The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-30

dimes,
They join the throngs that come and go;
And, not unlike the rich folk, they
Find comfort in a picture show.
Nell Scribbler.
Dance tonight-Kellam Hall.-Adv.
A gospel meeting was held at noon
in the freight car department of the
shops. and was addressed by Rev. T.
D. Halbert, of the Second United
Brethren church.
Rev. Robert Gordon is spending the
week at Camp Funston, where he is
lecturfng on the British isles under the
aus 'ccs of the educational depart
ment of the Y. NJ. G. A.
The Kansas employment service Of
shipyards at San Francisco Monday
night. according to ]. Will Kelley. la
Dor director for the state.
Arthur S. King. 1905 Fillmore
street. has been sent to Camp Fun
ston by local draft board No. 1. l..
| NJ. P. Olson of Wichita has been sent
by the same board to Fort Riley.
James Daniels, night secretary of
the Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. has been
chosen to succeed Homer Herrick,
who has gone to the army, as assistant
to the general secretary of the asso-
citation.
A divorce has been granted to
Laure E. Shaw from jeremiah Shaw
! by Judge R. D. Carver of the first di-
vision of the Shawnee county district
court. The petition, which charged
abuse, was not contested.
Arrangements will be completed
soon for filling up vacancies in the
faculty of the College of the Sisters of
| Bethany. The principal. Mrs. Alice
| Cedar Park. Mo, and after her re-
turn the new faculty members will be
| engaged.
An examination of ap licants for Y.
N. c. A. overseas service will be held
| Friday all day at the state Y. NJ. C. A.
headquarters. in h New England
| building. The number of men to be
| examined will be between fifteen and
twenty. The examinations will be con-
| Quoted by Percy Atkins, head of the
state Y. NJ. C. A. bureau of personnel
Harry G. Larimer will deliver his lee
ture with maps of his own making ac-
panying it on the lawn of J. G.
evening at 7.45 o'clock. All persons
| interested in the subject have a cordial
invitation to attend. All who have
heard this lecture are unanimous in
praising it as very instructive, interest
| ing and comprehensive.
| George P. Hayden, city attorney. Is
wearing a clustt of court plaster
band~ges. which conceal cuts he re-
| ceived Sunday night when his car en-
| countered a Ford about three miles
west of town. Hayden was thrown
| thru the windshield his car, and
while not seriously hurt, he was deco
| rated with a large assortment of cuts.
\ The driver of the flivver said that the
| lights on Hayden's car blinded him.
A company of seventy-five Shriners.
taking with them twenty novices. mo-
| tored to Leavenworth this morning to
| attend a Shriner ceremonial to be
held there tonight. The expedition
was in charge of S. L. Courtney md
| DR.. j. A. Steinmeyer. Upon their ar
rival at Leavenworth. they were met
| by a delegation of Abdallah Shriners,
| who escorted them on a visiting trip
the federal and military prisons.
fort and cantonment and public
places of interest.
A motion was made at the city COM
mission meeting, by F. NJ. Newland
that an increase in salary be granted
| to some of the employees at the city
| waterworks. 1t will necessary to draw
a new ordinance, and the city attor-
ney has been asked to do this. Some
of the head men at the waterworks
have taken positions with the govern
| ment or elsewhere at better paying
salaries. The commission fears 1t will
not be able to keep its men at the
plant without an increase in wages.
Local draft board No. 2 has select
ed six new men special training
schools. James F. Stevick, SIG North
| Kansas avenue. and Wilfred Hulse OF
Burlingame, two of the men chosen
were 1918 registrants. Stevick will &C
to the University of Kansas August &
and Hulse will so to Washington uni
versity. St Louis, August IA. Clar4
ence Westerlund of 800 Harrison
street will also he sent to Washington
university. The other men will go tc
Kansas university. They are: Robert
G. Gross. 211 Tyler street: Harry w
Soderberg. 235 Kline street. and Wal.
ter L. Rippetoe of 90 West Third
street
Word has been received in Topeka
that Frank l. Shellabarger. of New
York, formerly of Topeka. has gone t.
France in Y. NJ. c. a. work. He lief
a place as editorial writer for the New
York Sun. He knows the French Ian
! guage, as he las a member of tn
staff of the New York Herald's Pari
| edition some Years before the war
ShellabarGer was brought up in To