The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-05
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The independent Phone is owned
and operated by Topeka people.
A number of Improvements have been
made in the building occupied by the
Harris cafe.
Thousands of football enthusiasts re-
joiced wher they found that the day
had dawned clear.
Norris L. Gage of Ashtabula, o..
has sent his check for $50 to aid the
White Elephant cause.
Mrs. Helen Haskins of Medford, ore,
has arrived for an extended visit to Mr..
and Mrs A. A. Robinson of 900 Tyler
street.
Seventy-five boys between the ages
of 8 and u years attended gymnasium
classes at the Central Y. NJ c. A. TINS
morning.
The Armstrong, Freshman Mercan-
tiel Co., have secured the contract
for furnishing the state institutions
with potatoes for the coming year.
In every bundle sent out from the
Topeka stores today circulars giving
information about the State Fair and
the proposed bond issue, are being
slipped in.
Harry ]. Bone, United States dis
trict attorney, has returned to Topeka,
following a trip to Denver and other
western points where he went on fed
eral business.
A public reception will be given at
o'clock Monday evening by the men,
bers of the First N. E. church for the
new pastor. DR.. Frank L. Loveland'
and his family.
IT have about decided to make the
ture" said ]. G. Gordon, in speaking
OF the building he is putting up on the
old Copeland hotel site.
The second issue of the Christian En-
thusiast published by the Topeka Lo-
cal union, will be published the first of
next week. There has been some delay
in getting out this number.
Don't forget to tell your neighbor
TO vote for the State Fair bonds.
Shawnee county does not want to
lose out at this stage of the game. To-
peka is the logical place for the State
Fair.
Friends of the state fair are urging
the voters of the county not to forget
to vote one way or another on the
$4,000 bond proposition. A full express
sion on the part of the people is de-
sired
Bishop Millspaugh has gone to New
York city to be present at a meeting of
the General Board of Missions of
which he was elected a member at the
last general convention. He returns
early next week.
Secretary H. L. Cook and Samuel E.
Lux of the board of managers of the
state fair are in Kansas City today
attending a meeting of managers of the
western circuit of fairs. Dates for the
fairs viii be decided upon.
There was a force of about half a
thousand persons out today with the
intention of happening the White
Elephant. This is the last day of the
nine day campaign and the workers
have a big job ahead of them.
There will be no let up in the White
Elephant campaign until midnight. 1t
is likely that a few of the less inter-
ested workers will slip off to the foot
ball field but the others will work all
the harder because of this fact.
T. A. McNeal. editor of the Mail and
Breeze. will address the Topeka Min
isterial union at their regular meeting
in Gemmell hall at 10 o'clock Monday
morning. His subject will be THE
Press in Relation to the Pulpit"
The postoffice this morning started
to handle the 1900 post cards which
the state fair management is sending
out. On the card is a cut of the new
stock pavilion, and information about
the fair and proposed bond issue.
The board of education meets in reg
ular session Monday night. 1t is not
known just what the sensational feat
ures of the meeting will be, but it is
expected that with the Insurgents pres
ent in full force there will be some
thing DOING
The Topeka Local union will hold
social in early December. The next
regular meeting of the organization
Will be held at the First Congrega-
uonal church the evening of November
p. The regular business will be trans
acted at O'Clock.
Thirty clerks are busy in the pen
sion office this morning opening let
tiers. Thousands of returna on pen
sion vouchers are being sent to the Of
fee every day and il will be several
weeks before the office force catches
up with the work.
The county commissioners have been
asked to contribute a sufficient sum Of
money each week towards the main
Ienance of the fresh air camp on the
North side to pay expenses necessitated
by the care given four charity patients.
This would amount to about $1S5 a
month
The last days campaign of the
county candidates shows a unity of
action and spirit seldom seen in a
county ticket. Conferences of the Of
fee seekers are of regular occurrence
and in the case of two or more widely
separated meetings in the county, on
the same date, the speakers at one
place put in a pull for the candidates
at another.
DR.. Charles NJ Sheldon and Prof. F.
II. Lane have completed the work of
dramatizing in His Steps" The plav
Will be produced on December 10 and
20 at the Central Congregational church
by mem bers of the Christian Endeavor
Of the church. Several months ago a
theatrical manager from the east an
preached DR.. Sheldon on the subject OF
the dramatization of his book, and the
answer given was q refusal on the