The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-25
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June is the date for Tag Day this
year.
DR.. Stephen S. Estey will preach the
baccalaureate sermon for the manual
training school at Pittsburg on Sun
day.
According to the program for Mer-
chants Week every jobber in the city
will have some part to perform in
order to make the week a success.
The Rev. Mr.. Charles M. Sheldon will
preach the annual class sermon to the
seniors of the high school at the First
Presbyterian church on Sunday even
ing.
The eighth annual meeting of the
Kansas Osteopaths opened this morn
ing at the National hotel There Is a
Sions.
Last year there was an increase of "a
per cent in the advertising in newspa-
pers of st. Joseph, Mo-. and the retail
business of that city increase 50 per
cent.
The last chapel exercises of the year
were held at the Washburn chapel this
noon. The seniors turned their caps
and gowns over to the juniors and the
presidents exchanged com lments.
Ernest Perry, the young boy who
ran away from the Orphans home last
Saturday morning, was brought back
to Topeka last night, and is again at
the orphanage.
william Shellsmith, the young man
who disappeared suddenly week ago,
was seen on a Wabash train in Mis-
souri, few days ago, and did not COM
NIT suicide as had been feared.
The first. performance of ''When
Johnny Comes Marching Home" will
be given at the Grand opera house to-
night. The proceeds of tonights per-
Torrance are to be applied on the pipe
organ deficit.
H B. Laughlin, superintendent of
the Kansas City agency of the Pinker-
ton detectives, was in Topeka Monday
working on the Swearingen robbery
case, but so far as is known he secured
no new clues.
Arthur Boyd, a Washburn student,
has invented a fire escape which was
approved the other day by the state
board of health. It is. a, simple friction
device and will be used on a number
of hotels over the state.
The Transmississippi Commercial
congress will be held in Denver in
August. Mayor William Green has the
authority to appoint the delegates from
Topeka. He stated today that he would
be glad to appoint anyone who wished
to go.
The Brotherhood of the First Pres
byterian church met last night and
aside from INDUCING in a social good
time, it was agreed that the organiza-
ton add $4,000 to the fund of $4,000 al
ready on hand for the addition OF more
commodous quarters for the Sunday
school
Since the action of the city council
last night making it a misdemeanor
to kill an English sparrow, the little
pest will gain as much reverence as
any other bird. When the English
sparrows7 over the country hear of this
ordinance there will be a great in
crease of population in Sparrowdom.
Street Commissioner Snyder pulled u
long willow root 16 feet in length from
a two year old sewer the other day
The root had completely blocked the
swerage. This should be an inspira-
ton to the North Topeka people who
are in doubt as to what should be
planted in the bikes.
The Sioux City team of the Y. M. G.
A. relay race was inadvertently given
credit for winning the race. In some
respects this team did excel, but the
team seemed to be i'll fated. Time was
| lost on account of the automobiles get
! ting begged in the mud, and later due
to an auto accident ten boys had to do
| the work of II. The best time for any
given stretch along the course was
made by this team, however. A %
mile sprint in the vicinity of Kansas
City was covered in 2 hours and Al
| minutes fiat