The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-19
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has started.
Attend the Ticker dancing party at
Steinberg's Saturday night.
The Y. NJ. c. A. relay race Thanks
giving morning will start at 9:45.
The Federation bazaar will close to-
| night. 1t has drawn large crowds.
The alterations at the Robinson g.
Marshall store are nearly completed.
An Independent telephone will bring
the butcher or the baker to your door.
The stoves will probably be installed
in the street cars by the time the cold
snap is over.
Topeka will be well represented at
| the Iowa-K. U. football game at Law
| renee tomorrow.
been sold twice in two weeks The
! second purchase netted the owner a
profit of $1,000.
There will be a special Bible pro-
gram Sunday evening at the First
Baptist church and special music.
A Thanksgiving evening program will
| be given at the Quinton Heights chap
| ell consisting of music and Rotations.
The brick layers at work on the
| Thompson-Hall building have now
| reached the top Of the second story OF
| the structure.
A big force of men is at work
| excavating preparatory to the erection
of the new Santa Fe office building on
Jackson street.
| Mrs. W. H MoI, who was operated
upon the first Of the week for appendi
| cttis at Stormont hospital, is well on
the road to recovery.
| The Social Study club of the First
| Baptist church will meet or next
Monday evening at the home of G. G..
| Moore, 1853 Clay street.
Two lots on Fillmore street, between
| Twelfth and Huntoon. have been pur-
chased by c. NJ. Hill. who will build
a residence in the near future.
| c. w. Crews has returned from Hor-
ton, where he conducted a sale OF
| horses and cows belonging to NJ. \
Low, the total receipts being $4,000.
| The double arch front of the Cen
| trail National bank building is almost
completed. The structure has put on
a decided metropolitan appearance.
| Harold T. Chase will tell How We
1 Got Our Bible" at the Central Y NJ.
| C. A. Sunday afternoon at O'Clock.
i A fellowship lunch will be served at
! 8 o'clock.
! A special evangelistic mems meeting
| will be held next Sunday afternoon at
] 8 o'clock under the auspices of the
) evangeHstic council at the First United
I Brethren church.
| Tickets for the fall musical festival
| which takes place on Tuesday and
| Wednesday are now on sale at STAINS
1
! at the Auditorium
| Cement is being used more and more
| in the construction of homes in Topeka
l and the contractors believe that this
material will play an important part IN
| the building operations of the future.
| The week beginning Sunday,
| November %, and ending December 5,
will be observed as a week of prayer
| by the churches over the world. The
| local churches are planning special
J ceremonies.
| A plan is proposed by the friends of
| Washburn college for removing the or
iginal college building from the cor
| ner of Jackson street and Tenth ave-
| Lue, where it now stands to the college
| campus where it would be used as a
| WaShburn museum
Due to the address on Wednesday
/ evening at the Central Congregational
| church by Superintendent L. D. White
more on ''Public Fairgrounds there is
| a movement now on foot to organize an
association known as the Topeka Play
| ground association.
Architect J. c. Holland has drawn up
| the specifications for the II fire escapes
which are to be placed on the school
| buildings of the city, and bids are be-
ing asked for which will probably be
opened at the first meeting of the
board in December.
The Philomatheum and Atheneum
Literary societies of the high school, as
i sisted by the Glee club and high school
orchestra, will give two farces at the
high school auditorium next Wednes-
day evening. The farces will be Glass
Day Conspiracy and "a Regular Fix
Tonight is chess and checker rally
night at the Central Y. M. c. A.
Major A M. Harvey will meet all
corners at chess. and some interesting
checker games have been scheduled.
Play will begin at o'clock and last
until a late hour. The public is in
vited.
"You people in Topeka dc not
realize what an attractive city you
have" said travelling man in hotel
lobby today. 81 make dozens of
cities in the middle west and in my
opinion there is no other place that
will compare with Topeka as a resi-
dence town.
Nothing more gloriously beautiful has
been seen in these parts in a long time
than the sunset of Thursday evening.
| Its base blushed red with a brilliant
melted away into lighter tints as it
mounted to the heavens until its crest
glittered with the sheen of a gigantic
| sheet of Roman gold.
The board of directors of the Topeka
Pure Milk company have authorized the
erection of a $4,000 addition to the
| plant The structure will be two stories
| high, the material to be used being
brick and stone. The floors will be en-
| tirely of cement. and it is the inten-
| ton of the management to use the
addition largely for the manufacture
| of ice cream
| The real estate dealers and mer-
| chants are becoming more and more
convinced that conventions are a
great thing for Topeka, as it seems
that seeing is believing" and that
the visitors become convinced that we
have a good city to show It is to be
| hoped that we have a new hotel in
| the city by the time the Christians
i flock to the city next fall
III The annual meeting of the Kansas
II State Fair and exposition company will
Il be held on December 9. This will I'M