The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-21
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS


OF some troubles of their own;
And when We are disgruntled,
And our disposition sours,
We hasten to some trusted friend,
-Nels Yingle.
The regular meeting of the Topeka
Ministerial union will not be held to-
day, due to the influenza closing order.
w. NJ. Briggs, Of Portsmouth, Ohio,
arrived in Topeka Sunday night for a
short visit with his brother Law,
w. H. Kemper. 72a Topeka avenue.
All members of Company A, First
battalion, Kansas State Guard, are re-
quested by Capt. w. w. Russell, to be
present for drill this evening at 1880
O'Clock at the armory. AS squad drill
will be given the presence of non-com-
missioned officers is particularly de-
sired.
Shortly following the announcement
of his draft for Red Cross service, j.
e Spalding, local insurance man and
vice president of the Saturday Lunch
club. was presented with a silver pen
Gil by the members of the club. Spald-
ing is to leave this week for Washing
ton, where he will have headquarters
as associated director of the Potomac
division of the American Red Cross.
According to DR.: A. H. Marshall
there is still hope for the life of the
months old baby boy Of NJ. Thigpen
of Lumber City, Ga. The baby was
! taken off Rock Island train No. IL
Saturday suffering with pneumonia
and is now at Stormont hospital. Mr..
Thigpen and a small daughter. who
was also sick. were on their way home
with the, body of Mrs. Thigpen, who
had died in Colorado Springs.
Johnny Weeks out at the College
Inn facing the washburn, campus is
the mo Mans Land" between the SOL
diers in the S. A. T. c. and the fond
parents and relatives in Topeka.
Weeks has become a. clearing house
| for packages and luYuries sent to the
student Yanks from their admirers in
| the city. Without compensation this
| innkeeper is doing a great work out
at the college during the flu epidemic
| in the city.
A Topeka man stepped on a. street
car this morning wearing d light top
coat that he purchased five years ago.
Three years ago I was ashamed of
| it." he explained. 1.-TWO years ago 1
wouldn't think of wearing it. Last
year L tried to sell it to the old
clothes man. Now 1 am proud OF it
proud that I am doing that much to-
ward winning the war. I think man
wearing overcoats more than three
years old should be allowed service
stripes"
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Wilson of
| S25 Monroe street have received word
that their son, James H. Wiason, is
seriously ill with influenza, having
suffered a relapse during his conva-
lescence from a former attack He
| is now in a base hospital. He was in
charge of the postoffice at the Great
Lakes naval training station. He had
| just returned from a visit to his peo-
pie in Topeka, where he was conva-
lescing from the influenza, when the
second illness from the disease at
tackled him.
| w. D. Ross, state superintendent of
schools, has asked that all teachers in
| Kansas in public, private and paro-
chial schools set aside Wednesday. No
vember 6. as a rally day for the Vic
tory Girls and Victory Boys. two or
CARNATIONS designed to assist in the
united war work campaign. programs
suitable for use on that day have been
arranged by A. H. Tebben, who heads
the Victory Boys society, and by Miss
| Helen Faye Fair. who is in charge
| Of the Victory Girls. The programs
are adapted to use by grade schools.
high schools. and town or county
meetings, and consist of songs, pa
rades, poems, topics for addresses. i'm
| presentations, pageantry and stunts.
The life of single men in barracks
even tho the single men in question
are members OF the student army
training crops at Washburn college,
holds wonderful possibilities for lone
| illness if adequate amuse and recrea-
ton is not furnished. Therefore, flu
| or no flu, a feature film lover the
Top" was shown to the students at the
camp Sunday evening. The screen
was stretched between the goal posts
| on the football field and the men
! ranged themselves at will in front. The
picture was shown thru the courtesy
| of G. L. Hooper, manager of the Or
| pheum theater-and the occasion was
| incidentally the first showing of the
| film in Topeka. No civilians were adj
mitted for the exhibition, as the col
| lege authorities are taking no chances
with exposing the boys to flu more
| than is necessary.