The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-11


on the Bank of Topeka building.
There will be no theater meeting
Sunday for men under the auspices OF
the Laymen's council.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new moving picture tkeater on the COR
Ter of Seventh and Quincy streets.
The Jewish Progressive club is ar
ranging fo- new headquarters and ex-
rects in the future to be even more
active than ever.
Little drops of labor, little grains of
talk, make the Independent, you do
not need to walk. Save steps by install
ing an Independent telephone.
One of the members of the Scoville
Evangelists company will deliver an
address for men at the r. r. Y. NJ. c.
A. tomorrow afternoon at $3.50.
The Marguerites of the Westminster
Presbyterian church will have charge
of the 4:30 o'clock vesper services at
the Y. w. G. A. tomorrow afternoon.
It seems that there will be two new
realty trade in or adjacent to Topeka
The details have not as yet been given
out.
Application blanks and rules and
regulations are being prepared for the
rooms at the new Y. w. c. A. build
ing. Applications will be received
March 1.
LII L Il. 4ON6ldHQ Will Q6nNOT
address commemorative of Lincoln's
birthday before the members of the
G. A. r., at 2:30 o'clock. The doors
will be open at 1870.
Many Kansas weekly newspapers
are praising Topeka this week, men
tiOning her skyscrapers and lauding
her street car system. The Santa Fe
comes in for the best mention of all.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Kansas Association of Life Underwrlt-
ers will be held Monday noon at the
Commercial club. E W. Thompson
will give reading in the French-Can-
adam dialect.
The Ohio hotel building at Fifth and
Jefferson streets, owned by William M.
May has been sold to r. E. Terrell of
Belvue, Kan, by A. P. Tone Wilson,
jr., and company for the considera-
ton OF $4,000.
T. L. Barnes, who is now manager
of the Hotel Bentley, has sent some of
his Topeka friends beautiful plaques
depicting scenes which show the mag
niicence and grandeur of the hosiery.
It il located at Alexandria, La.
The concert given Friday evening by
the Ernest Gamble Concert company
at the high school -~~~-obly room was
a treat for the many music lovers VINO
attended. This event was the last of
the numbers of the teachers lecture
course.
M c. Holman, city commissioner,
has appointed Daniel Grimes as collec-
tor for the crematory department. The
city crematory now employs eight men
in the work at the plant, and ar
engagements have been made for sew
eral more
A number CT the foreigners who
started in at the night school in the
Harrison building have left the city on
account of nos being able to find steady
employment. but others have enlisted
in the school and the enrolment has
been kept up to about 40 or 45.
There are nearly 400 names en- the
city crematory patron books. Names
are added by Secretary Bacon every
day. at is marvellous showing for
winter time" said the secretary this
afternoon. "When hot weather comes |
we expect to register q score or more !
every day"
Major General John c. Caldwell, !
one of the three living major generals |
of the civil war, will speak this even |
ing at the Central Y. NJ. c. A. on
South America" The speaker has
been a representative of the United |
States government in South and Cen |
trail America.
Tuesday is the last day for the fill |
ing of nomination papers for all who |
wish to be members of the school /
board. DR.. C. B. Van Horn has been
mentioned for the Sixth ward. J. F. |
Haskell has been mentioned from the |
Fourth ward. Only few more days
for candidates.
Business is picking up at the Office !
of the fire marshal, where building |
permits are given by Chief Wilmarth. |
The warm weather has caused an i'm |
petus in this work The prosperity of |
city can be judged by the number |
of building permits for new homes. |
There are very few empty houses in |
Topeka at this time
The Atchison papers are springing a |
big story about the Horton Rock |
Island shops being moved to Atchison |
for this move. The Horton shops have
been moved to so many towns in Kan
sas that no one pays any attention to !
the story. The general officers of the !
Rock Island in Topeka say there is no !
danger of move of any kind. Hor- |
ton. need have no worry about her
largest asset.
William Harvey Brown of Rhadesia.
South Africa, who was a visitor il
Top aka this week spoke enthusiasticai-
" Of the prohibitory laws IN Kansas. !
He said that to his early training in
Kansas where tie open saloon was not
allowed he attributes his present good
state of health. only a few of the
$50 other pioneers who settled the
country in 1850 are alive today" he said. 1,
''and attribute TINS fact to the drink |
habit in South Africa
The Washburn fraternities are "up
in the air" Senator Brady of Doug
las has bill in the legislature tax
ing fraternity property and repeating
the old law that made them exempt
from taxes. And Senator Brady has
a daughter who is sorority girl, too.
The bill introduced by Senator Brady
has done one good thing for the To-
peka societies-it has given them the
information that they were non-tax-
able and they Will be able to get back
the taxes they have paid the county.