The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-31


Nell Scribbler.
The Young Women's Missionary So
ciety of the Second United Presby-
terrain church held their annual picnic
at the home of Mrs. Bennett Wood in
Seabrook.
A. H. Tebben of the State Y. NJ. c.
A. will leave Tuesday for Estes Park
Colo, for the summer school con-
Quoted by the association. He will be
gone two weeks 4=f
MarshalPs band has been engaged
by Commissioner w. L. Porter TO give
a concert at Gage park August H. The
same band will play at the fair
grounds Labor day. ~
Twelve moulders have left for San
Francisco, Cal, to work in one OF the
Pacific coast shipbuilding yards, &C
companied by C. H. Danner, federal
| employment agent.
John Edward Rino, who has been
| a fireman for the Rock Island. will
| be sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison,
Indiana, by local DRIFT board No.
to join an engineering crops.
| c. F. Motller. Newton. has been
lodged in the Shawnee county jail on
a charge of being an alien enemy and
making slurring remarks about the
nation and the government.
| Roy Patterson, a negro, 1119 North
| Western avenue, is booked at the
| county Jail on a charge of being the
father of the unborn child of electro
Bledsoe, an unmarried woman.
Tie personnel committee of the Y M
C, A will examine eighteen applicants
for overseas service Friday at the state
| headquarters in the New England
building. Seven of the applicants are
from Topeka.
A shop building rs to be erected soon
by. the Beatrice Creamery company,
ajoining the creamery plant at Second
| and Polk streets. 1t will be made OF
brick, with composition roof, and is to
cost about $4,000.
Infant Clothing" will be the sub
/ ject of the lecture at the free baby
| clinic at the city building tomorrow,
and personal Hygiene" will be the
subject of the prenatal lecture. Four
| teen babies were brought to the clinic
| last Saturday.
The swimming pool at Ripley park
is being cleaned today. The pool Is
closed to bathers, and will not be
| opened again for use until Thursday
noon. Twenty pounds of salt are be-
| ing used to clean the creviceS of the
cement, with which the, pool is
1 floored.
The mercantile agency of r. G.
! Dun & Company has a new manager
| for it's local office in the New Eng
| land building. A. J. Kulf of st. JOS
/ eph has been chosen to succeed F. H.
| Davis, who has gone into military
service and is stationed at Camp Fun
ston. Kull has served the firm in its
| offices at Kansas City and ST. Joseph.
| Cement and brick sidewalks are be-
ing repaired by the city this summer.
| but very little new work in the laying
| of sidewalks is being done. The cost
of repair is placed on the tax roll. The
settling of the ground in some places
has so. ,disarranged the bricks that
they protrude above the level of the
walk and are likely to cause accidents.
The negro DRAFT troops who are to
1etve. Topeka Thursday noon for Camp
| Funston will be guests of honor at a
reception tonight at s o'clock at Met
ropolitan hall. All who are to go in
the call and their relatives and friends
are invited. A program will be given
for their entertainment. Fred Round
tree is chairman of the committee an
arrangements.
| The Kansas employment service Of
flee has received a request for 500
common laborers from Newport News,
| Va. Arrangements will be made to
send as many men possible within
the next ten days. The men will be
employed in cantonment work, and
the wages will be 35 cents an hour.
The government furnishes transporta-
ton, and boards costs 81 a day.
| topeka Will De well represented at
the big patriotic rally to be held at
| Eskridge, Kan, Saturday evening.
Big Bing Bang Bill Biby is slated to
deliver the principal address of the
evening. The ladies drill team of
Capital council No. 1, knights and
Ladies of Security, will put on a
special patriotic drill. Biby said today
that the women's team has adopted
the name of THE Legion of Victory"
Alleging that she borrowed his mo-
tor car and then carelessly wrecked 1t
in a collision with a street car, w. NJ.
Lyttle, Dover, today filed a silt in
the district court against NJ. L. Adds,
asking a judgment of $1,000. Lyttle
says the car was new one and was
borrowed for demonstra tive purposes.
The collision he says, was at the inter-
section of Eighteenth and Van Buren,
streets. He says the defendant was
careless and was driving fast. The