The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-09

All of your friends have the indie
pendent Telephone.
This is the first week of the new
term of gymnasium work at the 7.
w. c. A.
"My Father Played Football in
song at the college
I. E. Brown of Chicago will speak
at the Sunday 4 o'clock Y. w. G. A.
vesper service.
DR.. Frank T. Bailey, of Denver, win
preach Sunday morning at the First
Congregational church.
Noller & Wolfenburger have the
contract for the excavation work on
the G. A. r. memorial site.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Holmgren of 1880
Quincy street are the parents of
daughter, born this morning.
The pulpits at the various churches
will be filled on Sunday by speakers or
the State Y. NJ. C. A. convention.
Tom Blodget of Wichita is booked
to head large contingent of Y. M.
c. A. delegates to the state convention.
The programs for the State Y. M. c.
A. convention are in the form of. neat
booklets with space for jotting down
notes.
The Commercial club is distributing
maps of Topeka among the visiting
delegates to the State Y. NJ. c. A. con-
vention.
President Henry J. Waters will be
a speaker at the next meeting of the
Shawnee Alfalfa association to be
held February &C.
There will be a large assortment of
international religious books on dis
play for the benefit of the Y. M. Z. "A.
convention delegates.
There will be a larger representation
than usual from the schools and col
| leges in attendance at the State Y. M.
c. A. convention.
The monthly business meeting of
the Commercial club will be held on
Friday evening. At that time new
committee chairmen will be ap-
proved.
The pastors cooperating commit
| tee and the executive committee of
| the Laymen's Missionary Movement
met this noon at the Commercial club
quarters.
A welcome Delegates sign is sus-
| pended across Ninth street in front
of the Central Y. NJ. C. A. The Cen
trail building will be the convention
| headquarters.
| The city water is still muddy. Sew
| eral leaks have been found at the wa
| terworks plant. 1t seems that the ice
bent and broke a large number of the
pipes, both above and below the water.
Washburn is bemoaning the fact
that very few of the girls of the gradu-
ating classes enter the field of matri-
mony. College girls see enough of the
men without enduring the agony of
marrying them. Down with co-educa-
ton.
The enrolment in the Washburn law
school has increased rs per cent over
the total enrolment last year. This
department of Washburn is the most
promising in the school. However, the
rest of the college is growing in pro-
portion
Chief Wilmarth of the fire depart
ment is still on the hunt for fire
horses. If anyone has horse that is
big and strong and young he can make
arrangements with the fire marshal
Chief Wilmarth is anxious to put sta
ton No. in action.
Chains That Bind" a straight talk
to men by L. A. Coulter of Texas, will
be given Sunday afternoon at the
Auditorium. There will be no thea
ter meeting, but the Laymen's council
and the state Y. NJ. c. A. officials will
combine in pushing this big meeting.
A. ]. Pearson, who represents the
new Y NJ. c. A. camp at Estes Park
Colo, will give an illustrated talk on
. that beautiful bit of country during
, the state convention. Each summer
, several hundred association men now
! gather in this picturesque place for
, | conference.
Accommodations for 100 more dele
) gates to the State Y. NJ. G. A. conven-
ton are called for. The delegates are
/, largely students who are paying theil
, way through school. Those who car
! conveniently entertain these men are
requested to notify the secretary of the
: central association.
II Acting Street Commissioners Smith
t and Miller report that there is still
) from one to two inches of solid ice or
5 some of the payements in the city. The
: ice was frozen early in December. The
street commissioners are doing excel
5 lent work in placing the pavements in
? first class condition.
There has not been a great dea1
: of active committee work done at the
Commercial club recently, as the
present committee will not hold af-
ter this week. The committees fol
the ensuing year will be chosen af-
ter the regular monthly meeting OF
the club Friday evening.
The sentiment to mount the old bel
= at Washburn college is still preva
lent among the active students anC
ton. The old bell is a hoodoo Il
f Washburn athletics and as long as /
n remains in the mud and water the stu
n dents say Washburn will lose.
e Mayor Green says that he does no
s believe there is very much sickness il
e Topeka on account of the bad water
q IN speaking of the new coach 70
:. Washburn the college paper says to
: day: "Mr. Wingard is six feet on
e inch in height, weighs 1000 pounds an,
n played fullback and tackle on tn
| Pennsylvania university team" Whew
The Social Union of young people,
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