The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-01
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Dance tonight-KeHam Hal.
The Lincoln Red Cross met this
afternoon at Lincoln schoolhouse-
c. C. JACKSON, deputy United states
marshal, is in southern Kansas today
on official business.
efhe Second Baptist church raised
s1.1es at a rally held last Sunday to
apply on it's mortgage debt.
J. P. Prater, an Oklahoma man
! charged with having explosives in his
possession. has been captured at St.
Francis. Kan, in the northeastern
corner Of the state, and confined in
the county Jail He viii be taken to
| Oklahoma City in the near future and
turned over to the federal authorities
! there for trial.
The second instaiiment of the Red
Cross war fund subscriptions IS over
due today. The irstallmfnt is IS per
| cent of the total subscription. Other
| installments are due September L
| and October 1. Checks should he
| made payable to Horace L. Hail, treas
urtr, ZIG New England building, and
should be sent to him direct and not
| to Washington
The Twentieth Infantry band will
| urday night and Sunday in Topeka,
| because some members of the COM
pany have been ordered away from
| Camp Funston. No more band con-
certs can be arranged until the set of
rules governing the giving of concerts
by military bands. now being drawn
up. are completed.
/ At a meeting of the local Brother
hood of Railway Carmen Wedne- ~
| night IL was voted to form a ladies'
auxiliary to the union for the purpose
| of pushing the demand for union label
| ton of $500 to be invested in war saw
ing stamps, and went on record as
| strongly in favor of the proposed
county home for the aged to be voted
on at the primaries August 6.
1 Measuring the stage of the Kaw at
1 various points and inspecting gauginS
stations where they have been estab-
lished by the government has occupied
i the time of Roger C. Rice. district en-
gineer for the United States geological
| survey, who left last night for his
| home after a six weeks visit to Kan
| sas. No new gauging stations will be
established this year on account of
they will be established as soon as
possible He Inspected the stations at
| Ellsworth, Ogden, Bennington, Wake
! field, Sand Springs and Randolph and
also visited the Arkansas and Cotton
wood rivers, hunting locating for more
| gauging stations.
A lawsuit which promises to be
hotly contested was open-i before
d Judge Rad M Lee in the court of To-
4 peka this morning. Harry Burge, q
| farmer living about six miles south OF
Topeka, has brought action against J.
z. Cation, 526 Lincoln street, to recov-
Ter $2oQ and costs which he alleges he
| overpaid Cation when he bought some
silage from him last January. Burge
\ says he bought the silage with the
understanding that there was 100 tons
of it, and he was to pay $3.50 a ton
|
he came to weigh it there was only
! about fifty-three tons. Cation contend
| that according to the rules by which
the weight of silage. is estimated
4 there should have been more than loo
,ftons, but that even were this not so
he insists that he sold the feed in bull
for the sum of $3.50 and that nothing
was said about what the price per tor
should be.
i. At a meeting of the board of di-
rectors of the Chapber of Commercs
today, Charles H. Trap, vice presi
dent, proposed that the 500 returned
to him as his share of the money ad,
! vanced by the Topeka Traffic associ-
!. alton for the promotion of the Leav-
enworth & Topeka purchase PROPOSE
ton this spring be turned over to Wal
ter A. johnson of the Capper Publ
cations as a reward for services rem
dered in connection with the promo.
ton of the scheme ands as a sort Of
present to johnson previous to hi.
entering the service of the Red Cross
The action of voting that the 500 b.
turned lover to johnson was taker
!. after Trap had said that. "Of course
Arthur Capper paid some of Johnson'i
expenses while he was working on the
: L. & T. matter" and after Trap haG
said that johnson all during the tins
: he worked on the promotion was rep
| resented on Capper's payroll"