The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-01
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Preparedness.
All signs continue to foretell
That we will surely win
One Sammy has sent back for a Guide
To the City of Berlin.'
w. L. Link, formerly of Oklahoma
City. has been transferred to the To-
peka offices of the National Cash Reg
lister company.
attended a liberty loan meeting at Do
rver Tuesday night Voiland was the
speaker of the evening.
The new swimming pool planned for
the City park has been marked out
and work will begin on it soon. The
pool will be 20 by ITO feet.
The regular meeting of the Rotary
club will be held tomorrow noon at
the Chamber of Commerce. l.. T.
Hussey, state fire marshal, and Ed
Brookens are to be the speakers of the
day.
]. D. Hickman, assistant state print
er and former member of the faculty
at the State Agricultural college at
Manhattan, will speak before the
School of Journalism at Manhattan
next Monday morning.
The Cooperative club at its regular
ladies' night meeting Tuesday evening
at Pelletier's Tea room presented s..
watch. Shook leaves Topeka to enter
with the next draft contingent, May 10.
E. G. Bartlett of Boston arrived in
Topeka today to enter on his work as
religious educational director of the
First Methodist church. Bartlett takes
the place made vacant by the resig-
nation of o. ]. Bowman, who has gone
to Denver.
The new motor fire truck for No.
station is expected to arrive in To.
peka today. 1t is combination chem
ical and hose truck. The truck now
in use at No. 8 station will replace the
horse equipment at either No. or No
6 station.
Arguments are almost profane as to
whether, or not, the negro girls at the
Pelletier tea room and at the Choco-
late Stop shall be permitted to join
the Mattresses union in process of or
ganization in restaurants along KAN
Sas avenue.
State house clerks and employees will
organize thrift club at a meeting in
Representative hall at 8 o'clock next
Monday afternoon. The meeting has
been called by Charles S. Huffman.
adJutah general, at the request of
charles S. Elliott, who will speak to
the state employees.
The Washburn Ambulance company
has places for four recruits. according
to a letter from DR.. c. H. Lerrfgo
captain. The vacancies were caused
by the graduation of former members
of the company from the third Off
GERS training camp. The company is
in camp at Camp Pike, Ark. -
Arguments for and against the in
junction to keep the county commits
sioners from awarding a contract for
hard surfacing the West Tenth street
road were heard late Tuesday after
noon by Judge George H Whitcomb
in the second division of the district
court. The judge is expected to with
hold decision until Friday r
Brig. Gen. Wilder S. Metcalf has
been transferred from Camp Sherf-
dan, Montgomery, Ala, to Camp DofIi-
phan, Fort Sill, Okla. General Met
r1er First Kansas National Guard in
fantry. was in charge Of the division
at Camp Sheridan while the com
handing officer was absent.
Bennie Mcdonald, negro. was ac-
quilted in Judge George H. Whit
combs division of the district court
Tuesday on a charge of stealing oats
from freight car on the Rock Is
land tracks January s. Myrtle Ches-
ney. a negro woman, was found guilty
on five counts for selling liquor and
one for having liquor in her posses
sion. Sentence was deferred.
James Barton Adams, the Colorado
short time ago, was an uncle of Mrs.
Thomas w. Cottle. 3s2 Green street
Topeka. At the time of his death,
Adams, altho more than IS years old,
was working as a telegrapher in the
army barracks at Vancouver, Wash.
For many years Adams wrote the
"Postscripts'' column in the Denver
Post.
They said during the recent NUM-
cipal campaign that ]. B. Billiard was
too old to run for mayor. Yet, at ~
o'clock last night the former mayor.
now ~ years old. was "doggin' p"
around Kellam hall to the tune of
Johnny Get Your Cum 1t is ru-
mored he intends to run against Mayor
House for a third term and wishes to
prove that he has the same young
ideas possessed by the mayor. The
occasion was an Eagles dance.
The estimated value of the estate
The appeal of Benjamin H. Bayor
OF Yates Center to President Wilson,
has resulted in approval of the dis
trict draft boards action. When the
case was presented to the president
on appeal records, Bayer was ordered
into service. He was one of the nu-
ideas on crop production for the men
on the farm The district appeal
board refused to exempt Bayer from
service and he appealed to the presi-
cent.
Of the late Mrs Amelia Wolff is $22,-
500. according to the estimate placed
in a petition for probate filed in the
probate court late Tuesday afternoon.
The will provides that the estate shall
be divided among her three chill
dren, Charles Wolff, Jr., Hazel Wolff
Andrews and Henry H. Wolff. She
asks that $1,000 be given to her broth
err, Robert Slender of Cleveland, O.,
o,d $I,ot S2 000 he held in fr,rSf nv the
Prudential Trust company and that
500 from the interest and principal,
il necessary, be paid every three
months to her mother. Mrs. Doris
Stenger Of Cleveland, o. Mrs. Wolff
named her three children as execu-
tors without bond. The personal
property is estimated at $4,000 and
the real estate at $500.