The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-10
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

Mrs A. M. Harvey has gone to
Houston, Tex, to join her husband,
Major Harvey. who is stationed there
The regular monthly meeting of the
home service department of the Red
Cross will be held at o'clock this
evening.
Maj. Jerry C. Springfield. former
constructing Quartermaster at Camp
Doniphan, has been transferred to
Camp Meade. Admiral. Nd. Major
Springstead was formerly connected
with the adjutant generals office in
Topeka.
The Topeka public library closed
Wednesday in obedience to the order
of the city health authorities closing
all public places because of the cpl
demic of Spanish influenza. 1t Will
remain closed as long as the present
order remains in effect
w. c. Dunlap has been appointed
the new manager for the Topeka
branch of the National Biscuit COM
pany, according to an announcement
| TODAY The appointment is effective
october l. Dunlap has been with the
company but short time, starting in
as salesman last July.
W. L. Cramer of Kansas City was
taken from a Rock Island train
Wednesday evening by B. Judkins
Rock Island special agent, and booked
at police headquarters on the charge
! of disorderly conduct. He was re-
leased on his own recognizance to ap-
pear in police court Friday.
| The social tea which was to have
been given at the home of Mrs. J: N.
Graft Friday afternoon by the Willing
Workers society of the Oakland Pres
byterian church has been postponed.
The Ladies' Missionary society meet
ing, to have been held with Mrs. ]. 8.
Swogger of Winfield avenue. has also
been postponed.
B. r. Pankey, a former Topeka man.
has been nominated for lieutenant
governor of New Mexico without OPP
I position at the Republican state con-
vention. Pankey formerly owned the
telephone system, which he sold about
ten years ago when he left Topeka for
New Mexico, where he has ranch hold
ings said to total about 10000 acres
Dr. r. E. Moody has been called to
Camp Greenleaf, Ca, to enter gov
eminent service as a veterinarian with
the rank of second lieutenant in the
reserve corps. He has been connected
with the Kansas bureau of animal
husbandry and is the eleventh man
from its staff to enter the service. DR.
A. B. Magill. also of Topeka, is al
Camp Greenleaf.
The members of the congregation OF
the First Baptist church will take &C
ton tonight on the recommendation
of the deacons and trustees to gram
the Rev. Robert Gordon a six months
leave of absence to visit various mill
tary camps, where he will deliver thu
series of lectures given at Camp Fun
ston. The Y. NJ. c. A. war work board
recently requested that the Rev Mr.
Gordon be- loaned for this work.
The trained nurses, nurses aide
and those who have taken the Re-
Cross courses In home nursing hav
been called into emergency service b
the Topeka chapter of the Red eros
to help in the campaign against tn
influenza. Mrs. H. Bredel, chairmal
of the home nursing section of tn
Red Cross for Topeka, sent out tn
call asking all of the trained nurses
whether in active service or not an
those who have taken the specie
courses to register at once with Mrs
T. p. Moore at the Topeka Publ
Health Nursing association. Mr..
Moore may be reached thru telephon
Hi or at her residence, telephon
1916 White.
A petition asking a judgment of SIS,
$50 was filed with the clerk of tn
, Shawnee county district court Wed
nesday by G. c. Hershell, against j. f
! Schafer and others. The plaintiff al
leges that the defendants had failed t
carry out the terms of a contrac
which he had entered into with o. "
Bates, former owner of the Schafe
farms Hershell says his lease on tn
! farm did not expire until October II
but that when an opportunity came t
turn the property over to the Schafer
he did so, with the understanding tina
he would have the privilege Of ha1
vesting a crop of alfalfa and beet:
. When the time to do this arrived
Schaffer alleges. the new owners re
fused to permit him to make the har
vest. He wants $50 for property los
and $4,000 exemplary damages.