The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-28
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Get your name in the red telephone
DOCK If it is not already.
The Christian Endeavorers of the
First Congregational church will hold
picnic supper this evening in Central
park.
| DR.. Thos. S. Young will deliver the
| memorial address which has been pre-
| viously announced at II o'clock on
Sunday morning.
| The dining room at the Country club
will open tomorrow night for the sea-
| son. A. F. Colson, former manager of
the Elks' club, is the steward this year.
| The members of the Epworth League
| of the First Methodist church will have
| a social good time this evening at the
home of Miss Blanche Hughes, 723
1 Taylor street.
| The long and perhaps permanent
| drought in Kansas starts at midnight
| tonight but in Topeka the order of the
probate judge starts the period of
thirst at o'clock tonight
The Ministerial union is preparing a
| bulletin which will include infor1na-
| ton in regard to location of the various
| churches of the city and the hours Of
worship. This will be hung IN all the
| hotels.
At a meeting of the Alfalfa
! club to be held tomorrow at 2
o'clock at Commercial club, Prof. Ed
| H. Webster, dean OF the faculty of the
| State Agricultural college, will give an
address.
The Topeka Industrial institute COM
mencement exercises start today and
will be concluded next Wednesday.
Several noted colored educators from
out of town will be here for the differ
ent exercises.
The Kansas state board of examiners
in optometry completed yesterday the
work of its first sessions in the educa-
tionaI room of the Y M. c. A. build
ir1cr TI1a 1r.S will NrrIa hi
again in Topeka next September.
The Topeka baseball team is on the
road between Sioux City and Pueblo
today. Tomorrow the team opens
series of four games there. The week
day games in Pueblo are called at
S:45, which will make the starting time
in Topeka a quarter of five.
junior membership banquet will be
given In GemmeIl hall tonight for the
new recruits taken into the Y. M. c. A
during the recent campaign and for
those who secured the new members.
Representatives from the losing team
will black up and act in the capacity
of walters.
Rev. and Mrs. N. H. Huffman, who
have spent the past ten years as mis-
sionaries on the island of Porto Rico
have arrived in Topeka and will remain
here for some time. Mr.. Huffman has
secured the paStorate of the Second
United Brethren church, at Fifth and
Leland streets.
The Irish are always bound to score
in some way. When M. Jusserand ar
rived on the Santa Fe Thursday after
noon, in the private car of Vice Presi-
dent George T. Nicholson, the car car
ried green flags. 1t was the rear car
of the train. The French tri-color was
not in evidence.
The first block of the new brick
pavement On West Eighth street was
opened to the public today. Only the
but even this improvement makes a
great deal of difference to the street.
The old asphalt pavement was about
the poorest piece of pavement in the
city.
An attempt was made late Thursday
afternoon to wreck the Missouri Pa
cif1c which runs north from Fort Scott
to Topeka. Ties were placed on the
track, and fastened down, but were
moved. The Instructions were placed
between Richland and Tevis. The
depot at Tevis was robbed of twenty
dollars early in the morning. It is
thought that the offenders in both
cases are the same.
The Topeka Industrial Institute for
negro children in Kansas is starting to-
night it's annual commencement which
will close on Wednesday next, the chief
event being the baccalaureate sermon
on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 by Rev J.
E. Ford of Jacksonville, Fla, and the
graduating address by Prof. Kelly
arts, Howard university, Washington,
D. c. Rev. ]. H. Van Leu of Wichita
will give an address this evening".