The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-14
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Eugene Y. Debs speaks at the Audi
forum tonight.
Eugene v Debs viii speak at the
Auditorium this evening, on '.Twen-
/ tieth Century Problems"
| The Topeka Athletic club is planning
/ to put on a number of boxing exhibi-
tons about the oath of this month.
! More than $500 men attended the
meetings held by the evangelists in the
shop district last week.
See the ad covering the sale of IFS
/ Western avenue by Eastman & Lakin
| in real estate column.
| L. S. Ferry will read a paper at the
meeting of the Saturday Night club
tonight on abraham Lincoln"
NJ. Chevriel, the French violinist who
has made such hit at the Star theater,
will close his engagement tonight.
The duck shooting season is at its
height and most any kind of q sports
man can I'LL his bag with game.
! Quite a number Of the .'horsey''
people Of the city have spent the week
in Kansas City, doing the horse show.
George A Clark has returned from
a chicken shooting expedition to Ellis.
The birds were SO wild that but few
were bagged.
Rev w. F. Warder, of salina, win
address the Y. NJ. c. A. colored de-
partment, 406 Kansas avenue, Oc-
| tober Is.
freshmen and sophomore classes took
place at Washburn last night and no
one was killed.
All women who have been special
| " interested in the Chapman meetings
will meet at the Y. W. c. A. rooms
on Sunday at AIS p. m.
! A woman called up the State Journal
office last night and asked: what
was the score in the football game be-
tween New York and Philadelphia
Three men are wanted by Mayor W.
/ H. Davis to act as delegates from Toe
peka to the mining congress which will
| be in session at Ell Paso, Texas, No
vember IA to Is.
A double header game of football
/ is being played on the Washburn field
! this afternoon between the first teams
of the high schools Of Topeka and
/ Lawrence.
Almost every morning one can hear
/ the guns along the Kaw river shooting
away at ducks. Several times of late,
especially this morning. it sounded like
4 the skirnish line in a battle.
| The advance sale of seats for the
Emma Eames concert at the Audi
/ torium next Monday indicates that the
seating capacity of the building will
be taxed to its limit.
A good cheer meeting will be held
at the Young Women's Christian as
ISOLATION rooms Sunday afternoon at
AIS Mrs. George Lerrigo will lead.
Miss Ada Taylor will sing.
/ Sam Radges says that unless he hears
/ something from Congressman Curtis
/ concerning the First National bank by
| October 1S, that something is going to
drop and pretty hard by that time.
Seventeen cases of diphtheria in the
city. Three more were reported to the
city board of health from George Fay,
1 315 Liberty street; L. NJ. Frazier. 1905
East Eighth avenue; I. L. Crook, 400
/ Lafayette street.
! The committee upon whom the re-
sponsibility for the success or failure
of the 1911 exposition will rest will
be announced at the regular meeting of
the Commercial club next Friday
night.
Miss Pearl Heinzman, who has been
at Christ hospital for the last two
weeks where she had a surgical ope-
ration performed, has been removed
| to her home, 1922 West Eighth
avenue.
An unthinking man asked: who
encourages the college cane rushes %
| Wonder if it ever occurred to that
man that the cane rush makes great
| business for the clothing merchant,
not to mention the hospitals, doctors
and vendors of arnica.
! There was some talk among the local
ministers of having a big union mass
meeting of all the churches in the city
at the Auditorium on Sunday. The plan
1
preachers felt that they ought to get
/ back to their own foclSs again.
A force of street railway employees
are laying the double row of ties on
/ the street car bridge across the Kaw.
/ While the company has been using the
/ bridge for some time there has been
| just one-half enough ties supporting
the rails, as it was impossible to get
the ties.
| A report covering the expenditures
and receipts of the city for year past
will be gotten up by City Treasurer NJ.
NJ. Hale. The report will be submit
| ted to the city council sometime in
| November. This is the first time a
! yearly report of the treasurer's Office
/ has been made It will present some
interesting features.
You may get the idea from the
number of people you see on the
streets loaded down with plants that
the green houses are doing a thriving
| business, that may be true but it is
not likely, as the custodian of the
state house is giving away the plants
that have been used for decorating
| the lawns of the state house.
Laborers are clearing away the
ground at the up river pumping plant
/ of the waterworlzs preparatory to erect
/ ing an addition to the boiler room and
| coal bins. The new addition will be
constructed of stone. The contract for
/ the addition has not yet been let. The
pipe for the mains which will 7oe laid
/ on Seventh street and which will re-
| lieve the choke at Sixth avenue and
| West street has not yet arrived.
There are plenty applicants for the
| position of police patrol driver which
! has been made vacant through the dis
/ charge of W. S. White. About dozen
/ of applicat iOns have been received by
/ Mayor ". II. Davis and this number is
/ divided evenly between white and col
4 ored. Henry Aye, an e&-policeman is
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