The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-11

Petro's drug store; or call Eleanor
u other hours phone $3.50.
Frank Curry will be the four minute
speaker at the Princess theater this even
| ing at O'Clock.
A constant stream of autos passed thru
North Topeka this morning, bound for the
| free fair.
| The stores will be closed for tomorrow
afternoon; the groceries closing at IL. the
! other business houses closing at noo..
The drug stores will reopen at for the
evening trade.
| Notes and Personals.
Miss Grace Willis. of 1906 Lane street.
who has been teaching in the Terre Haute
normal school, hes returned home.
Miss Berta Babcoeh & entertained the
Daughters of the King last evening at her
| noon Miss Babeock entertained the Wo-
mems Guild of the Church of the Good
Shepherd.
Mr.. and Mrs. N D. Suttle of BeIleviile,
Kan Kan. are visiting Mr.; 7: NJ Mcclure Of 1929
Mrs. "A. Howard of 126 East Norris
street has received word of the safe ar
rival overseas of her son Walter. He left
transferred to Camp Dodge before going to
Mrs. H. P. Husband, who has been living
on the North side for the past three
months leIL To-Day lot her nome III North
Platt, Neb., stopping en- route to visit her
nephew in Manhattan. Mrs. Husband will
attend to business matters in North Plat
Husband has been on this side since spring
installing the machinery in the Forbes
sban nG e p a ana H Maea tins Terk Is IN
fornia for the winter.
Hardin McGill, the report of whose death
not Killed. his friends WIN be glad to hear
The young man was missing after charge
conscious. When he recovered conscious-
ness and learned that he had been reported
dead he at once wrote his mother at En-
poria- McGill has recovered sufficiently to
be sent back to the rear trenches, where he
will remain for six months until fully re-
covered. He is nephew of Miss Frances
and made many friends in North Topeka
when he visited Miss Brown while she was
a teacher at Grant school.
Corp. Theodore L. Root. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Luther H. Root. route 6, North To-
peka, was wounded in the right side of
the chest by machine gun bullet, VIXEN
his company went over the top in the bat
tie of the Marine, July Is. The bullet
passed completely thru the right lung and
his parents "a, dscFibing his which
that put me in the first wave I'VE had
penetrated their lines about three kilo-
meters deep when l was hit I got my
first aid bandage on as quickly as posi-
Bile and started to walk back, but gave
out from loss of blood. Red Cross men
came along, bandaged me up and they
were making the German prisoners carry
back our and their wounded. So one pulled
off his oyercoat and they laid me on it
aid station. where 1 lay until the next
morning, when l was taken back to the
base hospital where there were hundreds
of wounded, most of them in worse shape
than l. l was shipped on the U. S. hos
pital train from there to here, in a Paris
hospital, handled by the U. S. army. Every
one treats you fine, the doctors and nurses
the Red Cross and the Y. NJ. c. A. / ar
rived here July 20 and am still here. Have
been wounded now nine days, and think
will be up soon.
I'VE got plenty of Dutehmen; killed every
one we saw, until they got so thick we
had to go taking prisoners. and some of
them were sure glaIl to give up. Must
have captured close to 10000. Some of
them could talk English, and say, they are
disguised and tiyed of the war. Most. of
them appear to be pretty nice fellows. too.
i was just talking to one of the boys of
our company who is able to- be up and
around and he told me that one of my
squad had been killed and all the rest
were wounded.
THE Germans are sure scared of the
Americans, for they know they will fight
until the last"
Corporal Root is in Company A. Six
teenth infantry. He is a nephew of DIR. T.
B. Reynolds of Highland Park, whose son,
irving, was killed at the front July Is.