The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-19

Every home needs q Home Phone
! It's the Independent.
The Century club will meet this ev-
ening at the Futurity hall at 1880
o'clock.
The K. U. Glee club will sing before
the members of the state Teachers
association.
DR.. F. L. Loveland. Of the First M
E. church. will speak Sunday afternoon
at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Probate Judge Sidney Chase and wife.
of Ellsworth, are visiting Jerry Shaw
and family at 1923 Taylor street.
| An excessive committee meeting of
the Topeka Local union will be held
this evening at the Central z. M. G. A.
The schoolma ans have begun to ar
| rive for the meeting of the State Teach
ers' association which commences to-
| morrow morning.
rie, Ok, arrived in Topeka Tuesday and
will visit with relatives and friends
week or ten days.
Attorney Harry ]. Bone. United
| States district attorney, was in Kansas
| City Tuesday looking after business af-
fairs. He returned home this morning
| In the report of the bank clearings
from Topeka for the month, the city
financial interests have forgotten to
include that Colonel Savage $4,000
smile.'
Judge ]. G. Pollock, Of the United
States district court. returned to ms
home in Kansas City, Kan, following
the hearing of arguments in the Dew
lin case.
Can't. Dennis Sweeney and wife. Of
Wichita, are visiting at the jerry Shaw
home on Taylor street. Capt Sweeney
is a United States revenue collector,
having offices in Wichita.
| &c ovnaafod that 1n0 narE0nS will
be present at a o'clock dinner to be
given this evening at the Central Y.
NJ. c. A. in honor of c. J. Ewa1d of
Buenos Aires, South America
w. A. Tinker, of the money order di-
vision at the postofhce, departed Tues
day afternoon for points in Iowa, where
he will spend two weeks vacation.
Tinker lived in Iowa before coming to
| Topeka
North Brothers will present Brown
of Harvard at the Majestic next week.
The scenic vesture will be as perfect
in detail. it is said, as the original
| New York production. Faust is draw
ing large crowds this week.
Miss Marie Hancock, who has been
a clerk in the pension office the last
ten years, has been transferred to the
pension agency at San Francisco with
an increase in wages. She will depart
for San Francisco next Saturday.
With a cool wave like this the hopes
and spirits of the city business men
rise. Cold weather has been prayed
for for some time on account of the
fact that no one would make pur-
chases when Indian summer was re-
posing on the lap OF fall.
Registration for the state teachers
meeting will take place at the state
house. An effort will be made to in
duce every teacher to register. Last
year the registration was 1890, al
though it was estimated that the act
ual attendance was at least 5000
Mrs Carey cambridge. of Dodge City.
is in Topeka for q few days visiting
with old friends and acquaintance
]. H. Howe, chief clerk in the PEN
| sion Office departed on Tuesday for
Missouri, where he will visit week
with his mother and other relatives
The paving and sidewalk laying ov-
er the city are in good shape and Will
be completed soon. This means that
for the first time in many years the
city of Topeka will have open clean
streets for winter use. 1t is the usual
custom to have the streets torn up
and excavated.
If you don't register with the cleo
Ition commissioner within the next ten
days, Topeka is liable to lose out on
the big state fair next year. A vote
from the city people will decide the
proposition if anything will. 1t is a
poor citizen who will not register be-
fore October %.
Jessie Harris and Harry Butler, who
in debate at the Lowman Hill M. f.
church, took the negative side OF the
question, Resolved, That excessive
wealth is a greater incentive to vice
than excessive poverty" were given the
,, decision by the judges over Ruth Hell
and Merrill Ream.
What would you have said about
| fifteen years ago if someone had told
[you that in short time man would
: fly above the Atlantic in an airship
and while up in the clouds he would
talk to the world below with electric
ity? You would have called up the
? insane asylum on a minutes notice.
: The OFFICIALS at the Santa Fe offices
who did not go on the Grass Roots
tour. are getting up petition to re-
quest that John Purcell, superinten-
dent of the shops return to Topeka
The big school ma am convention con-
Ivenes tomorrow and it is feared Mr..
Purcell will not be on the job.
: Mrs. Stella Barclay has been re-
leased from all blame attached to the
, KIDNAPPING of Marian Bleakley as far
: as Mrs. BIeakley is concerned. But
as has been stated many times before,
Tillotson and Gentry are the goats
J of the case. People are tired of the
, incubator baby case and greet the dis
missal with a sigh of relief.
Manager C. C. North. of the North
Brothers Stock company, last night
) returned from Oklahoma City where his
other company has been presenting
Brown of Harvard, the bill at the Ma
: jestic next week. Mr.. North is salts
fed with the successful run the other
company is having.
If the people of the city think that
, the building boom has diminished and
that Topeka is not growing let them
stroll down in the mill district al
J night. Firms doing mill work for con-
TRACTORS in T0nR1<a running daN
; and night in an attempt to keep up
with their orders.
[ There has been a lamblike condition
4 of affairs for some months at the Cen.
: trail Y. NJ. c. A., but Tuesday night
E the old spirit which used to prevail