The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-05
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

SHM r9AUlS Al HUME MEMO I
Sweetness Personified.
Quite the latest for the women,
In the conversation line
Is to bring their dole of sugar d
When invited out to dine
-Gussie Morrow Gage.
Dance tonight. KelIam Hall.-Advs
Eugene Grace, formerly in the em-
ploy of the Union Pacific, has gone to
Albuquerque. N NJ, to take a job
with the Santa Fe. 4
Mrs. VIM H. Steinkamp will en-
terrain the Ladies Aid of the st.
Johns Lutheran church at 123 Fill
more street Friday afternoon.
The Central Y. M. C. A. is having
some new beds installed in their DOR
mitories for soldiers who visit the as
ISOLATION Saturday and Sunday.
N. W. Benning. of the Central Y.
| M. C. A., will go to Dover to make an
address at a meeting of the Kansas
River Baptist association Friday.
One of the fire companies was called
out Wednesday afternoon to put out a
fire at the Santa Fee shops, caused by
crossed wires. The fire had been put
out before the hose company from the
Santa Fe station could reach the
shops.
H S. Lee has been elected. financier
4 for council No. 5, Sons and Daughters
| of Justice, to succeed DIR. H. A. Alex
ander, who has entered military serv-
| ice and is stationed at Camp Dodge.
| Lee will have his office at SIS Kan
| sas avenue.
All day services were held Wednes-
day at Salvation Army hall, 400 Kan
sas avenue. Rev. B. II. Hobbs, pastor
| Of the First Evangelical church,
preached in the afternoon and Rev. J..
| G. Dermoret of the Nazarene church
preached in the evening. -
| Miss AIDA NJ. Harper will give a
pupils recital Friday afternoon. Sep
odist church in Silver Lake. She will
be assisted by Miss Elizabeth Van
Ness, violinist, and Miss Clara Bell
Banta, reader, from Topeka. The
public is invited.
/ The federal authorities at Topeka
| have arrested s. v. Kinkaid, farmer
| living near Oakley, Kan, on the
charge of boarding flour. 1t is said
that Kinkaid had flour in excess of
| the amount allowed by government
| regulations hid in his house. After
his arraignment he was released on
| $400 bond to await the action of the
| grand jury. which meets this month.
First Lieut.. o. L. Erickson, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles J. Erickson,
| 1925 Park avenue, arrived in Topeka
today with Mrs. Erickson on a weeks
| leave from Jefferson Barracks. st.
Louis. , Lieutenant Erickson formerly
was a well known physician in To-
peka and left the city eight months
| ago to go into the regular army. He
will go overseas soon. -
| T. c. Roberts of Tecumseh has re-
| ceived word that his two sons, Zelra
| and Harry, are in France at the fight
ing front. Zelra is in motor truck
company in the rear of the lines, and
| Harry is in the firing line. Both men
| were in the first contingent at Camp
Funston. but were later transferred to
| an eastern division. The young men
were formerly engaged in the jitney
bus business in Topeka.
! A dinner will be served Saturday
evening at $50 o'clock at the Central
i Y. M. c. A. by the losing team in-the
| membership contest to the winning
| team. The score stood 1913 points for
| the aviation squad, led by E. D Sp1ck-
erman. to ia points won by the tank
squad. The campaign for September
| is now beginning. The army division
and the navy division by F. B. Parker.
The contest will close September 80.
| An all day meeting of the Shawnee
| County School Board association will
1 be held Saturday in connection with
! the meeting of the Shawnee County
| Teachers association in the manual
| training high school building. The
meeting will be on the social order
and will include a. basket dinner.
| Questions relating to schools and teach
ers will be discussed and addresses
will be made by Robert Stone. r. A.
Kent, Irene Taylor. and w. D. Ross.
| The Ninth battalion and the bat
talon band is to take part in the
parade for the drafted men tomorrow
evening, according to an official an
| nouncement today by Maj. Perle B.
| Eam1in. The officers and men of the
battalion and band are to meet at the
north steps of the state house tomor-
row evening at 7:45 o'clock, and will
| then proceed to the auditorium to
take their places in the line of march.
The Y. M. C. A. will have tent at
the Kansas Free fair next week which
| will be fitted up to resemble a Y. M.
c. A. overseas hut. A man in the
uniform of the foreign secretary will
| be in the tent to explain the work of
the association for the soldiers. In
| the speakers forum on Tuesday night,
| the Y. M. C. A. war work will be ex-
planned by the Rev. Percy Atkins. head
| of the personnel bureau for the re-
cruiting Of war workers in the asso-
| citation for Kansas.
Miss Grace Rust of Emporia was in
Topeka this week to look after the
purchase of supplies from Topeka
| wholesale houses for the cafeteria in
| connection with the State Normal
| school, of which she will be in charge
| this year. Miss Rust has been teach
ling in Mason City, Iowa, and stopped
in Topeka on her way to Emporia, to
make business arrangements for sup
plies and to visit her sister, Mrs. G. E.
Brown, and Doctor Brown, of 1905
Fillmore street. She is a graduate of
| the Indiana State Normal school and
of the Illinois university.
A special drill of Company H. Kan
sas National Guard, will be given on
the statehouse grounds Friday night.
according to announcement made by
Lieut.. O.. M. Allegro. The men will
meet on the east steps of the state
house at 1880 o'clock. Monday night
the men will participate in the exer-
J cises of army and navy day at the