The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-12-01
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| The Independent long distance SER
vice is the best Mr.. Busy Man. Try it.
| Councilman Howard has returned
| from ST. Louis where he has spent
| the past few days.
| DR. Frank K. Sanders will begin his
series of addresses at the Y. M. c. A.
on Sunday afternoon.
| The Brotherhood of the First Bap-
| list church Will meet at the quarters
| Of the Commercial club Friday noon.
| The members of the Shawnee Bar as
| ISOLATION will meet in an informal way
Saturday noon at the Commercial club.
| The Y. w. c. A. building fund is
slowly but gradually being Increased.
| The campaign still goes on in a quiet
| way.
The building committee of the Y. w.
c. A. will meet Friday evening at 7:30
| o'clock to discuss plans for the new
| building.
The old round house in the Santa
modelled. The company is sinking
about $4,000 into the work
| The executive committee of the
| Brotherhood of the First Presbyterian
church met this noon to draw up by
| avs for the organization.
The celebration of the fftieth
anniversary of the founding of the
First Presbyterian church will take
place about the first of January.
AT the r. r. Y. M. c. A. gymnasium
| tomorrow evening a basketball game
| will be played by teams representing
| the R. r. and Central associations.
| The rain thus far has NOT been
sufficiently hard to give the streets a
thorough securing and cleansing, but
| on the other hand it has made them
sloppy.
The kind of weather we are having
| is not generally conducive to great
| business activity, but this is a time
| when the shoe dealers do a rushing
| business
Although the primaries are eight
| months in the future. City Clerk c..
B. Burge and o. K. Swayze have COM
menced their campaign for the office
of county clerk The fight prom
ises to be spirited one.
The Santa Fe will begin operations
at once on the construction of several
new locomotives the size of the new
type just shipped to this city. They
will be the largest in the world
The Washburn sophmores and
| freshmen play their annual football
game on Saturday afternoon. great
| deal of enthusiasm has been worked
up at the college over the contest
Friday evening 100 church laymen OF
the city will meet for o'clock dinner
at the Commercial club quarters to
|
| sionary convention to be held in To-
| peka February 22-24.
George H. Hale, ex-fire chief of the
Kansas City fire department, says that
the new combination chemical-h hose
wagon just procured by the Topeka
try.
Posters are being prepared adver-
Using a SNOW frolic' to be held in
The near future at the Y. w. c. A.
quarters. There will be snow, snow
balls and snow men-all artificial.
The Santa Fe is remodeling one OF
the old store houses into an engine
assem- bling shed. The cost of making
these improvements is about $4,000
The work is progressing rapidly and 1t
is hoped that it can be finished by
the first of the year
Justice Silas Porter will deliver a me
mortal address at the Elks' cub house
Sunday evening at $50 o'clock Ser
vices will be held the country over fol
al departed Elks at that time. Edwin
/ D. McKeever will deliver the eulogy
There will be special music. The pub
lie is invited to attend the ceremonies
The treasurer of the Shawnee Good
Roads association received today let
ter from the w. S. Dickey Clay Manu-
featuring company of Kansas City
r. Colt of Oklahoma, would give an
address at the national convention to
he held in Topeka December Is and
Is on Road Drainage"
"Out of the ten times 1 have made
Topeka" said a Chicago travelling
man in hotel lobby this morning, sit
has been clear but twice. Chicago has
the reputation o having as bum a eli
mate during at least half the year as
you can find anywhere but it seems to
me though Topeka is about as bad
Another man said that this is the
worst day he had experienced in the
city but his impression of the Topeka
climate was that it was delightful.
Notices were today received by 10(
| church laymen of the city asking then
to be present on Friday evening for 6
6 o'clock dinner at the Commercial club
to plan for the Laymen's Missionary
convention to be held in Topeka. This
convention will be the largest gathering
in the way of convention which viii
| take place during the early part of mex
year. Such men as Robert Stone, Scot
Hopkins W. w. Mills, David Bowie
and Mayor Green are backing the bis
1heetnE
About 80 chess players from all part
of Kansas will be present on Monda.
afternoon and evening at the Contra
Y. NJ. c.. A. to participate in a stat
chess tournament which has been calle'
by the State Chess association of whicl
: Major A. NJ. Harvey is president
: Among those who will be present ar
: Cappa Blaneca, a young Cuban VIII
has won much fame, and I. G. Brett
who won the state trophy last year b
= endeavor to win back the state honors
In Business for Himself.