The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-21
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| Wear Motor Car Co. delivered a six
! cylinder Thomas Flyer to Mr.. H. B.
! Bullene at Lawrence this week.
! A little woolly dog was run over by
street car near the transfer station
Friday afternoon and had one of its
legs cut off.
Mayor Billiard has written to Mana
ger Treleaven of the gas company ask
ing him to cut off all large consumers
in cold weather when the gas is short.
The work of retinting and repainting
the interior of the federal building has
progressed to the upper floors and scat
folding is being erected in the court
room.
The baccalaureate sermon for the
graduating class of the high school
will be preached at the First Presby-
terrain church next Sunday morning by
the pastor, DIR. Estey.
IF some one doesn't get busy and
work for lights along the road to
Gage park, there will be some serious
accidents resulting said Secretary
H. L. Cook of the State Fair today.
1t is possible that the South side dixie
will be built by Topeka firm after all.
Spencer & Keesee are figuring on OBJ
tanning the work deserted by Haskins
& Ramsey. who couldn't furnish sat
isfactory bond to the county.
Mrs. Seno Hartzell Wallace. super
of Kansas City Kan, will lecture Sun
day, January %, p m. at the. Jew
ish Progressive club, AIS Kansas ave-
nue.. No admission is charged.
Clifford Lowe, Rock Island ticket
agent, says that the travel to Califor-
mia from points in Kansas is the heavi-
est in years. This says Mr.. Lowe,
means that the people of Kansas are
more prosperous than ever before"
Next week the first term of school
closes. at least as far as the city
schools are concerned. Promotions
will be made to take effect Monday of
the following week. In the grade
schools closing exercises will be held
on Friday.
For the last month the Topeka bank
clearings have been making a gain of
more than so per cent over the same
time last year. The gain this last week
was Sc per cent with clearings amount
ing to more than 81, 100000 The city is
| growing in every way.
Sylvester Heaston, who was severe
ly injured by falling from a second
story window at the State Journal Of
flee two weeks ago. is rapidly recover
ing at Stormont hospital The fright
full wound in his neck has healed and
except for the loss of one foot he will
soon be as sound as ever.
The rural carriers of Kansas who are
paid their salaries from the Topeka Of
flee received more than $130,000 last
month, according to the statement just
issued by A. K. Rodgers, postmaster.
There are LIB carriers and they re-
ceive an average of $73 a month. The
average salary is SIS a month.
Buffalo Bone is figuring on selling
few of the Topeka buffalo, recently
captured by Mr.. Bone in the wilds of
Michigan. r. F. Hodgins. in speaking
of the proposed sale said: 1T is GUS
tomary in Ireland where 1 came from
g.. =
ents Of another until the giver was
dead
According to the statistics dug up by
c. w. Kouns, General manager of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe, more
| than 1,4oO pay checks of the road are
Topeka. The local organization has
been gaining steadily in the last few
years and exerts tremendous infiu-
ence in railroad work.
The annual report of the city
schools covering a period of twenty
years, which Superintendent L. D.
Whittemore has prepared has gone to
press. 1t will be beautifully illustrat-
ed by scenes taken of the school build-
ings and the pupils at work in the or
binary recitation rooms and in the
manual training division.
Several new Bible and mission
study classes have been organized at
the Central Y. NJ. c. A. which are
scheduled to meet Wednesday even
ing. The classes are: Fundamentals,
with H. L. Heinzman as teacher;
Studies in the Life of Christ. David
Bowie; South America, E. W. Ran
kin. normal training class will also
be established.
DR.. w. H. w. Boyle of Chicago, who
is considered one of the big men of
the Presbyterian denomination. will
be the speaker tomorrow afternoon at
the Novelty theater. concert will be
given preceding the address. The
Washburn Ladies quartet will sing.
Miss Ona May Miller will play on the
harp, and the Topeka Mandolin club
will furnish instrumental music.
The night school for foreigners
which is being conducted three times
a week in the Harrison building con-
tinues to be popular. but the enroll
ment is of a transient nature. That is.
| some of the students in the course of a.
few weeks begin to believe that educa-
| ton is complete. Others leave town,
only to be replaced by other foreign
ers. The average attendance remains
at about 40.
In a little curtain talk az the Males
tic theater last night on the forthcom-
| ing production of Ed Howe's dramati-
cation of his THE Story of a Country
Town. Mr.. Robert Blaylock, the di-
rector of the North Brothers Stock
company, expressed the opinion that
this play was sure to earn for itself
a memorable place in the drama. II
ihave read countless plays" said Mr..
| Blaylock, land l can truthfully say
| that Mr.. Howe's first effort a play
| wright is more forceful and superior
than have been many of the twenty
first efforts of playwrights with ae-
cepted regulations"
4 The committee appointed by the
representatives of the cities of Kansas
to take certain amendments to the
commission law before the state leg
! islature has failed to meet with Mayor
! Billiard according to the plans. The
mayor and city commissioners of To-
l peka will take up the matter and
work out the amendments without the
II help of the committee-the commit
/ tee which didn't appear The mayor
II of Salina was chairman, but he has