The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-08-23

Alpha johnson celebrate her third
birthday anniversary Monday after
noon at her home. 528 Willow avenue:
| Winona Hatch, Margaret Hatch, Alta
May Eberhart, Amelia Raber. Mary
/ Alice Flohrschutz. Veronica Hack,
Esther Flora, Lee Ericsson. John Eric
son, Henry Raber, Robert sRaber.
Morse Raber, John Hack and Virgil
| Hatch.
Major w. H. Hughes, of the regular
army signal corps, was a visitor in
Topeka yesterday. Major Hughes has
been inspecting the Kansas signal
company at the national guard en-
campment at Fort Riley. He praised
the manner in which the Kansas sig
nal corps went thru their maneuvers.
While here Hughes visited at the
office of former Lieut.. Col. Frank L.
Travis. who is row state insurance
commissioner.
J. T. Crawford. executive secretary
of the state convention of the Kansas
Baptist association, will leave Topeka
Wednesday night for Weskan, Kan,
where he will attend the meeting CT
the Wakeeney association of the Kan
sas Baptist association. The meeting
at Weskan will be held August 2%26-
Aft&c leaving Weskan, Crawford Will
go to Phil1fpsburg. where he will at
tend the conference OF the Ooerlln as
ISOLATION of the Kansas Baptist as
ISOLATION. He will return home next
Monday.
H. A. Brown, one of four prisoners
who escaped from Lansing prison
August 10, has been captured by A.
D. Brandon, Rock Island special
agent, and is being held, in Jail by
Sheriff Fred Baker at Alma, according
to word received here. He was Serv-
ing a term of one to ten years for
forgery and escaped by scaling the
wall by means of a rope and ladder
after disconnecting the electric light
wires and plunging the prison into
darkness. The other escapes nave not
been apprehended.
There was a meeting of the dis
trict officers of the Leavenworth
diocesan council of tina National Coun-
Gil of Catholic Men in the assembly
room of the Topeka Catholic high
school Sunday. The following officers
were reelected: Leo Nusbau4n.
Everest, vice president; r. G. Err
bacher, st. Marys. financial secretary;
J. A. Kowalski, Emporia, treasurer.
and G. J. Hamaker, Topeka, executive
secretary. Nusbaum was selected as
the delegate to represent the Leaven-
ton of the national council, which
will be held at Washington, D. c.,
some time in September.
The Rev Clifton Merritt Gray, pas
tor of the Unitarian church of To-
peka, spent the month of July on a
vacation trip with his wife in north
ern Maryland. The first of August
Mr. Gray went to Boston, to devote
the remainder of his time in the east
to special work for the American
Unitarian association at Boston. The
recent successful drive for three mil
lion dollars for extending the Unfair
fan church work turnout the country
included provision for ministers with
inadequate salaries. and the mission of
the Rev. Mr.. Gray, from August / url-
til he returns to Topeka, will be to in
vestigate the bread and butter ques-
ton of poor parsons who are living on
a salary too small to keep body and
soul together. This work will proba-
bly, keep him on the road a good part
of the time. Mr.. Gray will return to
the Topeka pastorate in September,
when the regular services" of the
church here will be resumed, and all
departments of the church work will
be organized as rapidly as possible for
a year of special activity