The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-08

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Independent Telephone.
Fifty plates will be set in Gemmell
hall this evening for Y. M. G. A.
membership dinner.
The Laymen's missionary commit
tee of Is will meet at the Commercial
club Saturday noon.
Special Christmas games will be
played in all gymnasium classes at the
Y. w. C.. A. next week.
The Wilson Office Supply Co. 107
West 9Th ave., now handle all cash
register supplies for the National
Cash Register Co.
There was marked lack of eff
fort after the recent precipitation of
snow to clear the sidewalks for the
benefit of pedestrians.
THE Voice. is the new organ of
the Associated Ad clubs of America.
Copies have been received by the
members of the local organization.
A Y. w. c. A. bazaar will be held
Friday afternoon at Boswell hall.
The Washburn girls will have on dis
play the best products of college girls
ingenuity and skill.
At the Fifth avenue hotel on Dec.
Kansas State Bee Keepers associa-
ton will be held. O. A. Keene is
secretary of the association.
According to Election Commissioner
Titus the people are registering already
for the commission form election. The
election this spring promises to be the
nvehest in the history of Topeka.
City Draughtsman Cecil A Forter is
in Lawrence today where he will have
a half interest in wedding ceremony.
Mr.. and Mrs. Forter will make their
home at S1S West street. this city.
There are a number of street car
conductors who seem to forget that
t. .ask-
it the duty of a car conductor to call
the names of the streets at night.
A new automobile garage is to be
established N North Topeka Automo-
bile garages are now more numerous
than livery barns. The automobiles in
Topeka represent an outlay of about
100000.
Three lots at the corner of Thir-
teenth and Kansas avenue, formerly
owned by Mrs. Mary E. Chase, have
been purchased by G. Olander, who
intends to erect several modern
dwellings on the property.
The recent cold spell has demoralized
work on the big buildings over the city.
The Santa Fe has two mammoth office
buildings upheld by the storm. The
Mills building and the Thompson build
ing are both at standstill
The O'Clock on dinner on Friday
evening at the Commercial club in
honor of President E. P. Ripley of
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Railway company will be one of the
big club events of the year.
The only man who owned property
in the block bounded by Kansas ave-
nue., Tenth avenue, Jackson street and
Ninth street, who refused to donate
toward the Memorial building fund
was member Of the city council.
The new P. A Y E. cars Won a
home in the hearts of the street car
men during the recent snow storms.
These new cars were the only appar-
atus on the street railway system that
could make good Roadway against the
snow.
The board of directors of the Y. w.
G. A. will meet tomorrow afternoon to
discuss plans in connection with the
new home. The building will not be
started until $4,000 has been secured.
Fifty-one thousand dollars is the pres
sent mark.
Councilman c. E. Jordan, of the First
ward, will leave the city next week
for a two months vacation in Califor-
MIA. Then Mr. Jordan will return and
commence his campaign for city COM
missioner under the commission form
of government.
Superintendent C. w. Jones of this
district of the Rock Island, with head
quarters at Topeka, has gone to Chi
CdSO Oh business II Is expected CnaI
the double track proposition between
Topeka and Harrington will be dis
cussed at this meeting.
Miss Ethel Everingham, worker
on one of the Y. w. G. A. campaign
teams has been given $500 for the
fund from "a friend" This makes
$1,875 which has been secured by
the high school teams. The fund has
now reached the $4,000 mark, $1,000
having been added since the actual
campaign was discontinued.
Today is payday at the city hall. The
offices of the city clerk and treasurer
are packed. On account of the usual
custom of making two paydays in De-
cember for the Christmas accommoda-
tions the city will pay out an immense
amount of money this month.
The stockholders of the old Kansas
Exposition company, who took a re-
cess from Monday evening when the
company under the name of the
Kansas State Fair association was
adopted, will reassemble tomorrow,
noon in order to further the plans in
connection with the reorganization.
Miss Eliza beth Bamble, nurse in
Mercy hospital, North Bend, Oregon,
has written Postmaster A. K. Rodgers
asking his cooperation in locating Ed
ward Garfield Burt, who left Seattle
and came TO Kansas about three years
dSo- ne Is dDOul ~ years Oiu, anu IL
is said that his father is Kansas cat
tie dealer. Burt has six sisters, ac-
cording to the communication.
The firemen at headquarters station
of the fire department say that they
will not allow the new combination
chemical-hose wagon to be taken to
station No. if 1t can be helped. Since
this new wagon has been in service at
headquarters there has not been a
fire alarm to the station and the wagon
has not been used. The firemen con-
slider it an omen of good luck.
A course of lectures has been ar
ranged for the high school for the
winter. On the 18th of this month
DR.. E. A. Steiner will speak on 'Tol-
stoi; the Man-His Message" Dr.
Steiner is already well known in To-
naka as brilliant snea Lar Prof