The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-06

The Spalding Reading circle will
give a May party for its members to-
night at the Knights of Columbus hall.
Company B, 9th battalion, Kansas
state guard, will meet for drill at the
north steps of the state house at 1880
p. m. today.
We wish to thank our many friends
for their kindnesses and beautiful
floral tributes at the funeral of our
beloved husband and father.
Company A, of the first battalion
Of the Kansas state guard will attend
the George w. Jackson benefit at
Metropolitan hail.
The Y. w. c.. A. Red Cross rooms
will be open tonight between $50
O'Clock and $50 O'Clock for anyone
who wishes to use them for Red Cross
work.
Mrs. Clyda Greene, emergency home
demonstration agent for Shawnee
county, will give a talk and demon
stration at Blacksmith schoolhouse
Wednesday night.
The regular meeting of the Coop
erative club will be held at the Elks
club Tuesday evening at A6:15 o'clock.
The entertainment committee refused
to divulge the program.
The teamsters' union enrolled
thirty-seven new members at it's
Sunday morning, according to an
nouncemcnt made today.
Capt. and Mrs. F. j. Ernest are in
Topeka visiting Mrs. Ernest's mother
and other relatives. Captain Ernest is
stationed at Camp Dodge, Iowa. The
Etnests will return to camp Saturday.
Evangelistic services will be held at
the Wesleyan Methodist church every
night this week at 7:45 clock. Be
ginning Wednesday Afternoon, services
will be held at $3.50 o'clock. Rev. A.
r. French and his family are conduct
| ing the services.
Cedar block flooring will be put
down in the horse stalls at fire sta
ton No. in a short time, according
to stateme nt by Assistant Fire Chief
Joseph Waidelich. The blocks have
been stored away in the city building
| for almost eighteen years.
Harry c. Snyder, formerly well
known Topeka tailor, is in Topeka
visiting his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E.
| B. Snyder, 202 East Eighth avenue,
and will leave for jefferson Barracks
| May 10. to enter military service in
| the quarter-naster corps. For the
| last year Snyder has been a motor
car salesman in Wichita
Want to be the most popular man in
some unit of the army? All right
here's your chance. Topeka draft
! DOdTQ NO has d voluntary
| open for cook, and no one denies
that cooks are popular with fighting
! men, especially after a hard days
work. The lucky applicant will be
| sent to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.
Topeka has been called on to sup
ply 800 comfy kits for the soldiers.
! The ladies of the Red Cross are al
ready at work on the bags. The Red
t Cross is calling on the people of To-
speka to furnish the filler" for the
! kits The articles required are: One
package No. 2 sewing needles, one
package darning needles. two pack
ages safety pins, two sizes, two blanket
pins one cake, of shaving soap, one
tooth brush, one small comb in case.
Mrs. Theodore Saxon, who is in
charge of community garden on the
new .postoffice site at Gordon street
and Kansas avenue, North Topeka,
has appealed to the police to aid her
i in keeping pedestrians off the garden
Mrs. Saxon declares that it has been
! impossible to keep North Topekans
| from cutting across the lots on a path
which has been in existence for years.