The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-12-17
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

Open evenings until Christmas. Harris
Goar Jewelry Co.-Adv.
Co.-Adv.
Ono Manuel, charged with killing a fell
Leavenworth in March, 1916, and who was
convicted and sentenced to hang. Will be
granted a new trial in the near future. it
was matle known today. An appeal to the
supreme court following his conviction re-
suited In judgment being reversed and
new trial ordered
More than fifteen hundred Kansas farm
ers, members of the Farmers union, are
expected to be in Topeka January 15-16-17
The meetings of the Farmers union will
be held in the auditorium. Maurice Nc
Auliffe, president of the union, stated that
| the principal business before the meetings
will be discussion by the farmers of the
work they will be called upon to do in
According to Mrs. Myrtle Callahan Sec
rotary of the Provident association, the
! real need of the association is for under
clothes. Unless sufficient clothing can be
secured for needy families suffering from
Influenza. an increase in pneumonia may
ing have little money left to buy extra
clothing. Old underclOthes contributed to
| the Proyident association for distribution
among these families would prove Of al
most inestimable value.
Lieut.. Adrian Greene has received his
&c from military . sevfs and
Mrs. Adrian Greene, secretary of the state
travelling library; Lieutenant Greene
transferred to Camp Jackson, Fla. He eX-
pected to be sent abroad soon when news
came Of the signing Of the armistice Lieu;
pneumonia at Camp Sheridan last fall. He
will go to Chicago in few days to take a
position.
Lawrence X. Hall, formerly high school
secretary of the Kansas y. NJ. G., A. has
received an appointment to do Y. NJ: c. A.
work in Shanghai, China. He and his wife
and twO children William and James are
in Topeka visiting Mrs. Halls parents,
MI and Mrs. J. H. Luxton. prior to going
from Pacific port. For two years Hall
has been specialist on international Y. NJ.
M9rk In the county MY work Ibs
with her husband.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Roemerman, Of 2S5
Wabash avenue, have received official no
tice that their son, Corporal Addison Will
liam Roemerman, was wounded in action
October 4. They had previously had a
telling Of the wound. Corporal Roemer-
! man enlisted infantryman in the
early part of the war, trained at Jeffer-
son Barracks, and has been abroad since
last spring. The Information which his
parents have does not contain the name
of the battle in which the casualty &C.
Cured.
A dormitory dinner party was given
i Monday night at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
of the Ened States
survey. who is leaving his residence In the
| association building. Rice will be mar
ried Wednesday to Miss Ruth Adams of
Topeka, and they will make their home in
Grove avenue. D. L. George was toast
| master at the dinner, and responses were
| made by N. W. Benning. w. L. Jaynes
and A. d. Bolton. Otto Nelson sang. A
! gift of ported fern was presented to Rice
| for his bride.
| Rev. J. W. Hart, who entered Y. NJ. c. A.
work for foreign service, has arrived in
France, according to word just received in
Topeka by Mrs. Hart. He took special
training at Columbia university, and has
an appointment as Y. NJ. c. A. secretary
in Paris. He will spend the coming year
in religious and educational work among
the soldiers abroad. Rev Hart was pastor
of the First Presbyterian church in juno
| ton City before he came to Topeka to be-
come Associate pastor with DIR. s. s. Estey
of tha First Presbyterian church Of Topeka
His Ydfe: and three sons will remain in this
city Turing his absence.