The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-25


The moving pictures of Yankee
troops on the march create continuous
applause at the local theaters.
The odd thing about this summer
picture show craze is that the seats
are piled high with parasols-sun
shades carried to the show under the
new time"
Topeka mothers of small children
will welcome the day that the clock
Is turned back to where it once stood
I'VE can't get the kids to sleep I'M
til 10 O'clock" one complained today.
Great Bend, Larned and Lacrosse
have sent out a cali for 400 men to aid
in the harvest feds. Shawnee county
and Topeka have been asked to fur
nish leo of the number required The
call asked that the men entrain to-
night.
j. ]. Main, grocer in Highland
Park, was bound oyer to ths district .a
on a charge of being a persistent vio-
lator of the prohibttory laws. The
| offense charged Is felony. Bond was
set at $500 which was furnished
Members of the Topeka branch of
the Knights of Columbus are asked to
meet at the club rooms In the Aetna
building, Wednesday morning at
o'clock Members who have autono-
t bi1es are requested to bring them TO
assist in taking soldiers to the train
There are still a few national guard
: boys from Topeka who are writing
I home references TO the yellow army"
meaning the draft army. 1t will be
the yellow army that will eventually
win this war. despite the meritorious
| patriotism of the men who have vol
unteered," a, draft man remarked To-
day.
Topeka auto dealers, supply men.
meet tonight at the Elks' club at 6 40
! o'clock to take action in regard TO the
government request for sunday ana
night Closing of these lines OF business
The meeting will be In the form OF
dinner, followed by the business dis
custom
/ The navy mas sent out a call for ex-
pert mechanics for the naval airplane
service The order says that men of
mechanical knowledge, with a. general
school education, may be enlisted and
sent to the Great Lakes naval training
I station for instruction. The branch is
open to enlistment for men between
q and IS years Ct age.
An analysis Of cider being sold by
Frank Demboski. lunch counter
man, disclosed the fact that the liquid
| contained from asa to 6.64 per cent
alcoholic kick" according to word
| received today by F. s. Harbaugh.
/ Kansas where the analysis was made.
| Demho was arrested a few days
ago on a charge of keeping nuisance.
I A man of about IS years of age, af-
i flicted with 1ocomotor ataxia and a de-
ranged mind. is now at the Provident
association. while an investigation is
1 being made of his family connections.
He cannot recall anything OF the past
except that he has been living with a
I daughter in the west He says he is
on his way to Kansas City to find an
other daughter whom he thinks lives
There.
The w. c. T. o. women have begun
their drive for $1,000 to be raised in
tShawnee county, and have their head
quarters for the drive at 30S West
Sixth avenue. The room will be open
Eevery afternoon to anyone interested
lin the work, and county solicitors sup
plies will be given out from that place.
A window display. suggesting the pa
triotic work of the organization has
been placed at ia Kansas avenue.
Eleven men enlisted in the navy
Monday. according to Shipfitter A. W.
/ Eierholtzer The men were: Harold
J. woodfor-<. 1872 West; James W.
Pope, near Topeka; NJ F. Leonard,
206 Quincy; Lowell E. Dial, Ottawa
Clarence A. Redmond, Carbonate;
Charles s. Chaplin, 81 Scotland; Earl
S. Nonkin. 1916 West Sixteenth; Will
liam NJ Smelsor, 1874 West Sixth. Ell
mer S. Banks, Whiting; Edgar S. Arm
strong, CircleviIIe. and Alfred Carlson.
Usage City.
A. D. Folker, county farm agent. an
nounces that the annual meeting of
the Shawnee county farm bureau, has
been postponed from June 81 until the
latter part of July. on account of the
rush among farmers caused by the
harvest and threshing season Speak
~ r
Jardine, president of the Kansas Agri-
cultural college, and W. A CocheI. of
the department of agronon1y- A pic
mic party will be held in connection