The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-01
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

Dance tonight-Kellam Hall-Adv-
The wapeka OIL & Gas company
filed fourteen ell and gas leases Mon
day with. Ralph w. Squires, register
of deeds of Shawnee county. for
1,795 acres in the southern part of the
county.
Arthur Harry Bennett, AIS Wood
lawn street, was today entrained for
Camp Funston by local board No. l.
Bennett expressed desire for an ex-
tension of time which was not granted
by the board.
The annual thank offering meeting
of the Woman's Missionary society of
be held Wednesday afternoon at
o'clock at the home of rs. James
Kirkpatrick, SO West Sixth street.
This morning the city haIl wore q
most deserted air. Practically half
of the official force went in body
to Washburn college to attend the
dedication of the barracks building
which is to be occupied by the men,
bers of the s. A. T. C.
c. G. Laughan was arrested Nom
day night by Patrolman Jesse X Hill
after a merry chase from Fifteenth
and Kansas avenue to Tenth and
Chestnut streets. Laughan was rid
ing a motorcycle and was booked at
police headquarters for reckless driv-
Ing.
Absence from camp without leave
was the charge placed against Ray
Larson, a soldier from Camp Funston,
when he was picked up by the police
here Monday night. Larson was in
court several times facing vagrancy
the army, it is asserted by officials.
R. NJ. johnson, secretary and treas
urer of Penwelrs Undertaking COM
pany, has gone to Grand Rapids, Mich,
to attend a convention of the National
Association OF Funeral Directors. He
is the representative in the convention
of the state board of embalmers of
Kansas. Mrs. johnson accompanied
him on the trip.
Chamber of Commerce, October 3, at
1915. Alfred O'Connor, a soldier from
the Canadian overseas forces. who has
been thru the battles in Flanders and
is reported to be a splendid talker,
will tell about the battles. The usual
warning to wear the Rotary button
is coupled this time with a warning
about certain fourth liberty loan
button.
The French classes to be held this
term at the Y. w. C. A. will be con-
Quoted twice weekly by Mrs. Thrill,
of the high school. Glasses meet from
to O'Clock Monday and Thursday
evenings. AIl6TnO0n Glasses Will DS
| organized as soon as there is suffi-
| cient demand for them. The Y. w. c.
A. will conduct millinery class in
North Topeka, beginning tonight al
| Quincy school house.
His mother in a local hospital and
his father with the naval forces over
! seas. a healthy. brown eyed boy about
| 8 months old wants a home for a cou-
pie of months. At the end of that
| time the baby's friends feel certain
| that the mother will be strong enough
| to care for him again Any one who
will make home for the boy should
call the home service section Of the
Red Cross, phone 2O24.
J. c. Monler, secretary of the state
board of agriculture, is attending the
seventh annual meeting of the Kan.
sas State irrigation congress held to-
day and tomorrow in Garden City. N
| A Crawford of the Kansas State Ag-
rlcultural college school of journalism
and Albert Dickens of the X S. A. C
horticultural department were in To.
peka Monday night, before leaving fol
Garden City to attend the congress.
| Commissioner WATSON and J. NJ
Coover are still absent from their of
fices in the city building. Coover ha:
| been very sick for some time but i:
reported to be improving now. Was
son has been suffering with ha,
fever for some time and it has proved
too much for him this week He has
been confined to bed for three 'days