The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-25

-C1r-C1ngle.
F.w. Leech of 2044 West street. has
received word from his son, c. w.
Leech, who has arrived overseas.
Young Leech was on foreign soil sixty
days after he entered the army.
The Public Health Nursing associa-
ton is to resume it's free tuberculosis
clinics Friday afternoon. The clinic
will be held from 8 to 5 o'clock on
the third floor of the city building.
Members of Lincoln Post are re-
quested to meet at the hall. Friday
morning at $3.50 o'clock to attend the
funeral of E. F. A. Clark, at Penwell's
chapel. Henry Martin; post COM
mander; J. M. Miller, adjutant.
The Rota club will meet Thursday
evening at o'clock for supper and a
business session, at the What-Not-
Shop, 100 West Eighth street. Assess
ment for the new Rota badges will be
made and the year books will be dis
| tributed.
A church meeting will be held at
| the Golden Rule schoolhouse Saturday
evening, September %, at o'clock, to
make plans for the rebuilding of the
Prairie Home church. All those in
terested in the project are asked to
attend the meeting.
The women who are interested in
| the military drill for. women and girls
| are asked 10 meet tOnlSnC on the east
steps of the state house for drill at
1880 o'clock. Commissioned and nom
commissioned officers of all four To-
cal battalions will be present to assist
with the drilling of the women
Tuesday in c. H. banners office, a
youth was seeking a job as a farm
hand. He managed to fill out his pa
questions prepared by a farmer who
needed a model farm hand. do
you smoke cigarets?" asked the clerk.
No" replied the youth Tipping a
lCamel to the corner.
! A Topeka wise man says Russia
hasn't anything on Topeka. I'VE have
a F. B. Lenine and a J. o. Trotsky
right here living with u.s." he claims.
| Men with military experience are
| asked to come to the north steps OF
| the state house at 1880 o'clock this
| evening to assist in instructing men,
| bers of the womens military training
| corps.
| H. w. Avery of Wakefield, a well
| known horse breeder, has been ap-
pointed a member of the administra-
| tive committee of the Army Horse as
| ISOLATION in zone IL, which embraces
Kansas and Nebraska. He will CO.
| operate with the farmers in the two
states who are in a position to breed
horses for the army and will assis,
Efforts to put rope thru the pulIe,
at the top of the Washburn college
chapel fagpole came to an ignomini.
GUS end Tuesday evening when fire
men from one of the local stations
were unable to turn the trick Some
unknown climber of marked ability
| Skinned up the pole, but dropped tn.
/ rope at the critical time The un
known promised to make another eff
fort tonight.
| Topeka and Wakarusa may have {
sudden boom of prosperity engen
dered by the discovery of a big bee
of oil provided the drill now at worl
on the George Neil farm near Waka
rusa is successful in pushing its poin
into an oil lake. The prospect hol
is being put down by a firm known a
the Wapeco Oil company, who's
!. stockholders are mostly Topeka an,
Wakarusa men. 1t is thought by tn
promoters that oil will be struck at ;
depth not exceeding 1000 feet.
The secretary of the Provident as
ISOLATION, Mrs. Myrtle Callahan, i
engaged in the task of helping thu
Spanlsh-speaking citizens of the cit
IN f1li1ng out their questionnaires TIL
Mexican men who registered in tn
last draft are filing steadily into he
, office, convinced that they are abou
to be rushed off to war, knowing moth
, ing of the contents of the question
naire or the provisions of their elias
, S1flcatlon. She assists them in maxim
/ out the answers to the questions an,
, in explaining the government require
, ments