The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-18

L. L. cage Will again LdhS lie SASS
school census this year.
The annual election of Y. M. c. A.
directors will be held Wednesday, April
L26.
The Y. M C. A. has been chosen as
the headquarters for the State Sunday
school convention May "a.
The terraces at the Central Park
school will be sodded at a cost to the
board of education of 800.
The Rev. H. Percy Silver will ad-
dress a gathering of Grace Cathedral
guild members at the National hotel
Wednesday night.
The bimonthly meeting of the AS
ISOLATED Baptist Young Peoples union
will be held at the German Baptist
church Wednesday evening.
Dr.: J; S. MeGaw, secretary OF tn, the
speak at the First United Brethren
church next Sunday morning.
The Hall Iithographing company OF
Topeka has been awarded the contract
to supply 500 engraved diplomas to De
used at high school graduating exer-
cises.
Some youngsters working for the
Southwestern Furniture company drop
ped plate glass amounting to about
$3.50 in the Mills building the other
day.
A marriage license has been issued in
Kansas City to William j. Holloway
and Ella F. Neary, both of Topeka. Mr.;
Holloway is janitor of the federal
building.
]. L. Montgomery. physical direc-
tor of the Y. NJ. G. A. will lecture
this evening on First Aid to the In
jured" to a class which is studying
the subject.
J. C. McGaw will speak before the
Brotherhood of the First Presbyterian
ak G. f6iG aUQnfnR MI NC
Cav is secretary of the National Re
form association.
The members of the First United
Brethren church are fast paying OH
the debt which was incurred When an
addition was made to the church
about a year ago.
The Rev. H. Percy Silver will speak
before the workers in the Y M. Z. A.
''aeroplane'' contest this evening at
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. A 6:15 dinner
will be served.
If you want to get even with your
neighbor-the next agent who comes TO
your door, refer him to your nelghbor's
house, give your neighbours name ana
tell him of their weaknesses.
Harley Reisman, editor of the Rock
island Employees Magazine, is in To-
neka. The Rock Island Magazine is
published in Chicago where Mr.. Refs-
man makes his headquarters.
Some Of these .S days +r the genera genera
will fool the people of the city--he will
get out a gang of surveyors and track
layers and build that line to Gage
park.
The dry closet system will be IN
stalled by the board of education at the
Central Park school at a cost or apout
Sc. 500. The contract for the work viii
be let by the board at the regular meet
ing in May.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter. who
has taken the place of Samuel Huston
on the board of education, has been Sc
lected as a member of the teachers
committee of which MIS-. =. >. Evans
is chairman.
Now that Lent is over it Is suPpos-
ed that the society editors will refrain
from labelling their parties informal
in order to protect the sinners. Lent
was never kept better than in the last
year.
The staff photographer of the Santa
Fee Employees Magazine who is taking
pictures for Topeka views in that pub
iication is swapping office groups
around the general Office building and
on the state house grounds.
Dr. E. S. Pettijohn, medical director Of
the knights and Ladies of Security, viii!
give an illustrated lecture on his trip
through Finland and Russia and his
visit to Tolstoi, on Friday evening,
April 81, at the First Methodist church
There are a good many students in
the high school who regret that the
vacation schools which will be estab-
lished this summer by the board of
education do not include high school
work.
E. r. Simon, county attorney, can
make more noise blowing his nose than
any man in town. Nearly every boy
has an ambition to make noise like
10 ,i-
but the county attorney can make a
fog horn look like a piccolo in a brass
band.
Topeka has a great spirit! If the
city commissioners asked the people
to vote $35, 900 in bonds to build a men
agerie or a fire station the bonds would
he defeated. But if the school board
decides to spend $4,000 or $135. 900 for
school buildings everyone shakes their
heads in approval
The young fellows who stand in front
| of a certain cigar store in town have
| made their gathering place so con-
| spicuous that young women walk
| walk across the street rather than pass
the bunch. On the other hand there
are twice as many who pass the crowd
| because they are there.
As an additional attraction and an
| inducement to the Topeka railway to
| build their line to Gage park, the city
/ officials might place Buffalo" Bone on
exhibition at the park entrance. When
Won were a small boy-you remember
| that it was always your ambition tC
go to place where you saw a scare
| crow.
The board of education has approved
the surety bond of John NJ. Wright, re-
/ Gently appointed city treasurer. AL
| though his term does not expire until
| August, j. D. Pattison, the retiring
treasurer, does not care to continue
| with his duties as treasurer for the
| school board.
With all due respect to the game and
| the enthusiasm over the game-about
| the worst bore" in the world is the
! fellow who makes an idol out of a ball
player and who insists on tanning
every time he meets you. Especially
when he has an idea that he is an au-