The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-09


west much the shape and size of "a
rainbow, but of course this was all
in the crimson shades. The electric
lights looked a bright orange in con-
trast to the redness in the northern
sky.
Do you know Bud Weightman and
Chester Wahle are flying now by
themselves. Bud is in the Kelley
field at San Antonio and Chester is
in the Rockwell field at San Diego.
They have the prefix Cadet to
their names. But says. Flying is
great SPORT" and Chester says, Be
iieve me, when this war is over I'm
| going to be an aviator. Lieut.. Jack
Erickson has taken the aviation ex-
animation and has passed, but wheth-
er he intends going into that branch
of the service Immediately l do not
know.
| Isn't Mrs. ]. F. farrell a wonder
| fully brave woman to write a play
| to cheer other people when she her
! self has two sons in the service?
| That is what I call true patriotism.
! out goes Jennie" sound as tho it
wc~>ld be great deal of fun doesn't
/ it? No one seems to know yet what
! the play is about but that it has
something to do with club life would
| be the guess of AGATHA.
DR. T. s. Morrison and his band
of Kansas boys may come back to
| Topeka soon and give us a chance to
! see what good music our own home
band boys are able to make in mill
! tary regalia. This is a volun:c-
| band organized by Doctor Morrison
at the beginning of the war. They
are stationed at Camp Doniphan. The
following poem was writtensby one
| of the Camp Doniphan boys after the
style of the poem printed some time
| ago, "Only a Volunteer"
-. Why didn't you wait to be drafted?
Because you were brave and true,
To your friends and to your country,
And the red. the white, the blue.
You left your homes and loved ones
| And are scattered far and near
And we're proud of you for doing it
| Tho you're volunteer.
You would not claim exemption
For you knew that We needed you
To help to whip the kaiser
And all his Prussian crew.
You cared not for the banquet
Nor did you ask to be cheered.
You were ready when duty called you
For you boys just volunteered.
But when the war is over
And you boys come marching home
Wen welcome you then with honor,
| And bid you more to roam.
And in the years to come
When they ask you you'll have fears.
Because you didn't wait to be drafted
But you went-with the volunteers
x
The vice hounds are trailing the
wick dness of our city to it's lair and
doing it to death. near-sighted one
was the job this afternoon. He
passed down Kansas avenue between
Fifth and Sixth streets with his eyes
raised to the row of second story win
dows. Suddenly he stopped and looked
twice. He beheld figure-a most
| suspicious figure What a brazen
huzzy,' he said. ito sit there in that
window unclothed." He called the
police. They authorized search, and
a cop with two good eyes made the
discovery that the suspected one was
wearing one of the new spring waists.
which. while made to disclose almost
as much they conceal. are still
within the law.
THERE is A BOY In OUR TOWN
Who has been priding himself upon
the fac that he and his friends who
have all just started to school, know
the picture of President Wilson when
they it. But at a party not long
ago they found one among the crowd
who didn't seem to recognize the
picture when he saw it. One of
; them said: John, you come here
he Doesn't know John Immediately
came and explained, THAT is Will
sons picture. Don't you know Will
sons picture when you see it The
, first spokesman speaks again. Il
) suppose you'll have to tell Sam who
{ Wilson is And without hestita-ing
/ a minute John replied, why, Sam,
81 don't you know who Wilson is? n :
is the superintendent of the schools. -
I X X y
a The Square and Compass Dancing
; club danced at Kellam hall. Among
those present were: Mr.. and Mrs
> James Nelson, Mr.. and Mrs. J.. H
, McNeish, Mr.. and Mrs. D. w. Osburn
, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Lyman, Mr.. and
Mrs. ]. A. Austin, Mr.. and Mrs. n
, G. Edelblute, Mr.. and Mrs. John Will
: ton Mr.. and Mrs. J. c. Hoover Mr.
and Mrs. F. A. Rankin, DR. and Mrs
IL F. H. Scholle, Mr.. and Mrs. W. A
! Sherman, Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Cope, MIR
, and Mrs. D. w. Studdard. Mr.. and