The Topeka state journal., 1918-09-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Dance tonight-Kellam Hall.-Adv.
buffalo calf was Born at Gage /
park Wednesday night being the sec i
ond buffalo born at the park this sea- |
son. The mother is the oldest COW
of the herd.
Two revolvers were stolen by an un-
known thief who entered the rear |
window of the building occupied by
the Quick Service Tire company Fri
day night. The police are searching
for the man.
W. NJ. Lovitt, 919 Tyler street. has
received orders to leave Topeka Mon
day to report for duty at the officers
training camp at Camp Pike. Ark. He
is a Mason and a member of the
Modoc club.
The Lutheran league of the Swedish
Lutheran church will meet Sunday at
the church parlors. corner Fourth and
| Tyler Streets serving the usual Sum-
| day supper at 6 o'clock in the evening.
Bible study will Begin at 7 o'clock.
| Rev. Robert H. Davis will lecture
to the mems Bible class of the First
| Congregational church Sunday morn
| ing at 10 o'clock. 1t is desired that
all members will be promptly in at
! tendance. Corner Seventh and Harri-
son streets All men are welcome.
H. ]. Corwine is in Topeka getting
| ready to move his family to Camp
|
He is associate field director of the
, Red Cross, lake division. in charge of
| base hospital service. Camp Sherman
| is being enlarged to accommodate
! $4,000 men.
| A suit for the recovery of $590.27
has been brought against ]. F. farrell
and Myra farrell. 1918 w. Eighth
| street, by the State Bank of Holton in
the district court. Interest at the rate
of ten per cent dating from August
| IA. 1913, is asked on the principal by
the plaintiffs.
A complaint was sworn to in the Of
| ff1ce of the court of Topeka this morn
| ing by Mrs. H. w. McDaniels. charg-
| ing H L. Smith, a transfer driver who
was arrested by the police this week,
with stealing from her home "a stick
! pin containing a turquois matrix set
ting. surrounded by chip diamonds.
1t is valued by the owner at $25.
memorial and patriotic meeting
will be held at the Oakland Christian
church Sunday evening. David H.
Owen will make the address. These
meetings, which occur once a month
for the placing of stars on the service
| flag of the church and encoura ging
| patriotism, have become very popu
lar with the Oakland people, and are
| well attended.
J. A. Billings, known to all baseball
| fans as Josh, is in Topeka today
dressed in naval uniform. Billings
| will stay in the city for a few days
before returning to Cleveland, where
| he is studying for commission in the
navy. JOSH before entering the
naval service, was catcher for the
Cleveland American league club, and
/ before that was catcher on the Topeka
club of the old Western league.
The high school girls club of the
Y. w. c. A. will sell ice cream next
week to the visitors to the fair Their
a fnd hn cfr aaf
| from the fair grounds. The money the
girls make at the business will be de-
voted to their conference fund. The
club has about 250 members, under
the leadership of Miss Louise Curtis,
OF the Central Y. w. c. A. Officers
are: Mary Hillyer. president; Hazel
Flanagan, vice president; Katherine
Ramsey, secretary; Thelma Hobson,
treasurer.
A call has been issued by Major
Perle B. Hamlin for all members of
the Ninth battalion of the Kansas
State Guard to meet at the north steps
OF the state house this evening at Z
CLOCK The men are to march to
the fa1r grounds for rehearsal in the
parts they are to take in the big
World at War" fireworks spectacle
at the free fair all next week. A dress
rehearsal will be held tomorrow morn
ing, and Major Hamlin asks that all
members of the battalion band and
| th0 pdlldiIOH line companies be at the
state house both tonight, at 7 o'clock
and tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock
| FINDING is keeping" according to
the theories of Ed Page, of st. Marys,
VINO found a pocketbook containing a
check Tor 500, registration card and
$20 IN cash when he was in Della Fri
DAY. A phone call from ST. Marys
| warned the Topeka police to be on
the lookout for him and he was ar
| rested this morning by George Frost
and Ed Ransom, plain clothes men. as
ne came out of his rooming house
near Fourth and Kansas avenue. He
ADMITTED his guilt and the police were
INFORMED that deputy sheriff would
come after him from st. Marys.
Announcement of the appointuent
OF TWO special committees of the
[ Chamber of Commerce was made TO
day by President George p. McEntire
! Charles S. Elliott, S. E. Cobb and w
4 "A. NelsWanger were appointed on a
special committee to confer with
PRESIDENT p. p. Womer of Washburn
col!ege In the matter of getting ma
ierlal Tor the new barracks and mess
! ndH TO De built on the college cannus
: Tor the Students Army Trainins
corps. Il. H Hogueland, H l.. Hail
ana W. f. Schoch were appointed as
special committee to inyestieate the
7 proposition of raising or findine
money TO meet the raise demanded hI
+, lhe city firemen. Both committees
were authorized at the meeting of
ene BOARD of directors of the cha mbeT
1 VI commerce Friday noon.
. HONOR MRS. M'cARTER