The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-07
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AT HOME NEWS.

That Topeka win not be hampered by
! holiday fires E J. Stewart city electrical
| inspector, will take special pains to in
peot and apPToys AL extra WINDOW and
i licensed electricians are allowed @
change the wiring.
| The Radges city directory of 1882 tells
! of the eight daily papers that were pub
| lished in Topeka that year but none OF
them were startling successes then.
| The Washburn Review tells of a col
| lege debate where not spectator in the
event as one of the most important &C.
currences in college history.
Students of Washburn college are
taught athletic dancing To be a dancing
athlete in the true sense of the word a
girl must be able to start in at $50 in
the evening and dance until 2 O'Clock the
next morning
A Topeka grocer is quoted as saying
that people were too extravagant in the
purchase of their eatables- This sounds
like the coal dealers who complain be-
cause SO much coal is burned.
The semiannual meeting of the Kansas
Theological school of the Episcopal
church of the diocese of Kansas and
Oklahoma is being held at the main
building, S22 Topeka avenue. Nineteen
students are here for the work
Patronize the lunch counter First Con-
gregational Bazaar
It looks as though the big Three at
over the Little Two" Commissioner
Stotts. at the head of the sanitation de-
partment, has closed the office of W. q.
Tandy, commissioner.
1t is found in an old city directory pub
lished about tWenty-nine years ago that
Sam Radges was engaged to be married
in 1882. He was a member of famous
Topeka Bachelors club at the time. Sew
eral successful Topeka business men
were members of that club. The rumor
about Col. Radges may have been a hoax.
cause the hunters in the state are al
lowed to shoot quail in season. From
the reports of the Topeka hunters, very
few farmers need fear for the two
three quail that make their homes on
their farms.
The morning capsule is appealing to
the dear readers" to read their daffy-
dills. But the readers do not have time
to read the same stuff they read in their
evening paper a week before.
The new Jacobs aeroplane was dam
Jacobs was attempting to make trial
flight. But the pilot of the Topeka IL
filled his balloon and made So mile
trip through the air. You may always
depend the balloon.
There should be lots of work in Topeka
for the great Detective Burns. What has
become Of the Investigation of the muir
der of the Jewish clothier on the North
side a few months ago2
Best service worth the price, Independ-
ent telephone service
The Provident association will spend
S125 at Christmas time for the purchase
of shoes to give to worthy school chill
dren.
The board of directors of the Provident
association is contemplating the renting
of a tract of ground opposite the associa-
ton building, Fourth and Van Buren,
streets, for the purpose of turning it into
a wood yard where the unfortunate and
deserving poor will be given work.
The C. w. B. M ladies of the Christian
of the city will hold an all day
meeting Friday, November 8, at the Third
Christian church, corner of Third and
Lake streets.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Walnut
Grove NJ. E. church will meet to transact
business tomorrow afternoon in the
church parlors.
show is increasing every day. The show
will continue until Saturday night. An |
official catalogue and program, giving the !
names of the prize winners was pub |
lished today.
Thomas Z. Prout. secretary of the R. |
r. Y. M. G. A., together with other work |
ers, has conducted 40 Men and Religion !
meetings in the last month At these |
there were 1,003 persons in at /
tendance. They were held at the Mills |
fire station No. 2, at two of
the business colleges of the city, in the |
telegraph school, and at the Continental
creamery.
The religious work committee of the
Railroad Y M c. A. conducted 20 SER
attendance at these meetings of 1,162.
The parks committee of the Commercial
club met this noon, and later took a trip
along the course of the proposed Topeka
boulevard
A number of the members of the To-
oeka Rebate association met today at
he Commercial club.
The forced ventilation hot air heaters
which have been installed in the cars of
he Potwin- West Eighth avenue street
Ear line make the cars the warmest of
any running in the city.
President Frank K Sanders of Wash
0urn college is delivering a series of adj
1resses before the Sunday School union
IF Kansas City. He delivered the first
address at the Westminster Congrega-
ional church Wednesday night, and re-
urned to Topeka today.
There will be meeting tomorrow of I
he Central Park Parent-Teachers' as
as formerly announced The Il
Meeting has been postponed on account Il
# the drowning of AIatteSon Harper, one u
If the boys of the school The next meet
ng will be held Friday evening, Janu-%S
The decentralization of DIR. Charles NJ.
sheldon's I'm His Steps," which was pre-
ented last winter at the Central Con-
church, is being revised by
Hiss Elizabeth Marbury, president of the
Dramatic Association of America, and
are being made to stage
he play the first of the year.