The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-21
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Economy-Practice it by using an In
dependent Telephone.
At one point the steel frame for the
Mills building has reached the sixth
story.
Just remember that the weather
man said the ground hog knew moth
ing about it.
There will be a meeting of the COM
mfttee Of fifty at the city building to-
night at o'clock.
Mrs. Laura E. Thorpe, police ma
iron, leaves tomorrow for Beloit She
will return Wednesday.
Five policemen are now confined to
their homes with grip and others at
the station are threatened with it.
There are various ways of attracting
attention. One of them is to go out on
street on a cold morning without your
overcoat.
On Thursday evening the Christian
Endeavor societies of the Central and
First Congregational churches will meet
for a picnic supper in the parlors of the
First church.
The asphalt men of the city will ask
the city council tonight for a raise of
wages from 81 a day to $3.50. A num-
Der of the departments are now SEMI
ing in their petitions for a raise in
salary
The Wichita Beacon in referring to
Roy L. Bones candidacy for commits
sioner in Topeka, speaks of him in the
highest terms of praise Mr. Bone lived
in Wichita prior to making Topeka his
home.
A Topeka business man lost his peck
etbook containing $500 last week. He
found it the next day at his office,
where he had hidden it. His lapse OF
memory may have been due to the
change in the weather.
The local union of the young peoples
societies of the city. which includes a
membership of about 1900, will meet
this evening for picnic supper and an
niversary gathering at $50 at the First
Baptist church.
City License Collector G. T Mattingly
has collected $8,627.23 in licenses this
year. This compares very favorably
with 1896 last year. Mr.. MattingIy
will ask the council if he does not de-
serve more than $50 a month for his
services.
The girls of the Topeka high school
are willing to admit that they were
fairly beaten in the game against
the Washburn five at the Auditorium,
but they want the basketball enthusi-
asts to realize that Washburn used two
sets of substitutes.
Postmaster Rodgers has finished the
task of paying off LIZA rural carriers
in Kansas. The total amount paid
out was $13O,369.94. Four carriers,
whose vouchers were not properly
drawn and presented have not yet re-
ceived their pay.
Word has been received at the fed
eraI building of the arrest of George
Hill at Fort Scott. He is charged with
selling liquor without a license and
must await the action of the May
grand jury. He is confined in the
Bourbon county Jail.
The Sunday school of the First Con-
gregational church will conduct a mock
council meeting at the church the even
ing of March l. Councilman Howard IS
member of the Sunday school and it
is thought that the meeting will be
realistic in every detail. Some drastic
ordinances about bill boards and the
like are being drawn up.
Each Sunday afternoon at the Cen
trail Y NJ c. A, c. H Fenstermacher.
lecture for the younger association
members. Next Sunday the subject
will be 1.-THE Head Hunters There
were 156 boys present at the meeting
yesterday afternoon.
The officers Of the Y. NJ. c. A. mem
bership club met this noon at the asso-
citation building. The list of boarding
houses used in connection with the
State Y NJ. C. A. convention has been
turned over to John z. Moore, execu-
tive secretary of the Laymen's Mis-
sionary convention.
The Charles Wolff Packing company
will apply to the city council tonight
asking for the vacation of streets near
their plant. They are anxious to spend
$125,O0O in the erection of a mammoth
addition to the plant and the city is as
anxious for them to do it. This COM
pany employs 200 men at the present
time and will need more when the new
plant is completed.
California Man to Lecture,