The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-01


The board of directors of the Kansas
State Fair association met this noon at
the Commercial club quarters.
Sea stories will be told this evening
at the regular Tuesday evening bean
supper at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Mayor Green will preside at the the
alter meeting next Sunday, held under
the auspices of the Laymen's council.
The rural route carriers are being
paid this week. The estimated sum
paid out to them at this payment is
s126, 900.
Why not have John Rogers to fix
/ those water pipes? He told in last
nights State Journal how it can be
done.
The crushed rock pile on West Fifth
street, near the corner of Fifth and
Kansas avenue, is already nearly a
story high.
The night and day shift at the police
station changed today at noon On the
first of each month the police officers
work Is hours without a break.
1t has been found that few cities
have as low taxes as Topeka. These
midnight discoveries always soothe.
However, the taxes are still high.
The C. z. of the Central Park Chris
tan church will give farce at the
Provident association on Friday even
ing entitled 1.-The. Young DR.. Divine"
The army Y. NJ. c. A. at Leaven-
worth has challenged the local central
association for a chess contest the
moves to be ordered by the post card
method.
your way, smiling sweetly, do not de-
ceive yourself. You don't look any bet
ter to her than usual. She's a bill col
lector.
Miss Alice NJ Owen. the typewrit-
ing expert. will give an exhibition of
rapid typewriting work at Dougherty's
Business college at 10 o'clock tomorrow
morning.
THE Compulsory Garbage and Col
Letting System will be the subject for
discussion at a meeting Monday even
ing of the Brotherhood of the First
Baptist church.
Much interest is being evinced in the
mass meeting which will be held on
Friday evening in Gemmell hall of the
Central Y. NJ. c. A. to discuss the play
ground problem.
One of the two bloodhound pups at
the city Jail is sick today and the
other. one is lonely and bowls contin-
ualIy. 1t sounds like days when the
dog pound was at the city prison.
Mrs. C. F. Menninger's Bible class is
probably one of the most remarkable
organizations of the kind in the coun-
try, or at least in this section of it. The
enrolment is now 467 as compared with
S15 last year at the same time.
The city water is as dirty as ever.
The distant rumble of public thunder
is growing louder every day and If
the lightning once strikes there will
be something doing with the city wa
terworks department.
Topeka is having her experience
with the first window scraper."
Window scrapers walk along in front
of plate glass window and ruin them
by cutting and scratching. There are
many kinds of criminals-this is the
last resort.
The firm of Cuthbert & Sargent is a
thing of the past. James Cuthbert has
bought the interests of John Sargent
and will carry on the business of the
plant at Eighteenth and Topeka ave-
nue.. The firm has been in existence
for 20 years.
The famous committee of fifty, head
ed by Gen. Jno. F. Switzer, will meet
in the council chamber of the city hall
Thursday evening. Mr.. Switzer says
that the committee has a plan to elect
mayor and commissioners who will
please everybody.
John Purcell, superintendent of the
Santa Fe shops, is in Washington CIV
ing testimony as to the safety appli-
ance regulations before the house.
superintendent Purcell has been away
from Topeka for about two weeks on
this matter.
Today has been a spring day in
everything but date. February is be-
ing ushered in like a lamb and the
reverse is not hoped for These spring
days keep every working man in the
city as busy as he wishes. Construc-
ton work is progressing rapidly
The list of members of the CONNER
cial club, together with the new COM
mittees for the ensuing year will
probably be published within the next
week. A meeting of the board of d.
rectors of the club will be called with
in the next two or three days to con-
slider the new committee chairmen. 1t