The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-04

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DR.. Eva Harding has returned from
three weeks trip to New Orleans.
The relay team of the high school
will meet the Washburn team
March IS.
Communion will be observed at the
Sunday morning Scoville meeting at
the Auditorium at II o'clock.
meeting of the WeIch people of
Topeka will be held tonight in the
Odd Fellows hall on West Sixth ave-
nue..
DR.. c. B. Van Horn has purchased
a touring car. The doctor is the six
hundred and fifteenth person to buy
an automobile in Topeka.
George Sherwood Eddy. well known
in Topeka, will become the associate
of DR.. John r. Mott in the Worlds
Student Federation work.
Law Merchant and Crutches.'' is
the subject of a talk which H. G.
Larimer will give at the Central Y.
NJ G. A. next Wednesday noon.
High school track team practice
will begin next week. The annual
field event of the scnool will take
place April at the Auditorium.
]. R. Snodgrass and c. G. Chumos
are interested in a concern which ex-
poets to start in Topeka the manufac-
ture of machines for making cement
posts.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Rockwell will
conduct mems meeting at $3.50
O'Clock Sunday afternoon at the Rail-
road Y. M. C. A The Modern Wood
man band will be present.
D. B. Fink, candidate for city COM
mission, is laid up in the Santa Fe hos
Mr.. Fink expects to be out by last of
next week and ready for the fray
again.
The city officials are still threshing
the paving debt over with the mem
bers of the state legislature. One
more frantic attempt will be made to
obtain the funds that are legally due
the city.
According to one of the contractors
in town, there are several business
buildings now in contemplation, but as
the plans were not complete, he would
give no certain information to back
up his statements.
The building permits for the month
of February in the office of Chief Will
marth, chief of the fire department,
| amounted to more than $4,000. For the
month of March the permits are expect
ed to reach the 100000 mark.
Captain Titus, city election commits
sioner, is registering nearly 200 people
a day for the primaries. Prospects
| are fattering for an extra large regis
| tration this year. Each candidate is
| urging his friends to register.
The candidates for school board po-
sitions are awaiting with anxiety the
decision of the Legislature in regard to
the proposed bill cutting down the
school board membership. It prob
ably will not affect the present cleo
| ton.
Chief Wilmarth. of the fire depart
ment, has asked that all North Topeka
! ma lxn a IN th.ai1.
voice when they give the North adj
dition to the street. In other words, if
a fire is on North Harrison, say North
Harrison and not Harrison
| Forbes and Company state that they
have done more business in real estate
this year up to the present time than
they transacted the first four months
| of 1910. The realty men are of the
Eopinion that the market will be ex-
ceptionally active, especially in build
ing sites.
DR.. F. A. Rooster will perform some
of his feats of magic at the Central
Y. M. c.. A. this evening. Miss Lii
| liam Stone will give some impersona-
| tions The entertainment is one of a
| series of free ''off night" attractions
/ which have been scheduled to take
place in Gemmell hall.
4 The Salvation Army will start a re-
vival this evening which will last for
three weeks. Staff Captain Wolfe OF
| Chicago will be here to conduct the
meetings which will be held in the
Army hall on lower Kansas avenue
Revival meetings seem to be all the
| rage in Topeka just now.
1t is rumored that Washburn col
lege is figuring on cutting four blocks
off from the east end of their campus
and sell it for city property. This would
run a street north and south just west
of Bolles' avenue, between Seventeenth
and Twenty-first streets. The college
expects to realize $4,000 from the
scheme.
j DIR. F. L. Loveland will speak at the
First M E. church tomorrow morning
on '"The Ministry of Suffering The
evening subject is with Elijah Under
the Juniper Tree-Should the Prophet
A Be Censured for Wanting to Die p
1.-The Cause and the Cure for Juniper
Tree Experiences" The latter will be
La discourse which will prove of un-
usual interest, and will undoubtedly
draw large congregation.
Modern methods are being used in
connection with the construction Of
the new Mills building. For example
instead of going over the maple floors
of the structure by hand with Sane
paper, a machine run by electricity
which somewhat resembles a. steam
roller does the work. There are twe
rollers covered with coarse sand pa
per which put the floors in proper con-
dition. A man rides on the machine
in order to give it the desired weight
The meeting which will be held IL
the auditorium which is being pushed
by the temperance people and the
Topeka local union has stirred VI
much interest on the part of the cit.
politicians. They are all hoping tina
they will have a chance to say some.