The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-30

Now when the -Yanks" are bagging game
They do the job up right;
They hold the sack fnyitingly,
Then draw the the string up tight!
Dance tonight-Kellam Hall--Adv.
| Mr. and Mrs. Edward Fitzgerald
have moved from their farm to their
former home, 1863 Mulvane street.
| Subscriptions to the fourth liberty
loan taken on Saturday, the first day,
| by the Kansas Reserve State bank ag-
gregated $4,000.
| Only exclusive millinery store on
North side for sale quick. Write or
wire F. NJ. Joseph. Fort Riley. Kan,
M. o. T. c., Group E-10.-Adv.
! The girls military organization will
meet tonight at the high school audi
| forum at 1880. Miss Grace Elmore,
physical director of the high school.
will preside.
| A petition, signed by a number of
North, Topekans, for the opening of
Paramore street from Central avenue
to Kansas avenue was presented at the
1 meeting of the city commissioners this
morning.
| A special meeting of the railway
clerks local will be held at the Cham
Der of Commerce tomorrow evening at
s o'clock. It Is expected that the mat
ter of overtime pay will be explained
| at the meeting.
| The Woman's Missionary society of
the First c. ngregational church will
hold it's annual thanks offering meet
ing Wednesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock
at the home of Mrs. James Kirkpat-
rick. S19 West Sixth avenue.
The Rev. Percy Atkins, head of the
Y. M. c. A. personnel bureau for Kan
sas. returned this morning from En-
poria, where he lectured Sunday. He
! leaves today on a recruiting trip to
| Dodge City and other western towns
The Cooperative club will hold its
next regular meeting at the Elks' club,
Tuesday, October 1. at $50 o'clock.
The club will entertain the members
of the Square Circle club and a prop
osition will be offered to effect the
consolidation of the two clubs for the
duration of the war.
The Christian Woman's Board OF
| Missions of the Central Park Chris
tan church will meet Thursday after
noon. October 8. at the home of Mrs.
A. J. Dooley, 1901 Clay street. Mrs.
William Blair, who has served as a
missionary in Corea for the past seven
years will be the principal speaker.
Leo Thompson, an elderly man who
is camping with his son and family
near the Hensley farm south OF the
been robbed of $500 Saturday. While
he was alone at the camp Mexican
approached and, drawing a gun on
him, demanded the money, Thompson
said.
A phone message to the effect that
some one was sleeping under the front
porch led the police to visit an Oak
n land home Saturday night, where they
found Charles Long, 16 years old. who
had fixed up a. bed made of hay and
piece of linoleum under the porch
Long has been livingsthe life of a vag.
abond for a week, it is said.
G. L. Hooper, manager Of the Or.
pheum and the Iris theaters, was pre-.
sented with special certificate at thu
first performances in his theaters Sat
urday night making him a theatrica
member OF the four-minute men or
!. ganization. The certificates set fortl
| that Hooper is made a four-minilt
! man in recognition of his services II
, the many war campaigns in Topeka.
Mark G. Troxell. 1894 Central Parl
} court, left Saturday for Washington
e where he is to report today. 1t is tn
first step on the way to France. wf1er
E he will serve in the office of the audi
: tor of war finances in Paris Troxel
has been in the state auditors offic
= for number of years. serving unde
= w. H. Davis and also Fred W. Knapp
l Mrs. Troxell will fill his position dur
| ing his absence. Troxell is a son O
L Rev. NJ. F. Troxell. 623 Buchana
. street
: A guard from Camp Funston is o
Y the way to return to camp q colore
soldier who is being held by the pc
lice as an alleged deserter and VIII
T gives the name of Alva v. Byers. H
was arrested Sunday night by Fac
Gragg, Santa Fe special policeman
and Patrolman John Anderson as h
was inquiring the way to Ardmor,
Okla. He told the police that he ha
been indicted into the service la.
Wednesday and that he had made hi
escape from railroad station nea
the camp.
Three men were sent to the feder;
penitentiary at Leavenworth by tt
federal court which adjourned
wichita Saturday. Joseph E. Farm
worth was given sentence Of a year
imprisonment and a fine of $1,000
for violation of the Mann act Charl
F. Brown got sentence of one yes
in the penitentiary and fine of So
500 for robbing a mail car on whic
he was working. Gilbert w. Upsc
was sentenced to an Imprisonment
one year and a fine OF $500 for for,
ing a postal money order.
Within half an hour of the time I
broke into a plumbing shop {
East Eighth street and stole fiftes
pounds OF brass fixtures this mornin
Jimmie Simms, colored, Is years oil
was under arrest and had confess,
his crime to the police. The back do
altho Simms declared it was in tn
condition when he arrived there. Sc
geant Hi Strum and Mitchell Bunt
trailed the boy. arrested him and O
tanned the confession, He was turn,
over to the juvenile court and w
probably be sent to- the reformatory,
this is his second offense.