The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS


Two of . Kind
The golden" mug the kaiser gave
Had solid pewter as base
Somehow it seems to match the brazen
Mug" Of the kaiser's face.
-Gr-CingIe-
Dance tonight-Ke1Iam Hau.-Adv.
DR.. A E. Billings has volunteered
for army service in the medical re-
serve corps and has had his exaunina-
ton for medical training camp
Fine pIums for plum butter. pre-
serves jelly. marmalade or canning,
see ad of grocers selling them in this
paper. Demand twice the supply.
Don't delay if wanted--Ady-
The Santa Fe hospital will proba-
bly, lose one Of its physicians soon, as
DR.. H. NJ. Conner has Offered himself
for army service and has been ex-
amined for the medical reserve corps.
The ceremony for the laying Of the
cornerstone of the African NJ E.
church of Topeka will be held August
II. The church. when finished. will
be the finest African NJ. E. church
west OF the Mississippi
1t was stated in the State Journal
Saturday tat the woman who had six
dogs and was too poor to pay taxes on
them lived at e13 Morris avenue She
lives at 915 Morris. the family at s13
informs the State Journal
Floyd NJ Gordon, of Stafford; VIII
liam Taylor. OF Scranton: Thomas P
Jensen, of Quenemo. were accepted by
the United States naval recruiting
station and were sent today to Kan
sas City for final examination
H c. Green has resigned from his
dictatorship in the Farm Mortgage
Trust Co.. and will go to Portland.
Ore. to make his home He was vice
president of the Farm Mortgage Co.
for eighteen months prior to the or
ganiza ton of the Farm Mortgage
Trust Co.
The First English Lutheran church
| held a service flag dedication Sunday
morning. The flag bears twenty-one
! stars. The stars were arranged on a
white cross, with a red background.
| When one of the men represented by
| a blue star, goes overseas, q red star
is placed ever the blue one
| Local draft board No. 1 entrained
! two negroes for Camp Funston this
noon These men were scheduled to
| leave with the quota which was en-
t trained Friday evening, but did not GET
| their notices in tice to appear. They
| are: William Raymond Brown, 1851
Clay and Earl Reams, ITO West
Mrs. L F. Sherman viii entertain
| the Lillian Mitchner W. c. T U at a
meeting Thursday afternoon at 1880
| o'clock at her home, 100 East Tenth
street. The meeting will be a. house
/ wives conference. and members Will
| respond to roll call by telling OF some
economy which they practice
William A Biby has returned from
ten-day speaking tour in Colorado in
the interests Of the home and hospital
project of the Knights and Ladies of
Security, q lodge of which he is ma
| tional treasurer. The contractors for
the home and hospital work expect to
/ have the first building completed and
ready to be dedicated Labor day
Mrs. Sarah Bray1nan. sos Brooks
| avenue, has received word of the safe
arrival overseas OF her son. Sergeant
15s infantry. Company NJ. Brayman
! enlisted in the regular army in Ari-
| IONA, May s, 1917, and was sent to
Camp Kearney, California, where he
has been in training until sailing for
France.
! William Schultz. of Holton, was ar
| rested Sunday by William A Blevins.
| H L. Officld also was arrested by
Blevins on a charge of reckless driv-
| ing. He is charged with turning his
machine around in the middle of the
| block between Fourth and Fifth on
| Kansas avenue. Both men were re-
leased on cash bonds
The teamsters' strike on the excava-
| ton work for the North American
| hotel at Ninth and Kansas avenue has
been called off and the strikers.
| twenty-five IN number. returnedx to
+ work this morning. The men," Con-
tractor Smith states, admitted they
| were in the wrong for quitting just
because one man was dissatisfie and
| they came back today fully satisfied
with the conditions in my employ"
Miss Maggie Netf. of Harper, chair
man Of the library extension depart
ment Of the Kansas Federation OF
Women's clubs, reminds the women of
| the state that books are still needed
for the soldiers. She asks that the
| women mail the current magazines as
soon as they are thru with them 70
the army camps Her directions are:
place a one-cent stamp on them. get
them to the postofice and the post
master viii do the rest"
/ Two gold medals for fast time in
ship building at Camden, n. J. were
awarded to D. J. Downey and Edward
Downey. Of Topeka The awards were
offered by President wilson The
| Tuckahoe. the ship on which the mer
were working, was built in thirty-si1
days. Previously the record on a shir
of equal tonnage in that yard, was
fifty nihe days The men formerly
worked in the Santa Fe boiler shop:
called for skilled mechanics, they en-
listed and were sent to Camden. D. J
Dowaey Is a son-in-law of Mrs W. H
Caldwell, of 724 Clay street,
A rooster which had reached tbs
ripe age Of % years. has Just died
Twenty-Five years ago he took the first
prize for bantams, the first year thai
bantans were shown, at the state fair
He was bought at the Binger CHECKER
| farm by Joseph Sieben- and for two
years was a pet of Charles Sieben. tbs
son Of the owner. Colonel. the little
rooster. was given a mate which wal
as tame and friendly as he was
Charles Sieben gave the pair to Ray.
mond Farley, and the chickens re
manned in Raymond's possession un.
til he was thru high school. when they
were given to Matte Peers. dauEhtei
of Mr.. and Mrs Henry Peers. Abou
a year ago the little hen died. Tn.
, rooster which died last week was bur
led with elaborate ceremonies by tn,
chiIarsr nk his rsIahha-hc,a