The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-24

F. J. Monaghan returned today from
snort business trip to Kansas City.
The general topic of conversation at
the Commercial club in the noon hour
today was the coming election.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Shawnee Alfalfa club will be held to-
morrow at the Commercial club.
The executive committee of the Men
and Religion movement will meet this
evening at the Central Y. M. c. A.
DR.. Frank K Sanders, George Plumb,
and Dave Leahy were the judges of the
Emporia-Topeka high school debate.
The decorations of the windows of the
new Mills building has begun. The
opening is scheduled to occur March
The harem skirts seen on Topeka
streets indicate that they are the most
sensible of fashion innovation in
years.
The work of installing the heating
plant of the new Y. w. c. A. building,
corner of Seventh and Van Buren,
streets, is in progress.
THE difficulty this year" said Sec
rotary H. L. Cook. of the Kansas State
Fair association. will be to handle the
fair. it will be so large"
L. S. Griffin of Nortonville, former
ly state senator from his district, is in
Topeka today and visited for several
hours with the officials in the federal
building.
The men at the fire headquarters
seven months-old bulldog, wearing a
spiked collar with tag No. 121 there
on, is lost.
Mrs. George Morehouse and Miss
Hazel Loveland will be among those
who will furnish music at the Y. w.
c. A. vesper services Sunday afternoon
at 4:30 o'clock.
There is still some hope for more
clues in the Platt murder case. An
other Pinkerton detective arrived in
Topeka today and will tackle the job
as soon as he gets his bearings.
A. B. Mullen didn't pay 81, 500 for the
largest diamond in Topeka. He paid
81, $50 for it. A typographical error was
responsible for the increase in price. 1t
still weighs seven carats, however.
H. w. Morrow, special pension
agent, is spending the week in Omaha,
running down a bunch of pension
claims that are causing the govern
ment officials more or less trouble.
McCabe Moore, assistant district at
tOrney, was in Junction City Thurs
day on business matters connected
with the district attorneys office. He
returned to Topeka on a night train.
The city commissioners have held
their last business meeting before the
primary election. But most of the COM
missioners are not fearing that it will
ing on being reelected.
Business in new buildings is so brisk
in Topeka that the Santa F'e shops in
Topeka are unable to procure carpen-
tiers. More than 200 men could be used
this minute in the shops but city bust
ness demands the labor.
The mammoth new locomotive built
in the Topeka shops-the largest engine
in the world-made a trial trip between
Topeka and EmpOria and train a half
mile long with "a cars was pulled easily
at a rate of 80 miles an hour. -
- DR.. F. L. Hayes will preach at the
First Congregational church Sunday
for the last time before he leaves for
Chicago to occupy the pulpit of the
New England congregational church
as a temporary arrangement. 81 '-'
When the Topeka Commercial club
begins its state wide and nation wide
advertising it should remember that the
largest locomotive in the world was
built in the Topeka shops OF the Santa
Fe--and another one is almost COM
pleted.
A McNeal-for-mayor meeting will be
held this evening in the Sheldon kin
dergarten building at the corner OF
Lincoln and King streets. Among the
speakers who will be present will be
T. A. McNeal NJ. Overton, and the Rev.
Mr.. Fishback.
The Topeka postoffice had a heavy
run on garden seeds this season. This
morning there was but one lone pack
age in the office of the Topeka post
master to show for several mail bags
full of seeds sent out by the Kansas
delegation in Washington.
One-third of the entire city registra-
ton comes from the First and Second
wards This will be a big factor in the,
attempts of Mayor Billiard to be re-
elected. 1t will mean much also to the
candidates who are depending upon
these wards for their strength.
The candidates for members of the
school board are waking up. Today
they have been as busy as the mayor
atty candidates booming their candi-
dacy. It is the opinion of many that
there is some good commissioner ma
terial among the school board candi-
dates.
One candidate for commissioner is
having a hard time trying to keep his
cards in certain down town elevator.
He is frantic in his attempts to find
the naughty man who tears them down.
He has gone so far as to give the ele-
vator boy a cigar to tell just who has
been doing the dastardly trick.
The following Topeka people will at
tend the National Y. w G. A. con-
vention at Indianapolis. Ind, April 49,
"a: Miss Pearl B. Forsyth, Mrs. w. S.
Lindsay, president of the board of di-
rectors, Miss Ella Cowgirl, Miss Ber-
tina Rolls, and the secretary, Miss June
Trout.
Harry ]. Bone, district attorney. and
Miss Gardner, his stenographer, re-
turned today from Wichita, where
they have been attending the March
session of the United States district
court c. S. Briggs, assistant district
attorney, will remain in Wichita until