The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-21

this evening at the First Christian
church.
The Kirkpatrick building, corner of
Seventh and Quincy streets, has shot
up three stories.
The Ohio club will hold its regular
quarterly meeting Saturday evening at
Lincoln Post hall.
DR.. E. L. Pettyjohn will talk of his
experiences in Russia at the First M.
E. church tonight.
The most luxuriant crop of dande-
lions in the city is possible to be seen
along the parkings near the Santa F'e
hospital.
Registration in connection with the
State Sunday School convention May
"a will take place at the Central Y.
NJ C. A.
Work of putting Vinewood park in
trim for the spring opening is in pro-
gress. The concessions are receiving
coat of paint.
The exterior work on the Leoper fiat
and business building at the corner of
Sixth and Buchanan streets is prac-
tically completed.
The annual circus of the Central Y.
M. c. A. will be held next Tuesday and
Wednesday. One hundred and fifty
boys will take part.
The Topeka Provident association has
plowed up many vacant lots and back
yards so that the poor of the city can
transform them into fair garden spots.
The Provident Association sent out
two tents to Topeka homes where there
are tuberculosis victims. These tents
will be pitched in the yards of the
homes where the patients live.
All of the workers in the Topeka
Wichita tiaeroplane'' membership con-
test are expected to be present this ev-
ening for a 6:15 supper. There will be
several informal talks by prominent
workers.
There is considerable talk of G. G.
Munson as superintendent of the city
electric light plant to succeed H K
Goodrich. Munson was superintend-
ent under the J. w. F. Hughes admin
istration.
Plans have been made to have the
Auditorium platform extended and
tier of seats built so that it will be
possible to seat 700 members of the
chorus of 200 in a very small amount
of space
Washburn lost to Kansas university
in baseball by a score of II to Z. And
when you stop to think of 1t, base
ball game between two college teams
is about as uncertain as "7 to IL"
crap game. -.l
The buffalo skin-everyone knows
! which one-is in the mayors Office. In
order to pay for its treatment, the
mayors secretary, Miss Blanche Bates,
charges cents for every person who
looks at the skin.
At the regular meeting of the Sat
urday Night club Saturday evening
there will be a debate by Judge A.
W. Dana and Harry Bone on the sub
ject, THAT Roosevelt Was Right in
His Guild Hall Speech
| While the State Sunday School con-
vention is in progress the gymnasium of
the Y. NJ. c. A. will serve a display
room for Sunday school supplies of ali
kinds. An information bureau will be
maintained in the building.
The board of city commissioners has
changed the title in the waterWorks
office of cashier to secretary and as
sistant superintendent. Frank Stevens,
the present cashier, is now assistant
superintendent to superintendent
Shaw.
Owing to the demands of the state
labor commissioner the city commits
sioners have found it necessary to re-
arrange the force Of employees at the
city electric light plant. An eight
hour-a-day schedule has been planned
for these men.
Downtown fire companies made
run at 1890 this morning to the Glen
wood hotel, where an alarm had been
turned in by people on the street who
saw smoke floating over the building.
A bonfire in the rear of the hotel sent
smoke to the roof.
The Christian Citizenship convention
which will be held at the First Baptist
church next Tuesday and Wednesday
is attracting some attention for the rea-
son that such subjects of general in
terest as Divorce" and "The Menace
of Mormonism'' will be discussed.
Despite the fact that the city of To-
peka, is raising salaries in some of the
offices, there are hundred candidates
for the offices where the salaries have
not been raised. And even if none OF
the wages are increased the city would
have little trouble in filling the posi-
lions.
Among the Topeka speakers who
are out over Kansas with the Rock
Island agricultural trains is Mrs. Lila
Day Monroe, who speaks on house
hold economics. For a woman who
has three daughters, this kind of a
lecture will be interesting-even in
Topeka.
There is silent flying going on in the
Topeka-Wichita Y. NJ. G. A. member
ship contest. The standing of the con-
testants will not be announced until
$3.50 tomorrow night when the battle
for members will terminate. Some of
the workers are going around in auto
mobiles today.
The Topeka white way has been
settled. The taxpayers have signed up
in sufficient numbers to assure the
| lighting of Kansas avenue from the
Rock Island tracks to Tenth avenue.
It may be possible to extend this light
! ing system to North Topeka and
across the great Melan bridge
Commissioner StottS has come to
the rescue. He says the city crema-
tory will not be closed-not If he has
to pay for its maintenance out of his
own pocket. And you can depend upon
Stotts hitching up a city horse to
city wagon and hauling garbage him
self if IT is necessary to keep things
moving.
Building permits for new Topeka
homes are gaining every day. Thurs
| day the fire marshal issued nearly
$4,000 worth of permits. Today the
number promises to increase. per-
son riding from down town to the end
of any car line can count from ten
to twenty new homes-all to be seen
from the car windows.
If these hobble skirts get much