The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-23


of Mrs. H L. Shirer in Fillmore. street
the afternoon was spent in doing
mending for the soldiers at Camp
Funston. One hundred pairs of socks
| were darned during the club meeting.
| Mrs. Frank Manspeaker, a member of
the club, who is spending the fall and
winter in Colorado, was a guest of
the club yesterday. Mrs. Manspeaker
4 is in Topeka for a few days on bust
ness.
There are a great many relieved
mothers (and fathers, too,) in Topeka
today since the Thirty-fifth division
has been located. They seem to have
| been lost among the English troops
: for the time being. but we imagine the
/ boche knew they were there.
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! Miss Clara Francis, librarian for the
Kansas state Historical society, will
return soon from France where she
has been since last July as a searcher
for the Red Cross According to word
received in Topeka yesterday Miss
I Francis expected to sail on the tenth
of this month for America. She is
| returning on account of the poor
!
Francis, of Colony. Kan. Her father
died since her departure for France.
Miss Francis will return by way of
| Niagara Falls where she will visit her
brother in military camp for a day
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FOR THE BOCHES.
! My mother says she's all tagged
out, with her 1 quite agree. She's
| made a million little things to send
across the sea. She's made a'1ot of
sweaters, some wristlets and some soX,
| she even made some knee warmers for
| the honey. bonny Scots. And then
| she made warm mufflers and helmets
| by the score. And she keeps on knit
Pting something as the Red Gross yells
for more. But poor old dad must
suffer. he must be the goat, his soX
fare never darned, there's buttons off
his coat. His 3. V. DIS are ragged,
| his shirts they are a sight. But he
never utters a complaint, he knows
mother is all right. So now she has
another plan to do good for the boys.
and if it, is successful it will cause a
lot of noise. She's ordered barb s:re
by the reel to this there are no joshes.
! She's going to knit lot of sweaters
! for the blooming bOches.
Miss Frances Lindsay. daughter of
{ the late Mr.. +. 2. Lindsay and Mrs.
! Lindsay of 204O Lincoln street, will
leave this evening for New York City
to sail for overseas service in the oc-
| cupational therapy of the United
States army. This branch of the serv-
! ice is an orga niZatiOn of the army I'M
der the sergeant generals department
! for amusing the soldiers while con-
/ valescing. Miss Lindsay will teach all
kinds of art craft to the soldiers who
are recovering in the hospitals. This
art craft will include whiting and
wood carving, which are said to be
very popular with the convalescing
! soldier.
! Miss Lindsay is a graduate of the
Art Institute Of Chicago and has stud
led in the New York School of Fine
and Applied Arts and the Art Student
league in New York City. She has
spent from one to three months in
a other schools in the east where she
! went for some special work. This year
Miss Lindsay has been head of the art
department of the Topeka high school.
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Lieut.. Dick Reed, the son of DIR. and
J Mrs. c. b. Reed. who has been in
] France since early in the war, mas re-
turned to the United States on bust
ness. He arrived in New York about
! ten days ago and is now in Washing
ton, d. C. He will probably be in this
! ! .untry about two months and will
visit his parents in Topeka before re-
turning to France.
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Mrs. Robert Shoemaker, of Milwau-
! kee, Wis, the daughter of DR.. and
/ Mrs. j. c. McClintock, of Fillmore
street, will leave Saturday for New
! York to sail soon for France. Mrs.
| Shoemaker goes as an entertainer for
/ the Y. NJ. c. A.
The Ceramic Art club have post
poned their meeting. which was an
nounced for Friday, until the quaran-
tine for influenza is lifted.
| No longer will it be necessary for
/ those wishing to send articles to the
soldier boys in France and England
| to do so thru a store in Chicago or
| Kansas City We have a store with
an agency in both London and Paris
| in our city. From George w. STAINS
| fields drug store any order will be
| filled across the waters. These orders
of course do not have the postal regu-
| lations and are much more quickly
and easily delivered. In about seven
! days from the time your order is given
here IT is received by the agency in
] London or Paris and the goods are
sent out from there.
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Word has been received in Topeka
thats Lewis Hastings. of Belleville,
Kan, former Washburn college stu
dent and popular members of the Phi
Delta Theta fraternity, has been pro-
| NOTED to the commission of captain.
Captain Hastings is stationed in Wash
ington, D. c. He is an older brother OF
Lieut.. Bob Hastings, who enlisted
from Washburn last spring and was
recently promoted to first lieutenant
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THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN
Who says Mrs. Vernon Castle should