The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-12

A rally in the interest of the liberty
loan campaign will be held at Memo
ken schoolhouse tonight. Earl Akers.
cashier of the Kansas Reserve State
bank will be the speaker.
State Camp No. rs Woodmen of the
World agreed at a meeting Thursday
night to subscribe to the third liberty
loan. 1t is expected that the subscr1p-
ton will be about $500.
Six services were held in various
parts of the city today by the Dean,
Stockton and Hausmann evangelists
The meetings are arousing much in
| terest and will be continued thru next
week.
| Topeka has forty cases of scarlet
| fever, only one of them being in
| North Topeka. Early in the week
| four new cases were reported, and
| four were released from quarantine
Thursday one new case was reported,
and three were released.
| Orders have been received by the
| local army recruiting station that va
cancies existing in the signal corps of
several different organizations may be
filled by volunteer enlistment. but
/ that only men outside of draft age
may be so taken.
| Cleo Smith and Hazel Henderson,
| white girls. and Addie Mcdonald,
i colored girl, we've arrested today by
the police. They will be examined for
! social diseases by the city physician.
The two white girls stated that they
lived at Hutchinson They were ar
ested at the Santa Fe station.
i A jury today in the United States
district court found Oscar Donohue.
an Atchison mail carrier, guilty of
I embezzlement on two of seven counts
| lodged against him in indictments re-
turned by the grand jury. Donohue
was charged with robbing mail sacks
at Atchison on seven different counts.
| Judge Pollock deferred passing SEN
| tence until the present docket is
! cleared.
The Westminster church is to buy
a 500 bond of the third liberty loan
| with the last 500 left in the building
| fund, it was decided at a meeting of
the church members Thursday night.
i The budget for the coming year was
fixed at S4,225. New officers elected
| for the year are: Elders, L. W. Will
son, W. A. Neiswanger; deacons, c. r..
| Thrapp, Judge Oscar Raines, Robert
Weir, p. E. kaler; trustee, w. L. Lit
tie.
| There are now fourteen cases of
smallpox in Topeka, according to DR..
H. L. Clark, city physician. One new
case was reported Thursday. Four of
the fourteen cases are traceable to
the visit of a woman having smallpox
| to a West side grocery store last
week. They are two employees, Gus
TONER, ana Cne Qr1Ver Tor a commas
sion house who was on an errand at
the store at the time.
A. w. Hierholzer, ship filter, re-
ports that eight men have enlisted in
the navy at the local navy recruiting
station. Four of the men, who went
in as second class seamen, are: John
E. Thomas, 1910 Monroe street; Will
liam L. Mckee, 1874 Garfield avenue
]. Jay Hill, SIT Lincoln street; and
Will E. Anderson, $50 Jefferson street.
Those enlisting as second class car
penters were Will H. Kirby, of To-
peka, and Malcolm r. Peterson. of
Cuba, Kan. Stewart Z. Roush of
Burlingame, joined as an apprentice
seaman, and Homer l. Armstrong of
Burlingame, as third class electrician.
Local Graft board No. l has in
Quoted Frank ]. Gaynor into service
and sent him to Camp Funston. He
was formerly soldier in the army,
doing guard duty in East Moline, Ill.
He had been discharged on account
of physical disa bility, and, he says,
was told by his commanding officer
that ne did no. need to register last
June because he had been in the
army service. However, he was ar
rested by federal authorities because
he failed to register, and was arraign-
cd before Judge J. c. Pollock in the
federal court here. Judge Pollock
permitted him to be taken before the
adJutant general for reinstatement in
the service. The adjustant general
authorized his induction and his as
signment t. duty at Camp Funston.
Local draft board No. 1 has induct-
ed Raymond L. Ewing into the mill
tary service and has sent him to Camp
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