The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-10
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

| Dance tonight-Kel1am Halliday.
| Leslie Freeman and Raymond Cole
man have gone to jefferson Barracks,
| ST. Louis, Mo-, to join the coast artil-
lery.
DR.. Karl Menninger of Boston is i'll
and his father. DIR. c. F. Menninger,
/ has left for Boston to be with him.
/ His conditions is reported to be seri-
Gus.
c. H. banner, federal employment
agent, has returned from San Fran
CISCO where he went to accompany a
number of laborers to the ship-build
ing yards. He saw the launching of
the 1nvincible last Sunday.
w. T. Williams of Osawkie, grand
chancellor of the knights of Pythias,
will attend a meeting of local lodge
| No. 3S tonight at the K. & L. of S.
hail. Tomorrow he will attend the
knights of Pythias picnic at Gage
park.
Roy and Tracy Ansel. brothers. sons
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Ansel, 2061 Lin
coin street. left Topeka for jefferson
Barracks. Mo-, Friday evening. Both
boys enlisted in the coast artillery.
The father, C. o. Ansel, is well
known auctioneer.
The annual picnic of the West In
dianola Sunday school was held to-
day in Hamaker's Grove, two miles
from North Topeka on the lower Sill.
yer Lake road. A program was given
this afternoon, following a basket din
ner at IL o'clock.
according to Commissioner w. L.
Porter, the Gage park greenhouses are
to be closed for the duration of the
war. The greenhouses are used for
the growing of delicate plants which
are later set out in the parks. Since
both labor and coal are needed in
more productive industries. Porter has
decided that in the parks next sum-
pIer the flowers will be of varieties
which may be planted in the spring.
A. D. Folker, county farm agent for
Shawnee, will leave tonight to takeup
his new work in Missouri. He will
go to Sedalia to do judging at the Mis-
souri, state fair, and later will return
to Topeka to assist his successor in Of
flee here to get started in the work
when the successor is chosen. c. E.
Piper of Manhattan, assistant county
agent leader for Kansas, was in To-
peka Friday, checking over the books
in Folker's office.
The Woman's Relief Corps, No. "a.
has requested that a municipal patri-
otto concert be given Tuesday night,
September 8. at Chesney park. The
W. r. c. wishes to commemorate the
anniversary of the signing of the final
treaty of peace with Great Britain
September 8, 1888. Mrs George A.
u. u. !,
has been making arrangements for the
concert. Marshalrs band will play
program of patriotic music and a pa
trlotic address will be made by w. A.
Rihy. The entire community will be
invited to take part in celebrating the
occasion.
The staff officers of the girls bat
talon of the Y. W. c. A. have received
their official officers insignia. The
officers are: Isabel Oracle, major of
the battalion; Elizabeth Nader, cap
tain; Mary Ward. first lieutenant; Ell
len karlson. second lieutenant; Fran
ces McGinnis, color sergeant; and Lii
liam Malstrofn, bugler. The mem
bers of the battalion are the girls be-
longing to the Kresge club, the L. L. L.
club, the Dor Regel. the Propatria,
the Home Guard and the Gofoso clubs.
The object of the battalion is to en-
courage a feeling of friendliness
among the different clubs and their
members.
Services at Grace cathedral will be
held Sunday as follows: 1880 a. m,
Holy Communion; $50 a. m, church
school; II a. m, morning prayer and
sermon by Canon Herbert Hawkins.
At the Church of the Good Shepherd
in North Topeka. church school will
be held, followed by morning PRAYER
and sermon at IL. Rev. George H.
Hiatt is the minister in charge. At
the Church of st. Simon, c. A. G..
Heiligstedt is in charge, and services
Sunday will be: Holy Communion at
500 a. m; church school at 9:45:
morning prayer and sermon at IL.
Calvary Mission on Lake street will
have church school at $40 a. m. and
evening prayer and sermon at 8
o'clock. C. A. G. Heiligstedt is in
chrrge. The Rev. William Whittle
VIII conduct morning prayer at Christ
hospital chapel at Z o'clock.