The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-09
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out Is 900. FINE Streets many autos. |
The board of directors of the Y. w.
c. A. will meet at O'Clock Thurs
day afternoon.
E. Murphy will construct a dwelling
at 1417 west Seventh street which will
cost $4,000.
The management of the State Fair
association has invested in some new
office furniture.
The exterior work on the new Pen
well building, $40 Quincy street, is
about half completed.
The Topeka people will have to go
some if they want to equal in neatness
the lawns CT Oakland.
Mrs. Anna Greenwood will erect a
house on Garfield avenue near Twelfth
street at cost of about $4,000.
George B. Hetherington of the Rock
Island Lines has returned to Topeka
after company business in Kansas City.
The regular monthly meeting of the
principals of the city schools is being
held this afternoon at the high school
building.
The Ladies' Aid society will meet at
the Walnut Grove Methodist church
for regular business tomorrow after
noon.
One high school boy sold ~ tickets
to 1.-THE Price of the Prairie which
was presented at the Grand last Fri
day.
greatest number of new members will
be given an exalted position in the
room.
All hail to the Des Moines baseball
team-the team that is instrumental
in keeping Topeka out of the Western
league cellar.
Robert Tasker will tell the young peo-
pie of the First Congregational church
in the near future of "A Trip from
Taku to Pekin.''
The regular monthly meeting of the
foreign missionary society of the First
Methodist church will be held tomor-
row afternoon.
The members of the Christian En-
deavor society of the Third Christian
church will go to Gage park Wednes-
day night to enjoy picnic supper.
A Topeka man made the assertion
beer can be purchased within a radius
of six blocks of the transfer station.
The second team of the Capital Iron
Works defeated the Steel Fixtures
team 16 to in a game where an iron
worker struck out IT of the tempered
batsmen.
A meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Topeka Local union will
be held at the home of the president,
Fred r. Brewer, Wednesday evening
at o'clock.
The State Fair association has re-
management will probably not have
posters put up on bill boards until a
few days before the fair.
1t has been announced that LOO post
cards were bought at the convention
headquarters while the delegates to the
recent State Sunday School convention
were in the city. H.
The contractors on the Melan bridge
extension expect to have the addition
ready for traffic about the last of June. s
The arches are all in and the concrete
ratings are now going in.
The Rev. David Lyon and the Rev.
w. H. Scrivner viii be among those
who will leave Topeka to. attend the
convention of the Second District Chris
tian churches in Paola this week.
The men of Kansas who handle bot
tles-not booze receptac1es but those
used for drugs-wiI meet in Topeka
May 1925. About 200 pharmacists
will meet at the Commercial club.
w. E, ("Billy") Rice, also some
football player, and a graduate of
Kansas university and a pal of Dr..
Hope, Is visiting here Rice is law
yer and is working out at Pond City,
Ok.
Secretary H. L. Cook has booked a
strong list of amusement attractions
for the state fair next fall, but he is
not ready at this time to make pub
lie just what those entertainment fea-
lures are.
The Provident association is in re-
ceipt daily of samples of radishes
which were grown by the poor people
to whom garden seed was distributed
by the association. The recipients of
the seeds are showing their apprecia-
ton of the generosity of the Provi-
dent association.
Not an awning adorns the immense
south sun garden windows of the city
hall. The employees are complaining
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form of government the awnings were
UP in April.
The adjourned meeting of the board
| of education which will be held next
Monday evening will be a busy one.
Janitors will be chosen for the next
school year and the boards budget will
| be made out.
The seven students of the high
| school who should be in the list of
those who will receive diplomas at the
AUDITORIUM, June 2, are putting forth
strenuous efforts to brush up to a suffi-
cient extent in their work.
Now that the city superintendent of
I streets and the city commissioner of
streets are going in opposite directions
the dear pee-puP' who wish anything
done on their streets will have to ap-
peal to the dog catcher.
The private car of President Nudge
| of the Rock Island Lines which has
| been standing in Topeka since last
week was aItacned- TO an afternoon
| train for Chicago today. Mrs. Nudge
has been visiting in the city.
| Great preparations are being made
| for the banquet for the workers in the
recent Wichita-Topeka membership
contest which will be held tomorrow
night in the gymnasium of the Central
Y. NJ. c. A. The team of George God
DR.. Hugh Hope, formerly football
star at Washburn and something of a
student. is visiting family and friends
in Topeka. The doctor has made good
in his profession at Victor. Kan, and
has taken on a great deal of profess
siona1 weight
The front of the old four story
| building next to the site of the old
| Copeland hotel has been torn. down.
and a modern front will be built to
harmonic with the new building