The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-13
SNAP SHOTS
Dance tonight-Kellam Halliday.
AT HOME NEWS

Dance tonight-Kellam Hall.-Adv.
Franklin H. Durant. of 1918 West
18th street, owner of the Durant drug
store today was sent to Camp Fun
ston in the place of a man rejected
The arrival of the uniforms for the
national guard has taken from that
organization the thrilling display it
formerly exhibited when Private Rus
sell Frost wore a striped silk shirt.
The Lowman Union of the w. c. T.
U. will have a knitting session We'd
nesday evening from 7 to 10 o'clock
at the home of Mrs. Alva T. Jones,
1927 Virginia avenue, Highland Park.
The fire department responded to a
call from the Thomas Lumber Com
pany in North Topeka at 1880 this
morning. A small blaze, of unknown
origin, in the roof was extinguished
with little resultant damage,
The quarterly group conventions of
the Kansas Bankers associations will
be held sometime in November. ac-
cording to an announcement today.
The programs for the meetings are
now IN course of preparation by the
eight district vice-presidents.
Roy Crawford, who has arrived
home from a trip to Canada, spent
just one hour in his office in Topeka.
He Is now located out on his farm
somewhere in the Kaw valley"
Crawford left after the wheat harvest
and he is home in time for the corn.
Holmes Meade, who has just re-
turned from a trip to the coast, saw
the effects of the Red Cross canteen
service all along the line of the Santa
Fe to Topeka and agrees with the sol-
diers aboard that the activities of the
| local committees are far superior to
any in the west.
In case of a rain tonight the men
a sta "a
animation for the national guard will
| be taken inside the building and will
not be held out in the wet and the
mud. The statement was made today
by Lieut.. A. NJ Allegro, recruiting Of
ficer in charge of the company.
DR.. Forrest L. Loveland, who has
| been serving on draft board No. to-
| day received definite orders to report
| to Camp Devens, Aver, Massa chusetts,
where he will be assigned to tenn
| porary duty in the base hospital. Dr.
and Mrs. Loveland will leave Thursday
visit the doctors mother.
| The Scottish Rite bodies of America
| are planning to send a commission 20
France soon to make arrangements
for the installation of a new Scottish
Rite idea in caring for the soldiers
ceived in Topeka by James B. Doncy-
son, secretary of the Scottish Rite
bodies for the Valley of Topeka
| L. w. Holmes filed a petition in the
| office of the Shawnee county district
court Monday asking a divorce from
his wife, Paraiee Eolmes, who, he
says. deserted him several years ago.
| Holmes says tn , W married some
| time in 1895. He first gave the date
of his wife's de5crtion as some time
in 1908, but later changed it to 1904.
| certain Topeka barber was born
! a n roo cd ir7 I,fe-
| spare moments out in front of the
| State Journal bulletin board. Watch
| ing the news from your countrymen ?"
| a friend asked him tho other day. mo,
not exactly" he replied. Pm just
| listening to these Topeka war experts
pronounce the name of French viii
| lagos"
| The best golf drive of the season on
the Shawnee links must be credited
to Phil Eastman. secretary of the
preaching hole No. 1. drove 100 yards
with his brassy and the ball rolled in
the cup. The fact that Eastman in
tended that the ball hole out relieves
him from any responsibility as to the
accidental feature of the play.
One Of the volunteers who will
leave Topeka Thursday to take special
| training in Washington university at
st. Louis is Ray Stewart, 1901 Lane
street. who. for number of years, has
been connected with the Mail Printing
House in the Capper building His
wife, who was formerly Miss Emily
Hardy. will be employed in the office
of the probate court while he is away.
The police station received word
Monday night that one of the in ~ )
of the state hospital had escaped le
man Is Ebert Seberter. five feet ALI
| weighs las pounds and has a gray
mustache. He was wearing, when he
escaped. blue suit and a black SLOUGH
hat. He is considered harmless by the
hospital officials. He was last seen at
| Sixth and Kansas avenue, going north
| His home is in Salina.
Rufus NJ. Frazier and William
| Widows. patrolmen, commandment a
motor car Monday afternoon to cap
ture Will Dupree, 800 East Crane
street, after he had run out the back
door of his home, leaped a board fence
and started down the street in no
] particular direction He was finally
overtaken and booked at the police
station charged with selling liquor He
protested his innocence.
The boys of Topeka have been do
ing considerable complaining of late
on the seeming indifference of the
girls of the city for the society of the
male of the species. It seems that
most of these young men had feeling
that as soon as the draft law began to