The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-06-26

The First step.
Our latest acquisition
Is the modern "Farmerette."
She'll face the music. but has only faced
The camera, as yet!
DIR. B. W. Murphy of Topeka has
been chosen president of the first dis
trict. Kansas Veterinary Medical as
ISOLATION.
The girls who are wearing these
sweaters go on the theory that what
will keep out the cold likewise will
keep out the heat.
No Frederick, the Topeka girls who
have sunburned backs, arms and necks
have not been swimming-they've just
been walking down the street in the
SUM- 4,
The Ladies' Aid society of the Swed-
ish Bethel Mission church will have
meeting Thursday afternoon at the
| home of Mrs. John Redeem. Elmwood
avenue.
The central Y. NJ c. A. class A
boys had an an-day hike to the brick
yard bridge today. They left the T.
NJ. c. A! building at 9 O'Clock this
morning.
The ants that crawl into refrigera-
| tors, cupboards and drawers are back
again for the summer outing-or inn
ling. One Topeka man is getting rich
selling powder that is supposed to XIII
them.
| David H. owen, state Sunday school
superintendent of the Christian
| church, has gone to the western part
of the state to attend county SUNDAY
school conventions HIS headquarters
are in Topeka
Since the city passed the ordinance
requiring all able bodied men to en-
gage in a legal occupation there mas
| been only enc or two wife desertion
complaints alleging non-support filed
| by the county attorneys Office
The Young Peoples society of the
Swedish Bethel Mission church will
hold its semi-annual meeting Friday
evening" Reports will be read and dis
cussed. The society is an active one,
with a membership of about eighty.
Bonnie Mcdonald has been SEN
fenced to serve six months in the
county jail. Mcdonald plead guilty
| in the court of Topeka of stealing
| thirteen bushels of corn from the rear
of the D. o. Coe store on East Sixth
street.
Persons who live in the vicinity of
the Y. W. C. A. have sent note to
the State Journal stating that high
school boys and girls are making the
association building a meeting place
for motor car rides. You can depend
upon the neighbors!
| Candidates are having difficult
time this year trying to break thru the
war interest crust in order to create
enthusiasm over their candidacy. The
voters will go to the polls in August
THE few who go-thinking about the
war, the boys "over there" and the
corn crop.
A reward of SIS has been offered
thru F. S. Harbaugh, chief of police.
for the recovery of the silverware
stolen last week from the First Pres
byterian church. The si1verware in
cludes twenty-one dozen knives
|
Lspoons.
best shape they have been this season
1.-THE rough. has been cut for hay ana
l the entire course is a 'fairway- The
ground is hardened and every drive
lis given a long roll Members are
making their best scores out there
these days.
| The Topeka Turn Verein. In its last
regular meeting. voted to buy dozen
war savings stamps, and the soclety
also voted a donation OF $50 to the
Red Cross. Every member OF the So
ciety has bought liberty bonds, ana
all of the members have pledged
themselves to do what they can to as
sist America in winning the war.
Ripley park swimming pool will be
closed until Saturday according TO
statement by COMMISSIONER. L. Por-
ter this morning. The pool is to be
|
fresh water in anticipation of a hol-
day crowd of bathers Fourth of July.
Porter said today that the draining
and refilling of the pool will take until
Saturday. Fresh water runs into the
pool at all times
During the harvest season sort OF
an employment agency is being run al
the D olice station Idlers and Migrants
picked up under the city compulsory
occupation ordinance are generally
given a chance TO obtain parole after
they are fined and sentenced providing
they agree to go to work The names
of the men making the agreement are
placed with a public employment
agency and as long as the convicted
men work they are free but if they
adopt their old habits the parole is re-
voked.
Farmers and stockraisers out In
central Kansas have dubbed the day
light saving plan "kaiser'S time The
scheme is not at all popular The
farmers who, during the summer, are
in the field from daylight till dark,
declare the afternoon under the new
plan is too long as compared with the
/ morning. Hence, dinner on the farm
nowadays is at l o'clock. Many of the
farmers keep two clocks. one which
shows the time as it really is and one
which indicates the hour as congress
/ would have it
| A reception was given at Sunbeam
] schoolhouse. district IA. North Soldier
township. for Melvin Wilson and John
/ Bronson, who are entering national
service and leave for Camp Funston
June 49, Wilson was born and reared
in northwestern Soldier township. but
has lately been working in Topeka as
an automobile machinist for Allen
| Hays. He was presented with a gold
| watch by his employers when he quit
i their service to enter tie army. Bron-
son is a popular schoolteacher who has
taught in several districts of north
y Shawnee and west Jefferson counties
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