The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-06-21
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A meeting Of the finance Commute
of the Commercial club was held TINS
noon.
The usual Thursday noon pipe organ IJ
concert will be given at the flrsO Dap
fist church tomorrow
Work of clearing away the deorlS
around the new Santa Fe office puiio-
ing has commenced.
All Of the seats in Garfield park nave
been painted green to correspond VIZ VIZ
the trees, the grass and the MOWERS
ira la.
Donations for the sane Fourth
celebration are being received at the
Prudential bank. They are not CON-
ing in fast.
Those who are attending the county
institute at the high school Will enjoy
q picnic tomorrow afternoon and even
ing t garfield park
Another contingent Of Topekens left
today for Kansas City. Kan, to attend
the annual convention OF the stare
Christian EndeavOrers.
A force of men under W. G. Holloway,
engineer for the board Of education
will be at work all summer making re-
pairs on school buildings.
"Pleter" Plat, erstwhile famous
Washburn football man and now
promising young attorney OF Junction
City, was in Topeka today
Isiah Lisenby. aged "a, of Topeka,
obtained a marriage license in Kansas
City Tuesday to wed frankie NJ. Ken
nedy. aged 81, of Kansas City
What has become of the agitation for
the lighting of the state house dome
at night? This would serve as a bea-
con light for miles around. Let's have
it.
Those who have had occasion to en-
ter the Commerce building the last few
days have had occasion to remark upon
"a 0ffpr7ef--a which fills the
elevator shaft.
A. Zahner, who owns the small build
ing occupied by a cleaning and press
ing establishment at 923 Kansas ave-
nue., is talking Of erecting a store build
ing On the side.
Il predict that after the first even
ing entertainment at the state fair next
fall said Secretary H. L. Cook today,
there viii not be sufficient seating ca
pacity to provide for the crowds"
A Topeka young man who was mar
ried the other day was so excited over
the event that he forgot to pay the
preacher. The minister had to tele-
graph to Topeka for money in order
to pay his car fare home.
A meeting of 25 active Commercial
club men will be held at $3.50 tomorrow
evening for the purpose of planning i
campaign for raising funds for fnanc-
ing the Kansas semi-centennial cele-
pration which will be held next fall.
The social service committee of the
men and religion movement is plan
ming to make a thorough social survey
of Topeka A report on the housing.
sanitary, and industrial conditions of
the city will be made by the commit
tee.
Fifty or so members of The boys de-
.partment of the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
will hike" to Tecumseh tomorrow
leaving the building at $50 o'clock and
returned at in the afternoon, at which
time a plunge in the pool viii be en-
joved.
For the last two months workmen
have been employed at the First Con
gregational church putting the building
in repair The stone work on the ex-
terror has been reprinted and the an
pearance of the church has been
greatly improved.
4 poor woman came to the Providen+
Association for assistance today who in
the course OF her tale of woe said
that she and her husband had been
paying a dollar a month interest on
ten dollars borrowed from a loan shark