The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-07

church, which began Thursday night
Speakers were Rev. G. B. ZOok of the
Walnut Grove church who presided,
Rev. C. E. Holcombe and Rev. E. E.
Urner.
Five thousand persons have already
applied for rooms during the conven-
ton of the Christian church. AS but
small percentage of the delegates to g
convention make reservations the indi-
cations are that there will be a great
| crowd of people here.
The Topeka commissioners will go TO
Wichita next week, their systems filled
with ideas on an improvement to the
commission form of government. But
Mayor Billiard will not go to Wichita
with very practical ideas on the en-
| forcement of the prohibitory laws
A religious work conference will be
| held at the Central association building
| Saturday evening. A two hour pro-
gram has been arranged on various
| phases of the Bible study work and the
| theater meeting plans will be dis
I cussed. E. w. Rankin will preside.
DR.. George F. Babb, city milk in
| spector, has had one or two encounters
| with angry restaurant men. TT will
cost them something next time" said
| he in speaking of the recent test of the
milk sold at the various hotels and
| restaurants of the city. And" he add
ed. there will be a next time, too!'
Paul Sweet, motive power statistician
| of the Santa Fe, this week will depart
for Philadelphia, where he takes the
position Of assistant to the general
| manager of the Curtis Publishing
company with salary of So, 900 year.
Mr.. Sweets place with the Santa Fe
probably will be taken by Chester
| Moore.
Rumor has it that there will be more
school board trouble. 1t has been
stated that an effort will be made to
ft7oa
they are presented, because James
Cuthbert, chairman of the building
committee of the board, is supplying
indirectly cut stone for the Van Buren,
school building.
Sam Radges, 5O7 Monroe street, was
laid up Thursday with a badly sprain-
ed back. Radges was inspecting a
building on Jackson street. In climbing
through a scuttle hole, ladder slipped
and Radges was suspended in midair.
He made a quick motion to draw him
self through the hole onto the roof of
the building, and the effort wrenched
the Hgaments in his back.
Several attempts have been made to
have the dome Of the state house light
ed with electricity as a. means of adj
vertising Topeka by making a good i'm
preston on the part of strangers and
those passing through the city by
train Governor Stubbs, it is under
stood is in favor of the project. What
has become of the Commercial club
committee that was pushing the
scheme?
The city is paving the alley between
Polk and Tyler and Seventh and
Eighth. This leaves a big "step-off''
on Seventh street and the city has
placed no lights at this place. Last
night an unknown stranger a woman,
not knowing the conditions, fell AMI
bruised herself badly. The city has
been the defendant in an unusual num-
bur of damage suits lately and all be-
cause no precaution was taken in out
of the way places.
Caleb Jones, treasurer of the Topeka
Investment company. said Thursday
that within the past three years he
had built and sold more than thirty
houses in Topeka. These houses have
been sold to persons of small means
and paid for in regular payments" said
Jones, land if one will look into the
facts in the case he will find that every
man who has kept his money in To-
peka real estate the last 20 years has
made big per cent on the invest
ment.''