The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-11

a hickory club and smote opportunity
a heavy blow on the head, Immediate
ly thereafter congratulating them
selves on the deed. 1t was done. Ex-
training the opportunity graspers were
officers of the United States army ex-
cept that they did not have the COM
missions and shoulder straps.
And right along with this officer
but-not- officer feeling was the we'll
shine in the Topeka social whirl this
fall. There was to be nothing to it.
The girls were to fall down in wor-
ship and the beardless youths in uni
form were to lord it undisturbed by
discipline. The military training at
the nature of fine term at college
with all the usual trimmings and
the added glory of the olive drab.
The student army training corps is
now in effect-much to the regret of
many of the Haunting, would-be
peacocks. Stern reality has taken the
place of rosy visions of strutting bliss
and easily acquired shoulder straps
Glossy pompadours have been ruth
lessly shorn that the heads of Uncle
Sans men be not displayed in public
with a fringe showing under the edge
of the campaign hats. Fraternity pins
have been designated as altogether in
appropriate ornaments for an olive
drab service uniform. Dates interfere
with proper sleeping hours and with
study, and SO they too have gone into
| the discard for the most part The So
| c1al Wh1rl has been cut to nearly moth
| ing.
! Kitchen police. fatigue duty, drill
| and the discipline of barracks and
long hours on guard have somewhat
damped the ardor of certain would-be
| officers
| But out of this chaos Of wrecked
hopes and fond aspiration Capt. Frank
+. Shaw declares he will build as fine
a set of soldiers as the United States
can produce. He points with pride to
the callber of his men and takes to
himself great joy in what thew are
going to be when the spirit Of the
army has entered into it's own.
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Notes and Personal Mention.
Mr.. Raymond Beers, who is attend
IN school at Kansas university, is
spending the weekend in Topeka
Miss Clyde Bonebrake and Miss Eu-
genia Quinton are in Fort Riley for g
rev days. They made the trip in Miss
Bonebrake's car.
Mrs. Anna 3. Fisher, of 701 Fill
more street, who has been attending
the Woman's Christian Temperance
union at Wichita, has returned to To-
peka for the funeral of her grandson
u, IL
Chicago on Wednesday,
Mrs. Melvin Pribble and young son
Henry Myers, have returned from
Camp Humphreys, Virginia, where
they were visiting Mr.. Pribble~~
Miss Lulu Fordyce has moved from
the Wintrode to the George McCo!
home, lib West Eighth street
Miss Winifred Greene has returned
from Fort Sheridan. Mrs. Adrian
Greene will remain as long as her son
Lieut.. Adrian Greene, is in the hos
pital.
Mr.. and Mrs H. O. Miller. of Tulsa
Okla, will arrive next week to visi
Mr. Miller's sister, Mrs A T. Lucas.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. K. Etter and theil
sons, William Kirby, jr., and Loui!
Fort, will come from Newton. Novem
Der 1, for a permanent residence il
Topeka. Mr.. and Mrs. Etter have fire
quently visited Mr.. and Mrs. Luthe
Burns and have made a number o
: friends here.
Harold M. Berg, son of Mr.. and Mrs
A. P Berg of Los Angeles, formerly o
Topeka. has been recently granted {
commission of first lieutenant a
Camp Zachary Taylor.
Judge and Mrs. c. E. Foot of Kan
sas City are in Topeka, called by TIL,
serious illness of their daughter Mrs
C. NJ. Hill.
Mrs. Everett Dallas of Chicago ha.
returned to her home after visit tt
her mother, Mrs Anna J. Wilson,
Mrs. Frank Burrow spent the da,
J yesterday in Kansas City.
Mrs. Chauncey Dewey of Junction
City spent yesterday visiting hel
mother, Mrs. Frank Millspaugh.
Mrs. Imogene Thatcher of Omaha
formerly of Topeka. has received wore
that her son, Stafford Thatcher. ha.
been made master signal electrician il
the army in France.