The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-19
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| Saturday will be Children's day at
the Midwinter exposition.
The committee chairmen of the
| Commercial club will not be chosen
until tomorrow.
The Kansas Bible institute at Wash
| burn will begin February Z, and con-
tinue for three days.
Campbell, and his partner, Frank
| Griggs, have added $500 worth of
equipment to the office.
A uniform used by Robert Pierce in
the Capital guards in 1873 will be
| placed on display in the Robinson
Marshall show window tomorrow.
Petitions are being circulated in To-
peka today asking thu legislature rot
to pass. the bill prohibiting Sunday
baseball in the state. Many church
members are signing the petition.
The housewives who have been put
ting off their washing because of the
cold and the clouds would better make
d stab at it omorrow-because the
weather man has nothing to promise
Sailed peanut vending machines
are doing n lively business in To-
peka. Six hundred pennies were taken
! represented two weeks accumuia-
/ ton.
j. Campbell White spoke this moon
| at the Commercial club before about
IS laymen on Organization" Mr.
White is general field secretary of the
laymen's missionary movement, and is
well known in Topeka.
| The petitions to the legislature re-
questing the death of the bill to pre-
vent Sunday baseball have been sign
| ed by hundreds of Topekans who
recognize that its passage would mean
the killing of the national pastime in
Kansas.
A. r Sweet the now s,a,ora1 ,o
ager of the Rock Island left last night
! for Chicago, where he will confer with
the officials in regard to the appoint
ments to the new positions in Topeka.
! The announcements will not be made
| public until the last of January.
The only people in the upstairs office
/ of the State Journal who did not sign
| the sunday baseball petition were the
East side reporter and the artist. It
is expected that the agreement be-
| tween the two can be broken before
the petition goes before the legisla-
! ture.
! The Eugene Trio is one of the acts
! that VIII be seen at the Midwinter ex-
position next week. According to adj
vance notices, these European artists
through the air, which are difficult in
| the extreme. The act is also said to
be full of comedy.
The lazy house-husband who has
| been neglecting his sidewalks of the
| last freezing and ice weather will be
! happy this evening when he goes home
| and finds the ice and snow melted.
The thaw will be a source of regret to
| the small boys and to the bobsled and
| coasting enthusiasts.
Chief wilmarth of tho fire depart
| ment who has been at his home seri-
ously i'll with the grip. is sitting up
TODAY and has promised the anxious at
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office the first of next week. It was
reported at first that the chief was
down with pneumonia
S. A. Cook. 1909 West street. is ex-
pecting a visit in the near future from
his son, Lieutenant Merlyn G. Cook,
chief engineer of the United States
cruiser Pennsylvania The Pennsvl-
vania is the cruiser on which Aviator
Ely made successful landing with
his biplane in San Francisco harbor
yesterday.
The work of remodeling the interior
of the Rock Island Offices for the new
officials who will make their head
! quarters here the first of February
is under the direct charge of F. L.
| Park. master carpenter of the road
Mr.. Park expects to have the work
completed in good shape before the
first of the month.
W. G. Tandy. city commissioner. in
SlSlS lIldl On account OIL the Tree use
that the Topeka Railway company has
been having of the streets for SO long
it would be the right thing for the city
! to make the railway pay a tax on each
car or turn over certain per cent OF
the proceeds. Mayor Billiard has q
plan to tax each street car.
Fred Bu!lene. who has been at the
head of the Kansas City Star office in
Topeka for some time, leaves soon fol-
Kansas City, where the future Kansas
headquarters of the paper will be
made. Cecil Howes will remain ir
Topeka at the head of the office. When
| Bullene leaves it means the departure
of a mighty fine catch and good
fellow Bullene, as you may know, is
a bachelor.