The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-04
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You are not up to date in Topeka
| without ar Independent phone.
| The postponed meeting of the To-
peka AID club will be held Tuesday
noon.
The Clearinghouse Realty company
is building a dwelling at 1541 Western
| avenue, to cost $4,000.
]. S. West. assistant United States
| district attorney, left today for Bald
win, where he will speak at Repub-
| lican meeting tonight.
j. NJ. Conneu, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe, has returned to
| his office in Topeka from a week S
business trip in Chicago.
A number of the merchants of the
! city are giving a certain per cent of
their gross receipts on particular days
! to the White Elephant cause.
| E. c. Backenstoce, district Indian
! agent at MadiH, Okla, returned to
Topeka Thursday evening and will re-
main here until after the election.
| The annual report of the C. E. So
ciety of the First Congregational
church, just submitted to the church,
shows an excellent growth in the last
year.
Meals for the election judges and
clerks will be furnished by the Ladies'
Aid society of the First United Brethren
church at the various polling places on
! Tuesday.
Stereopticon views representing the
world wide work of the Christian asso-
Citations will be shown on screen this
evening in front of the State Journal
| building from 1880 to o'clock.
| J. H. Downing of Hays, Kansas. is
| in Topeka today visiting with friends
at the state house and federal building.
| Downing was formerly a clerk in the
| office of the railroad commissioner.
H. A Auerbach and one or two
! other business men have taken charge
of the baseball situation in Topeka. 1t
will be up to them if Topeka or To-
peka men fail to purchase the fran
chise from Cooley.
"Well, I'll be jinks," said John P.
| Rogers this morning as he saw an old
colored man go by on the street
| There is a man I thought was dead
! I gave so cents toward his burial ex-
| penseS the other day.
The game on the Washburn field to-
morrow afternoon will be the last on
the home field this season. With sup
port and encouragement from the To-
| peka rooters Washburn ought to be
able to win from the Missourians.
It is figured that if Missouri goes
| prohibition it will be a good thing for
| Topeka. An immense amount of money
| goes to Kansas City every day from
Topeka for good time If prohibit
ton carries the money will stay at
home.
w R. Whittenburg has been elected
president of a new Baraca class at the
First Christian church. Ray Stants is
vice president; John Evans, secretary,
and Frank Leatherman, treasurer. The
| class was formerly known as the
Loyal Sons Bible class.
The educational department of the
Central Y. M. c. A. is in receipt of six
valuable books of reference, the gift of
| CHM and Company of Chicago. The
| \ 60, %I,o o-&
along mechanical lines This depart
ment of the association is gradually
building up a complete reference Ii
brary.
This is pension day and the federal
building is crowded with veterans and
| their widows who are cashing their
vouchers. EThis rush will last a couple
of weeks said A. W. Smith, pension
agent. About $4,500,0O0 is paid in
pensions every three months by the
! local office. The clerks in the office
have been preparing for the rush the
last month.
Samuel E Lux, Secretary H. L.
Cook, H. W. McAfee and two others
made a seventy-nlile trip through Ten
nessee town, a colored district on the
f! the county. The colored voters ex-
pressed themselves as favoring the
| $4,000 bond proposition. There seems
! to be a slight sentiment against the
expected that there will be any partic-
ular difficulty in carrying the bonds.
/ chorus from the Topeka Indus
| trial institute will sing at the Sunday
school of the First United Brethren
church Sunday morning next. A mem
| bership contest is now on between this
/ school and the school of the First
| United Brethren church of Wichita,
! and the latter is leading by a narrow
margin. The Topeka school won from
! Wichita in a contest held a few months
ago, with the result that a challenge
| was sent out from Wichita for a sec
4 ond contest.
Colonel A. w. Smith returned Thurs
day evening from wellington, where
he spoke at a big G.. A. r. meeting
Wednesday night. at was one of the
/ best meetings ever attended" said
II Smith, land both of the large rooms in
and people stood in the aisle. When
I started for home the Wellington post
presented me with fine gold headed
aAd pearl handle umbrella, which 1
certainly prize very highly" Smith
talked to the Wellington people on his
experiences in the Andersonville
prison.
Big doings at the high school this
noon. Yells, cries, clapping of hands
and crashing of teeth Screams and
hideous noises-whistles and bells! In
other words the rah-rah students had
just common ordinary enthusiasm
meeting" They got together for a
special car to Lawrence next Saturday
when they play the Lawrence high
school. Everybody is going-every
''stewed-cat' who can borrow money
from his or her dad is going-and they
/ are going to win. Yes, dear reader
there were big doings at the high