The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-03

Phone double IS for Office supplies
The Trapp- Stevic company. printers
have moved to lib East Eighth.
A new $50 desk is to be ordered for
the clerk of the board of education.
A committee of the Anti-Tuberculosis
association met this noon at the Conn
mercial club.
Federal officials are in Fort Scott
attending the May term of court
which opened there Monday.
Miss Junia NARROW, head of the physi-
cal department of the association. viii
lead the vesper services at the Y. w.
c. A. Sunday afternoon.
Secretary H L. Cook was out at the
fair grounds this afternoon with Engi-
neer John Rogers making plans for in-
provements on the grounds.
A committee of the Brotherhood Of
the First Baptist church met this noon
to consider plans for increasing the
membership of the organization.
If a few more buildings around the
remodeled or replaced with new ones
it will be rather a difficult task to find
footing there.
Subjuniors and subscribers of the high
school will play game of baseball to-
morrow afternoon az Skenes park.
Thursday afternoon the juniors and the
seniors Will clash at the same place.
The sixteenth annual meeting of the
Kansas Children's Home society will be
held in the Commercial club rooms to-
attended b., delegates from all over the
state.
JaiIer Ed woodruff is working on an
invention to enable him to read the
telephone. He declares it. will be
easier than tic learn to use the tele-
phone.
1T will be the biggest thing you ever
saw, if it goes right" said Secretary
H L. Cook, of the State Fair associa-
tion, in speaking of the proposed avia
ton meet to be held during the first
part of June. ~
An ordinance has been introduced
with the city commissioners asking for
sion. The amount has not been de-
cided upon but it is certain that the
commission viii be paid for their SER
vices.
The city commissioners have decided
that all sidewalk petitions must be in
before the first of June. All Topeka
citizens who are planning on sidewalks
this year will have the month of May
to prepare their petitions and get them
into the city.
Dwight Ream and Clyde Partridge
will represent the local high school in
the half mile rCn at the annual state
track meet at K. U. Friday, May Z. The
boys OF the school believe that their
representatives nave a good cndnco OF
carrying off honors.
Ground will be broken tomorrow pre-
paratory to the erection of the new Y.
w. c. A. home. 1t IS not known at
what hour the first spade will be put
in action but at that moment the
building commit eer of the association
expects to be present.,
At the meeting of,the Shawnee Horti-
cultural society. inI Garfield park on
Thursday, the 5th, Prof. Johnson of the
Kansas State university will deliver an
address on Literature in Its Lelation
to Life" Free to everybody. Come
and bring your basket.
The county officials are telling of the
wonderful feat of the county clerk in
$50 claims on pay day. The
this. Tomorrow isFpay day at the city
hall and City Clerk Burge will handle
775 claims amounting to $52,192.19.
Marshan's band will be sent to Kan
sas City for two days, June and 3, to
represent the Topeka JobberS and Man
ufacture rs association at the grand
council meeting of the United CONNER
cial Travellers union. 1t will cost the
association $3.50 to send the musical or
ganization.
The CITY has decided to help out the
people who are fighting the south side
dixie proposition. The people have
fought the injunction through the dis
trict court and will take it to the SUI
the briefs, etc. The cost will amount
to about $50.
1t appears that one of the now Conn
mercial club recruits was won over by
The device of f1attery this morning. The
trick was turned over the telephone and
the gentleman in question was induced
to become a member of the organization
only after he was spoken of as being
good looking"
Jackson street between Ninth and
Tenth avenues will be closed to allow
the contractors the use of the ground
for storage purposes while the Santa
Fe offices and the Memorial building |
are built. Jackson street in this local |
itv is seldom travelled anyway and the |
CITY allowed the contractors the use of |
it without any objection
After this month the city pay day |
will be held on the sixth of the month.
This will give the employees regular |
dav for their wages. Mayor Billiard |