The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-10


The Trapp-stevic company, printers,
has moved to 113 East Eighth.
New uniforms have arrived and the
police force begins to look more nifty.
Mrs. c. F. Menninger's Bible class
met today in two sections in Gemmell
hall.
County Clerk Sam Zimmerman is
in his office again after a three days
illness.
Sheriff Norton went to Holton this
afternoon to testify in the incubator
baby case.
A. j. Bergen, business man of ST.
Louis was visitor today at the Cen
trail Y. M. c. A.
This afternoon the Junior gym
class of the Y. w. c. A. went to Gar
field park on hike
All Bible classes at the Y. w. C. A.
with the exception of the high school
class will close this week.
High school juniors and subsopho-
mores are clashing this afternoon on
the Skene park baseball field.
Secretary H. L. Cook of the Kansas
State Fair association returned today
from a short trip to Lincoln, Neb.
A hand ball tournament is being ar
ranged at the central Y. M. C. A, the
courts having been put in readiness.
Today the question of moving the
state fair to the Taylor farm adjoining
Garfield park was much discussed
topic.
1.-THE College Ball. comedy in
four acts, will be presented by the sub
seniors of the high school at the Grand
Friday evening, May 20.
Harry Kemp, the tramp poet
dropped into the city on his way to
Tacoma, Wash, where he will spend
some time among anarchists getting
material to put into verse.
Through an oversight of the proof
reader, Courtney's advertised picture
hats for % cents, the advertisement
should have read Picnic Hats 25 cents,
6O3 Kansas avenue, upstairs.
Friday evening the board of direc-
tors of the central Y. M. c. A. will
meet for o'clock dinner. 1t is the
occasion of the regular monthly meet
ing and annual election of officers.
Naturalization papers are being
made out for Herman Edward Ossann
of LeaVenWorth, who left Holland and
came to America in 1906, and Rudolph
Thorpe, who came here from Norway
in 1905.
Doc Manson, who escaped from
Parole Officer Crawford Monday, was
taken to the Hutchinson reformatory
after he had been recaptured, instead
of to Lyndon, as it was expected at
that time.
This noon there was a large atten-
annual election of AID club officers
took place, and there was a meeting
of the board of directors of the club
aside from smaller meetings.
May 20 is the opening day at Vine
wood park. The attendance was some
what larger last year than the first
season of the parks existence. 1t is
anticipated that the amusement park
will be more popular than ever this
summer
Topeka tennis enthusiasts will be
represented at the state tournament to
be held in Wichita in July. Already
the courts here present a lively scene
and a number of the local players
are going in after first place in the
contest.
A meeting of the schoo1 board will
be held on Monday, to consider the.
Some of the mem berS of the board
consider that the new schedule as
submitted by the teachers committee
makes too large a difference between
the high and low salaries.
This evening the board of mana
gers of the Topeka anti-Tuberculosis
society will meet at o'clock in Gem
nell hall to plan a membership cam
paign and discuss the question of tax
ing over the camp for consumptives
which has recently been established
by the Provident association in the
vicinity of Garfield park.
The case in which Page Hawkins
and J. P. Williams are charged with
disorderly conduct will be tried in
police court this afternoon Hawkins
shot Williams as the result of a dis
pute and because there is no other
charge upon which they can be tried
in police court they are. held to ans
wer to the disorderly conduct count.
Two summer clubs are being organ
lied at the Y. M. C. A. One will be
called the L. K. K. club and will be
a secret society. and the other will
be known as the Robert Louis Stew
enson club. The members of the
climbs will meet after work hours once
a week during the summer and then
take a hike to some park where
after an hour of reading, picnic sup
pers will be enjoyed.