The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-20
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Inc L. o. b. u iOQS6 Will give
picnic tomorrow at Gage park for the
Jewish soldiers from Camp Funston
Edward c. Paxton is attending a
conference of field agents of Missouri
valley states in Lincoln, Neb. He is
the Kansas agent of the government
bureau of crop estimates, with offices
in the federal building.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Lang of 43S
Chase avenue have received letter
stating that their grandson. Fred
Ludington. is safe in France with the
139th field hospital corps, 10th sani-
tary train.
In the Central Y. NJ. C. A. contest.
! the Cavalry is six points ahead of
the Infantry" the membership con-
test teams. Carl Alright, member
of the Cavalry team. has 102 points
to his credit, the highest number SO
far reached by any of the workers.
The United States naval recruiting
station has accepted the following
men, whom they sent this morning to
Kansas City for final examination:
Leroy V. Denton of ST. Marys: Charles
H. West, Belleville; E. L. Stitt, 434
Locust street, Topeka; Oscar F. Mar
shall, Topeka.
r. s. McClelland, a postal clerk,
will leave Monday for service in the
navy. The star on the postoffice serv-
ice nag. which will be placed for him.
will be the thirteenth The twelfth
| star is for John Williams. a negro
/, janitor in the building, who left with
the negro draft contingent Friday.
In the city playground baseball Sc
rfes. three games were played Friday.
Quincy defeated Ripley by a score of
"a to 6; Washington defeated City
Polk 8, Potwin 6; Westlawn 8, Cnes-
ney o. Quincy and Washington will
meet for game Monday afternoon.
A dozen dressed chickens and sew
eral dozen eggs were stolen about
IL o'clock Friday night from refrig-
orator car standing on a track in the
Missouri Pacific yards. near Thir-
Tim Donovan, detectives, and William
K. Hall, chauffeur, investigated the
theft. but found no trace of the rob-
bers.
The Provident association is maxi
ing a request for gifts of clothing,
particularly undergarmen Calls are
constantly being received for such
clothing, and there is none on hand at
the building to be given. The secre-
tary was obliged to buy undercloth-
ing for one of the women being helped
by the association before she could
leave the hospital.
Soldier township early settlers will
have an all-day picnic at Garfield
park Friday, July 26. After a picnic
dinner at noon, a patriotic program
will be given. All persons who have
lived in Soldier township for twenty
five years or more are urged to be
present. Officers of the organization
are: Mrs. ElmG Owen Button, pres
ident; ]. F. Cecil, vice president; Clay
NJ. Morrow. secretary-treasurer.
Kelsey Petro, son of Mr. and Mrs
a f- tot ad OF
Dix, New Jersey. He was with the
Washburn ambulance company at
Camp Pike for some months after his
enlistment. He writes that on re-
cent trip he had to New York he saw
some of the Topeka men, including
Claire Menninger and Dick RICHTER.
He recently attended a Masonic meet
ing in Philadelphia. The men at Dix
| have little hope of being sent abroad
until the latter part of the summer.
The first of series of "get togeth-
err meetings was held in Labor hall
Friday night by the employers of
r., teamsters and members of the Team
| sters' union. The meetings are held
| to confirm the good feeling which ex-
| lists between the employers and en-
ployed, and which continued thru the
recent disagreement in which a strike
ensued that was amicably settled. w
| F. Axtel, c. d. Skinner and Fred
Dean made speeches for the employ
ers. and the union men were repre-
scented in addresses by ]. o. Stevic
George Rhodes and other labor lead
ers.
A damage suit for $4,000, filed in
the district court of Wyandotte county
by John G. Sullivan, against the Mis-
| souri, Pacific Railway company has
been removed to the federal court in
, Topeka. by request of the railway
company. The case was filed here
' i
| the October term of court. Sullivan.
| who lives in Wyandotte county. al
! leges that he was permanently injured
while working as a brakeman on
Missouri Pacific freight train at Pa
ola. He says that he has lost the
| bruised when hit by the grain spout
! of Paola elevator. He says also that
he was acting under the conductors
| orders when he was injured.
| The woman evangelist who made
the Provident association her head
quarters for a while has now gone,
| leaving no forwarding address She
came from Mount Pleasant Iowa, and
! declared herself on the road to Coun-
Gil Grove. Inquiries by the secretary,
! Mrs. Myrtle Callihan, brought out no
information regarding friends in
! Council Grove to whom the woman
| could be sent. She was past 20 years
of age, and so in spite of her protests
| that the direct and expressed will of
the Lord was being violated, the asso-
/ citation insisted that she return to her
people in Mount Plea SAINT A letter
| from Mount Pleasant, containing
| draft for the amount of money re-
CURED for the woman's return home,
was received by the association just a
J day after the evangelist left of her own
velitfon for parts unknown
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