The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-16
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

A special meeting of the Young
Peoples band will be held tonight at
Gemmel hall, Y. NJ. c. A, at O'Clock.
Glasses for the navy are still de-
sired, according to A w. H1erhoizer.
shipfitter. A good many lenses nave
been received and more are needd.
L. L. Taylor, who has been con-
nected with the income tax depart
ment in Topeka, has accepted a more
lucrative position with the Federal
Land bank, of Wichita, Kan, and left
for that city today.
Religion as a Personal Experience"
will be the subject of DR.. Arthur 3
Henderson's lecture to his Bible class
Sunday at 10 a.. m. at the First con-
gregational church, corner OF sew
enth and Harrison streets. All men
are welcome.
Miss Kitty Tandy will be al home in
Topeka this weekend. She has been
in Junction City for the last montn
in charge of the transient work OF the
home service section of the Red Cross.
Miss Tandy is working under direction
of the office of the southwestern dlVl-
sion of the Red Cross in ST. Louis.
Governor Arthur Capper will speak
Sunday night at the Mount olive M Il
church. corner West Twelfth and
gram. Special seats will be reserved
for the home guards and parents who
have sons in service. The boy scout
troop No. 10. will act as uShers.
OF the ninety-three schools in the
county, seventy have Red Cross or
ganiza tions. according to Miss NJ Edna
Corbet, county superintendent of in
struction. She expects the entire
number to be enrolled by March 20.
| Miss Corbet has just completed a
| tour of inspection of several schools.
Lawrence d. Kitchou has been OBJ
tanned by the Baraca class of the First
Baptist church for a travelogue to be
given Friday evening next This lee
| ture on the Glacier National park and
the northwest will be illustrated with
moving pictures. No charge will be
made for admission and the public is
| invited.
The Kansas four minute men are to
begin a series of speeches for the
Boys Working Reserve March %. A
letter advising w. L. Porter federal
director of the reserve for Kansas, has
been received from Washington. The
help of the speakers is week late, in
asmuch as the drive for the reserve
begins Monday. March Is.
! Employees of the Chas. Wolff Pack
ing company here held a meeting at
Labor hall Friday night and took
| steps preliminary to becoming affili-
! ated with the American Federation OF
Labor. Forty employees attended the
meeting and it is asserted today that
nearly IT'S men will be placed on the
unions charter. Organization is said
| to be in view of higher wages and
better working conditions.
The third liberty loan committee
meeting scheduled for Wednesday
night will be held in the directors
room of the Central National bank
according to an announcement by
Chairman J. r. Burrow at the Cham
nf h -
announced Friday that the meeting
would be held at the Chamber of Com
merce, but that announcement was in
correct.
The Shawnee Golf club will hold its
1918 tournament from April l to April
IA. The preliminary tournament will
be for th1rty-siX holes. When the
players are ready to qualify they may
obtain a special score card from the
club house The winner will be the
player having the lowest total for nine
holes. taking the lowest ball on each
hole as a basis. The score cards OF
the tournament will be used as ba
sis for the seasons handicaps
A former Topeka man, Paul f
Neal, died Friday morning at Cam1
Meade. Md, from an attack of scarle
fever and pneumonia He enlisted E
, few months ago with the signal corp.
at Blackfoot, Ida. He is the son o
Mrs. Mary A. Lukert. Route %, To
peka, and a brother of Mrs. J. M
White. Anna Neal. George Neal ant
William Neal of Topeka The funera
services will be private and will b,
held at Fairview
Three robberies were reported t.
the police Friday night j. A. Bush
S25 Chestnut street, was accosted il
front of his home by "a long and
short negro" and relieved of So il
q cash and watch and chain E
: Linquist, 1715 Brooks avenue report
ed that while occupants of his resi-
dence were away, burglars entered tn
place and ransacked several rooms
Nothing was missed, however Bur
glars obtained a small amount @
cash from pocketbook at the HON
s OF H. ). Spencer. I'LL Park avenue
The habeas corpus proceedin
brought by Ed Rooney for the reIeas
e OF group of negro women convicte
of street walking in Topeka is bein
: tried i'll Leavenworth today Thos
e who went from the city hall to atten
| the trial are George Hayden, city al
| torney; DR.. H. L. Clark, city phys
clan, and Miss Annerta Nicoll. cit
bacteriologist. The state is represent
= ed at the trial by ]. Preston CoIema
e of the attorney generals office. e,
y animation by Doctor Clark and ha,
e THEOLOGICAL tests by Miss Nico
|. showed that the women CONSIGNED +
the detention home and hospital wer
9 diseased. and Doctor Clark and Mi,
8 | Nicoll will testify in Tho oo..