The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-07-06
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Marshall's band will give a concert
at Garfield park Sunday evening.
good program has been arranged
Charles Roach, a negro, has been
arrested on the charge of the theft of
a. watch and chain valued at s36,
from James Ea gleson, porter at the
Santa Fe hospital
Mrs. Fred avis and Miss Eugenia
Quinton have received word of the
safe arrival overseas of their brother,
Alfred B. Quinton. jr., major in the
| United States army.
Memorial services at the North To-
peka Baptist church fir Emory Baird,
who was recently killed in battle in
| more details of the death are re-
ceived.
The Sunflower Auxiliary Red Cross
invites the public to a musical pro-
| gram to be given at the Second Bap-
fist church, corer of Third and Quincy
! streets, at s o'clock Wednesday eve
| ming, July 10.
| John Parkinson. j. W. Jones, Mrs
! o. o. Moore and Ralph Malt, who had
been arrested for speeding, failed to
| appear for trial before Judge Paul
Heinz. who assessed fines amounting
to the cash bonds forfeited.
! Frank Demboski, a Polish restau-
rant keeper, has given motive that he
will appeal from the decision OF the
police court which fined him 500 with
a thirty day Jail sentence for selling
liquor" The liquor" was hard ci-
der. which policemen testified con-
| tanned more than 5 per cent of alco-
| hol.
Elmer E. Ollinger. formerly, mana
| ger of the Queen Life Insurance COM
/ pany in Topeka, has been accepted for
| overseas service by the state person.
mel committee of Oklahoma. He will
sail for France in about two weeks.
| Ollinger was in Topeka today on a
| short visit to his former associates in
| the insurance business.
L. r. Booth has arrived overseas,
according to a telegram received by
Mrs. Booth, 629 Horne street. Booth
was formerly an advertising man in
| Topeka, and recently entered Red
Cross work. He was advised that he
| would be made office manager of the
home communications department of
the Red Cross, tho he may be assigned
to other work.
A H. Tebb, state Y. NJ. c. A. sec
rotary. is attending the Y. NJ. C. A.
training school at Lake Geneva a few
days. He will then go to Chicago to
i attend a conference of state and IN
ternational boys work secretaries
July IL. Plans will there be worked
out for the earn and give" clubs
thru which boys will contribute to the
big Y. NJ. c. A. fund.
The Fairgrounds track meet tc
have been held Friday was postponed
on account of wet grounds. 1t will be
held Tuesday or Thursday next week
The next Y. NJ. C. A. camp at Elm
dale will begin July IL. Boys from
all over the state will attend. A. w
PANEL. of Ell Dorado, and Carl Hal
man, OF Wellington, scout masters
will be among the leaders.
Word has been received in Topeka
OF the arrival in France of Lieut.
dwight Thatcher Harris, a former To
peka newspaper man. Before sailing
, he was stationed at Camp Gordon, Ga.
and was sent over with a replacement
regiment which was being trained a
that place. He received his commission
at Camp Sheriden. Lieut.. Harris i,
a brother of Mrs. Fred Hill, 1121 Har.
rison street.
The government has appointed T. NJ
Carney. former travelling passenger
agent for the Union Pacific, as gen
eral agent of the American RAILWAY
association for the military ION,
, around Camp Funston and Fort Riley
He succeeds j. w. Anderson, who wa.
, appointed superintendent of the Kan
i sas division by the Union Pacific
/ Carney was employed in the loca
Union Pacific ticket office about foul
{ years.
A Horton woman who made a triI
to Topeka Thursday, left her hanC
bag at the Rock Island station. She
had placed all her jewelry in it fol
safe keeping, fearing to leave it a
home while she was gone. After she
discovered her loss, she went back t
all the places where she had stopped
and finally went down to the station
in despair. She told the matron, Mrs
Thorpe of her loss. and received a
once the bag, which had been turned
in by girl who had found it.
The Christian Woman's Board o
Missions will have a union meetin,
in Chesnel park Friday afternoon a
2:3N O'Clock. After a program of ad
dresses and music lunch will be served
at o'clock. A pennant will be givel
to the society having the largest mum
Der of members present. Registration
will close at 8. Music will be given b,
the Blinn Concert company. Mrs. r
v. Lesson is president of the union
Addresses will be made by DIR. Ray
mond Taggart. pastor of the Reforme;
Presbyterian church and former mis-
sionary to China, and by a woman VIII
Is returned missionary from India
The eighty-seventh division has ar
rived in Camp Dix, New Jersey. from
Camp Pike, Arkansas, to take their in
tensive training before going abroad
The saith ambulance company, for
merly the Washburn Ambulance com
pany. is a part of that division, which
is under the command of Major Gen
eral Samuel D. Sturgis A commits
sion of French officers and men, sen
over to instruct Americans in the lat
est methods of trench warfare, wen
with the S7th division from Camp Pix
to Camp Dix 1t is not the western
men have made great impression a
their new Quart>~s.- The division i
made up largely of national army mel
from Louisiana, Arkansas and me
from some of the southwestern states