The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-12-14


There is merit in the Independent
telephone-See how it grows.
Two Washburn quartettes are plan
ming to do chautauqua work next sum-
mer.
The German club of washburn will
not hold meeting until some time in
January.
DR.. d. NJ. Fisk of washburn college
will speak Sunday evening at the
Unitarian church.
The corrugated iron shed for the new
Topeka Edison company'S boilers is
| nearing completion.
The Washburn Glee club expects to
make a tour of the western portion Of
| the state this winter.
| The Y. NJ c. A. will keep a direc-
| tory of persons wishing to supply rooms
or board or both for the legislators.
| The local insurgents" will put up
candidate to fill the position of super
intendent of city schools next year.
| The seniors of Washburn college ex-
| pect to go to Lansing about February
| 1. where they will be shown the peni-
tertiary.
Gail w. Bass. of Topeka. took out
marriage license Tuesday in Kansas
City to wed Elizabeth Clay of st. JOS
| eph, Mo.
| Recruiting of students for mission
study courses which will begin imme-
diately after the holidays is in pro-
gress at Wasnburn this week.
Chas. p Elliott, manager of the
Orpheum theater at Portland, Oregon,
is visiting his father, George H. Elliott.
He is accompanied by his wife.
Owen J. Wood has been appointed
a director of the Masonic Orphans
home at Wichita, to fill the vacancy
| made by the death of John C. Postle-
thwaite.
An unusually large attendance is ex-
| pected at the meeting Saturday after
noon of the Shawnee Alfalfa club on
| account of the address of Dean Ed
| Webster.
| DIR. w. Irving Carroll Of Texarkana
| Texas, will speak at the WaShburn law
| school at S:45 on Scientists and the
| Bible" He will speak at the local bust
ness colleges.
| DR.. William Duncan Macmillan of the
University of Chicago will speak this
evening at the high school auditorium
on Astronomical Conceptions, Ancient
and Modern
| The Washburn Review says: Those
noises you are hearing these days arc
the cries of Chancellor Strong of K. U.
as Auditor Nation conservatively
prunes the estimates"
DIR. A. c. Foy will conduct a boxing
| class at the Central Y. M. c. A. this
evening at 7:3O o'clock. DR. Foy is
| planning a "whim-Wham, particulars
of which will be given later.
The roof of the new Y. w. C. a.
| home is being put on. 1t is to be fiat,
which will admit of the association
| girls spending the hot summer evenings
| there in an attempt keep COOL
| A course designed to give an under
standing of the question of hygiene as
related TO micro organisms is an
nounced for the next semester. It will
l. ~ i
President S. s. Price of Ottawa uni
versity win be the speaker at the Nov
| city theater Sunday afternoon. HIS
subject will be, Does 1t Pay" The
Hicks brothers will furnish music.
There is a movement on foot for
i forming an orchestra at Washburn col
! lege. There seems tot4be plenty of ma
terial for such a musical organization
but no leader as yet has been discov-
cred.
The Y. NJ c. A "Giants" and the
association Tigers will clash in bas-
ketball this evening in the central gym
nasium. This is one of the games of
the city league. The public will be ad-
mitted free.
| Professor W. A. Harshbarger of
Washburn college has been invited to
become a member of "Circulo Mathe
mathematical society which meets
/, every year at Palermo, Italy.
This evening DIR. W. Irving Carroll
will speak at the First Baptist church
on THE Logic of Certain Passages"
Before the business men at the Central
4 Y. NJ. c. A. tomorrow noon he will
talk on 1.-THE Sunday School Lesson
The Rev. T. S. Young. formerly pastor
of the First Baptist church. will preach
in that place of worship on Sunday. jan
uary 1, both morning and evening DR..
S. S. Price, president of Ottawa uni
versity, will occupy the pulpit next
Sunday morning.
DR.. Eva Harding suggests that the
children'S playground is the proper
place for the buffaloes 1t might be
wise to wait until the animals are act
ualy captured before the weighty ques-
ton as to where they should be put is
l further discussed.
Louis B. Strickrott has received ar
, | appointment as pressman in the gov
, eminent printing office at Washington
D. c., and will leave today to take uI
his new duties. Mr.. Strickrott's home
: is in Topeka, but he has recently beer
in Manhattan. where he has been ar
V Kansas State Agricultural college.
/ Charles Hull, of the Topeka Voting
t Machine company, suggests that the
| ''Cry land bridge hole in the ground
. be used for a place in which to keel
the buffalo if Buffalo Bone is event
| ually successful in capturing the beasts
| 1.-The animals couldn't get out" saiC
| Mr.. Hull land passersby would hav'