governor Capper to commend
him for his stand on the national pro-
hibition question. Her wire was as
follows: Good citizenship consists
| in seeing which way God is going and
| in helping to clear the way. God cam
not use a drunken nation. We COM
mend your stand on national prohibit
ton which will make the United States
a dry and sober nation"
| D. D. Grindell of 1919 Garfield
avenue, who has been attending the
| officers training camp at Des Moines,
| Iowa, has been commissioned second
lieutenant, and will be sent to Fort
Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa, as soon as
| he returns to duty at the expiration of
his ten day furlo. which he is spending
| Mrs. Grindell, who has been with him.
will remain in Des Moines so long as
her husband is at Camp Dodge.
| E NJ. Halves, western manager of
the western district for the Safe Cabi-
net company, will make an address at
a meeting of the Rotarysclub Thursday
| Of next week. Halves will also speak
at regular meeting of the Monday
Lunch club, an organization of fire
| insurance men who meet weakly at
the Chamber of Commerce. HIVES is
coming to Topeka next week to con-
Crane & CompaHy's establishment
which will be attended by dealers from
cities in Missouri, Colorado. Nebraska
| and Utah, and the Crane & Company
force.
The position of assistant boys ply
steal director for the Csntral Y. NJ.
c. A. has been accepted by Richard
Matthews, son of C. H. Matthews. He
is to succeed John Grace. who left
yesterday for Hannibal, Mo-, to visit
his parents a short time before enter
ing the United States navy. Matthews
has belonged to the Y. NJ. c. A. four
years and has been taking special
work in gymnasium and physical
work. He is first assistant scoutmas-
ter of Topeka. Glasses in physical
rival of o. H. Haskell. under whom
Matthews will work. Haskell is ex-
pected September Is.
The members of Topeka council No.
534, Knights of Columbus, gave a
farewell dinner last evening at the
Chocolate Shop for DR.. ]. II. O'Con-
nell, of the Santa Fe hospital. who
leaves for Fort Riley September /,
where he has been commissioned as
first lieutenant. Doctor O'Connell has
been one of the most active workers
for the Knights of Columbus in To-
l. 1rV h. n
state of Kansas. where he has assisted
in the exemplification of degrees in
knighthood. Short addresses were
made by the various members. Doctor
O'Connell makes the eighty-third
member of Topeka council in the
service.
A patriotic gathering and commun-
ity sing was held Tuesday evening at
the home of Mr.. and Mrs. L. f. Mats,
of 1926 Garfield street. The follow
ing guests were present: Mr. and MRS.
L. F. White, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H.
muth. Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Amos, Mr.
and Mrs. r. L. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs.
J. S. Todd Mr.. and Mrs. r. G. T1ppin,
Misses Grace Lindemuth. Elizabeth
Tippin and Alma Mats, Master Rob-
ert Mats and some children. During
Mr.. Todd and Mrs w. M Amos. At
exactly o'clock The Star Spangled
Banner" was played on the piano by
Miss Lindemuth and the assembly
joined in singing.
Lloyd G. RoweIl. who enlisted in the
quartermaste corps. under Maj. A.
NJ. Mills, and called to service August
IS, 1917, has been commissioned lieu
tenant, according to word received by
his mother, Mrs. L. G. Rowell, 612
Tyler street. He was first sent to
Camp Doniphan, and soon afterward.
! was made sergeant major of the in
fantry. chief of staff officer. head
; quarters, 35th division. He was later
made quartermaster sergeant, and in
July was one of the first three men to
be chosen for training at the officers
school. Jacksonville, Fla. He received
a commission as second lieutenant of
the quartermaster's corps in the rec
! ord time of three weeks and four