The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-22

city.
On Sunday evening at the Central
T. M c. A. fellowship lunch will be
The good roads committee of the
Commercial club will meet Monday
noon.
DR.. S. S. Estey's business mems Bible
class met this noon at the. Central 7.
M. c. A.
A new Independent telephone direc-
tory VIII soon be issued. Get your
name in it now.
T.. w Rankin has been chosen to
rake charge of a large Baraca class at
the FIRST Presbyterian church.
Mr.. McRae will open his new dane
ing academy Saturday night with So
clai dance. Glass Monday night E. 7th.
The Topeka Railway company is
raising some of the low joints in the
crossing at Eighth and Kansas ave-
nue..
A tennis court is being planned for
the space Immediately back of the re-
modelled Central Congregational
church.
Dean ]. P De Bevers Kaye of To-
the students at K. u today on "The
BY Products of Life"
On Monday evening a dinner will be
given In honor of the new members
who have been taken into the Central
Y M c. A. this month.
A meeting of the board of direc-
tors of the Statewide Fair associa-
ton will be held this evening at the
Commercial club quarters
A plaster cast of the new Grace
cathedral will arrive in few days so
that the officers and parishioners may
see how the completed edif1ce will
look.
H; w. McAfee has been appointed
Dy Governor Stubs to represent Kan
sas at the farmers good roads con-
gress to be held in Chicago, November
1918.
When you order a telephone de-
eide which gives the best service and
has the most connections. You will
certainly choose the Independent.
The Y. w. c. A. is making active
preparations for the building cam
paign which commences the first of
November. Teams are being organ
lied
General Garcia. of Cuba. is the next
distinguished speaker booked to ad-
viii probably take place early IN De-
cember.
The students of the high school ex-
pect to turn out in force tomorrow af-
ternoon to root for their team during
the football contest with the Law
From present indications at least
300 football fans will make the trip
to st. Marys tomorrow. The special
train leaves after dinner and will re-
turn before supper.
The Western Wooden Mills at Lau-
rent and Madison, will be opened by
the first of December. They were
shut down some time ago on account
of business conditions.
The high. school football cham
pionship of the state will be fought
out tomorrow ons the Washburn
grounds. with the Topeka and Law
renee teams as contenders
In the legal section of this issue of
the State Journal are given given the
names of the Judges and clerks for
the election of November 2, and also
the various polling places.
City Attorney Ralston will hold the
first session of his Friday afternoon
class at the Washburn law school from
5 to o'clock this afternoon The
class will study municipal corporations
Among those who registered today
for the coming city election was quite
a large delegation of street railway en-
ployes. The street railway company is
said to be against the commission
plan.
The program committee of the dry
farming congress has asked 1. D.
Graham to speak on Commercial and
Social Effect of Dry Farming Develop
ment in Kansas" on October 81, at
Billings, Mont.
H. W. McAfee and the county com
miss toner's have returned from Man
haitian, where, with the assistance of
President Arthur C. Jackson Of the Ma
tional Roads association, a good roads
organization was formed.
Registration for the election of
November 2 closes this evening at 10
no he q n
qualify to vote for or against the
commission form of city administra-
ton as proposed for Topeka.
License Collector Mattingly ordered
off of Kansas avenue last night man
who was inducing the people to take
telescope. as that thoroughfare is for
hidden to street attractions of this
kind.
When an axle OF. heavy dray
wagon was rent in twain this morn
ing by the exceptionally heavy load
which it carried. the greater TART of
the load was precipitated into the
street at a point<directly opposite the
postoffice. -
Having been blind fifty-two years"
that placard pinned on the bosom
of an ker,sapparently some ten
years younger, attracted the atten-
ton of persons who passed the cor
ner of Sixth street and Kansas ave
nue. this morning.
| This evening the new Y. NJ. c. A.
building in Kansas City will be dedi-
Gated. H. B. F. Mcfarland, commits
sioner of District of Columbia, and
John Barrett, director of the Interna-
tional Bureau of American Republics,
will be the speakers of the evening.
Chief Eaton has decided to enforce
the curfew law, his special object be-
| ing to keep young girls off the streets
at night No definite time has been
| set for the enforcement to start, but
| as there is a city ordinance covering
| this, the enforcement is likely to start
| at any time.
The public improvements committee
of the city council has decided that the
grade on lower Kansas avenue should
| be raised one foot instead of two feet
as WAS proposed in the original plan.