The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Topeka lodge No. 524, Loyal order
Of Moose, will hold a roly-poly dance
at Re lam hall tonight at $3.50 O'CLOCK
Lincoln Circle No. 1. ladies of the
G. A. r., will meet all day Thursday
on surgical dressings at the Red Cross
rooms in the Crosby Brothers store.
George Johnston, of Battery A, 1870
field artillery, is home on a seven-day
furlough visiting his parents. Mr.. and
Mrs. j. E. Johnston, 1925 Lincoln
street.
Judge A w. Dana. seriously ill at
his home, 1928 Western avenue Is a
little better today. He recognized his
physician this morning and spoke a
few words.
Mrs. w 1. Porterfield. of Colorado
Springs, who has been spending the
winter with her sister, Mrs ID. D.
Alderman, 1924 College avenue, left
today for a trip to San Diego, Cal
Leroy Powell. secretary of the local
government civil service board, re-
ports considerable interest among
school teachers and others in exami-
nations for clerical positions being
held in the postoffice building.
Two hundred and fifty machinists
at the Santa Fe shops made applica-
ton for affiliation with the American
Federation of Labor at meeting in
Labor hall Tuesday night, labor Off
Gals said today. j. J. Bowling. labor
organizer, made a short talk to the
men.
Clyde Treesh, 4O5 Tyler street, has
been found insane by an insanity COM
mission in the probate court. Treesh
has been confined in the county Jail
Stree Friday when he left home with
out a coat or vest and was gone for
several hours. He was employed as a
machinist in the Santa Fe shops.
Topeka Lutherans have already
oversubscribed their allotments of the
$75O,000 fund being raised in the
Lutheran churches of America for the
establishment of churches on the can
toEulentS. The announcement was
made by j. A. jacobson, chairman of
the campaign committee for this part
of the state.
An overcoat belonging to w. B.
Reed, who was arrested for drunken
ness, was stolen from the police I'M
der their very eyes by Jim ingalls,, an
other prisoner, who was later released
After the theft of the coat, ingalls,
was found by Patrolman Gregg on
East Fourth street. He was wearing
the coat at the time.
Patrolman H. o. Cook has been ap-
pointed q plain clothes man to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation
of John Billings, who has accepted a
position with the Bechtelheimer
horse and mule sales barn in North
topeka. Alexander Laubach 1903
East Sixth street. has been appointed
patrolman to fill the vacancy left
by Cook.
The schedule of the Sunday school
basketball games at the Y NJ. c. A.
| tonight is as follows: Junior league:
| Third Presbyterian VS.. First Presby-
terrain. Senior league: First United
Brethren VS.. First Presbyterian: Wal
nut Grove Methodist VS.. North Topeka
Baptist; Central Congregational VS.
Potwin Presbyterian. The first game
will start at 1880 o'clock, and each OF
the other games forty minutes later.
George Afford. negro, and Guy NJ
Nelson, a wife beaten. inmates of the
county 1ail. passed their physical ex-
aminations before the draft boards in
! the city hall. Afford insisted he has
poor eyesight and at first refused tic
follow instructions of the examining
physicians but finally gave in and
went thru the examination. Solomon
warren, another negro, refused to lift
MS arm, saying a bullet in his lune
made such feat impossible How
ever he was passed by the CITY dra fl
board.
Dedication of an eight-star service
flag was the feature of the meeting OF
| the stockholders of the Country clut
tuesday night at the Chamber OF
Commerce. The meeting was the an.
nual affair for the purpose of elect.
/ ing the directors. Directors elected
at the meeting were: A. Fassler
| chester Woodward and E. A. Thrill
| Tor the three-year terms; H. A Auer.
bach, ]. NJ. Cornell and DR.. W. N
West for two-year terms, and S. C
/ Nichols F. s. Crane and w. w. Strick.
land for one-year terms.