The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-01

chewing tobacco. so for Gods sake
send the money
The domestic hygiene class of
Washburn is planning on a visit to
the tuberculosis camp just north of
North Topeka this week. They will
study the conditions and learn how a
camp of this kind is conducted.
The w. C. T. U. is working to get a
big crowd out for DIR. Charles Reign
Scoville's famous booze" sermon
which he will deliver next Monday
evening at the Auditorium under the
auspices of the Topeka Local union.
The athletic board of Washburn col
lege meets tonight for the purpose of
choosing a coach for next year. Wash
burn supporters and enthusiasts in the
city are hoping that the college will
get a man who can turn out a win
ming team.
Richard Thomas Wyche, the story
teller gave entertainment that
pleased at the high school this after
noon. He was booked by the Grade
Teachers club of Topeka. Another
entertainment will be given this even
ing at S:15.
Hundreds of people were turned
away from the senate chamber last
night because they didn't know that it
the arena. The newspaper men now
wish they had held the doings in the
Auditorium.
A crowd of young men in North To-
peka-the members of the Loafers'
club-are figuring on organizing an
orchestra. The North side reporter
says they should be able to get all the
music they wish out of their hat
bands. (PoliceD
The treasurer of the Washburn Pro-
hibition association is advertising
through the college paper asking mem
bers to pay up their dues. This must
be to pay for the last batch of dough-
nuts and cider consumed by the asso-
ciation-surely nothing worse than
that.
Nearly every billboard in the bust
ness section of the city is plastered
with city candidate posters painted in
all loud colors and pleading with the
reader for his vote. Other candidates
are having their portraits painted on
the sign boards with descriptive adj
vertising.
Several of the senior students of
Washburn college who are expecting
to teach next year have been visiting
the Topeka schools this week watching
the work of the professionals A
big percentage of the teachers in the
Topeka schools are graduates of
Washburn college.
Some of the church people in the
city are aroused. They fear that there
is scheme on foot to bring back
Sunday theaters in Topeka. They need
have no fear. The closing of the Sun
day theaterS is the result of a state
law and the city commissioners will be
able to do nothing.
Whenever a candidate for mayor
wants to injure another candidate he
has one of his committee start a ru-
NOR that he is to withdraw and then
it requires all kinds of explanations to
n NFa IL
to have this kind of a rumor circu-
lated about his candidacy
A Topeka woman is so thoughtful
she insists that her husband keep the
side-curtains of the motor car rolled
up when they are out riding. She
claims that the curtains would get
scratched and torn if the machine
were allowed to be dropped.
AT last the young men of Washburn
college have cornered enough nerve
to declare their rights. They are
making howl against such big hats
worn by the girls at basketball games
and declare that they obstruct the
view. All hail the young college stu
dent who dares defy a fair coed!
City Clerk Burge has issued the an
nouncement of the primary election of
the members for the school board.
This will be held March 81. The polls
will open at o'clock and close at Z
O'Clock. The two big fights seem to
be between S. A. Swendson and C. B.
Van Horn in the Sixth ward and L. NJ
Jones and Mrs c. J. Evans in the
Third ward.
The meeting which the state w. c.
L. u members are holding in Topeka
at the present time is for the purpose
of outlining the work for the next few
months. The women represent an
organization which boasts of having
472 local unions and 5000 members.
Speakers of the union are at work all
the time endeavoring to create a senti-
ment over the state in favor of tenn
perance.