The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-18

phone.
A new sidewalk is being put down in
front of the Stansdeld store
An addition is being made to the
Office building of the McCleery Lumber
company.
j. B. Blair, instructor in astronomy
at Washburn college, spoke at the
high school this morning.
Miss Charlotte Leavitt. professor of
English in Washburn college, will
speak at the Y. w. c. A. Easter serv-
ices.
There will be a social meeting of the
members of the Shawnee Bar associa-
tion at the Commercial club tomorrow
noon.
Christian Endeavor of the First
Christian church will give an enter
tainment at the Provfdent association
on April 1.
r. NJ. Gage is training the gymna-
SUM boys of the Provident association
for a gymnasium exhibition, which will
take place on March 81.
At the Y. w. c. A ves9er services
on Sunday afternoon. Miss Beardsley
will play a violin solo and Mrs. Eu-
gene Haton will whistle.
This tvering at the Provident Asso-
citation music will be furnished by the
young people of the Episcopal church
Moving pictures will be shown.
A rapid-fire campaign for funds for
the new association home will be
waged on March 80 and 81 by mem
bers of the Y. w. c. A At noon on
workers at the Commercial club
George Sherwood Eddy, of India
possibly the most popular of the speak
ers at the Laymen's Missionary con-
Vehtion, Will speak before the men of
Topeka April 19.
Dr. Charles NJ. Sheldon has refused
a New York company the privilege of
dramatizing In His Steps," because
he was not given assurance that the
play would be presented by Christian
company.
Mayor William Green has returned
to his office at the city hall after an
attack of pleurisy which kept him at
nome for two days. The mayor is
feeling much better and able to be at
the Office all day.
Chief Wilmarth has secured beau
tiful pair of gray horses for use at the
new fire station No. 6 on Seward ave-
nue.. The horses are big strong ami
mails and will make a valuable addition
to the department.
The street railway company has ta-
ken all the big cars off the college line
to save them from being shook to
pieces and one must now reserve stand
irg room in the little rocking boats"
TO get out at all.
The fremen at headquarters station
have excavated just east of the station
for a huge fountain which they Will
make themselves. Grass, flowers and
other attractive features will be added
to the grounds by the firemen.
The Northeastern Kansas Teachers
association will meet at Seneca April
20. The local school authorities are
considering the question of dismissing
the schools SO that the teachers will
have the opportunity to attend.
A banquet is being arranged Tor Mnn-
day evening as the opening event of the
campaign which the Y. NJ. c. A. will
commence on that date. C. s. Bishop,
general secretary of the Kansas City
association, will be the speaker of the
evening.
Members of the First Congregational
church are talking of having the
church edifice overhauled generally at
a cost of several hundred dollars. 1t
is likely that the Brotherhood of the
church will take hold of the financial
end of the question.
Word was received this morning by
James NJ. Padgett from Cedar Falls,
Iowa, that his firm which manufac-
lures portable vulcanizer at 11S East
Seventh street. has won a suit of three
years standing against Louis E. Rice,
who was infringing on the patent.
An entertainment will be given this
evening at the high school by the
Philomatheum and the Atheneum
sent a Japanese farce and the latter
an American farce. The clubs will be
assisted by the T. H. s. orchestra and
the Glee and Mandolin clubs.
The greatest crop of early grasshop-
rers ever seen is reported by J. W.
Patrick's day on the tender green gar
Gen plants in the grape arbor of F. A.
Gardne- in Auburndale. the young
Eoppers are said to be from a quarter
to half inch long and very agile.
At Washburn college next fall there
will be an enlarged course of study Of
fe red to students and the entrance re-
Qrirments will be raised. A campaign
for a larger freshman class will be
Waged this summer. President Frank
K. Sanders and Vice President Harri- |
son taking an active part in the work. |
Several lots were loaned to the |
Provident association this morning for |
,sse this season as garden plots. To- |
employ II or 5 boys at Z n cents an |
hour to plant potatoes. The associa- |
ton will maintain several garden lots
for the purpose of giving the needy |
Edgar Blake, of the National Sunday
school board of the NJ. E. church. viii !
deliver lecture at the First NJ. z. |
church this evening, on Modern Meth |
eds and Appliances in Bible Study and |
Sunday School Work" After the lee
ture sketches of the proposed two story
Sunday school addition TO the church |
will be shown on a screen.
A number of metallic labels were or |
1ered from a Topeka firm by the high |
school authorities to place on furni- /
ture made by students of the manual |
department of the school, |
When the labels were delivered it was |
found that the word training had |
been spelled with the first letter "i'' |
missing.
Day before yesterday there was |
mad dog scare at East Hill. A dog |
went around chewing up all the other |
dogs in the neighborhood. A shot was |
taken at the brute, but it made its