The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-14

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ciety girl. Upon returning to the
states Lieutenant Colonel Barrows
went to Clinton, n. Y, where he met
his wife and mother, and where he
saw for the first time his little daugh-
ter who was born soon after he left
for overseas service.
Lieutenant Colonel Barrows is now
in Washington, where he was ordered
for duty.
The canteen committee of the Red
Cross has esta blished canteen booths
at the Santa Fee and Rock Island sta
lions. which are equipped with tele-
phone directories. railroad time cards
and street guides. Some members of
the committee are in charge here
every day.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
&, Who must have had a pretty rich
food conservation; it was stolen the
other night.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Bowman have
received letter from their son, Corp.
William Walter Bowman, jr., mailed
on November 81 in France. Corporal
Bowman is in the both field artillery
of the headquarters company. He says
in part: I'VE could hardly believe it
when the armistice was signed but
soon we neard LIZ MorrlsonS Dand
playing The Old Gray Mare and the
celebration began Corporal Bow
man said he wouldn't be surprised if
they would come home soon, but they
didn't know a thing about it. He
says: I'VE were under shell fire for
over ninety days and were at the front
when the armistice was signed, but
were not under fire at that time.
Il am feeling fine. We are ready
to go home or into Germany to hold
a town, but we really want to come
home. We are located in a woods,
and very comfortably located too, near
a big town famous in the war"
X X T.
Women interpreters who have been
sent by the Y. w. C. A. to work among
foreign men at Y. w. c. A. hostess
houses in cantonments, will, when de-
mobilization takes place, be sent into
the communities from which these
men have come to continue work of
characterization among their families.
According to Miss Ethel Byrd, Y. w.
G. A. director of camp and commu-
nifty work among foreign born
women:
These women have served not only
as interpreters for the foreign man
who could not understand orders or
know how to communicate with his
people, but also as friends and ad-
v1sers to the foreign women who Wis
lted camp. They proved to be valu-
able welfare workers in whom the
Foreign men trusted. For this rea-
son, they will remain at camp as long
as the men are there, and then they
Will go with them into their commu-
mites where they can continue the
work OF Americanizing these foreign
families
Y. w. c.. A. interpreters are sta
tieneo at camps kearney. Cal; Lewis,
american Lake, Wash; Devens, Aver.
Mass; Dix. N. j., and Meade, Nd.
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One of the young men around town
says he is doing everything in his
power TO keep away from the infIu-
enza. He says he never goes near a
place of business. But it is only the
idle rich who can talk like that
JOHN PHILIP soUsA.
News item: Lieut. John Philip
Sousa now appears without his famous
beard.)
How , dear to this heart are the tunes
The IS. S. Forever" a s5rmon in joy
hood, that love for this Nnion forever
will preach. 1.-The TEunderer," too.
and the trumpets that blow them,
afar in the breezes in tunes shrill and
weird, and cen the inventor. whose
job was to do them up brown, with
baton and with sharp pointed beard.
The dignified Sousa, the hirsuted
Sousa, the John Philip Sousa, with
sharp pointed beard. Oh, Miracle
Samson of sound. what Delilah be-
guiled? Oh, King Tintinnabulate
pray. does symbol of weakness ap-
pear in your razoring wild? Haste!
tell US the Vandyke adieu is a trifle
and that shall not abate the BOOM
D0OTn no
loss of your whiskers will stifle, that
rattlety slam of your bing-bangy din
Say. you're the Big Noise yet, the star
shaking Noise yet, the John Philip
Noise yet, that once hid his chin.
N. S. A.
Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. Paul Sweet is living at the To-
peka club and will be there while he
remains in Topeka.
Mrs. Frank Farnsworth, of Silver
City. N. M, is visiting the J. G. Waters
family.
Mrs. A. S. Bauer, of Amarillo, Tex,
who has been the guest of Dr. and
Mrs. w. E. McVey, has returned to
her home.
Miss Frances Myers and Miss Glee
Iden, who have been ill with influ-
enza at the Alpha Phi house, have re-
covered sufficiently to travel. Miss
ing and Miss Iden to visit her sister.
Miss Gage Iden, in Arkansas City.
Miss Maude McVey, who is teaching
in the high school at Albert Lea,
Mimi, will come to spend Christmas
with her parents. DR.. and Mrs. w. e.
McVey. She will be here a week.
Mrs. A. ]. Carruth, jr., and two
children, Arthur III and Elisabeth.
will leave Saturday for Herington to
spend Christmas. M. Carruth VIII
join them Christmas
Mr.. Kenneth Adams received his
honorable discharge from Camp Fun
ston, where he has spent several
months, and has returned to his home
Miss Florence Rowles, of Wamego.
is the guest of Miss Edna Anton. Miss
Rowles has been a student in WASH
burn college for two years and is this
year registered in the course of Jour-
nalism at Manhattan
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