The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-09-14
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS


with them a detachment of Marshalrs
band. They attracted considerable at |
tention.
The night show at the fair grounds
this evening will be complete with the
crack Leavenworth drill team, Mar
shalps band and the Modocs as an ad-
ditional attraction.
Rev. C. -. Weber, --sheran camp
pastor at Camp Funston, will lecture
at st. Johns Lutheran church. Sun
day evening at o'clock on the work
of the Lutheran church among the
boys in the army and navy.
1.-The World Program of Christian
ity' will be the. subject of the Rev.
Robert H. Davis's lecture to the Mems
Bible class of the. First Congregational
church at 10 a. m. tomorrow, at the
church, corner of Seventh and Harrl-
son streets. All men are welcome.
| Mrs. A. w. Sanders. of 1890 Clay
entertained for her guest. Miss Amy
Matheson, of Laramie. Wyo., Thurs
day evening. Covers were laid fore:
Mrs. w. R. Haage, Miss Inez Cornell,
Miss Verna Sanders. Miss F'leta Miller
Mrs. Hattie Miller. Miss Della Startup
and Miss Mathewson and Mrs. San
ders.
Three men were sent to Camp Fun
| ston today from the county board to
replace three men on a previous call
who were rejected at camp on account
| of physical disability. The men who
| left are: Frank A. Stiles, route 1, To
peka; Ben S. Olson, 716 Chandler, and
Harry S. Hastings, $50 Ohio. The re-
| jected men are Francis Mitchell, Cleo
Barton and Merle Monasmith.
It~was stated in the State Journal
| last evening that Zach Gragg, Santa.
| Fee police officer, captured man sup
posed to be pickpocket at the fair
Thursday. The alleged dip was
Falls, a brother to the Santa Fee Of
ficer. Gragg says he caught the man
by the wrist just as he extracted his
| pocketbook and turned him over to
the police
| The Presbyterian Missionary union
announces that a missionary institute
at the Y. w. C. A, Sept 20, will be
conducted by Mrs. S. I. Lindsay of ST.
| Louis. Mrs. Lindsay will present the
| new INSTRUMENTATION Foreign Mis-
| sion text book, Women Workers of
the Orient by Margaret E. Burton.
j All the missionary women of the city
are invited to attend these study ses-
sions.
a short circuit on a Gage park car,
which caused the front of the car to
be enveloped in flames. caused a pan
ic among the passengers about IL
| o'clock last night. The passengers
| crowded to the rear end and broke the
window glasses in order to get out.
One or two women tainted, witnesses
say. Grease in the machinery burned
until the arrival of the fire depart
lent, it is said. No one was injured.
The war map of the western front
made by H. G. Larimer, which is on
display in a window at the Tully-Mc-
Farland Drug company, is attracting
much attention. Larimer says that the
map is the result of three and one
half years of daily effort in following
mr. Of hn I,n
map. The changes in the front are
marked in various colored cloth COW
cred lacks. 1t is the fourth map Lari-
mer has worked out.
The officers of the Y NJ c. A from
over the state will have a supper at
the Central Y. M. c. A. Monday night
OF next week. They are coming to
Il Topeka to attend the conference to
be held Tuesday in preparation for the
United war work campaign. The reg
ular annual conference of Y. NJ. C. A
men of the state is being replaced this
year by the forthcoming conference
of all the organizations that are unit
ing for a drive for funds in Novem-
Der.
Strolling down Kansas avenue this
morning was farmer and his little
| five-year-old son. The Youngsters
eyes were big with the wonders of the
capital city. On reaching the corner
OF Eighth and Kansas avenues the
Dig press IN the State Journal building
began to rumble, running off the noon
edition. The little boys features I'M
derwent change, his mouth flew open
and he tugged at his fathers sleeve,
on pop" he yelled, "iust listen to
that big threshing macfine'''
/ AT meeting of the textile division
of the war industries board of the
Fourteenth region district held in
kansas City Friday, which was at
tended by F. A. Anton, George p Nc
Entire and William Schick of To-
peka, and E. H. Silver, of Usage City,
1t was decided that no factories in
Kansas could be satisfa ctoriIy convert
ed into clothing ia ctories quick enough
to meet the needs of the government.
NO Kansas firms will get contracts.
Isaac Waltons frolicked to their
hearts content among the gold fish
and sunperch Friday in the lake at
Gage park. Early Friday morning
impatient anglers flocked to the pond
with fishing tackle of all descriptions.
The early birds sleeping on the banks
! found when they woke up that other
fishermen had the edge on them.
Usual fisherman's luck prevailed
!, some went home with a lot of pretty
! good fish-and others. well, not so
good. The official open season on fish
at Cages closed Friday night.
Mrs Eta Lester, of 1117 North
Central avenue, has received word
that her son. Lloyd Lester, sailor on
the steamship Mount Vernon, which
! was torpedoed last Tuesday, is not
among the missing. She has been in
distress ever since the news of the
disaster was received. and has Just re-
ce1ved an answer to her wire to Wash
ington inquiring if he was listed with
the lost. Her anxiety was especially
keen because the dispatches stated
that the missing We're from the en-
CINE rooms, and included firemen,
engineers and water-tenders Her son
was chief water master on the boat.
The mems and women's liberty 1oa n
committees held a joint meeting Fri
day afternoon at the Y. W. c. A to
arrange for the fourth loan drive.
which will last from September % to
Octobt-. 10. Out of town officers of