The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-01

The front is being put in the Loomis
building on Kansas avenue.
Bids will be called for in a couple of
days for the new $4,000 Y. w. c. A.
home. The contract will be let April
first.
Contractors in Topeka are making
hay while the sun shines" Construc-
ton work is being pushed with all pos
sible speed.
Mrs. I. H. Cav will give an illus
trated lecture at the Sunday Y. w
c. A. vesper services on ''Dr. Grenfell
and His Work in Labrador"
A few more days of warm weather
will put the real estate market in a
weather man is predicting more cold
weather.
The Famous Clothing company. in
the Commerce building, GA Kansas
avenue, is remodeling the store front,
putting the door in the center instead
of the side.
Increase in pledges for missions on
account of the laymen's missionary
movement seems to be general even
the smaller organizations having
caught the spirit.
Excavation work for the G. A. r.
Memorial building, Tenth and jackson
stree will be finished next week. The
contractors have now been working
but 10 days on the job.
A track team at Washburn has been
can be done on account of the poor
grades held by the members. FUNK
ing is a habit at Washburn.
Samuel G. Blythe, who has written
who's Who and Why" and other ar
ticles in the Saturday Evening Post,
has left for Kansas City. Yesterday
he was the guest of Fred S. Bullene.
James Ramsey. former street COM
missioner, has formally announced him
self as candidate for city commits
Gil n r TQoF hos
nounced by the State Journal for the
last three weeks.
Paper hangers are to receive a raise
of 21z cents an hour. This means that
it will cost still more to have paper
pasted on the wall. The best scheme
is to let the wallpaper get old and dirty
and call it rustic"
Washburn's basketball team has
been broken up on account of the large
number of ''hunks'' among the mem
material but could never use it on ae-
count of the bad grades.
Topeka is on the direct route of no.
tables to the west. Andrew Carnegie
came through rot long ago and last
evening Louis Paulhan. "the human
bird" made a flying VISIT The Com
mercial club should erect their depot
signs.
City tax assessors have started out
on their rounds. They are liable to.
for a man to have on the end of his
tongue a ready answer and a good ex-
cuse why he has such a small amount
of personal property.
In round numbers the building per-
mits for the month of February were
sos, 300, about $4,000 less than was sta
ted in Topeka paper. The cold wealth
er of the latter part of the week put
damper on the pace which was set
the first half of the month.
CT car and q Qarbaoe wagon
came together on Kansas avenue Mon
day and the car won out. The wagon
was reduced t. kindling wood but the
driver, Samuel Oldham. was uninjur-
ed. Both the driver and the motorman
claim the other was to blame.
Mayor Green has returned from
Wichita where he met with the Peer
less Princess mayor and planned an
organization of Kansas mayors. The
mayor. will now have to see that he is
reelected in order that he might be-
come a member of the organization.
The board of county commissioners
has approved a bond filed by the Leav-
enworth Bridge company in the sum
of SIC, GOO to guarantee the reconstruct
ton of the wrecked Adams bridge at
Maple Hill. Active work of construc-
ton will probably commence in
short time, the contract having been
let for $4,000.
Some great and wonderful stunts
are looked to be pulled OFF, on Fri
day evening at a Sunday school enter
tainment of the First Congregational
church. Each class will furnish some
sort of entertainment and, although
everything Is supposed to be a pro-
found secret, rumors are out of some
laughable take-offs on public institu-
tions.
The Rock Island and State Agricul-
tural college corn and seed special,
which is booked for trip of five days
duration through Kansas. left Topeka