The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-24
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

Miss Geraldine Kripie of Spencer is
slowly recovering from severe at
tack Of influenza.
The regular meeting of the Soldier
township board has been postponed
until Saturday, November 2.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Stitt of route
211have received notice that their son,
Elmer Stitt, has arrived overseas. He
is member of the engineering corps,
and was trained at Camp Funston.
John Fisher of Wichita, who has
been held in the county Jail here
charged with stealing an automobile in
Kansas City was taken. into custody
Wednesday by Kansas City authorities.
Grant H. Spiker was granted a di-
vorce from Eva Spiker in the second
division of the district court Wednes-
day and was given the custody of
minor daughter. Spiker said his wife
had Kept company with other men.
The threatened milk shortage may
be relieved to some extent by the adj
dition of two new milk routes. Miss
Gertrude Ferg, city bacteriologist. has
issued a license to Frank Bechtel-
heimer, OF North Quincy. He has
more to his herd. Peter Durham. Of
route No. 81, has expressed the inten-
ton Of starting a milk route. -
Edward Greenwood has Been
slightly wounded in action, accord
ing to a letter received from him by
of 1919 Washburn avenue. Green
wood is with the 314th engineers,
Eighty-ninth division, A. E. F. He
was struck by a piece of six-inch. shell
which inflicted a flesh wound in one
leg. Before going into the army he
was employed by the Mood Plumbing
company, Topeka.
A second amended petition filed this
morning in the office of the district
court by H. G. Brown, a negro, against
Fred Pears, J. w. Israel and Others
forms another. step in a long drawn
out boundary controversy. which at
one time threatened to lead to person
al controversies. The argument Is over
a few yards of the boundary of a few
acres of land in the southeast part of
town.
A crap game in the rear of John
Heitman's pool hall in North Topeka
was interrupted "Wednesday afternoon
by Patrolman Anderson, who arrested
Walter Dillon and George Stanley,
both farmers. The rest of the men
escaped. This morning Otis .Busey
was arrested at his home in Shorey
derby and Mitchell Bundy. 1t is ex-
pected that others will be rounded up
within the next day or two.
No more cable message will be ac-
cepted by the Western Union telegraph
company for the, boys overseas, ac-
cording to a statement by W. C. Cars
well. manager of the local office of the
company. Carswell said he is in re-
ceipt of an order from the telegraph
aad telephone administration forbid
ding the acceptance OF this class of
business until further notice. The rea-
son given Ii the large amount of other
business, both government and private
campaign workers will be held in
Atchisor next Tuesday for the district
in which that city is located. Repre-
4entatiyes of the women's section of
the, campaign will be entertained at a
luncheon ut noon, and in the evening
a. dinner and meeting will be held at
which both men and women interested
In the campaign will be present. A
number of Topeka campaign workers
will attend, among them Mrs. Paul
Walker, who is chairman of eswom-
ans division of the united war work
campaign for Kansas.
The woman's eduoat ional depart
ment of the united war work cam
paign; tfor Shawnee county is in
charge of Mrs. Dick Alden, of Topeka.
The organization of - the Shawnee
county unit of the woman's commit
tee, council of Defense will use its
machinery in tie actual work of the
drive when the solicitation of funds
begins. Mrs. c. j. Evans, chairman
of the Shawnee county woman's COM
mittee, has agreed to use her organiza-
ton, as it has been used in the past
for all drives connected with tho gov
eminent war work program.
Nearly "gassed' at the court house,
this was the narrowing experience of
l. d, Graham and w. H. West, who
had been putting in little work Tues
day night getting the county boys
ready to start for France at the coun-
ty draft board. When they attempted
to leave the rooms where they were
working. they ran into a gas barrage
which had been thrown out by the
fumigating "projectors'' operated by
the county physician who was after
lurking flu germs. The near casual
ties escaped. Graham acquired a Sc
we're headache. But West was pretty