The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-15

Call me on the Independent" is
heard more than any other expression
in Topeka.
The much disputed school board war
| rants have at last been signed by Pres
ident S. A. Swendson of the board.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Kansas State Fair asso-
citation will be held the first Monday
| in December.
For the central or down town di-
| vision of churches DR.. f. l.. Loveland
| will preach the Thanksgiving sermon
! at 10:30 o'clock.
| The cry is now swat the cur dog
and the town cat DR.. S. J. Crum-
bine says they are a serious menace
| to the health Of a community.
| The schedule of the church league
basketball team, which has been made
up, includes six games, the first of
which will be played off this week.
Chalk Beeson of Dodge City, Kan,
is in Topeka today visiting with friends
and looking after some business affairs.
! Beeson was in the lower house of the
| 1907 legislature.
| The Salvation Army under Captain
I Louis c. Bennett is preparing to pro-
vide 200 baskets for the poor at Christ
mas time, each basket to contain
enough food for five people
RESOLVED, That the government
should own and operate all railroads"
is the subject of a debate which will
! be held this evening at the r. r. Y. M
, C. A. by the young mems investigation
! and socialGommittee.
| George Gilman, city marshal of
| Pratt, Kansas, is in Topeka today
visiting with the officers at the court
house and police station. He is Incl
dentally looking after some official
business for the city of Pratt and will
return home tonight.
| Morris Jenkins. chief of police, is in
Kansas City today looking for a man
| who stole a gold watch and several
| suits of clothing in Topeka a few days
ago. Chief Jenkins believes that the
| arrest of his man will give clue to
the long list of house breakings early
| in November.
| The prospects are bright for another
ever victorious basketball team at the
/ Central Y. M. c. A. this year. Five of
seven of last years veterans are back,
and are trying out for places, and
/ some good new material is available.
/ The association expects to have two
teams in the city league.
The new Sunday school plant at the
First Presbyterian church, which has
taken a year and half to complete
and which has cost about $4,000, will
be in full operation before Christmas
time. The live Brotherhood of the
church is occupying it's new room which
the organization has furnished with
rugs, pictures and piano.
DR.. William Duncan Macmillan of
the University of Chicago will give the
II second of a series of lectures on
astronomy at the high school audi
torium Wednesday evening. He will
speak on 1.-The Sum-" and will illustrate
his points by excellent stereopticon
views. The 400 people who heard the
first lecture by DR.. Macmillan last
week were delighted. The series of
lectures is under the auspices of the
teachers of the city schools
l. The annual meeting of the Topeka
Provident association will occur this
evening at the Commercial club. Off
GERS and directors for the ensuing year
will be elected, anyone who has con-
| tributed So or more in the course being
entitled to a. vote. Reports of commit
| tee viii be made and the work to be
carried on in the near future discuss
ed. Guy 7. Justis, secretary OF the as
ISOLATION, has in his possession a list
of 400 families for which he intends
either to supply a good Thanksgiving
( dinner or see that someone else does
A meeting of the Central Park Neigh
| borhood association will be held Friday
evening at the Central Park school
| gathering will be an old-fashion spell
| ing match This organization raised
| nearly $100 for putting in playground
/ apparatus for the children at the school
and it is said that it is now difficult
to get the pupils to leave the grounds
/ so much do they enjoy their out of doo1
exercise. Ed O'Neil is president of the
association, and George H Hughes Is
the man to whom is due credit for {
: great share of the work thus far ac-
| compliShed.