The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-11

First Congregational church at GLIB,
and at the First Presbyterian church
Sunday evening.
The Topeka city officials who have
worked night and day trying to col
lect the just claim from the state are
a sorry looking lot today. The bill
legally called for $4,000 and the city
got only $4,000. It is apparent from
their remarks that Topeka is in need
of a representative in the senate.
1.-The gymnasium in the manual
training school," said superintendent
L. D. Whittemore, was planned in
order to demonstrate the value of ply
steal work in the schools. 1t has been
used only by the girls. The time has
come when it is felt that a larger
gymnasium is needed for the use of
both boys and girls
When asked if the management of
the Y. w. c. A. expect to make the
sign a statement to the effect that
they will bring no liquor or cigarettes
in the building, Miss Daisy June Trout,
secretary of the association said, mo,
but we expect to make them do some
thing still worse, and that is to state
their ages
The merchants who have been APP
preached on the Sunday mail delivery
proposition are about evenly divided
as TO the question of whether the
practice of giving out the mail on
Sunday should be discontinued. "All
of the merchants admitted that the
Sunday mail getting is more a habit
than. a necessity said an official of
the Commercial club today.
In speaking of the fact that the en-
rollment of colored children in the
city schools has decreased decidedly
in the last 90 years, superintendent
L. D. Whittemore had this to say: II
doubt if the colored population is as
large as it was 90 years ago, and it is
a fact that there are fewer children
in family This is also probably true
in respect to the white families
The street meetings which were to
have been held by T. A. McNeal can
didatc for mayor, this afternoon and
evening, have been called off. ''Tnc
object of the meetings. said Mr.. Nc
Neal was to create enthusiasm in re-
speCt to getting people out to register.
concluded that more good could ne
done by going around with my auto
mobile to take people to the Auditor
iun to register
Although it is a little late, most peo-
pie are planting their sweet peas. The
wet weather of the last week or ten
days delayed the planting. To plant
sweet peas dig a trench about IS
inches deep, sprinkle a thin layer of
sand over the bottom, then a very thin
layer of rich dirt. Plant the seeds in
this and put about an inch of rich soil
over them. When they sprout above
this soil put in another inch. Keep
this up until the trench is nearly filled.
OF course there are other schemes.
w. J. Rickenbacher, secretary of
the Kansas association of real estate
agents. believes that although the leg
islature killed the immigration bill,
there is still chance that the bureau
of immigration will be maintained by
the state association. eff each of the
members would contribute, say, $25
year towards an advertising fund, .
said he, ''it would mean a great deal
to the state and to the realty men who
were on the proposition. Every agent
who would contribute would have ac-
cess to a list of those who are con-
tempIating moving to Kansas, and in
this way many sales could be made"