The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-27

A meeting of the Merchants associa-
ton was held this noon at the CONNER
cial club.
Secretary H L. Cook of the Kansas
State Fair association is in Kansas City
| today on fair business,
Vacation Schools" is the subject of
an address which Superintendent e. T.
Fairchild will give at the Central Park
school Wednesday evening.
The nrice of eggs has dropped from
10 TO Id cents dozen. The hens are
doing a good deal of laying Just now
! on account Of the warm weather.
The special Commercial club commit
tee appointed to investigate the oues-
| ton of trade schools for Topeka met
| this noon at the Comm erciaI club.
Many motor car parties were caught
TOUT on the country roads in the big
dust storm Sunday. They were a dirty
Icrowd when they returned to the city.
Speaking of street car crew courtesy:
car stopped at Tenth and Morris
avenues last night to see if in swing
ing around the corner. the rear end
would miss the body of an automobile
which stood nearby.
The candidates who were depending
upon the women vote today are happy
Sunday looked like blizzard for the
city electiOn-and a blizzard will kill
more woman votes than all the John
Barleycorn influence in town.
Many people are moving to Tope-
ka,' said representative of a trans
fer company at the Commercial club
this noon. I'VE have handled the
household goods of IL families that
days"
In building the dixie along the
south side Of the Kansas river the
whole course of Wards creek has been
changed. And the contractors have
found that this entire creek when re-
Stricted will run in a little channel one
foot deep and one foot wide.
A membership dinner will be held
this evening at the Central Y. M. C. A.,
preparatory to the 'aeroplane meet"
which will be held April 1922, be-
tween the Topeka and Wichita asso-
Citations. DR.. q. S.Pettyjohn and J. H.
Dadisman will be the speakers
The Rock Island and Union Pacific
roads are repairing and renewing
their Kansas avenue crossing in To-
peka. These crossings have to be re-
newed SO many times that it is the
opinion of city officials that concrete
work would be much cheaper in the
end
George S. May, who is with the SEQ
vile evangelistic company and has been
handling a cross-reference Bible, in
connection with which DIR. Charles
Reign Scoville is one of the editors,
left today for Enid, Okla, where the
company is now at work making con-
verts.
Dr. Raymond A. Schwegler of the
State university spoke this morning be-
fore the students of the high school.
He told of some of the elements which
are necessary to a successful life. DR..
Schwegler is a brilliant speaker, and
his address was much appreciated by
the students.
The Commercial club seems much
more quiet at the noon hour nowadays
than before the legislators left the
| city. However, as the new commit
| tees for the year have been appointed
there will probably be an unusually
large number of committee meetings
| in the next few weeks.
A Topeka visitor to the little town of
| Rock Creek reports that the town is
Boosting of the fact that new build
ing is being erected for the Modern
Woodman lodge. The hail is of steel
frame and is a two-story structure.
When completed, it viii be the lar
gest and most pretentious building in
the place.
None of the city commissioners
showed UP at the city hall this morn
ing-al campaigning. Mayor Billiard
sat at his desk as usual. Commits
sioner Bone and his auditor were out
among the voters. Tandy's engineer
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the street force were seen at the polls.
Holman happened around the building
and Miller was not to be seen.
/ The Rev. o. L. Smith of Emporia and
William 1. Jones, the new state field
secretary of the Kansas Christian En-
deavor union, will speak at a meeting
of the Topeka Local union this evening
at the First Congregational church.
Rev. Mr. Smith, who is the president
Of the state union, is said to be an ex-
cellent speaker. A picnic supper viii be
held at 6:15.
II Norris L. Gage. a former Topeka
Fman, arrived here today and will spend
several weeks with old friends and ac-
quaintances. Gage lived in Topeka a
quarter of a century ago. He gave the
Provident association the building
where it is now located and when To-
peka needed money to bring the buffalo
! to Topeka, Mr. Gage supplied a $500
check with the provision that the BUT
falo were to be kept at Gage park.
Norris Gage is a brother of G. G. Gage,
who donated Gage park and gave To-
peka the soldiers monument. 1t was
these gifts that will keep the name OF
Gage fresh in the mind of Topekans for
many years to come.