The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-25

Builders and real estate men are do
ing a brisk business just now.
Lightweight underwear is in big de-
mand just now, clothing men declare.
At the high school the schedule for
the interclass baseball tournament has
been completed.
Governor Stubs is hard at work on
the prohibition speeches he is to de-
liver in Chicago.
DR.. S. s. Estey had charge of the
business mems Bible class this noon at
the Central Y. M. c. A.
Next week the Topeka Educational
society will hold another meeting, al
though no definite date has been set.
Tomorrow ct noon the Shawnee Bar
association will meet in a social way
as usual at the Commercial club quar-
ters.
It is stated that the students and
faculty Of the Washburn law school
will take lunch tomorrow at the Com
mercial club.
Clyde Callicote of the North players,
is feeling rather lofty today. No, he is
not a proud papa. He has just pur-
chased an automobile.
Indications point to a large attend
ance of men at the First Presbyterian
church Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock
to hear George Sherwood Eddy.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the Kansas State Fair association
was held this noon to make arrange
ment for the sale of stock.
August Palm is having more trouble.
A local real estate dealer has secured
judgment against him for $32, half the
mount of a proniSSorY note executed
by him.
Both of the duck" membership
teams in the campaign that the Cen
trail association is waging. will meet
this evening to plan more systematic
work.
Grade cards will be handed out to
the students of the high school on April
1. The school authorities are begin
ming to fear that they will not be taken
seriously on account of the day.
Work on the tower of the Church of
the Assumption has been completed
with the exception of putting on a coat
of paint. The entire front of the build
ing is being painted.
Announcement of DIR. D. Everett
Smiths lecture on Palestine" to be
held at the Auditorium, April 1, is at
tracing much attention among the
church people of Topeka.
THE Roosevelt speech at Luxor on
the school question states the position
of the insurgent candidates for the
school board better than We can do it,
said DR.. Eva Harding today.
Fire destroyed the dwelling house on
the W. E. McCarter farm, eight
miles east of Topeka, Wednesday
The flames originated in a defective
fiue. Part of the furniture was saved.
At the rink tonight the basketball
teams of the high school and the Cen
trail Y. NJ. c. A. will compete for the
city league championship and a silver
loving cup. Dope" favors the latter
but dope can't always be depended
upon.
I'VE will do the best we can this year
to make a great fair said Secretary
II. l. Cook of the Kansas State Fair
association, -and we will have to work
fast and furious. We must create the
impression from the start that the
Kansas state fair is a straight, square,
institution
AS the result of being thrown from
his bicycle, Ralph, son of H. A. Kings
suffering from broken arm. The
chain of the machine caught in the
spokes of the rear wheel and the bicy-
Gle came to sudden stop, throwing
Kingsley to the pavement.
Nicholas, a Hollan6ler, or just plain
Mick as the boys know him at the
Central Y. NJ. c. A, has become tenn
porarily mentally unbalanced. He is a
popular janitor at the association
building and has had an interesting
history, his wife and daughter having
been burned before his eyes in Central
America.
E. H. Anderson believes that on ac-
count of his attitude in regard to the
nigh school frat" proposition there
will be strong fight made against him
as a member of the school board on the
part of the fraternity sympathizers.
Mr.. Anderson's position on the frater-
mites was something like that of the
late Mr.. Nero of Rome on all ques-
tions which he imagined were in con-
iict with his authority. The fraternity
question is dead issue and none of
the candidates favor high school fra
ternities.
Word has been received from Man
haitian to the effect that Prof. H ID
of Northampton. Mass,
who is to give a series of college ex-
tension lectures under the auspices of
the K S. A. c.. is likely to be in To-
peka for several days. The Topeka
Educational society has been negotiat-
ing with the authorities at the State
Agricultural college for at least one
lecture by the father of the school
garden movement in this county. H.
w. McAfee is in Manhattan today
making definite arrangements for an
address or a series of addresses.