The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-01
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

All FOOLS day is tomorrow,
And the biggest fool it seems.
| Is the one who has to borrow
To live within his means.
-Nels Yingle.
Voters at Wakarusa have voted to
issue $500 in bonds to build a new
schoolhouse.
Company B, Topeka battalion kan
sas State Guard, will drill at 1880
o'clock this evening at the city audi
| torium.
A business meeting of the Shawnee
county state guard will be held at the
armory, 800 Kansas avenue, tonight
at o'clock.
]. G. Wood of Topeka has been
| named government appeal agent OF
the Shawnee county draft board. The
appointment was made by the gov
ernor.
Irwin E. Smith was sent into the
military service of the United States
| by draft board No. 2 Saturday after
noon. Smith will be sent to the base
hospital at Fort Mcpherson, Ga.
| Word was received today by John
Bannerman, 1904 Western avenue,
that his son, John .Bannerman, Jr.,
had arrived in France with a military
organization with which he is at
tached.
| W. r. Smith. state printer, will be
| the speaker at the regular meeting
tonight of the Current Topic club.
| Hiss subject will be state Printing
Work. The meeting will begin at
/ 6:15, the usual time.
Harper Rigby, proprietor of the
Mission pool hall, was brought home
| from Eldorado Sunday on a stretcher.
He had bad attack of stomach trou-
BILE while there but is reported to be
much improved otday.
| The Cruise of the Trundle Bed
|
will be given Friday night at Central
Park school The proceeds from the
entertainment will be used for the
Junior Red Cross fund.
| Patrolman lack Gragg has resigned
from the police force to accept a job
with the secret service of the Santa
Fe railroad. w. A. Garrett, night jail
er at the county Jail, has resigned and
will take Gragg's place on the police
force.
The regular meeting of the Cooper
alive club will be held tomorrow eve
ming at $40 o'clock at the Elks club.
Final plans for the orga nizations part
in putting the Third Liberty Loan
over in Kansas will be the principal
topic of discussion.
Gage park. one of the favorite re-
creation spots in Topeka last summer
is being placed in fine condition by
E F. A. Reinisch, superintendent of
| parks Now flower beds are being
made and the park is being cleaned up
and beautified generally. There were
| hundreds of visitors there, especially
| to the zoo, Sunday.
! Youthful joyriders who took a six
passenger Buick belonging to NJ. J.
| Mix from in front of the First Pres
| byterian church rode as far as Ninth
street and Topeka avenue where the
| car baked. Several hours later the
police found the abandoned car there.
TEa 1ic0 Of Il L. ~ 20
go to war Immediately was the means
| of getting his case dismissed in the
| Shawnee county district court Satur-
day. Thompson, Ed Morgan and Roy
Thompson were charged with taking
I ice tickets from the company and
! Thompson were find $25 and costs,
each.
| C. G. Porter, painter, walking
| across Kansas avenue Sunday night
/ was knocked down and injured at Sec
| Ond street and Kansas avenue, by an
| automobile driven by S. S. Meyers,
| manager of the Princess moving pic
ture theater. 1874 n. Kansas avenue. He
| suffered several cuts on the head and
! legs and was carried to Marshall S
drug store where his injuries were
| treated by DR.. A. H. Marshall.
Choosing a private dining room at
the Oxford hotel as the location of a
| crap game and the place to drink their
| liquor resulted in the arrest of Clyde
Sommer, Harry Williams, Ray Lar
son, Art Wagner and Willis Ritchey
Saturday night. When Charles Teel,
| a waiter, ordered them out of the res
| taurant he received a bombardment of
dishes and a meat platter struck him
on the head. A large mirror was
| broken. Officers Oliver Wyatt and
Jim McGovern entered about that
time and placed three under arrest
| later catching the other two. No COM
| plant was filed against them by the
proprietor and they were released
| Now warrants have been issued for
Sommer and Witchey. Sommer has
been caught.
Any group of high school boys who
| band themselves together for the pur-
pose of raising their own and their
associates moral standards are eligible
| to form an affiliation with the high
| school boys Y. NJ. c. A. under the
plan worked out by A. H. Tebbens
secretary of the high school depart
| ment of the Y. NJ. c. A. There are
certain other requirements that must
/ also be carried out before the asso-
citation is recognized by the state Y,
NJ. c. A. The boys must voluntarily
institute a bible class of six weeks in
their school and must lay plans fol-
l at least one campaign for moral up
lift in the school. 1t is reported that
many states turnout the country are
adopting the Tebbens plan of affiliat-
ing the high school, associations with
state Y. NJ. c. A.