The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-30
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

E. A. Pat Campbell, county treas
urer announced today that, owing to
the fact that Monday is Labor day and
that the office will be closed, it will
be permissible to pay taxes on Tues
day. Bring your last receipts with you
he warns. =
One of the fire companies was sent
out last night to s14 West Sixth street.
where an empty house was being
fumigated. Someone passing the
the building was on fire, sent in an
alarm.
All Topeka merchants are at this
time being urged to. look over their
stocks of wooden goods and to prepare
statements covering dark wooiens
which can by any possibility be spared
for use by the government. The in
voice is asked thru regular govern
ment channels.
BY order of Maj. p s. Hamlin. COM
handing the Ninth battalion, Kansas
state guards, all commissioned Off
GERS of the battalion are directed to
meet tonight at 1880 o'clock, at the
home of Capt. K. T. Erwin, 1905 Clay
street. Business of decided impor-
lance is to be discussed.
Company A, first battalion of the,
armory, 307 Kansas avenue, at 7:35
o'clock. and will go to the city park
at eight o'clock to confer with the
committee on arrangements for the
labor day celebration at the park.
They will then hike to Woods Grove
for a melon feast.
Mrs. Lucretia Embleton has accept
ed a government position IN Washing
ton, D. c., and is preparing to leave
for the east. Mrs. Embleton has
been teaching Lain in the Topeka
high school for a good many years,
and has procured a leave of absence
to take up clerical work in response to
call for help from the governments
offices in Washington.
Alberta Reams, colored. today filed
a petition in the office of the district
court asking divorce from Arthur
Reams, charging neglect and non-sup-
port. Mrs Reams declares that her
husband stays out nights, often being
away three or four nights in success
sion without her knowing his where
abouts. He has given her only about
six dollars in the last seven months,
she says.
Otis Hungate. champion golf con-
versationalist of the Shawnee club,
and Mayor Jay House, verbiage ex-
pert of the Country club, are sched-
uled to play a repartee contest, using
the usual clubs and balls and caddies,
at the Shawnee links some afternoon
next week, date unsettled due to a
disagreement over the hours. The
male membership of both clubs is in
vited to listen-and to marveli
In compliance with an order issued
by Charles S. Huffman, adjutant-gen-
eral, red stars for the members of
Company A of the first colored bat
talon, commanded by Capt. W. w.
Russell have been procured and at
tached to the uniforms and shirts of
the men. This is the first company to
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lied for state guardsmen to distin-,
guish them from national guardsmen
and regular army men. a.
A hurry up call for harvesters has
been receiv ed by the local office of the
United States employment bureau
The call is from North Dakota, and
sets forth that at least ten thousand
men are urgently needed at once il
thousands of acres of uncut wheat are
to be saved for the boys. in France,
The men are needed now-not next
winter or spring. The message from
offered harvesters are especially good.
The local office of the United States
employment bureau, 11S East Fifth
street, is anxious to give out informa-
ton concerning the need for men in
North Dakota wheat fields.
The newest creation in mustaches
is in evidence on the streets of To-
and adjoining to a certain extent the
upper lips of the owners, are common
and in a measure considered the thing.
But the newest, the very latest and the
most modern conception of the mus
tache is the one worn on the lower lip.
The lower lip mustache is kept close
clipped just like its brother on the
upper lip, but when the lower lip
mustache is worn the upper lip is kept
clean shaven and the region of the
chin is shaved to within an inch of the
red of the lower lip. The inch repre-
sents the space occupied by the new
facial adornment.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Kristufek who
we're brought before F. F. Dawdy,
probation o$.Ser. charged with neg
lect of their children. were released
Thursday on the promise that such an
affair would not occur again and that
the father would hire a girl to look
after them. George Kristufek. an or
chestra leader. was working Wedncs-
day evening and his wife went out to
call on some friends about o'clock,
locking her three small children in a
room. She did not return until 10
o'clock and in the meantime the chill
dren had been released and taken to
tie detention home by Kirmaurs
King, humane officer and Kate King,
city welfare worker.
The Shawnee course never was In
finer shape than it is right now. The
| fairways are perfect, the tall" has
been cut. the ground is packed tight
by the rains, the greens are smooth
and faultless and the links are well
| patronized. Last evening, just as the
| sun was going down behind Burnett's
mound, the Shawnee course was
dotted with the white ''unyforms' of
| the players. At every tee a twosome
| or foursome was waiting to "shoot''
and on every hill and in every valley
the players were hitting and hunting
| the balls. Many women are taking
advantage of the conditions of the
links, and scores of motor cars were
lined up in front of the club house.
At the Country club an equal number
/ of player were out
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