The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-30
"Can me on the Independent"

Call me on the Independent"
The Central and Railroad Y. NJ. C.
AS are making plans for open house"
on New Years Day.
The January 1910 class of the high
school will hold a meeting this even
ing at 912 West Seventh street.
The candy and cigar rattle boards
which were a prominent holiday feat
ure are rapidly disappearing from the
shops.
1.-THE Warricks and their trick club
house is the title of an act that will
be put on at the Midwinter. 1t is a
comedy acrobatic stunt.
The preparatory work in connection
with the holding of a laymen's mission
airy convention in Topeka January 1918
is being carried on by the local COM
mittees.
Life insurance agents, in a final
sprint for yearly records, are remind
ing every tinid being that this old 1910
may be the last of the free-for-all
handicap.
The numerous standing Salvation
armies apparently work on the theory
that the 300 or 500 poor of the city need
no New Years dinner or else have Il
plenty left in the way of hash.
There is a report every day that the
new car line to Washburn college has
been put in operation but no cars have
DODDSu Out yet anu pdII IlSlAl 1Ol
places on the fifteen minute service.
On Wednesday at the Poultry show a
number of Kansas City and st. Louis
pigeons will be turned loose. Prizes
will be given to the owners whose birds
reach their respective destinations III
the quickest time.
The city garbage crematory will open
for business Tuesday. January 3, at
which time the collection wagons will
make their first trim over the cifV and
the fires of the big plant will be kin
| died for their all winter run.
/ Interest in city politics for the COM
ing election in the spring has been de-
Ginning since the last announcement
J. w. f. Hughes for mayor and Eugene
=. Stotts for commissioner seem to be
! the only two announced candidates who
| have been working up enthusiasm
! Il am a standpat Republican" sale
| w. G. Brooks, the negro orator, "anC
in the near future 1 expect to organize
a Taft and Curtis club. This organiza-
ton will be for the purpose of re-elect-
| ing at the coming election, said gentle
men to the positions they now hold"
Tuesday afternoon at the Poultry
show there will be an exhibition OF
tumbling by pigeons. The tumblers
are birds that do not fly at all, but &c
through with all sorts of somersaults
| in the air. A prize will be given fol
the bird that rolls the farthest and
fastest.
| The Scottish Rite Masons will attend
| the sermon of the Rev. T. S. Young a
| the First Baptist church Sunday even
| ing in body. They will meet at the
Masonic hall at Z o'clock and will marcl
over to the church. Mr.. Young viii
also preach in the Baptist church il
| the morning.
The Scottish Rite Masons will holt
/ a reception Saturday afternoon at thu
Masonic hall for the Rev. Thomas S
Young of Denver, formerly pastor o
the First Baptist church. The even
will be held at o'clock and will b.
followed by a supper in honor of Mr.
Young at $50 o'clock.
| A freak that will be exhibited at tn
| coming poultry exhibition will be Z
rooster which has been trained t
| s.mothe-" little chicks. The bird pos
| sesses great fighting proclivities, anf
does not allow any other bird to inter
fere with the brood of chicks that il
entrusted to his care.
w. H. WATSON, city auditor, has beel
asked by the commercial interests
Champaign, ILL.,, to speak before tina
body a week from Sunday on the com
success in Topeka. Mr.. WATSON
through his contributions to other east
ern papers has established a reputation
as an authority on this form OF mum
cipal control.
There has been considerable com
plant among the people of the cit
since Mayor Billiard has announced nj
intention of cutting down the icens
fees of the quacks and takers who hav
been overrunning the city. They CLAIM
that it would be much better Tor tn
city to raise the licenses ana run then
louf of town rather than increase tn
revenues of the city a small amount.