The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-03

son in the service gets what he wants
at home.
Mrs. L. Raymond Wolfe has re-
ceived word of the safe arrival over
seas of her husband, Lieut.. L. Ray
mond Wolfe. Mrs Wolfe is with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Culver.
in Western avenue.
X
Cards have been received in Topeka
announcing the marriage of Miss
Eleanor Bartel and Mr.. Joseph Cole
man at Los Angeles. Cal. August "a.
Miss Bartel formerly lived in Topeka.
She is a sister Of Maj. A. c. BarteL
x x x
Miss Elisabeth Edison will enter
tain the members of the Theta soror-
ity this evening at her home. Plans
will be made for the social affairs at
Washhurn college during rushing sea-
son.
Miss Hazel Jane Bullock, teacher of
French in Washburn college, will ar
rive Tuesday, September 10. from her
home in Cambridge Springs, Pa,
where she has been spending the sum-
mer. She will live at the home of
Mrs. T. s. Lyon, where she has made
her home during the past two WIN
| ters Miss Bullock will be accom-
panied by Miss Beth Heffelbower of
Saranac Lake. n. Y, who will be a
student in Washburn this year She
is the daughter of Professor and Mrs
Hefhebower. Professor Hefflebower,
who has leave of absence from
Washburn and is in the east on ac-
count of break i'll health, is very
| much improved.
Miss Alice B. Patterson, who has
\ hn
ta- eft for Washington, D. c.. where
| s. has position in the adjutant gen
erals office Miss Patterson was for
| merry a teacher in the Topeka high
/ school.
| x
Mr.. and Mrs John V. Abrs hams
are the parents OF a daughter, born
| saturday, August 81, to whom thew
| nave given the name of EHzabet
| Fananum. Mrs. Abrahams was be-
fore her marriage Miss MeIiora Ham
b1eton.
You would better take half a dozen
boxes of these berries home with you y
suggested a merchant to a late Satur-
day evening shopper. I'll let you
have them cheap. and they are excel
| lent for canning"
| "Oh. I'm not canning this year"
| replied the shopper You know they
| say the government has taken over all
the best rubber and has left nothing
! but inferior grades for the rings for
canning jars Nothing that is put up
with them will keep
Now perhaps this woman would
| have felt insulted if anyone had called
| her pro-German. But certainly to
| those in the store who heard the re-
mark, she seemed nothing less. Her
words, innocently repeated, perhaps,
| were a form of an insidious German
|
the hope of dampening the enthusiasm
| Of the housewife for canning.
It Is true that last year there were
! complaints from several sources that
Der rings they had used were not
| found to be good.
The government took pains to In
| yestigate these cases with the result
that the department OF agriculture
now has set a standard of rubber rings
4 and the. manufacturers have brought
their product up to this standard So
the housewife can go on with her
canning firm in the knowledge that
il she hears any remark that of the
woman here related. she may be sure
it is German propaganda And she
should make every effort to kill it,
I'm every community large enough
\ to have a dog and a cat there is a
German agent" someone has said
This agent is trying in every way
l DOSSlD4 10 1TuSIIdI0 AItleElCd pro-
gram in this war. Don't help this in
sidious work by passing along all you
pick up. Don't repeat things you
hear until you know them to be true
Kill every German Iie.-U. S. Food
Administration.
| The Woman's Rota club will take
lunch together at the Chamber OF
Commerce Wednesday at Il o'clock.
| x x X
Miss Gussie Fuller head of the tex
tile department for the State Fair
announces that the entry books viii
be open at the art building Thursday
and Friday of this week from unit
s o'clock. They will not be opened
after o'clock Friday evening.
Notes and Personal Mention
| Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. l. Thompson
and their daughter, Mrs. Harry Don
| aldson. returned Sunday night from
Colorado Springs, where they have
spent several weeks. They were
| guests at the Broadmoor hotel.
| Mr.. Charles Lagerstrom has re-
turned from Lake Forest club, where
he spent a few days with Mrs. Lager
strom and Mr.. and Mrs. Maurice
Slagel at the cottage owned by Mrs
Sla gels brother. Mr.. Will Davis and