The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-19

all up with the "ladies" 1t is lucky
that the chief has one ladies' man on
the force.
The Commercial club is struggling
to bring conventions to Topeka And
when the big crowds do come the cit1-
zens find it necessary to throw open
their homes to them. Another argu-
ment in favor of that million dollar
hotel.
The pumps and construction work
of the contractors on the Melan bridge
extension were inundated Thursday.
The exhaust pipe was the only part of
the engine out of water. These con-
tractors have the prize hard luck
stories of the year.
''I am taking my vacation a half a
day at a time. some days" explained
County Clerk Samuel G. Zimmerman
when quizzed concerning his absence
from his Office the other afternoon.
But 1 never get far away from the
Office even when I'm gone"
The model drug store which ]. NJ
Leeper of the firm of Leeper & Smith
has been planning to build for some
time will materialize shortly. 1t Will
be built of brick and reinforced con-
crete at the corner of Sixth avenue and
Buchanan street at a cost of $4,000.
George H. Hoyes, the new education
al director of the Central Y. M. c. A.,
is getting together an educational IL
brary on the fourth floor of the build
ing and now has 400 volumes. He ex-
poets to maintain on the same floor a
reading room, where educational pup
locations may be found.
at takes g. robber to catch rob-
Der, a thief to catch thief and a
scoundrel to catch a scoundrel, SAID
a Topeka cop last night as he twlrled
his club in front of the state Journal
ho continued I'VE
have one of the best police forces in
the country"
Arthur j. Bollinger, assistant county
attorney says there is an astonishing
degree of "wetness'' in the rain which
falls at Silver Lake; but for this ne
shores of that body of water in prefer
ence to a summer excursion to the
northern lakes.
William Collinson, president of the
Bachelors club is making arrange
ments for a club banquet to be held
wide as the Laymen's missionary
movement" said Coilinson. MEM
bers will be present from Cawker City,
Wichita and Kansas City"
Frank farrell. active head of the
Santa Fe publicity department, Is tray-
cling over the western lines of the
road getting acquainted with the off
Gals and the people along the line.
When it comes to a good hand-shake,
a smooth speech and q fond farewell,
Frank FARRELL is king of them all.
The memorial window donated for
Gemmell hall by the railroad friends OF
the late r. NJ Gemmell has been COM
pleted and will be put in place shortly.
Fitting ceremonies will be arranged
for the unwilling of the window which
bears the likeness of a knight in armor
and typifIes prog ressive Christianity.
o. ]. Wood has just received a post
card from the late J. E. Hurley dated
Karlsbad. August 4, in which Mr.. Hur-
lev said: 81 have just met f." X. Rob-
bins, a retired capitalist of Wellington,
Kansas" Several post cards from Mr..
Hurley have been received since his
death.
The Office baseball teams of the Rock
Island IN Topeka and the Rock Island
in Harrington have been trying to match
q game. Each one dares the other tic
come to it's town-but they can't get
together. 1t is likely that they will
meet at some town half way between
the two cities.
1t is said that a large number of
the rubber tubings on the auditorium
pipe organ are ruined on account or
the fumes from the gas lights which
the CITY burns in the building night
and day. These gas lights always have
been a nuisance and are a disgrace to
the city Here is a chance for the
commissioners to show that the COM
mission form of government is advan-
tageous.
A red hot discussion in front of the
Cremerie last night ended in the de-
cision that the Topeka railway COM
pany gave the citizens of Topeka good
railway service. 1t was also decided
that the Rock Island made the fastest
time, the Santa Fe had the best look
ing conductors and the Union Pacific
had cracking good block signals. Moth
| ing printable was said about the Mis-
souri, Pacific.
Ralph and Morgan. Knapp, assist
ants in the physical department of the
Central Y M C. A, who have spent
for their work this fall, will return to
Topeka the last of this month. ]. l.
MONTGOMERY at the head of the de-
partment, who has been taking ex-
aminations in advanced work at Lake
Geneva, will return at the same time
The mysterious murder case at Abb
| lene is a subject of deep interest to
| the members of the Topeka police de-
partment who have been following the
newspaper reports concerning it close
w. The offer of $1,000 reward, just
/ announced, makes the affair more in
teresting and some of the local detec-
tiyes may see fit to work on the affair
| themselves If they can obtain leave.
| Mayor Billiard believes that the new
| ordinance Just adopted by the city com
missioners prohibiting the selling or tn,
| exploding of fireworks in Topeka is IL
/ legal. He doesn't believe that it would
stand in the courts in case anyone
wished to test it. The mayor was {
| friend Of the small boyle fought fol
and frecrackers less thar three inches
long.