The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-25
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Company A of the state guard will
drill tonight at 1880 o'clock at the
auditorium.
General orders issued by Adjutant
General Huffman Wednesday, placed
all state guard companies at the dis
posal of the G. A. r. for the Memorial
day celebrations.
Geo. p. Fiederling has been appoint
ed as foreman of the registry division
at the postoffice to take effect May /.
John T.. Murrow will become assistant
to Mr.. Fiederling.
Frank Harrison instructor in ply
sizes at the high school and prominent
in Hy-Y work. has resigned his place
| to go overseas as a recreational direc-
tor in the Y. M. CT A. work. Harrison
will leave May 15s
Officers and members of the West
minister Presbyterian church have
Joined the ranks of the regular Thurs
day dining clubs at the Chamber of
Commerce. The first meeting was
held Wednesday noon.
Plans for the entertainment of the
guests at the Episcopalian convention
in Topeka next month were completed
at the meeting of members of Grace
Cathedral at Guild hall Wednesday
night The convention will be held in
Topeka May IL to 10.
Walter j. Arnold, former county en-
sineer. is suing the Rossville drain
age district for $3.50. the amount he
claims is due for work done by him
tried today in Judge George H Whit
combs division of the district court
Thru error the State Journal
stated Wednesday that Mrs. Stella
French charged her husband. Harry
French, with infidelity in a divorce
petition filed in the district court. In
stead. Mrs French. in her petition.
charged that her husband persistently
accused her of infidelity.
Only sixty bankruptcy petitions
have been filed with J. G. Slonecker.
referee in bankruptcy, in the last
y ear. This is the best record in the
last ten years, he states. The To-
reka referee has a territory embrace
ing Shawnee, Douglas, Usage, Lyon,
Morris, Wabaunsee, Riley, Geary.
Clay, Cloud Republic, Jewell, Mar
shall, Washington, Potta watomie and
Jackson counties.
Adolf Harms, of Hiawatha, is
locked in the Shawnee county Jail
charged with making pro-German ut
terances to the effect he would like to
see the president shot and he would
aid in the shooting. Advices received
from Hiawatha by the marshaPs office
were to the effect that there was
much and dangerous feeling against
Harms at Hiawatha. Harms was
brought to Topeka today.
The free lecture Oh, Christian Sci
ence to be given Sunday afternoon at
O'Clock, at the Grand opera house,
will be very interesting and instruc-
tive. especially for those who wish an
understanding of the subject The
lecturer, Charles 1. Ohrenstein. c. 5.
s., of Syracuse, n. Y, is a member
of the Board of Lectureship of The
Mother Church, The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Mass.
Lieut.. Major Martin Anderson was
in Topeka Wednesday visiting his
wife and son and his mother. Mrs. 7.
J. Anderson, 215 Clay street. Lieu
tenant Anderson was member of the
10th Field Signal battalion, which
was organized in Topeka. He was sent
to the officers training school at Leon
Springs, Texas and was commissioned
at the close of the school. He left
for Camp Alfred Vail. Silver Springs,
| New Jersey, this morning.
After listening all day to testimony
Probate Judge Ralph H. Cav late
Wednesday refused to restore Mrs.
Eva Stock to her property rights and
pronounce her legally sane. Mrs
Stock has considerable property which
was placed in charge of a guardian
after she entered the asylum. She
was released from the asylum i'm
proved and then obtained dispositions
| from insanity experts in Kansas City
/ pronouncing her cured and endeavored
4 10 regain 0er legal liberty Cnfu the
medium of those dispositions.
The Pep Feeding company, headed
| by Charlie Sessions, Joe Mercer, H.
L Peppmeyer and other Topekans.
has employed d special agent to hunt
| up garbage men who are hauling
| garbage in competition with them and
against terms of an ordinance which
! gives the streets and alleys of the
| city exclusively to the company SO far
as hauling garbage is concerned.
Henry Ogee is the hired agent. His
work Wednesday resulted in the ar
! rest of join Neidens w. M. Voolfolk,
Robert Kneisler and ]. w. Russell.
! Each was released OF. IS bond to
appear IN police court Friday.
Howard Huffman, 1913 Quincy
street. was hidden a formal farewell
Wednesday night by the members of
the First United Brethren church
when he was the guest of honor at an
! entertainment. Huffman leaves be-
| tween now and May l for France
where he will take part in Y. NJ C. A.
| work He is married and has two
children. He has worked for a num-
Der of years for the Edison company.
Judge Henry Mason of the supreme
court was the principal speaker. Fol-
lowing Judge Mason's address. the
Rev. E. II. Given urged the church
to buy liberty bonds and $500 was sub
scribed for bonds. Then a soldiers
kit was presented to Mr. Huffman by
Senator J. E Hilkey- Refreshments