The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-24

| AT the Central Z. M. e. A. TINS noon
the blue duck membership team gave
a dinner.
H. ]. Bone U. S. district attorney.
has returned from a business trip to
Meade. Kan
At the Y. NJ. C. A. this noon the
board of directors held its regular
monthly meeting.
address tomorrow evening at the First
/ Presbyterian church.
! Tomorrow noon Dr. s. S. Estey will
conduct the business mems Bible class
| at the Central Y. M. G. A.
superintendent Whittemore will adj
dress the students of the high school
/ tomorrow at the chapel hour.
Complaint is beginning to come in
| that Kansas is badly in need of rain.
Easter millinery ought to bring one if
| anything will.
The first real sign of spring is the
| opening of the workout season for bali
| players. ali statements to the contrary
| Notwithstanding.
| At one point the steel Orders of the
new Mills building have reached the
top of the seventh story. the full
| height of the building.
| The Hall block, which includes the
sites of the new Santa Fe office build
| ing and the G. A. r. Memorial, is now
the busiest spot in the city.
Ben Harris, one of Cooley's promis
ing pitchers, had finger knocked out
of joint Wednesday. 1t win not, he
says, interfere with his playing.
The Bachelors club gave its first BAN
quet at the Mission tea room last night
Other affairs of a similar nature will
be held according to present plans.
Fred Walker is still talking about
q string of fish he is alleged to have
caught Monday. All he brought home
was basket well covered. in which he
claimed there were fish.
10 rTn
tor of the Y. w. G. A. will deliver
an address at an association meeting
at Haskell institute on next Sunday
evening.
H. L. Cook. the new secretary of the
Kansas State Fair association. met this
noon at the Commercial club with the
board of directors of the organiza-
ton.
When the new south span is added to
the Melan bridge and some snow water
run through it. Chas. Wolff will have
| a packing plant on an island near To-
peka.
The delinquent parent phase of the
| Juvenile laws is getting a thorough test
| in Topeka, nearly every day finding
some parent called to task in the Juv-
emile court.
Music will be furnished Sunday after
noon at the meeting of men to be adj
| dressed bv Geo. Sherwood Eddy at the
| First Presbyterian church, by the
Easter Vesper services at the 7. w.
C. A. will be led by Miss Charlotte
Leavett. Miss May Clark will play a
violin solo and Eva Curry and Mer-
lyle Whiteker will sing.
Dean Arthur. of Washburn. addressed
| the red duck" membership team Of the
| Central Y. M. c. A. this noon. Geo.
| Godfrew Moore. the captain of the
team, gave some special instructions
to his men.
Argument Of the south side dixie in
junction suit was completed last even
ing, Judge Dana taking the case I'M
der advisement. His decision will be
safe indication Of whether or not the
dixie can be built.
Councilman E. r. Stanley is this
years secretary of the Topeka Chau-
tauqua association. 1t is not likely
that anything will be heard In con-
nection with arrangements for the an
nual event until after election.
81 don't want anyone to believe
our schools are perfect" said Superin-
tendent L. D. Whittemore today, "be-
cause I know that they are not. but
our teachers are working with great
enthusiasm"
On the evening of April 8, a county
fair social will be held in the GYM
nasium of the 7. w. c. A. There will
be merry go-round. moving pictures.
popcorn, red lemonade and ladies'
band. False money will be used.
March %. which was numbered 1923"
said Frank Campbell of the U. S. dis
trict court. "If every possible hoodoo
doesn't work in this case the numbers
Will hardly be at fault
A series of grade teachers meetings,
which commenced with the first grade
instructors a week ago Monday, closes
today at the Central Park school. The
meeting today is to be a gathering OF
eighth grade teachers Points of in
terest to the teachers will be discussed.
From the 18th to the 10th of April
the girls of the Y. w. c. A. will in
dulge in a membership contest. The
fighting will be between the young Ia
dies of ten business sections of the
city. The winning team and the new
members will be given picnic by the
losing teams.
A pass good for all Western League
baseball games played in Topeka this
season will be given to the person who
guesses nearest to the paid attendance
on opening day. Seal and address your
guess Baseball Editor. State Journal
and leave at this office, or mail it. Con-
dftions are printed on sporting page.
On Friday evening the final contest
in basketball for the City league cham
pfonship will be played at the Rink. A
silver loving cup will be the reward
and the contesting teams are those or
the Central Y. M. c. A. which has so
far been an lever victorious" five, and
the high school aggregation. which has
recently developed great deal OF
speed.
If Prof. W. Earl Flynn makes it
possible for the ministers of the town
to increase their chest expansion in
five minutes of exercise by as many
inches, what will be the result of sew
eral hours Of such exercise? 1t has
been suggested that within the course
of few days it will be possible to
hear a sermon delivered by one of the
clergymen in the far corners of the |