The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-05

Hurrah! The city water is drinkable
today.
THE Gingerbread Man" drew a good
house at the Grand last night ana gave
satisfaction.
C. ]. Evans will read a paper before
the Saturday Night club tonight on
Thomas Carlyle.
GiIfllen & Son, contractors. were
today grading the approaches st Sew
enth street and Morris avenue.
Rev. o. S. Morrow will read a paper
entitled '"The Kansas Children's Home
Society" before the Ministerial union
Monday.
The work on sewer No. 80 and the
Elmhurst sewer is now being pushed
along rapidly by Stanton & Mcclure,
the contractors.
There are "don't spit on the floor
signs all over the postoffice, but II
there is a cuspidor in the lobby it is
kept carefully hidden.
DIR. J. L. bearing of japan Will
speak at the First Baptist church
Wednesda- night. DR.. bearing is a
successful Japanese missionary.
+ Six thousand circular letters and
literature on the laymen's missionary
movement will be distributed tomor-
row among the men of the churches
of the city
The Ministerial union will meet
Monday morning at 10 o'clock in Gem
nell hall of the Y. M. c. A. J. s.
Fleming will read a paper on 1.-THE
Poetry of Burns"
A. M. Bruner of Chicago addressed
a shop meeting this afternoon. He will
meet the board of directors of the
Y M c. A. at the supper table at
O'Clock this evening.
Pete Bagan, who has appeared in
police court for trial a few hundred
| times, is back at work on the rock
pile. He ran away recently and was
recaptured last night.
The Geo. W. Crane we'll at the corner
| of Harrison and Ninth streets has beer
a mecca for the thirsty during. the wa.
| ter famine. Mr.. Crane posted a ''free
| to alT' notice on the curb.
On Monday the city waterworks de-
partment will put a force of men or
| the job of digging trenches for water
mains on Seventeenth street from
Buchanan to Clay street and two blocks
4 on Boswell street.
| Names of so men who will attend
the State Y. M. c. A. convention from
Emporia have been received at the
Central Y M. c. A; 20 from indie
lpendence; 1 from Washington; from
Kingman; II from Cheney, and from
Norton.
aFrom present Indications sale
Executive Secretary John z. Moore to.
day. st believe that there will be 2,O0t
registered delegates present for the
Ilaymen's missionary convention Tina
estimate includes the Topeka people
who will attend.
1t is expected that there will. be sol
| delegates from out of town in attend
auce at the state Y. M. c. A. conven-
ton. which will be held February
1913. Topeka will probably furnish
100 regular delegates-at least, tina
is the number allowed.
The tickets for the banquet which
will be the opening feature of the
Ilavmen's missionary convention are go
ing rapidly and those who intend beine
present on this occasion will have t
''get busy" if they want to secure the
necessary tickets The tickets which
will be distributed among the Topeka
people are limited to 500.
The police department has received
a letter of congratulation from vii
liam j. Burns, formerly associated
with Special Prosecutor Heney of SaI
Francisco. The letter praises the loca
department for the capture of Alexan'
der McMichael, the alleged sw1ndler
Burns is now connected with the
American Bankers association