The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-04-04

the lines OF 11g0tlDg men.
Chime the sweet and sacred music
Aud the bitterness and hatred,
The revenge the nations crave,
Softens with the recollection
OF the Christ who died to save.
And the glorious anthems ringing,
From each nation to the skies,
Peal DER grave of fallen heroes,
Christ has risen, they shall rise"
And the peace of Easter morning,
Dulls bereavement's bitter pain
Round the vacant chairs unnumbered,
And the graves of freedoms slain.
w. E. Connelley, secretary of the
State Historical society, will deliver an
address at Kansas City. Kan. tonight
at the meeting of the Wyandotte
County Historical society.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the Walnut Grove M. E.
church will meet Friday afternoon at
$3.50 o'clock at the home of Mrs.
James Flowers, 1917 Polk street.
Fire starting from unknown cause
in cotton bin at the McEntire Bros.
mattress factory at o'clock Wednes-
day evening caused much smoke but
little damage, the entire loss being
s25.
The Fidelity club of Pythian Sis
tiers will meet Friday afternoon at 2
Cross rooms. All members of the
order of Pythian Sisters are invited
to attend.
DR.. E. H Given of the First United
Brethren church, was presented with
mission library table by his congre-
CATION at a surprise party given in
honor Of his birthday Wednesday
night.
Liberty loan day exercises will be
held at 9 o'clock Friday morning at
Sumner school. The flag presented
to the school by the June. Il class
will be unfurled and there will be
special program.
days in the county Jail and fined $500
by Judge Robert D. Carver on a
charge of having liquor in his possess
sion and maintaining a nuisance.
Liquor was found in a car driven by
Robbins three weeks ago.
Hugh w. Crawford and Arthur S.
King were declared to be good ma
| teriaI for soldiers by local board No.
| l Wednesday. The same board in
Quoted Benjamin. ID. Arkin into the
service at the request of the Indian
apolis board. Arkin was Sent to Camp
| Funston.
| Bishop Quayle, of Salina. in a
speech at Baldwin Wednesday night,
| declared that because "a man is a
preacher it does not follow that he is a
| fool" The remark was made in
| answer to the criticism that has been
| heaped on the war priests head on ac-
| count of the bitterness he shows in his
| war talks denOunclng the KAISER anu
| ku1tur-
| William Pope, a street car motor
man, was knocked down at Sixth and
Kansas avenue late Wednesday by an
automobile driven by Mrs. Homer S.
Haynes, lis North Western avenue.
Pope was not hurt. Mrs Haynes was
requested to drive to police headquar-
| IN hp raj q nft1rpr -
ner. She gave. an explanation salts
factory to the police.
The legislative board for the KAN
sas Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
| gineers closed two-day meeting in
Topeka at the knights of Pythias hall
Wednesday evening. The engineers
outlined a program to follow during
the next session of the legislature
and then reelected c. G. Nee as
chairman of the board and r. H.
Brentnall. Topeka. as secretary.
=. THE Hermit of Hawaii to be given
at the high school auditorium April
10 by the students of the school. Is
billed as one of the most pretentious
comic operas that the students have
attempted. The opera will be put on
under the direction of Miss Minerva
Hail. musical director. The costume s
and stage settings are all new and
have been specially made for this pro-
duction.
A card has been received announc-
ing the safe arrival overseas of Cecil
s. Jenkins, who enlisted here in De-
Gem Der For several years and al
the time of enlistment he was a limo.
type operator at the state printing
plant. He is with the Seventh en-
sineers, having been in training al
Fort Leavenworth until his departure
for the east a month ago. His father
is a stone cutter.
Showing the growth OF California
from the days of the Indians and the
mission stage to the play house and
fruit garden of the world period OF
today, John P. Clum, lecturer or
Beautiful and Romantic California,
Wednesday night to affair audience
The lecture was given under the aus
pices of the entertainm ent committee
of the Chamber of Commerce.
American apples, bright, juicy and
red, are cheering the hearts of men
in the Canadian and American arm
les. according to letters received by
w. o. Anderson, head of the COM
mittee which staged the recent zap
pies for soldiers campaign in kan
sas- Several carloads of fruit were
sent from this state. The letters re-
ceived were written by men in the
ranks, officers, Y. NJ. c. A officials
IdHu ONE Is from d rear admiral CIV
| ing tho disposition of several hundred
boxes of the fruit. A large number
of the apples, the letters state. were
distributed in the front line trenches
W. E. lott, $50 Locust street, and
Arthur c. Bacher, 206 Harrison street
were sent to Camp Funston Wednes-
day afternoon by Topeka draft board
No. 2. as the last, of the city's quota
of the recent emergency call. BacheI
is an alternate for Daniel A. Klein
i SOC Locust street, whom the board has
been unable to locate. lott didn't ac-
company the twenty men who went
to Funston from Shawnee county las,
week because of injuries which placed
him in a local hospital According to
his story. he dropped a dime on the