The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-27

North Topeka, obtained a complaint
from James Clark, assistant city attor-
ney, this morning asking that G. A.
Wiburg be arrested for calling her vile
names in front of the neighbors.
The first annual gymnasium mems
banquet win be held at the Central Y.
NJ. c. A. Saturday evening at o'clock.
Next Sunday will be Bible study
rally day at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Marshall A. Hudson of Syracuse, n. Y.
will speak at 4 O'Clock in the after
noon. President Frank K. Sanders
Will preside at the meeting.
The board of directors of the Kan
SaS State Fair association have petit
toned the board of county commits
sionerS to grant them a bond election
for vote of $4,000 for the state fair
next year. The people of Shawnee
county would gladly vote these bonds.
The street car company is arranging
the final plans to lay their tracks from
the Douthitt tract along Buchanan
street and out to Washburn college on
seventeenth street: This will give the
residents of the Washburn college dis
trict a seven minute street car service
to the city.
A. c. Ridgeway, assistant general
manager of the Rock Island, was in
Topeka about Is minutes between
at the head of the maintenance de-
partment of the Rock Island and has
been on the scene of the Clayton wreck
in western Kansas.
c. F. Krammes, formerly secretary
to the late James E. Hurley has been
appointed transportation clerk in the
Office of the general manager in To-
peka. It is probable that General
Manager Kouns will bring his private
secretary from the west for the work
in the Topeka office.
Mrs. c. H. Menninger's annual re-
ception for the members of her Bible
classes is being held today. The gen
eral classes are meeting at the First
Presbyterian church this afternoon,
while the members of the Y. W. c. A.
classes, numbering $50, will gather at
the church this evening.
Fred Mac Kie who has been ap-
pointed trainmaster of the Rio Grande
division of the Santa Fe, says that he
has not had a photograph taken of
himself since he wore knee pants. He
refused, positively, to allow the news
papers to use his picture in connection
with the promotion. Mac Kie isn't so
bad looking either
Mr. and Mrs. Percy Walker were in
WakaruSa today arranging to have the
cots used at the Y W. c. A camp
while the Christian church convention
and the meeting of the State Teachers
association are in progress, for the
accommodation of visitors. especially
those VINO come IN on nlght trains.
Students and former students of
Dougherty's Business college will en-
joy their annual watermelon feast
Thursday evening, September 90, at
Garfield park. Melons furnished by
the faculty. Also there will be a hike
Saturday the first. on foot to Pauline,
by train to Wakarusa, and home by
train. Start at 1880 from the school.
While watching an automobile in
front of No. 2 engine house this morn
ing a runaway horse and wagon struck
Charles clearinghouse, a member of
the steamer crew. and throwing him to
the pavement caused a number OF
bruises and scratches. His clothes were
torn from his body. The horse and
wagon belonged to the Scott Bros ice
cream factory.
In the Rock Island offices there is a
young man stenographer by the name
of c. A Nordlund. Nordlund is not
only a good stenogra pher and a popu-
lar young fellow, but he is a poet and
a philosopher. Among his collection
of verse the following ditty on Girls
is worthy of selection:
Eyes, girls are very tickle things
You can not trust them far
They swear they'll feed you sugar
r1,1,o,1 ryooar vou,- face with tar"