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

Well surely find with nsyriads
OF men upon the wing
That in flying. as In other games,
an ~ WI ~ sCir-Cingle.
Dance tonisk-Kellam Hau-Adv. |
A meeting OF breeders of CONNER
cial pet stock will be held Friday !
night at the Chamber of Commerce
J. ]. Carter has received word of
the death of his son-in-law, Charles
J. West. of Cleveland, o., formerly of
Topeka
of the c. W. B. NJ of the Central Park
! Christian church. Mrs. H H Phillips
was the speaker
| A marriage license was issued in
Kansas City. Mo- Wednesday to Ma
thaniel G. wohey. 4s. and Adella
! Wright, As, both of Topeka.
| Norman H Fulkerson. of 1914 North
| Quincy street, has arrived in France.
| He enlisted in February in the Head
! quarters company and was sent to
| Camp Doniphan for training.
Harry E. Graham of the Santa Fe
| freight auditors department has en-
| listed in the coast artillery. He will
| go te jefferson Barracks Monday He
lives at 1911 North Van Buren, street
The local machinists' union MEM
| bers will give a party for their wives
! in Labor Hall Friday night. band
concert will be given, and some
speeches will be made by labor and
political leaders.
| DR.. A E Billings. who has received
| his commission as captain, will go to
| Fort Riley August Is. Meantime, he
will take Mrs Billings and her sister,
Miss Lucille Haeger, for a motor trip
| to Rich Hill, Mo.
Margaret Chappel1e left Topeka
Monday to take a position in the
| bureau # war risk insurance at
Washington. For the last seven years
| she has been bookkeeper for Manager
iCarsweH of the Western Union tele-
graph company in Topeka
N w Benning has just received
word from his brother, Lieut.. l. H.
Benning, who is now in England
I Lieutenant Berning joined the army
I at Pueblo Colo, and was at Camp
Funston about a year He is in the
signal corps. and is attending signal
school in England He expects TO be
in France soon
An examination Of applicants for
Y. NJ C. A overseas service will be
held Friday by the personnel board
for the state, of which Percy Atkins
is chairman The examinations will
be conducted at the state Y. NJ. C A
headquarters. Thirteen men have ap-
. piled for admission to the service.
None of the thirteen applicants are
Topeka men
{ Mrs H L. RehkOpr- OF lI44 clay
street, has received word that her son.
Corp. Harry Rehkopf. of the thirteenth
company. regiment i. motor me
chanics, has arrived in France He
enlisted December ID. 1917, and was
sent to Jefferson Barracks, later be-
ing stationed at Camp Hancock,
Georgia. From there he was sent to
! Camp Greene, y. C, and remained
there until leaving for France. He
was member Of the firm of Rehkopf
Brothers,
| According to Commissioner F. NJ
, Newla nd, the coal bill OF the city OF
Topeka has almost doubled BY way
of trimming down operating expenses,
: Topeka is having less light on what
9 was the white way Commissioner
2 Newland says that the top light of
each cluster is sufficient and that US
/ ing the lights in this way by turning
them on later in the evening and off
earlier in the morning the city viii
e save around $40 per day
E In addition to the hundred and one
I uses to which the Chamber of Com
e nerce quarters are put, another one
/ was added today. A woman. loaded
: da1vn with a heavy travelling bag, put
o in her appearance and voiced a de-
: sire TO sit down and rest. She was
: directed to the Press club rooms and
= there was made comfortable in an
= easy chair. Officials OF the Chamber
| OF Commerce said today that this Is
= one of the few times that the Cham
n Der Of Commerce of the city has ever
9 been utilized as a rest room by out
= of town shoppers.
: Mr.. and Mrs r. H Brown of 1925
q Tyler street, have received word that
: their son. Robert C. Brown, has ar
, rived in France. Brown formerly
=. worked for Brunt-Martfn's drug store
= He enlisted last December in the sac
aero squadron. San Antonio, Tex The
first OF January he was transferred &c
Waco Tex His company left Fiel5
2 Garden City. L I, in February
Owing to trouble from his vaccination
> Brown was in hospital for some time
:: but after his recovery he was trans
II ferred to the 1874 aero squadron and
sailed for France July 10.
a camp meeting at Coperly grove
= on the Wakarusa, twelve miles from
u Topeka, is in progress. The first meet
ing Sunday was held in>the grove OF
II of doors, as the tent was not yet pu
up. A. r. Bowers led a -ehorus O
fifty voices in the singing. Six church
communities are interested in III
meetings and the crowds are large s
Gfvens is the evangelist. He was on
q OF the preachers at the Camp Funsto.
meetings where he scored the secont
largest number of conversions of tn
twenty-one evangelists conducting tn
r revival Meetings will be held ever
D night for three weeks. Next Sunda,
/ VIII proba bly, be an aH-day session.