The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-15

Dance tonight-KeIlam Hall.-Adv.
The members of the different girls
clubs of the Y. W. G. A. will have a
swimming contest about the first of
September.
Miss Irene Taylor. emergency
county home demonstration agent, is
attending the state home demonstra-
ton meeting in Manhattan this week
The woman's Home Missionary So
r iety of the Euclid Avenue N. e.
church will meet Friday afternoon
with Mrs. Anna Givens, 1857 Garfield
avenue.
The playlet Sleeping Beauty" which
was to have been given at Chesney
park Wednesday night, has been post
poned until Friday night on account
of the rain.
A county grange meeting was held
today at Muddy Creek, and an ad-
by L D. Graham, chairman of the
Shawnee county draft board.
Miss Laura Gates will take the place
of Miss Ruth Tomlinson as swimming
assistant at the Y. W. c. A. Miss
Gates will assist Miss Laura Ramsey
until the opening of Washburn college.
The Moose lodge will s.ve an enter
tainment next Monday night at the
| hall. A program will be given Miss
Minnie Howard, daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. C. C. Howard, will give several
musical numbers.
A cablegram received Tuesday by
Mrs. F. ]. Ernest tells of the safe ar
rival in France of her husband, DIR.
F. J. Ernest, captain of an ambulance
company in the Eighty-eighth divi-
sion. Captain Ernest was first station
| ed at Fort Riley and later transferred
| to Fort Dodge. Iowa.
Clayton d. Moore, who has been
with the McCord-kist Grocery
| company for the last two years, has
resigned to accept n position with a
| St. Louis firm, making his headquar-
tiers at present at San Antonio. TeXs s
| Moore was with the Ioose-Wiles Bis
cult company fifteen years before en-
tering the employ of McCord-Kistler
Mrs. Moore, Clayton. jr., Frances and
Helen Moore will. remain in Topeka
during the coming winter.
r. ]. Catlett. of the thresher com
smittee of the Shawnee county food ad-
reports of farmers whose machines
have been doing poor work. If the
reports are found to be correct, the
| owners of the machines will have tc
repair them, or they will be stopped
/ from operating.
Charles F. Bridge, of 1920 Buchan.
an street, has received VOID of the
|
Hart. who was killed in action II
| France July "a. was in Company
| G, Thirtieth infaLtry. Young Har
was the son of S. S. Hart, of Gran
county, a brother of Mrs. Lridge. The
young man was the namesake o.
| Charles F. Bridge.
In the playground tournament a.
Chesney park Wednesday, the city
championship was won by the Ches
ney girls volley ball team. In con
test with Polk, the scores stood ISL 4
1913 and 1913. The boys wolfe,
| ball team of Westlawn defeated the
! Quincy boys, taking the city cham
pionship. Their scores were ISL:
and 1914. Virginia Smith, of tn,
Chesney courts, defeated Vivien Simm.
of the Washington courts in the ten
mis- finals. - Virginia Smith won the
F. championship of the unlimited clas
for girls by scores of Sd, So, 6-s.
meeting o. the executive commit
tee of the Shawnee county farm
bureau was held Wednesday afternoon
in the farm bureau office a
to A. D Folker, who has re
signed from the office of county farm
agent, was discussed. No decision OF
his successor was reached, but anothe
meeting is to be held Aext Saturda.
afternoon. H. Uberger, of Manhattan
| SOuilly agent iedQeT LOT Kansas, VII
be present. The committee hopes t.
be able to name the successful candi
date for the office of Shawnee Count,
farm agent at that meeting.
Perry Brush and Wade Summers
both eighteen years of age, will star
August 19 for Mare Island navy yards
San Francisco They have enlisted
passed their physical examination
Il and received their parents consent 70
service. They signed up for work a
electricians and will take course o
training. Brush Is the son of PER-
Brush, traffic policeman. and Sum
mers Is the son of Raymond Sum
mers, of the Santa Fe yard force, an,
a grandson of Frank Summers, a vet
eran of the Topeka police force
Brush has been employed by the Bel
Telephone since he left high school.