The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-02
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We always use the Independent tele-
phone.
The annual election of officers of the
Elks will be held tonight.
The manufacturers committee of the
Commercial club met this noon.
The undefeated Freshman basketball
team al Washburn lost to the Academy
last night.
The Shawnee County Horticultural
society will meet tomorrow at the
state house.
Treasurer E. L. Copeland of the Santa
Fe has returned from short trip to
New Mexico.
has filed his petition with City Clerk
Burge for commissioner.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter is to
| speak before the students of the high
school on Friday morning.
The business mems Bible class at the
Central Y. M. c. A. will be in charge
of DR.. s. S. Estey on Friday noon.
Next week the basketball team of
| the high school will go to Lawrence
| to compete in the state championship
series.
The history of the Topeka high
ing edited by Lee Fergus will be ready
for distribution during April
Sloan lodge No. 225 A. F. & A M
Will confer the first degree on several
candidates Thursday afternoon and ev-
| ening, beginning about 4 O'Clock.
Sewer and sidewalk contractors have
been taking advantage of this warm
weather and have advanced consider
able work. Paving contractors are not
as active.
The Santa Fe dairy special has
been abandoned. 1t was to have been
conducted over the southwestern Kan
sas lines in connection with the State
Agricultural college.
The Kansas City, Kan, high school
will submit a question for debate to
the local high school and it is probable
the debating teams of the two schools
will clash in the near future.
On Friday evening the basketball
teams representing the Topeka high
school and the Kansas City manual
training school will clash at the rink
Earlier in the season manual secura,l
the long end of 33 to 81 score.
The U. and v. Laundry company
owned by ]. H. Ulch and Geo. w.
Veale jr., will occupy, as soon as it
has been remodeled, the building at 218
West Sixth avenue which in the past
has been the home of the George Beach
grocery store.
William Roper. the western coaching
sensation of last fall believes in the old
football to win and has now induced
the best he had at Missouri. Joe Buick,
to enter Princeton. And while Roper
is in charge it is not likely that the
Princeton team will be drawn on So
cial lines.
According to Principal A. ]. Stout of
the high school more than so per cent
of the graduates of the school go to
college. Since the first of September
there have been II applications for
transcripts of grades which is neces-
sary to admission to a school of higher
learning.
Among the IA Kansas university
seniors who were recently elected to
the Phi Beta Kappa sorority is Miss
Stella Dallas of Topeka. The peculiar
thing about this election is that there
were as many young men as women
on the list, for as a general thing the
men are in the minority.
Warm weather has thawed out the
railroad time tables and almost all of
the trains are keeping the schedule
boards clean. The Rock Island, Union
Pacific and Santa Fe are sending their
through trains through Topeka on time |
The Missouri Pacific has been relieved
of the terrible congestion of traffic"
Joe CottIe. arrested at Rossville by |
rying concealed weapons, was given his |
preliminary hearing yesterday before |
Judge Simon and turned the affair into |
a joke, showing that he had simply |
carried a 70 caliber revolver across the |
street to his room. The marshal claim |
ed the mayor of Rossville ordered the |
arrest.
A game with the "Mormons," the |
champion basketball team west of the /
Rockies, which has its home in Salt 1
Lake City, seems assured 1t should be |
a most interesting contest as the local