The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-27
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

Marco Morrow has be en- appointed
! as chairman of the Four Minute men
in Shawnee county. He was named to
succeed w. A. Johnson who resigned.
The Shawnee County w. C. T. U.
Will have its annual convention at the
First Conversational church in To-
peka, August 20. The meeting will
begin at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
One Topeka clothier says that he
| averages a sale of from ten to fifteen
overcoats a day. Evidently Topekans
are preparing for the winter and the
higher price of lower grade clothing.
| Clyde c. Hartford of Rock Island,
| III. will arrive the first of September
| to take a position as associate boys
secretary of the state Y. NJ. c. A. His
work will be among high school boys.
| Derailed near Willard. four coal
cars Monday held up two troop trains
and a regular train. No. IS. on the
Rock Island. The trains were due
here about $3.50 but did not arrive I'M
til o'clock.
| Emerson Evans. Ralph Kimball and
| Charles Peyton of the Indian Creek
neighborhood will be guests of honor
tonight at the Indian Creek Grange
hall. The young men will go into the
army within a few days
| A. L. Mayer of Chicago will be in
| Topeka Thursday for a conference
with Clifford Pierce. state secretary
of the Y. NJ. c. A. Mayer is connect
ed with the Y. NJ. C. A. college of Chi.
cago, where association workers are
trained.
| Charging that his wife deserted hir
in March, 1915, and has been absent
since, Frank Carey today filed a petit
/ ton in the Office of the Shawnee coun-
| ty district court asking a divorce from
Della Carey: They were married in
Indiana in 1901.
| R. l. Nagle, of Topeka, has been
appointed as private secretary to Con-
gresham D. r. Anthony, jr. Nagle
will succeed J. NJ. Burrfs, who has
| been appointed as private secretary to
Charles E. Lobdell. of Great Bend. a
member of the federal rm loan
board.
A community sing will be held this
evening at 8 o'clock at the Central
Park school grounds. N. w. Benning,
| secretary of the Central Y. NJ C. A,
will lead. Special music will be CIV
en- by Horace Bowman, Miss Pauline
| Saunders and Sidney Smith. The
\ public is invited.
Elmer E. Miller, Jr., formerly of
North Topeka, has arrived in France
He is with the Ill ammunition train
| The day he embarked for France his
wife, who is now in Oklahoma, gave
birth to a daughter. Mrs. Miller and
I n,
to be with her husbands people until
| his return.
| Charles c. Booher, son of C. C.
Booher, of Topeka, and for several
years in the business office of the
| State Journal, has purchased a drug
store in Kansas City, Mo. Booher,
| since leaving Topeka, has been in the
sale drug business in Kansas City and
now has gone into business for him
self.
Joseph Weinkauf, formerly a fire
| man in lie Clay street station of the
fire. department of Topeka. is now in
| the United States navy, and Is making
his seventh trip across the Atlantic.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert M;nley. of 307 Van
Buren, street, gave a midnight dinner
lETecently in his honor. Those present
| included his sister, Mrs. Clayton Jones,
| of Kansas City; Mrs. Elizabeth Nader,
Miss NJ lie Nader and Mr.. Leon Lo-
gan. Weinkauf is on the Susque-
| hanna.
Word has been received by Mr.. and
Mrs George Heap that their son.
Lieut.. w. A. Heap. has been slightly
wounded in the fighting along the
Vesle river. He wrote the notice of
TIE accident himself from the base
hospital to which he was sent. His
injuries. he said, consisted chiefly of
severe bruises, and he expected to re-
turn to duty in few days. He Is a
doctor with the Fourth division and
served in the front line dressing sta
! lions thru the drive in which the
enemy was driven from the Marine to
the. Vesle. Doctor Heap is a brother
in-law of DIR. H. L. Clark, city health
officer.
Horses and mules. cows and calves
and mortgages galore mixed them
selves up in one grand "goulash" in
the court of Topeka this morning at
the preliminary hearing in the case
of the state against John Parr. of
Rossville. who is charged with selling
mortgaged property. He was bound
over to the district court by Judge Rad
Lee and released on $1,000 bond
John Parr is the sailor whose vaca-
ton was spoiled by the county author
tiles about two weeks ago. He came
to visit his wife and family and was
arrested at once on the charge which
had been preferred against him.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Goodrich and
their daughter, Elizabeth. left today
for their home in Los Angeles. Calf
after spending a week with relatives
in Topeka They stopped in this city
on their return from trip to St. Paul
MINI. The trip was made by auto
mobile. Goodrich is driving a Liberty
Six car. has travelled in it more than
five thousand miles, has had but one
puncture and no engine trouble. He
expects to finish the trip in ten days
He says that the Kansas roads are
much better than those he found far
Their east. Mrs. Goodrich and her
daughter have made the same trip by
auto twice within the past year. Mr.
Goodrich IS a son of H. K. Goodrich
former superintendent of the Topeka
electric light plant.
A desire to see his mother. who
lives IN Kansas City. Mo-. led James
| A RI Y-fx IN Dot
field artillery, to desert from Camp
Funston and go to Kansas City, ac-
cording to a statement made by him
today. He was arrested Monday morn
J ing and booked at police headquarters
on the charge of being a deserter
When he arrived in Kansas City. he
, said. he began to realize what he had
done. Ashamed to face his mother. he