The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-26
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS
Just So It's ..Finis-"
Lenine was destined to be hung,
But has escaped the call
By being shot, tho he may live
70 be hung, after all.

Mayor House weAt to Atchison to-
day, where he VIII give an address this
evening before the AtcAison Rotarians.
A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City Wednesday to Mamie L.
Ledford and George w. Kelley. both
Of Topeka.
s. A. Cooley, chief of police in Kan
sas City. has sent the registration card
of Osborn Carr to the county draft
board, having found it on the street
! there. Carr regtstered5At the county
board but is now living in Oklahoma.
Lieut.. Col John 8. Dean. former
president of the Topeka Chamber of
Commerce, is expected to make an
address at the chamber tomorrow
noon. The announcement was made
today, tho 1t was stated that there is
a possibility Colonel Dean may be
called away tomorrow morning
A. Hilton of st. Louis met with the
members of the public utilfties COM
| mission this afternoon to go over the
matter of decreasing the train service
in Kansas on the Katy and Frisco
lines. Mr.. Hilton is . government rep
resentative and has charge of the
service on the two roads named.
Sol ShultE. the Russian Jew who
was picked up by the police Tuesday
night and who confessed that he had
not registered, was brought before c.
B. White, United States commission
er. this morning and bound over to
the grand. jury. In default of bond
he will be confined in Jail at Leaven-
worth to await his trial on October "A.
Men are needed by the legal advis-
Dry board to help the September IL
registrants fill out their question
natres. There are not enough lawyers
to DO this work, SO others will be given
this opportunity to assist the drafted
men. The office at the court house is
fro q
volunteers who cannot work all day,
may help part of the day.
Cards are being sent out by the To-
cal draft boards to registrants who are
British subjects. notifying them that
| they still have until OCTOBER r. to en-
| list in the British or Canadian armies.
II they prefer, it is understood that
| they may be indicted into the Ameri-
can army. Enlistments for the British
army are accepted at the British and
Canadian Recruiting mission, s22 Main
street. Kansas City.
I. D. Graham, secretary of the
| Shawnee county draft board. has re-
ceived letter from the commanding
| officer Of the 31st company, 1874 depot
brigade. stationed at Camp Funston.
| asking him to recruit Joseph Napoleon
Curwick, who was indicted into the
| service September but who has been
! absent from camp without leave since
|
ferred to Sheriff Hugh Larimer.
Paul Heinz, police Judge, and Frank
Harhaugh. chief OF police, are made
| the defendants in a suit which has
been filed with the clerk of the district
court by Porter Patterson police court
charaeter, who was recently convicted
| and sentenced to serve 100 days in Jail
on the charge of selling liquor. He
wants writ of habeas corpus in or
der that he may be brought before the
police court and released until a hear
ing is held. Sea . - ~ .sass'i
| Miss Allena Grafton, state director
| OF the womap's section of the united
war work campaign. has gone to
wichita to be one Of the speakers at
the state convention Of the w. c. T.
y. Her subject was Relation of the
Z. w. G. A. war work to the work of
the w. c. II. u" Her address con-
cerned the technical side CT the rela-
| tionships Of all wemen's organizations
in the November drive for funds for
the united war work.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Kingsley have
received word of the arrival irY France
OF their son, Fred F. Kingsley, of Com
pany G, 115th ammunition train. He
left for overseas from Camp Kearney,
Cal. In the latter part of May he was
nome on furlo. and was married to
Miss Hazel Keck Of Auburn. The first
Of July he and his bride returned to
California, and a month later he left
for, France. Mrs Kingsley will be in
San Diego until spring.
AS fast as students enrolling We'd
nesday for-the S. A. T. c. at Washburn
had completed their physical examine
| ton they were sent in small punches
to the local boards for the signing OF
competent orders. When they left the
city building they were officially IN.
Quoted into the army. Board No. 1
inducted fifty-eight men while board
| No. 2 handled fifty-four The records
show that almost every locality in the
state is represented in the S. A. TIC
According to report made to Gov
| ernor Capper the number of wards
cared for by the state at the orphans
home at Atchison during the biennial
| period which ended June 80, increased
fifty-eiEht over the previous biennial
period. One hundred and sixty-three
children were indentured during the
period, eiShty-one were returned to
relatives, twenty-five became self-sap-
| porting, eleven were transferred to
| otner institutions, two were returned
TO counties and one was adopted
Rabbits kept within a barn at 230s
Buchanan street were heard raising
| great uproar" about 9:s0 O'Clock
wednesday night. Five policemen,
VINO responded to a hurry-up call to
the spot. found the barn surrounded
py men, one Of whom carried a shot
gun over his shoulder. This man in
formed the policemen they had him
cornered in the barn. so the valiant
coppers, breaking the lock on the barn
door. rushed inside and slew the rabbit
murderer in cold blood 1t was a
weasel
HEAVY artillery and immense stores
OF ammunition are being concentrated
BY the opposing forces for use in the
fierce battle that is to be staged in
one Of the Shawnee county district
| court rooms tomorrow morning, be-
ginning at 10 o'clock, to decide the
Gage Park Washburn rural high
school matter. All indications point
to the probability of most sanguinary
conflict, which will be all the more
significant because it will DO absolute
~ final. There is no escape from the
| decision Of the county commissioners