The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-13

The Scoville Evangelistic company
| left this morning for Lawrence, where
a rally will be held this evening.
The architect who will plan the new
100000 addition to the First M. E.
church will be selected this week.
Applications for positions on the
! teaching staff of the high school next
fall are coming in larger numbers than
is usually the case this time of the
year.
The fair association has had printed
attractive stationery which is being
used in connection with the work of
| building up great exposition for next
fall.
! Cheer up, kids-it is only two
months and half until vacation. And
they say that the old swimmin' holes
/ in the "Shungie" are fne-no high
water this year to fill them up.
! Tomorrow evening Governor and
Mrs. w. r. Stubs will entertain $50
guests, who have been invited to meet
1 E. T. Cotton of New York city, and
/ r. b. Lockwood of Shanghai, China.
! The mission study class of the c. Z.
! of the First Presbyterian church under
| the direction of E. J. Morse will be
| held this evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs H. NJ. Starr, 915 West Eighth
avenue.
Nearly 10000 Topeka people have
! registered on the city election books in
! ing election. The enthusiastic cam
paign carried on by Commissioner Ii
tus is bearing fruit.
| Word has come to Mayor Billiard
| that small boys under the lawful age
are running loose in the pool halls.
| this and has ordered the police to
keep on the lookout
Are you among those who have
| dl pped too much in the pay-as-you-
| enter slots and have had the conduc-
tor inform you that he couldn't refund
the money because what he carried
| was his own? disappearing, isn't it
From almost any point in the city
| the Santa Fe general office ,skyscraper
| can be seen clearly From the Coun-
| try club hill the building is especial
| ly noticeable and looms up above the
business section sky line like light
! house.
Some candidate for mayor has miss
| ed the real platform on which to win
| his election. If a candidate would
railway extension to Gage park he
would be elected by a comfortable
majority.
The basketball game which was
scheduled to be played next Saturday
night between the fives of the Topeka
and Lincoln, Neb, high schools has
been postponed until April 1, the
night of the annual tournament in
the auditorium.
Now that the Plat murderer has
given the police many clues and
finds that they have taken ADVANTAGE
of none of them, it is up to him to
give himself up and prove to the po-
lice that he is the man. Otherwise
they won't accept him.
The women now have 4S15 points in
the Y w. G. A. membership campaign
as against the girls 43. This means
that nearly a hundred new members
have been added to the association. roll.
The slogan of the girls team is now:
Come OH girls, get busy
Detailed plans for the 100000 ad-
dition to the Topeka postOffice are al
most completed and it is expected the
work will begin as soon as the wealth
er promises an opening. The addition
will be built on the north of the pres
| ent structure and will conform with it
/ in architecture.
Several people have declared them
| selves against the sweet pea planting
| instructions in this column Saturday
| evening. 1t must be remembered that
| this was printed for information and
not as state law. 1t isn't violating
the city ordinances to plant your sweet
| peas the way you want to.
| Topeka has gone so excited over
! the booster this and booster that, that
| a new store in town has been named
| 1.-THE Booster" But this is the spirit
| that wins and the spirit that is far
different from the old time epineSS-
| 1t is hoped that hereafter Topeka will
| always be troubled with insomnia.
In pushing his campaign to require
all patrons to place mail boxes or
catches in front of their houses, Post
master Rodgers should investigate the
whereabouts of certain postman
who took orders for boxes from hun
dreds of people the last of January
and hasn't showed up with them since.
The street railway company has
been working out gangs IF men
| smoothing out the rough spots on
| their city lines where paved streets
are rare and far between This work
| was done under difficulty on account
| of the mud-al1 of which was taken
/ into consideration and appreciated by
| the patrons.
| The current issue of the High School
| World is an athletic number. Cuts ara
run of the football teams for the last
four seasons. 1t is a creditable issue,
| although the work of the printer is
poor, and for some reason or other the
editors of the paper insist in using the
| pronoun 81"
| The personnel of the board of man
ayers of the Kansas State Fair assoc
citation is now as follows: 7. A. Bor
man, E. l. Copeland, George W. Crane,
S. E. Lux, and A. NJ. Patten. George
w. Crane and A. M. Patten have
| taken the places made vacant by the
resignation of ]. w. Going and H. A.
| Auerbach.
The annual home missionary thank
offering will be held at the First Con-
GreSational church Thursday evening.
The Rev. and Mrs. Thomas Gray, who
have recently returned from Porto
Rico, where they have been engaged in
/ missionary work, will be welcomed
back to the church. Refreshments viii
he served.
The students of the high school are
beginning to agitate the question Of
lockers for the protection of their per-
sonaI belongings. wouldn't you rath-
er have lockers and pay % cents a
/ term for a key than to pay rs cents
for a pair of gloves, only to lose them