The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-09
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

AT HOME NEWS
Capt. E. c. Gilligan asks that MEM
bers of company d. ninth battalion to
meet tonight at 1880 O'Clock on the
north steps of the state house. A
special company drill will be held.
Anxious to be in on the job of whip
ping of the Hun, Martin Luther Phil
lips. of SIS Lafayette street, who was
by his wife permitting him to enter
the service. Phillips will leave for
Camp Funston tomorrow
There is a street car motorman in
Topeka who is SO tall that he never
needs to get hair cut. When his
hair gets scraggly he simply burns out
a fuse and the flames popping from
the box above his head singes his
locks.
The young people of Bethel Sunday
school, five miles east of Elmont Will
give a play Captain Racket" a COM
edy in three acts Saturday night
August lie at Bethel Chapel. The play
is coached by Miss Mary Weightman,
of Topeka.
| Trees. shrubbery. lawns and gar
dens have taken a new lease on life
since the showers here in the last
twenty-four hours. Despite frequent
sprinkling the lawns in many parts of
the city had turned gray. The rain
! was of tremendous benefit to the corn
/ and alfalfa in the county.
Fire companies responded to a cali
| over the Western Union from McEn-
| tire Brothers mattress factory at 227
| Quincy street, at 1890 this morning
The factory is equipped with an auto
| matte extinguisher which practically
eXtinguished the blaze before the
wagons arrived. Practically no damage
resulted. -s
| According to information received
| in Topeka Thursday, Allen McNeal
and Nelson Meade, who recently en-
listed in the navy, were successful in
their examinations at Hampton Roads
/ and will enter the naval officers train
ing school. These men were selected
| to attend the school, and upon success
/ full completion of the course will be
commissioned as ensigns.
After wandering over the face OF
the earth for year. Louis Llipie. a
| Mayetta Indian. returned to his reser-
walton Thursday and was brought to
the county Jail by Carl Drake, deputy
United States marshal, on charge OF
having forfeited his bond a year age
| when he was arrested on charge OF
having tra nsported liquor onto the
reservation.
Il A Topeka soldier wrote to his IA
Their for a good sized pocket knife
| NJ pcUkIiIIe, OdO, DuI d regular cut
ter he requested. The father sta rted
| on hunt for one and finally discov-
cred just what his son desired at a To-
cal hardware store. But just as he
was wrapping it to send abroad he
saw on the handle. Made in Ger
many" my reputation with the boy
was saved,p the father said today.
Passengers on the Washburn-Hu
toon car Thursday afternoon at about
5 o'clock thought that the Huns mus
have dropped a big Bertha" on then
when refuse grease in the controller
burned out on ignition from a shor
circuit The motormen say that out
side of being rather terrifying to the
uninitiated, the occurrence is perfect
: ly harmless. One girl screamed an(
}, jumped out the window, landing OF
the shoulders Of a Santa Fe officer o.
the treasurer's department. who, also
had sought the window route.
Mrs. Edith Black, 81 years old, WHIT
died Thursday at the family home
1414 West Seventh street. has tive
sons serving in the allied armies. Gu,
is stationed at a training camp a
Jacksonville, Fla, while John ha
served with the Canadian army TO
two years. Besides the two soldie
sons Mrs. Black is survived by he
husband. James Black. and anothe
son, Allen H. Black. Private service
VIII be held Friday afternoon at
o'clock this afternoon from Bomgard
ner's chapel. Burial in Topeka GENE
terry. q
Howard E. Naylor. of Topeka, wa
, the only one of a class of $50 men t
. be chosen as an Instructor in aviation
at the Wilbur Wright school at Fair
field, Ohio. Naylor is 20 years of age
He enlisted March of this year i
the aviation section of the sigma
:, corps, and was stationed at San An
tonic, Tex. In April he was sent wit
(. a class of 500 to the Wilbur Wrigh
, its kind to be established in the Unite
i States. He left for overseas duty Jun
%, and is now with an. areo replace
ment squadron in France. He is
graduate Of the Topeka high schoo
and was a student in Washburn col
lege two years. At the time of his er
listment he was working as rodma
n at Marceline. Mo.
The visiting soldiers in town will b
entertained SundaJ by the nights {
n Pythias. A delegation of the soldier
|. will come from Funston Sunday morr
e ing, accompanied by 7. M. c. !
z secretary Some of the members
: the local chapter of the knights
Pythias will meet them at the static
/. and take them for sightseeing tri
" over the city. At 10 O'Clock they wi
" go to Gage park and will have e.
elusive use of the swimming pool unit
3 IL o'clock, when a basket dinner wi
d be served. After dinner speeches wi
+ be made by Governor Capper an
state grand officers of the lodge. !
o'clock Marshalfs band will give
concert. Afterward an Hawaiia
quartet will play and sing while r,
freshments are served. After suppt
{. the soldiers will be taken to the static
70 to return to camp.