The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-14
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The day of frozen water pipes is al
hand
Anyhow no one has defeated the To-
peka high school team.
Fred S. Brown will be a candidate for
city treasurer at the spring election.
Mr.. Bart Ronebrake. who is attend
ing Drake university, has won the ten
mis- championship of that school for this
season.
Mr.. E w Thompson will read pa
per tonight before the Saturday Night
club on The Canuck, Literary and
Otherwise"
The Washburn second team left for
st. Marys at noon today and VIII
meet the Freshman team at that place
this afternoon.
Dick Cooley returned last night
from Chicago where he had been at
tending the annual meeting of the
Western League.
have SO shares stock Western wool
en- mill, a going concern. Will sell at
price to justify investment See me
at once. D. ]. Hathaway, I'll North
Kansas avenue
The ST. Joseph high school football
team arrived from St. Joseph TINS
morning and are combating the To
peka high school team on Washburn
field this afternoon.
The Washburn football team which
was defeated by the Paramount col
lege team at Wichita Friday after
noon, returned from the scene OF its
defeat this morning.
The bishops of the Methodist Epis-
copal church who are in the city
have been delegated to speak in the
various churches of the den omination
in Topeka and also in the neighboring
towns.
A road grader standing on the park
ing on West Fifth street, between
Western avenue and Fillmore street, in
dictates that the street force has gone
into winter quarters or that grading is
contemplated on this much neglected
thoroughfare some time soon.
Walt Mason, who writes many of the
good things in the Emporia Gazette for
which William Allen White receives
credit was in Topeka Friday securing
material for a story about Secretary
Coburn which will appear in an east
ern paper the first of next month.
The Ministerial Union will hold its
regular meeting on Monday, November
Is, 10 a. m, in Gemmell hall. Central
Y NJ c. A Each member is specially
requested to be present, in order to
make the necessary arrangements for
the prospective Biederwolf meetings.
Rev. ]. H. Jones, of the Unitarian
church. will read a paper on THE
Ethics of the Minister'S Salary
The state educational commission,
which has charge of the drafting and
revision of school laws of the state, met
Friday night and today at the office
of the state superintendent. The COM
mission has prepared a lot of new laws
and is working on others. The commits
sion was appointed by Governor Hoch
at the request of the State Teachers
association. 1t is trying to straighten
out the tumble of legislation on the sub
ject of public schools which now ex-
lists in the statute books.
The old Archie williams homestead
which stands at the corner of Twelfth
and Fillmore street is to be torn down
within the next few days and rebuilt
as two modern houses. The first of
these will face on Fillmore street and
the other on Twelfth street. The cor
ner lots will be left vacant and later
a modern cottage will be erected on
this tract of land. The Williams
homestead was erected more that
thirty years ago by the late Judge
Williams and is a commodious build
ing of sixteen rooms making it I'M
available as rental property.
The Christian Science free lecture. by
Miss Mary Brookins, c. S. B., at 8 p.
m, tomorrow afternoon at the Grand
opera house. will afford the interested
public another opportunity to hear