The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-11

Topeka chapter No. 5, Royal Arch
Masons. win take up the work of the
Exalted Masters degree tonight The
work will start at 1880 o'clock.
On account of diphtheria and other
contagious diseases Gage Park school
will be closed all week, it was an
nounced by c. Burning, clerk of the
school board.
Charles L. Mitchell, sales manager
and purchasing agent for Crane &
Co, is confined to hist bed with
general breakdown caused by over
work. His physician has prescribed a
period Of absolute rest.
Sounds of breaking glass in the rear
of the Mullin market, 1017 Kansas
avenue. Saturday evening, sent clerks
scurrying to the back of the store.
Burglars hadn't figured the clerks
were in the store. They escaped.
Ethel King. resident of Shawnee
county for twenty-nine years, has filed
a petition for a divorce from Villa m
King Gross neglect of duty is charged
in the petition. Mrs. King asks for
the custody of two minor children
They were>married Dece m Der 80, 1913.
The regular meeting of the Co.
operative club will be. held at $50
O'Clock tomorrow night at the Elks
club. The speaker fer the evening is
not announced but "a redhot talker'
is promised by Chairman Brelsford of
the entertainment committee.
Arrangements are nearly complete
for the Father and Son banquet to be
held at the Central Y. M. c. A. to-
morrow night. Guy l.. Brown will be
the speaker of the evening. George
Hcyes, general secretary of the local
association, is bending every effort to
make the affair "a success.
Judge George H. Whitcomb will be
no
meeting of the Current Topic club at
the Central Y. M. c. A eonight Judge
| Whitcomb will speak on some phases
of the trial court. Albert M Patten
but was forced to cancel his engage
| ment at late hour this morning
Construction work on the Santa Fe
| office and files building, discontinued
because of bad weather, has been re-
sumed. The building will be directly
opposite the Railroad Y. M. C. A. Ex-
cavation has been completed and it is
the hope of the contractor 10 work
continually until completion of the
structure.
The Scottish Rite Masons of the
Valley of Topeka are making a prac-
| tice of holding special reunions for the
benefit of the soldiers at Camps Fun
| ston and Doniphan. At the special
reunion announced for next Saturday
about 100 Blue Lodge Masons are ex-
| pected in Topeka to take the remain
Ing twenty-nine degrees of Masonry,
The Scottish Rite degree is very popu-
lar over seas and hence most Masonic
| american soldiers wish to aoquire that
degree before going across.
| Elmer w. Wagner, son of B. A.
| wagner, the owner of a printing es-
| adjustment here, is home visiting his
parents and friends. Wagner, jr
Joined the engineering corps of the
n fnv -
of former experience was assigned tc
the printing house at jefferson Bar
| racks, near St. Louis He is one OF
nine printers continually employed or
army orders and other work which
demands just as much care and eff.
| cheney.
Clyde G. Pinney, SON of Mrs Anna
Hang, 416 East Fourth street, has
1 fljrted with death in the French
trenches Numerous times, according to
word received from him by Lee B
Mcmahon, 1915 East Sixth avenue
Pinney was twenty-five yards from g
| bursting bomb which knocked him
around the corner" and left him I'M
conscious. Shrapnel holes were found
in his hat and rain coat. Pinney has
been in the employ of the Baldwin Lo-
connective works for nearly n year
He is close behind the French
trenches
Lewis r. Smith has been assigned tc
special DUTY at the United States sub
| marine base at San Francisco. Be
fore enlisting in the navy Smith live6
in Topeka at SOL Horne street with
his parents. Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. Smith
Smith enlisted for duty in the ship
yards rs an expert gas engine man
He was assigned to the New LondoI
yard, where he was soon put on the
construction of oil burning engines
| He made such success at this that hi.
transfer to the base at San Francisco
came automatically. Smith stopped
i off in Topeka for a few days last weel
on his way to the coast.