The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-17

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Evangelist Railroad JIM Smoth left
today for Kansas City.
Still increasing as rapidly as ever
the Independent telephone.
The monthly membership dinner at
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. will take place
this evening.
A sign in the window of a certain
Greek store reads: Bananas 10 cents
dozen. In come"
Railroad JIM Smith conducted 81
meetings during a week in Topeka,
speaking to 5000 persons.
1t is expected that the garbage plant
proposition will be settled at the meet
ing of the city council tonight.
DR.. Ida H. Hyde will speak Friday
morning during the chapel hour to
the girls of the Topeka high school.
Work will begin in very short time
in connection with the erection of the
frame work for the new Mills build
ing.
AS the State Journals funny man
expressed it today the weather is GER
tainly "just one damp thing after an
other"
Frank P MacLennan delivered an
address on Public Spirit at the meet
ing Of the Saturday Night club Satur-
day evening.
Miss Edna Hopkins of Topeka took
the part of Loes in DIR. Van Eeden' S
play, Ysbrand, given by a University OF
Kansas cast.
La Crooks "Jayhawkers'' bowling
team will play Moore's Teddy bear
team on the Central Y. M. c. A. alleys
this evening.
The dates for the annual z M e;
A. circus have been set for March IL
and 10. About rs boys and 125 men
will take part.
The weather this morning must have
reminded the city's executive Of his
early days in the "old country'-regu-
lar London fog.
F1fty-six High school students are
in the graduating class. DR.. Frank
K. Sanders will give the graduating
address on January %.
The Y. M c. A. basket ball team is
getting ready for a trip to Wichita and
Winfield. The games are scheduled to
be played in about two weeks.
Saturday evening the interschool de-
bate between teams representing the
Topeka and Wichita high schools will
be held at the High school building.
Some way or other the trial of the
alleged kidnapers of the Bleakley child
attracts very little attention this time
Time is certain death to sentiment.
Tomorrow evening at the First Bap-
| IlSJ CnuTCn commissioner 1aOLldS Els
| till of the Salvation Army, second II
command in America, will give an ad-
dress.
Neat invitations were sent out today
by the sub-senior class of the High
school for their reception at Stein
| berg's on Tuesday evening of mex
| week.
| officials of the Topeka postoffice ar,
today engaged in checking over the af
| fairs of the Menoken postoff1ce which
was recently abandoned, effective Jan
uary Is.
| Tuesday evening at the Central Y
M. c. A. the Sunday school superin-
quet. DR.. J. B. Silcox of Kansas City
will speak.
| Plans having ben completed by ]
| G. Holland for the Guilford Dudley
| building to be erected at S27 Kansas
avenue, the contract will be let in tbs
very near future.
| The basket ball game which was
| scheduled for tonight at the Contra
| Y NJ c. A between the association
team and the Kansas Wesleyan five
has been called off.
DR.. A. e. Winship, editor of the
Journal of Education, Boston, will
speak at the high school Friday even
ing. This is the second address of the
| lecture course series.
The high school authorities say thai
there are no new developments in the
| frat question, but there is a rumor to
the effect that there is something
| brewing on the outside.
| The fog dense this morning
F., that the powerful electric street nght
! appeared like candles at the distance
| of a block and they could not be seer
| at all two blocks away.
| Santa Fe trains ran through water
! up to the car steps at Lake View last
right The situation has been reliev-
| ed, however. and the trains are run.
ming over their own tracks.
| A tool shed has been built in from
of the site for the new Santa Fe Office
building on Jackson street and lumber
is being placed on the ground prepare
tory to work of construction.
| The grocers and their wives will
listen to an illustrated lecture on Olive
culture by H. c. Newcombe of Phila
delphia this evening. An oyster sup
per will be enjoyed at o'clock.
! A poster in store windows reads
1.-THE subsenior class, June, 1910, Of
/ the Topeka high school will presen
! the original Siwash college play, 'Oul
Alma Mater. in four acts, January 81
| 1870"
Thomas B. Turner of Iowa, a grad
! uate of Princeton and former one-hal