The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-08-26
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS


Prayer for Strength.
Our Father. we do not ask sympathy for
our loss,
We pray for strength to bear our heavy
cross.
We pray for knowledge. that we may I'M
derstand,
How to bear our burdens and obey each
command.
Dear Father, as we watch our boys
marching by,
With firm steps and proud heads held
high,
With courage that has conquered all their
We pray. God, for strength to hide our
tears.
In each warning nation, which has taken
A million mothers mourn with bleeding
heart.
We pray, Dear God, In our grief and
That each sacrifice has not been In vain.
Dear Father. we ask thee on Bonded knees,
To protect our boys we send across the
Give us strength as we take some COM
To meet each crisis with smile our
Viola P. Click, Topeka, Kan.
Dance tonight-K ellam Hall.-Adv.
Members of the Y. NJ. C. A. signal
ling class entertained their parents at
drill on the state house grounds,
Saturday night.
The young women's missionary so
ciety OF the Second United Presby-
terrain church will meet this evening
at o'clock with Miss Estella Will
math, 1922 Bolles avenue.
Job Little, business secretary of the
7. NJ. c. A. and A. E. Bolton. physi-
cal director. have returned from Estes
Park, Colo. where they attended the
Y. NJ. c. A. summer training school.
The mass meeting of the Civic
been held this evening, has been post
poned indefinitely, accordingly to an
announcement by Fred Roundtree
president.
o. w. Haskell, who has recently
been engaged by the Central Y.M.
rive Saturday from Colorado Springs
to begin work in Topeka. He has
been taking the course in boys work
at the Y. NJ. c. A. summer school at
Estes Park.
The Rev. W. NJ. Jackson, pastor of
church, will return the last of the
week from Estes Park, Colorado,
where he has been spending the month
of August with his family. The pulpit,
during his absence, has been filled by
the Rev Harvey Phillips, missionary
of Luxor, Egypt.
Mrs. B. L. Edwards. living on rural
route No. 5, says she has been consid-
erably annoyed by persons who con-
nected her name with that of a woman
arrested by the police during raid
on TIE house at 333 Adams street Fri
day night, who also gave her name
as Mrs. B. L. Edwards. The Identity
of the two women is entirely separate.
A complaint was sworn to in the
court of Topeka today by E. NJ. Ponce
let, manager of the National hotel. in
which he charges that John V. Ryan
obtained lodging at the place from
August 7 to August % without pay
parted from the place when Mr..
Poncelet was not looking and never
returned to bid him farewell
The young peoples societies of the
churches in the southwest part OF
town had a union meeting Sunday
night at Central Park school grounds
Special music was furnished by the
Euclid Avenue Methodist Epworth
League, md the pianist and chorister
were from the Central Congregational
society The meeting was held by the
Central Park Christian church society.
Col J. w. r. Hughes and w. H.
Craybill of Topeka will leave Tuesday
for Chicago, where they will attend
meeting of Hundred Thousand Dol
lar club of the Illinois Life Insurance
Co. Both men qualified for member
ship in the club by writing more than
100000 worth of insurance durin {
the year. Included in the weeks out
ing is a trip to the Great Lakes naval
training station.
Thomas ]. Gaitskill, by his attorney.
Elisha Scott. filed a petition in the Of
flee of the district court this morning
asking a divorce from Evelyn Gait
skill. According to the petition. Mr..
Gaitskill's only reason for taking such
step is the fact that his wife left
him in June, 1914, refused to live with
him thereafter and is "openly and
VIGOROUSLY keeping company with
another man, in the CITY,.
L. NJ. Penwell has returned from
Centralia, where he attended a cele-
bratfon of the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of the founding of the Centralia
chapter of the I. o. o. F. lodge. Pen
well is grandmother of the Kansas J
o. o. F. Three charter members of
| lodge 443. ]. ]. Myers. J. r. Waugh,
and c. S. King. were presented with
three veteran jewels, which may be
! worn only by members of the order
who have belonged to the society con-
tinuously for % years.
Capt. Leon A. Congdon, former san