The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-25
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

The notice raided the home OF
Thelma Wilson. 302 East Crane street,
armed with a warrant charging elghl
sales counts. She was reledseu ""
$1,000 bond.
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Moege and
otto L. Rain drove to Nortonvilie
sunday for a visit with Mrs Moeges
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Me
man.
S. NJ. Brewster, attorney general,
is spending the day at ms IorIiie me:
home in Troy He went to Troy TINS
morning following a patriotic address
Sunday night in Seneca
Three Topeka boys, members of the
old Battery IA" have been sent To
the officers training school at camp
Doniphan. The men are Plnky bealss'
former Washburn athlete, Ed Neii~
nedy, and Homer kennady
Emmett L. woodward, former
member of Marshalrs band and for
number of years a resident OF loPehd'
died last week in Denver ne was
member of the musicians union Wuiie
here Burial of Mr.. Woodward was III
Denver.
Ered Johnson, we'll known on the
East side was arrested and taken to
Alma in Wabaunsee county, Where ne
will explain the sale OF a stoleh 49,
mohiIe to John r. Michaelis of Pax
leo. The Ford was stolen at hdnoas
time ago it was stolen from It's ne"
owner.
r company of the Topeka battalion
of the Kansas state guard, command
ed by Capt. P. B. Hamlin, Will noio
it's regular weekly drill tonight at so
o'clock in the city auditorium IL IS
desired that all those who nave en-
rolled be present promptly on time
There are vacancies in the company
ranks for about twenty more men,
Miss Frances Cav, Eden Shoup,
and Harry Anderson, members OF the
Washburn debating team. won the De
cision over the debaters from the Col
lege of Emporia Saturday night. me
debate was on the subject, Resolved,
that the United States should estaptlsh
A sytem of responsible cabinet gov
eminent w. S. Rupe of Burlington
E. B Gift of Manhattan, and l. L.
Kline of Atchison were the Judges.
An autoist from Missouri Saturday
night knocked down and ran over D.
year-old Elmer Wagner at Twenty
first street and Highland avenue. The
lad was riding a wheel to the nome
of his father on Route 2S. Inc driver,
who was accompanied by a woman,
stopped long enough to pick up his
bumper. The boy suffered painful
BODY bruises The license number of
the Missouri car is believed to be 49,
357.
Only two of a gang of crap shoot
ers spending quiet sunday aIter
noon in a game at Twenty-first street
and the Missouri Pacific tracks were
caught in a raid by the police. If G.
Higgins and +. Radford hadn't been
so frugal and hadn't stopped to pick
up the coins left by the players they
would have been free well as the
others. They gave their occupation as
hotel porters Bonds were furnished
for their appearance.
Ralph Bair, chairman of the SOL
diers entertainment committee or the
Chamber of Commerce, has arranged
to entertain the first drafted men
| from Topeka at dinner at the Cham
| Der of Commerce Friday noon The
bows will be entertained at the Cham :
Der of Commerce Friday morning, and
! in the afternoon will be taken to their
train in motor cars. Bair announced
that he had something special in the
wav of music in store for the occasion.
: DR.. Robert NJ McElroy. educational
/ director OF the National Security
| league, and Joseph T. eastman, field
secretary of the league, are scheduled
| for a talk at the Chamber OF Com
merce Wednesday evening at 9
| o'clock McElroy and eastman will
speak on the organization of the Ma
| tional Security league, its aims and its
| purposes after the war. The meet
| ing will be open to anyone who wishes
to attend.
"Get behind the movement to put
men behind the plow," is the plea
sent out by DIR. Robert Gordon of To-
peka in his capacity of chairman OF
the Kansas Baptist social service com
mission. The plea was sent out in a
letter to all Baptist ministers in the
state. In addition to this injunction
| Gordon stated that in these days plow-
! ing is a religious ceremony and should
be done with the true religious fervor
Miss Marjory Roby of Topeka is
| the first woman war editor of the Uni
versity Daily Kansan. being elected
to that office at the election of officers
last week.
An early morning crap game was
broken up by Sergt- Frank Summers
and a squad of police when the bar
Der shop of C. w. Hines. 525 North
Kansas avenue, was raided. An eff
fort was made by the inmates of the
place to gather up the stakes from q
table in the rear room, according to
the police. The following persons
were found in the place: f. ]. Bales
Henry Jester, f. H. Beck. c. Boyd
j. w. Rogers and Dick Young. They
/ were released on a SO cash bond
each. while Hines. charged with keep
ing a gambling house, was released or
a $50 bond.