The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-09


If the situations bad,
Stop and think of PetTograd,
Ponder on what France has had,
And don't complain.
II your house is chilly some,
Don't complain,
Hot enough If Huns would come,
So don't complain.
| This isn't Paradise,
Count the cost-and pay the price,
Be man. and sacrifice,
| And don't complain.
Dance tonight. Special music. KEEL
lam HaH.-Adv-
i Mrs Edith Cole of Denver has ar
rived here Il, make her, home with her
parents. Nj. and Mrs. A. D. Ogden.
1424 Tyler street.
The Ladies' Aid society of the St
Johns Lutheran church will meet
with Mrs E. F. Hillmer, 201 Tyler
| street, Thursday afternoon. TIL after
noon will be spent in doing Red Cross
! work
Following the recent death of
| George Bauerschmitt, former senior
partner o. the Bauerschmitt-R Reilly
| Baker Clothing company, the firm
| name was changed to Reilly-Baker
/ Clothing company.
| The police early this morning raid
ed a house at 1901 Quincy street &C.
| cupied by Mrs. M Sellers. Viola Van
Horn and f. Holson, whom the police
arrested as inmates
/ johnnie Nee, new manager CT To-
peka's baseball team, expects his wife
to join him here within the next week
or ten days. Mrs. Nee is now at CO.
lumbus, Ohio where she and her hus-
| band have lived for several years
Henry Smith, a merchants police
man in North Topeka, was relieved
of his star Monday night by Chief of
! Police Harbaugh. Regular officers
complained of pernicious activity of
Smith. it was stated at police head
quarters.
The local branch of the American
will meet Wednesday evening at 1880
o'clock at Labor Hall. AIS Kansas
avenue. The question of the election
of permanent officers will come up
and liberty loan plans will be dis
cuSsed.
4 Lieut. Seth E Cox has arrived
from. Camp Pike, Little Rock, Ark,
for a farewell visit to friends. He is
a guest OF, Frank D. Parker. Mrs.
Cox and their son are now living in
Eureka, where they will remain dur
, ing Lieutenant Cox's absence. Lieu
tenant Cox belongs to Ambulance
company 34E.
William Bond custodian of Ma
sonic temple, is in St. Francis hos
. pital, where he is being treated for
an Injury which ne suffered Monday,
when one of his toes was caught
between the elevator and plank, and
badly bruised. DR.. NJ. G.. Sloo, who
is attending him, says that he is re-
covering rapidly.
Company A of the First colored
battalion was mustered in Monday
night by w. w. Russell, at SOS Kan
sas avenue. Addresses were made by
Doctor Macky of New York City, and
W. f. Schoch of Topeka. Sergt.
Roberl W. Clark, of Camp Funston,
formerly a member of the company,
made a short address on life in the
army.
A fire broke out this morning about
8 O'Clock in the roof of the house
|, | owned and occupied by Ike Moore, 405
Ia st Crane street. The fire caught
from sparks falling from the chimney.
i. The building is a story and a hall
| frame dwelling and was damaged tic
. the extent of about $50. The contents
, of the building suffered little or nc
damage.
Raymond Ewing, who has been
specially indicted into the govern
nient service, was called into service
with the Forty-seventh engineers
Monday. at Camp Sheridan, Ala He
will 1old the position of file clerk in
the engineer corps. Ewing was con-
nected with the freight department
of the Santa Fe before his induction
INTO the SeENlCe
t John D. Stevenson. master of ST.
loan Lodge No. 225, who will leave
soon to join the colors, was the guest
L ! of honor at a dinner given Monday
= night at Masonic temple by Topeka
: chapter No. 5, Royal Arch Masons
L and Sloan Lodge No. %, A. F. and
t A NJ After the dinner Stevenson was
given a wrist watch. o. ]. Wood max
g ing the presentation speech.
Five recruits were Examined anC
: accepted Monday at the local recruit
: ing station. follows: Charles D
Dimnick, Wakarusa, assigned to en-
t gineers' motor car transportation
service; Samuel Fallenwilder. lola
coast artillery; Clifford E. Frost, To
f peka. coast artillery; Harold d. Gar
/ wood, Wakarusa- coast artillery; Yves
s ley w. Wommer, Garden City, engi
E neers' motor car transportation serv-
ice The men left Monday night fol
jefferson Barracks, St. Louis. Mo.
The executive board of the I'rovi
dent association met at the Elks ciul
Monday, and decided that repair:
E should be made on the Provident as
ISOLATION building, including the hang
ing of new wall paper. The building
is to be kept as model of good house
r keeping. Norris l. Gage of Astabu,a
Ohio. one of the founders of the as
sociation, was present Mrs. Myrtle
Callahan, secretary of the association
Will attend the national conference o
: social welfare workers in Kansas Cit,
next month.
The local recruiting station has re
. ceived orders to accept desirable mel
for service in the 57th engineers. in
: land waterways. stationed at laurel
: Md. Glasses needed for this brancl
{ are: master ship carpenters, ship car
: penters, marine gasoline engineers
{ steersmen hosting engineers. black
smiths. riggers, sailma kers. saddlers
: teamsters and bargemen- Men within
the age limit, non-regiStrants and VIII
are physically qualified may enlist Il
n this service by applying to the arm,
y recruiting station, Topeka.
Red Cross work will be done b.
high school girls and instructors ev
cry afternoon from 2:30 to 4:3i
I n fOIIoNinp schedule n