The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-07

nave moved TO 115 East Eighth.
The Spanish war veterans will meet
at DR.. HammeIs office next Tuesday
evening, at 1913 Kansas avenue, to ar
range for the observance OF Decora-
ton day. All veterans should be
present.
Miss B. Fuller has organized
chorus of 65 voices to sing at the high
school- commencement exercises on
June g.
Those who haze places on the staff
or the high school annual are hard at
work preparing for the publication of
that book. The editor-in-ckief is How
ard Searle and the business managers
are Carl Smiley and Homer Bone
brake
l. D. Graham has returned from
Clifton. Mo, where he has spent sew
eral days on business He reports
land slides along the railway lines due
to excessive rain
A meeting of the board of managers
of the Topeka Anti-Tuberculosis soci-
ETY. will be held in Gemmell hall Tues
day evening to discuss plans for an ac-
tive membership campaign.
Miss Daisy. June Trout. secretary of
the local Y. W. C. A, is now in charge
or an association membership cam
paign in Racine, Wis, where she was
formerly secretary.
Judge I. S. West will leave tonight
for St Paul; where he will represent
the government in the case against
Fred Warren, editor of the Appeal to
Reason, before the appellate court. He
will return late next week.
Although it has rained nearly every
day for week there has been very
little rise in the river
Wilson Office Supply Co. now at 10
West Sixth street.
Judge T. F. Carver left this afternoon
for St. Paul to attend the United States
lie in
there
unique method will be employed
Sunday morning by the Brotherhood
class of the First Presbyterian church
meeting at $50. Ten automobiles have
been promised to convey prospective
members to the church.
Sunday will be Mothers day" at the
churches of the city. A special effort
win be made to get the old. folks OUT
to the services. Men will wear white
carnations out of respect for mother
Prof. J. E. Kirkpatrick of Washburn
will speak at the high school chapel IN
the near future. An out of town girl
will give harp solo during the Mon
day assembly hour. Friday, the school
chapel exercises.
Wanted a speaker High school au--
thorities are on the hunt for a speaker
for the high school graduating eXe.-
D.
will be about "a graduates this year as
compared with more than a hundred
last year. The January class WAS
lG-ger than usual which brings the to-
tai number of graduates for 1910 to a
figure about equal to that of 1909
T.ev. Charles A Finch of the First
Christian church will preach the class
sermon for the seniors of the high
school.
You want telephone that will get
your party. The Independent does
meeting of the lawyers was held
this noon at the Commercial club.
Five more patients will go out 70
the open air camp of the Provident as
ISOLATION as soon tents have been
provided. There are now five patients
at the camp. A call is made for easy
chairs. small wash stands and bed
gested that Sunday school classes at
tend to making flower beds at the
camp.
Grace Bacon and Mabel Beeler will
sing at the Y. w. c. A. vesper services
Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock Miss
Junia NARROW, physical director of the
association. is the leader.
E. C. Brownell will speak Sunday at
the Mothers day. exercises at the
First Baptist church
Dean Frank T. Lee of Washburn will
give an address on the book of Romans
at the Y. w. c. A. Tuesday evening.
A week from Sunday the Geneva club
will have charge of the Y. w. G. A.
vesper services. Enthusiasm will be
aroused for the summer conference at
Lake Geneva.
During the past week many of the
property owners in the city have NOW
ed the grass on their lawns for the
first time this season.
1t will soon be time for the small
boys to start their lemonade and pop
stands.
Building operations in the city have
been considerably retarded due to the
rains. Interior work has been going
on as usual.
are representing the Topeka high
school today in the annual state high
school track and field meet being held
at Lawrence under the auspices of the
state university. The local athletes
have entered for the half mile run
The state record is 2:13 and Ream in
practice at the fair grounds made it
in 2:1O Partridge has covered the
ground in 2:13.
juniors and subsophomores now
stand at the head in the high school
ba seball tournament with a clean rec
ord The sophomores are the tail end
ers with no games won, and the fresh
men have a record of 500 per cent No
games could be played this week on
account of the rain
Wheat in Shawnee county is for the
most part in excellent condition due to
the recent precipitation. E. j. Smiley.
secretary of the Kansas Grain Dealers
| association, states that a few of the
farmers in the central portion of the
state are still blowing up wheat which
failed to respond readily to the first
rains.
A picnic had been planned for a
class of fifty girls in sewing at the
Provident association to be held this
afternoon near Cages park. but owing
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was held in the associations gymna-