The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-20

use the Independent Telephone. They
I'VE the people to talk with.
s A religious work conference lasting
a day and a half will begin at the Cen
trail Y. NJ c. A. September 29.
The county commissioners have or
dered new heating apparatus for the
county Jail at cost of about 500.
Gymnasium work at the Central Y.
M C. A. begins next Monday. The edu-
cational classes will start October 1.
The fall term of the city schools be-
gan today. No work will be done on
the part Of the scholars until tomor-
row.
The regular monthly board meeting
of the Y. NJ c. A. will be held this
evening, with f. L. Copeland in the
chair.
The addition to the First Presbyter-
ian church which it has taken months
to build will be completed within two
weeks.
All business pertaining to the state
fair is being transacted at the fair Of
flee, corner Seventh and Jackson
streets.
City Commissioner NJ. c. Holman
will lead the singing at the young peo-
pies rally next Monday evening at the
Auditorium.
A meeting of business men interested
in organizing a Topeka board of
lTdue VIII DC .CNSIllll6
at the Commercial club.
The attendance of the little girls
school at Bethany college shows a big
gain over last year. The opening of
the school occurred last Thursday.
Dr. S. s. Esteys Y. NJ. c. A. business
mems Bible class will be held on
Thursday evenings this season. The
first meeting will take place next week.
Continuances were taken yesterday
in the cases in the probate court
against Lew Barnett and 1. Fox,
charged with being delinquent parents.
Cooking classes at the Provident As
sociation will begin on Saturday, the
colored girls having a session at $3.50
and the white girls classes coming at
2:3O O'Clock.
Some pieces of terra Gotta for the
front of the new Warren NJ. Crosby
building were smashed in transit. and
it will be some time before they can
be replaced.
Beginning tomorrow at 10 o'clock an
aIl-day meeting of the guild Of Grace
cathedral will be held to plan the work
for the fall The meeting will be an
all-day affair.
The ruins of the Copeland hotel will
soon be thing of the past. They are
now being torn down preparatory to
the erection of the three-story Gordon
business building.
rived at the Commercial club. This
was evident yesterday from the fact
that there were several meetings going
on at the same time.
Charles Cross, aged II, of Kansas
City, Kan, has been brought to the
state industrial school by w. T. Wat
kins. He stole some bear traps from
a milling company and sold them for
junk.
Secretary H L. Cook says he will be-
gin to plan for the next years fair
and exposition by the first of Janu-
ary. 1t will take some time to get the
business affairs pertaining to the fair
last week Strengthened out. '~~'
E. L. Copeland. H. B. Lautz, and
number Of other Santa Fe officials will
be in the receiving line at the recep-
ton to be given tomorrow evening at
the Central Y. NJ. C. A. for the en-
ployes of the Santa Fe offices.
Work has commenced on the new
three story brick business block on the
old Copeland hotel site, Ninth and Kan
sas avenue. The work of tearing down
the old brick walls and cleaning away
the debris will be completed this week.
Leeper & Smith have a large force
of men at work digging the holes and
doing the other necessary work pre-
paratory to putting IN the big rein
forced concrete piers for the G.. A. r.
Memorial building at the corner of
Tenth avenue and Jackson street.
Many hundred dollars worth of val
liable stones and jewelry was lost in
the Copeland hotel fire almost two years
ago. Workmen who are cleaning out
the site will find it profitable to look
closely. This fact should make it easy
for the contractors to obtain laborers
In his suit for divorce brought by
Charles A. Baird against Elizabeth
Baird in the district court the hus-
hand makes charges of n
his wife's failure to attend to her ordi-
nary household duties. They were
married in Missouri about a year age.
The Topeka Anti-Tuberculosis asso-
citation is making an effort to secure
the next meeting of the Southwestern
Conference on Tuberculosis for To-
peka. This would bring about 200 per-
sons to the city who are working in
the interests of eradicating the great
white plague"
Another disaster to Battling Mel
son and his new motor car. Near Law
renee last evening a tire burst and
threw his machine into the ditch. He
was attempting to lower the record be-
tween Topeka and Kansas City. Mel
son is spending all his time, money and
nerve in the attempt.
City Commissioner Holman insists
that the reason his chicken ordinance
was not passed by the city commits
sioners was because all of them had
hen houses on their lots. But it takes
more than this to stir up a fuss be-
tween the commissioners and cause
something exciting to happen at the
city hall. a
While delivering mail at 1903 North
Kansas avenue Clarence Kistler, a mail
carrier was severely bitten by a vicious
dog owned by the residents at this
place. The mail man claims he did
nothing to the dog. Neighbors have
complained many times of the dog.
Now Uncle Sam will take hand in
the matter.
The basketball enthusiasts of the Eu-
cid Avenue M. Z. church held a meet
ing last night and elected Mr.. Clyde
Partridge manager of their organiza-
ton. He said: I'VE will have men on
the team who are old heads at the
game. This is what makes a winning
team and we are out after the league
championship"
In spite of all the encouraging ad-