The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-31
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The Commercial club will be closed
tomorrow.
The Y. w. C. A. quarters will be
closed tomorrow.
The city schools will reopen on
Monday morning.
DR.. r. S. Magee was called to Girard
today on professional business.
Monday evening a meeting of the
board of education will be held.
Skate the "old year" out and the
new year. in tonight at the rink.
There will be the usual number of
! watch" parties in Topeka this even
in.
All Y. w. c.. A. Bible and educa-
tional classes will resume activity on
Monday.
! At the First United Brethren church
+ on Sunday special New Years services
will be held.
McRae will give a matinee dance
New Years afternoon, 112 East Sew
enth street.
The entertainment committee of
the state Y. NJ. c. A. convention will
meet Monday evening.
| E. w. Rankin has been selected as
! chairman of the advertising commit
tee for the Y. NJ. c. A. theater meet
ings.
| A number of lots have recently been
sold in the Rickenbacher addition to
| persons who intend to build at later
date.
Short time investment that pays 20
percent because it saves 20 per cent
of your worry-an Independent Tele-
! phone
| A gymnasium class is being planned
at the Y. w. C. A. for the teachers
| of the city. 1t will commence the first
| of the year.
| A watch party will be held this
evening at the Euclid Avenue M. E.
| church. Those who attend will bring
basket suppers.
1t has been hard matter for the
snow to stay on the ground today ana
thus usher thu old year in with
white breakfast in the morning.
The o. w. Schick property. consist
ing of 341k acres north of the Country
club, has been sold to Sim T. Cole
man for a consideration of $10.250.
The Y. w. c. A. building fund is
now something over $4,000. The
girls will make an effort to increase
| it to $4,000 the latter part of Janu-
airy.
There will be open house from to
| II o'clock at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
tomorrow. Governor Stubs will give
an address at 4:30. Both men and
women are invited.
The Passion play lecture, illustrat-
ed was begun this afternoon by the
Rev. Thos. S. Young of the. First Bap-
fist church. 1t will be continued to-
morrow at 3 o'clock.
At the Central Y NJ. C. A. this even
ing a semi-final round in connection
with the volley ball tournament will
be played by Senior B and the Shaw
nee Fire teams at $50 o'clock.
The signed statement proving that
John Holmes is a native of Topeka
will be sent to the government today
and it is expected that Uncle Sam
will allow the young man to land at
once.
The more the business men hear of
fairs of other states the more enthu-
siastic they are becoming over the
promotion of a great Kansas fair in
the capital city.
On the walls of the new hall on the
fourth floor of the Central Y. M. c. A.
building will be seen tomorrow an art
collection. The pictures which will go
to make up the exhibit are the work
of James Sullivan and L. L. Sargent.
At the Y. w. c. A. vesper service
Sunday at 4 o'clock the chorus which
has been trained by Mrs. Florence
Fox Thatcher will sing. as also will
Miss Eva Curry. There will be vesper
services each week during the winter
months.
There will be open house tomorrow
at the Ra1lrOaQ Y M. T. a 1NtlIeSll-
ments will be served from to
O'Clock in the aftern oon- There will
be games and amusements of various
kinds during the afternoon and even
ing.
Councilmen Stanley, Miller and
Tandy have issued their petitions for
the Office of commissioner under the
commission form. When the hat
drops there will be practically all of
the city councilmen in the race for
commissioner.
Among the classes which will start
at the Central Y. NJ. c. A. on Janu-
ary will be one of twelve Russian
Hebrew boys who will be taught by
1. Gilberg. The boys will study Eng
lish and the American history will be
used as a reader
There will be but one delivery of
mail on New Years day and the post
office will close at 10 O'Clock in the
morning. New Years cards will con-
stitute most of the deliveries. There
were never so many cards of this ma
ture as have been sent though the To-
cal Office this year.
A. c. Markley. for a number of
years an attorney in Topeka. but now
an attorney and alderman of South
McAlester, Okla, was visiting friends
in Topeka today. Mr.. Markley says
the improvements made in Topeka
the past two years are very noticeable
to one who has been away.
Howard E. Everett, formerly with
the State Journal and now with the