The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-01

the banquet of the Bachelors club,
which will be held Friday evening in
the Mission Tea rooms There will be
number of out-of-town members
present for the occasion.
The city and county commissioners
will meet at the Shawnee court house
tomorrow morning and make plans to
handle the dirt and excavation work
from under the Me1an bridge. The dirt
will be used in the south side dixie. 1t
is planned 10 start work at once. -
Guy Justis of the Provident associ-
alton is in Beloit this week attending
the annual convention of state chart
ties and correction associations. Prof.
w. H. Charles of the Industrial school
is also attending the meeting. Both
men will take an active part in the
convention this week
The City Federation of Women's
clubs invited the teachers and girls of
the high school to attend the meeting
of the organization which is being held
this afternoon. DR.. Edna Day, at the
head of the department Of home econo-
mics at the state university, is the
speaker of the occasion.
City Attorney Ralston is of the
opinion that the city should plan
big reception for City Commissioner
Bone and the herd of buffalo when
they return from Pontiac, Mich. A
parade up Kansas avenue with Mayor
Billiard and Mr.. Bone leading the
captured animals has been suggested.
The city commissioners have ac-
copied the proposition made by Super
intendent Patten of the street railway
to pay half the cost of raising the low
cutters on Douthitt avenue. This work
will be done when the street car line
is built through this street. The offer
OF the street railway was appreciated
by the city. sa-..-..
Earl Rose. of Chicago, national sec
rotary of the Merchants and Manufac-
turerS' association, will begin the cam
I-aign against the prohibitory law in
Kansas next week in Topeka At the
same time members OF the Kansas
State Temperance union will be hold
ing their annual meeting in the First
Baptist church.
January will be busy month in To-
peka. In the first week the State Poul-
try show will be held Then come
the meetings of the Kansas Improved
Live Stock association and the state
board of agriculture. The Midwinter
exposition will be held from the 18th
to the 28th of the month. Then, of
course, We'll have the legislators here.
The Provident associations nursery
wagon started on it's rounds this week
and will continue to make daily trips
until next spring. There are about if
teen children in the nursery depart
ment at present These children are
IdhcH care OI at the dSSOC1dIlOn WnllS
their mothers are at work. At night
the children are returned to their
homes
The fourth of the series of lectures
by DR.. William Duncan Macmillan, of
the University of Chicago. on 1.-The Law
of Graviatfon," was given last night at
the high school. The speaker told in an
interesting manner of the discovery of
the law of gravitation, the develop
I ment of the science of mechanics, the
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ideas of planetary motion. This lecture
was one of those booked by the teach
ers of the city schools.
Mrs. Theodore Saxon, who, together
with her children, runs farm near
st. Marys, purchased a male pig at
Recently she sold rs pigs, seven and
eight months old which weighed 200
pounds each. and topped the market
in Kansas City. Due to the careless
ness of a hired man, this herd had run
down until the hogs were but poor
specimens This shows that state fair
does some good in one particular, at
least.
Nathan E. Harmon, department
commander of Kansas, has appointed
]. B. Remington, of Oswatomie, A.
w. Smith and Joseph G. Waters, of
Topeka, as a committee to present the
John Brown Memorial bill to the
consideration of the next legislature.
A resolution was passed at the John
Brown battle-ground park dedication
at Osawatomie asking the coming leg
islature to make provision for statue
of John Brown to be placed in the
Hall of Fame in the capitol in Wash
ington, D. c. Mr.. Harmon this week
appointed the above committee to
present the matter to the Kansas legis-
lators.
The Provident association and the
poor commissioner were kept busy to-
day answering calls for supplies and
fuel from the needy of Topeka. The
drop in temperature brought a sudden
demand for fuel. clothing and gro
| ceries. 1--WE have been busy all day."
said Mrs Guy Justis, who is managing
the work at the Provfdent association
in the absence of her husband. Every
little while there is a call from the
Office of the poor commissioner regard
ing some family that wants supplies.
We keep a tabulated list of all worthy
families and this is the first real rush
of the winter. In addition to answer
ing these calls, we have given out a
large amount of supplies from the as
ISOLATION today and will continue to do
| so until the weather abates.'