The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-11

spelling would disgrace the city auth
critics.
DR.. E. C. wilm of Washburn college
will speak before the Jewish progress
sive club Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
A Jewish "a bbi from st. Joe, and DIR.
Charles NJ. Sheldon will speak at the
same meeting in the near future.
This evening a double header bas-
ketbaH game will be played between
the Y. NJ. c. A. Tigers and Washburn
academy, and a Washburn class team
and the high school Tigers. The events
will take place on the Washburn floor.
James ]. Parks of st. Louis will
speak this evening at banquet which
viii be given by the brother.
hood of the First Presbyterian
church. Members of all Presbyterian
brotherhood organizations of the city
have been invited to be present.
The first meeting of the year for the
Topeka local union will be held next
Monday evening at the Central Park
Congregational church. The Rev. D.
Everett Smith, pastor councillor of
the union will give his annual sermon
before the organization. a picnic sup
per will be enjoyed at 6:15 o'clock
Bert Cartilage has purchased a big
new model Hudson "33' touring car
He is building in the rear of his home
on Western avenue a garage for the
machine. This is the second garage to
be constructed behind the Cartilage
home = the first was built by w =.
Cartilage, who owns Ford motor car.
Stanley Medlicott, county treasurer,
is preparing statements for the delin-
quent personal property tax payers
today and says there are more of
them than ever before. The tax was
due December 81. but the treasurer
is giving people a chance to square up
before the sheriff is notified according
to law.
All of the motor car owners in the
city took out their cars the last of last
week and the first of this week to make
their final spin before winter ,"sets
in" When the weather makes a real
noise like winter, the garages, repair
shops, paint shops and factories will
be filed with motor cars for over
hauling.
Were you among those who sat
GREATNESS and speechless in your seats
at the =" udeville last week when
the railroad operator was waiting for
the engine whistle to blow or he would
Shoot his wife? And were you among
those who sat there and actually feared
that that whistle wouldn't blow? So
were we.
A Topeka newspaper man whose gas
bill ranges from Is cents to So a month,
spends most of his time sitting around
the office laughing at his associates
who chase frantically to the gas Office
as soon as they get their bill in order
to get the 10 per cent. rebate. He has
been voted the >"meanest man in town.
by his office force.
I have noticed said a Topeka man
today. that all of these pin-headed
men who have been making such q
| fight on whiskers. are such poor ex
cuses for human beings that they
| couldn't raise a beard if they tried :
| to say nothing of a bunch of hair on
| the head. The anti-whislxer campaign
| is laughed at by those who know"
The concession booths for the Mid
winter exposition are being built in
the auditorium. and the electricians
are at work. The electrical effects will
be brilliant in the extreme The ad-
vance sale of tickets will only last a
day or two longer and Topekans will
| have to look sharp if they want to
| take advantage of the reduced rates.
Since the society item in last nights
paper referring to the question which
has appeared before a Topeka popular
| college girl-whether to chose a foot
ball hero or prominent young atto~
ney as her sutton, mighty howl rises
! up from I'll portions of the young set
Elements" Which would the moderf.
girl chose-the football man or the at
tornev? It's up to you What would
you do?
There is a strong sentiment in To-
4 peka and the state against the idea
of the state university of Kansas
spending so much money for the medi-
cal education Of students when there
are so many private colleges and uni
| Versities attempting to make sue
cess with their medical departments
: 1t is said that it costs the state $500
Per year for each student in the medi-
cal school to educate them.
There is still good deal of the ami
NAL nature in human beings despite