The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-31
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS

We buy liberty bonds. Inland Mfg. Co,
G01 East Fourth St-Ady.
The Young Womens Missionary society
of the Second United PRESBYTERIAN church
home of Mrs. f. b. Sewell, 1S0o Lincoln
street.
The war time plan of consolidating the
two ice companies of Topeka Will continue
during the coming season, according to an
announcement made by Richard Hodgins
of the Peoples Ice company.
The regular meeting of the Cooperative
club has been postponed from Tuesday To
Friday. April 1. There will be a dinner
at the Elks club at 6 30 o'clock at which
the ladies' will be entertained. followed by
a line party at the Elks show at the Grand
theater.
Miss Lucille Borngardner. pianist: Miss
reader and Miss Lena Anderson, violinist.
gave an entertainment preceding the bur
lesque dance at Masonic temple S;., ur'lay
night. Some of the numbers were gi'en in
special costume. The four girls are soon
to start on Il concert tour over the Santa
Fe, chaperoned by Mrs. Charles Joslin.
card received today by Major L. Nell
Rain. of the attorney generals office,
from J. NJ Whitaker Il member of Bat
terysA, 13oth field artillery. states that the
mary to entering a base hospital in this
country. Whitaker, well known in To
peka. was injured in France and will be
treated at the hospital before discharged.
The Y. W. c. A is in receipt of a coll
lection Of japanese wood block prints:
conference fund. The pictures are carved
out Of wood, and filled in with way. and
the irrpxession thus made taken off. The
vivid blues Of the sky. and the soft red of
the sunsets, as well as the shadows on the
water and the dark back grounds, are
made by tinted wax.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Amory Lee will
return Thursday from St Louis. where
they have been visiting friends. Lee. who
recently returned from overseas, was dis
charged from Camp DevenS. Mass. and
stopped in BOSTON. New York, Washing
ton and Philadelphia on his way home.
Mrs. Lee went to st. Louis to meet him.
Lee was wounded in action on July is,
1918, and was in a hospital the rest of the
tine he was i'll France.
The Topeka high school debating club
will meet the Wichita high school debat-
| ing club early in May for dual debate on
the question: Resolved that capital and
labor should be compelled to settle their
arbitration" There are sixteen members
! in the Topeka high school debating club.
which was organized at the beginning of
! the spring semester. Llovd II. Mosser is
the instructor in charge of the club
| c. c. Nicholson. who served twelve years
important that an attorney should be
/ elected to be on the board since questions
often arise necessitating the services of A
| lawyer He says that should +. Il. Dren-
| ming. who is candidate for place on the
board. not be elected, the city will have to
and other supplies must be drawn up.
about $Ge0,0o0 yearly being spent by the
board.
George ElIies % years old. a negro,
was arrested Sunday night by the police
and turned over to the United States
marshal for investigation in connection
with thrift stamps and baby bonds in
his possession which it is claimed bore
the names of other men. The baby bonds
| amounted to S15 and were in the name of
| L. OvertOn. sulphur Springs. Okla. it is
| said. The thrift stamps bore the name of
Jim Wilkerson. TeXarkana, according to
| the police. Ellies claims to be from Texas
but says he has been working in Kansas
| City. No registration card could be pro-
! duced by him. He is being held until
officials can hear from the supposed own
ers of the baby bonds and stamps.
Teaching a Ford motor to fly is the am
| bition of William Kopseker. who runs a
machine shop at go North Kansas avenue
| A Ford motoE. 500 and the inclination TO
! fly are all that is needed. says Knpseker.
| For $500 kopseker will build the machine.
| Should a customer indicate an unreasOning
! hesitancy about FLYING off with his pur-
! chase. Kopseker will instruct in the art of
| flying for $50 more. KopSeker will also
| take over any flvver. with the motor still
| intact and make a flying machine out of it.
| he says. KOpseker has also evolved n new
| control idea. He believes that it will sim
| plify the art of flying. For several years
| Kopseker has been studying the PROPOSE
| tfon Of building light, safe; cheap and
| eaSy-tO-fly machine.