The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-03-03


Has found itself improved
BY visit from dentist
To have its teeth removed!
The Current Topic club will be address
ed by W. L. Lambertson. speaker OF the
house of representatives, tonight at 6:lo
O'Clock.
J. W. McCreary. a real estate broker of
Salina, has recently moved his family to
Topeka, and they will make their home
here in the future.
The Rotary club will hold ladies' night
Friday. March Z, Mt the Topeka high school
Mt 6 :16 O'Clock. The dinner will be served
by high school girls.
The next meeting of the -operativ.
club will be held at the e,a Elk CLUB I9 .sr
Hoyes Will give a talk on his work across
the seas.
Kenneth Raub, county clerk. was taken
i'll Saturday and is unable to be at work.
Relatives are uncertain whether it is in
fluenza or bad cold with which he is
suffering.
The Santa Fe Masonic club will hold its
regular monthly meeting at the Masonic
temple Tuesday night in the Egyptian
room. program is being arranged for
the occasion.
Arthur II. Shakeshaft is back with the
engineering department of the Santa Fe,
in the position he resigned to go to war.
He was married to Miss Marian Dana De-
fore going overseas.
The monthly audit of the books ut police
headquarters show 12G arrests made and
one robbery in the resident section was re
| ported and none occurred in the business
district.
Homer Herrick, assistant secretary of
the railroad Y. NJ c. A. has received his
discharge from Camp Funston. and has
gone to Colony to visit his parents for n
| few days before taking up his work in
| Topeka.
A raid on a crap game in East Hill by
| the police saturday night resulted in the
arrest of Robert O'Brien, colored, and VIII
| liam Dice, G.. II. Young and J. A: Smith.
| white men. all of whom gave bond for their
appearance in police court Tuesday.
Sergt- Ralph Keller, who has been sta
toned at a camp i'll Maryland has been
discharged from the army; and spent few
Keller. 141s North Quincy, before going to
| Kansas City, where he has accepted posi-
| ton.
The members of Companies and b of
the first battalion Of the state guard, will
| meet in joint session at the armory,. 404
Kansas avenue Mt o'clock this evening,
| to tranast important business. according
| to II. 1. Monroe, captain, and Elisha Scott,
| judge advocate.
c. +. Reel of the rate department of the
Rock Island railroad has been selected to
succeed w. S. Barton. who recently re-
signed as secretary of the Topeka Traffic
association. Reel has also had expert
| ence In the traffic and transportation de-
partment. He began his new work Satur-
| day.
Horace Hall, president Of the Topeka
| chapter of the American Red Cross an
nounces that there is still an unpaid bal
ance of $1,000 on the pledges of the May
| drive OF last year. The Red Cross will not
have a campaign for this year and is de-
| pending on those pledges to finance the
organization during the coming year.
Charles Dillon, state chairman of the
| Armenian and Syrian relief committee has
| forwarded $4,000 to the national secre-
| tary Of the relief society. c. V. Nickrey,
a. s f , the naede
| In all S30O,0O0 has been pledged in Kan
sas, and another contribution will soon be
| forwarded to the national secretary. -
| Mrs. Warwick Brown left Saturday for
Chicago to meet her husband, Lieutenant
Brown. who has been overseas for year.
wounded in the Argonne battle October 10.
He was discharged from the hospital
January % and landed at Fort Monroe last
Thursday. Lieutenant and Mrs. Brown
will return to Topeka tonight.
Three farms were sold Saturday, accerd-
ing to deeds filed in the office Of Oran
Layton. They were: Calma G. and Charles
o. Ansel to Frank Early, so acres near
| Pauline, S10,150; William and Ada Myers
$10.4OO: f. W. Fiannigan to Boyd C. Ham
ilton, farm near Watson, $4,000. Other
smaller transfers were also recorded. 5rO
The first annual poultry exhibit will be
held at Rossville next saturday, and i. Is
promised by the promoters that some fine
birds will be in evidence. The Topeka
Chamber of Commerce is offering prize
of SO and several Topeka merchants have
also put up prizes, it is said. The Officers
are: ]. Van Orsdaie, president; c. +
Gresser secretary, and Harvey Jones
treasurer
DE-. stephen s. Estey and Mrs. Estey
have returned from a three weeks, trip tt
California. The st. Johns Presbyterian
church in Berkeley. where. Dr. Este!
call to him. but he has as yet made ne
decision in regard to the offer. Or. Estey
SERMON Sunday evening was on the th snn}be Rec
effects of too much luxury on an individual
or a nation.
Three more large sales were RECORDED
; of deeds: They are: Mary L. and Leste
: NJ Crawford, lots 1879, III, 145 Monro
street, to the Amusement Syndicate com
pany, 81 800: c. Il. and Marguerite Merriam
and A. Fassler to William Wuefkuhie, 32
acres of farm land north of Richland
S13.2OO and John NJ. Caulk to Albert
Ottinger. eighty acres south of Berryton
$1,000 A number of smaller deeds wer
also recorded.
Wesleyan university. A program is nov
being outlined whereby the trustees hop
to be able to secure an endowment
6ers Of the board of trustees are Harrison
CIarkson. president -. Z. Slaughter. treas
urer: Or C. B; Zook: secretary Dr., f. J
H. O. Hotter. Topeka DR. Henry Z. Wolf
and A. o. Ebriaht, Wichita H; L; Checker
1 Mcpherson; +. NJ Wood and C. L. RarfcE
= Stockton.
E The women's division of the Unite
States employment bureau on East FIT
do reconstruction work in army hospital
i'll this country They are wanted to wor
with returned soldiers who are still held 1
s hospitals head aid receives $50 wit
!. qaurters and rations. while assistant aid
receive $50 with qua rters and ratfons- Wo
men who can teach elementary subjects
manual arts and crafts, and who can d
, medical social service work are in demand
W. T.. Connolly secretary of the Stat
Historical society, is in receipt of an in
teresting paper from overseas, called 9Th
Sanitary Swab.'' 1t is the official paper o
the 10th Sanitary train. Thirty fift
division. The editorial staff include
Chaplain Clyde f. Terry, editor chief
Doyle l.. Buckles, managing editor. an
| Charles Il. Host, a former Topeka news
paper man, assistant editor. The copy re
cefved by Connolly Is called the Argonn
number. and contains cartoons of i'm
portant events Incidental to the drive.
The Rev. AIva =. Jopes, Highland Parf
has resigned as assistant superintendent O
the Anti saloon league, to become field an
d endowment secretary of the Methods