The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-29
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W. Fl. Greider will build a s., SG3 house
/ at Gil West Seventeenth street.
The Orient Lodge No. 81, A. F. and a.
NJ, Will hold a banquet at 80 this even
ing.
There will be a free sacred concert Sun
/ day afternoon at 3 O'Clock by Marshall 5
band at the Auditorium.
Miss Louise Bloodgood of Monroe,
Mich, has assumed duties as house sec
rotary of the Y. ". c. A.
A representative of the Dupont Powder
Co, of St Louis will address the Shaw
nee County Alfalfa club on Farming
Commercial club on Saturday at p m.
/ Ex-Governor Samuel j. Crawford viii
also be present and tell some of his eX-
periences in this line
Hereafter when any one employs a
part of MarshalIs band it must be ad-
vertised as part of the band" This pro-
vision will be entered in all contracts
Members of the Hawaiian orchestra
which played at the Majestic earlier in
the season went TO Kansas City this
week.
If you ever saw Joseph Jefferson play
Rip Van Wrinkle send your name to the
State Journal with particulars and you
may be given an opportunity to see his
son Thomas jefferson in the same play
next Thursday night as a guest of the
State Journal.
This changing weather has brought the
usual epidemic of colds
THE amusement attractions alone at
the Midwinter exposition will be worth
50 cents of anybody's money" said Sec
rotary j. A. Worley of the Midwinter ex-
position.
Six men representing the Men and Re
ligion committee of 100 will go TO
Atchison Sunday to speak in the
Churches.
Newell W. Banks, the checker cham
piOn of America, will meet all corners at
the Central Y. NJ c. A. Saturday after
noon and evening He will play blind
folded if requested. He is on the most
extended trip that has ever been made by
a checker player having left Detroit,
Mich. last 0ctober He does not expeci
10 return to his home before May L He
is also a good chess player, and Will play
chess tomorrow with any one who docs
not care to play checkers. He will play
all persons Simultaneously
Ray Halls orchestra will play for Sun
day dinner and for dinner New Years
day at the National hotel.
The eight hundred rabbits that the To-
peka Provident association has in cold
storage will be given out to those who
are actually in need of the meat-persons
who have been investigated by the asso-
citation, and not to any one who applies
was the case at Christmas time. These
rabbits are the last shipment made from
Commissioner Z. b. Stotts from Garden
City.
The E. Horn Co. had made so sleds to
De distributed among children of poor
families. Today IS sleds We're sent around
to the Provident association. Ten of
these were given to children in the day
nursery, and the remainder placed IL
families well known by the association
A number Of the sleds were sent to the
Orphans Home.
TIE Merchants Journal entertained 20
travelling statesmen of the Davis Mercan-
tile co. at the Commercial club this noon
A meeting Of the membership commit
tee Of the Commercial club was held this
noon to further the plans for the mem
bership campaign which viii be held the
middle of January
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part in the Y NJ G. A circus next week
will entertain the boys of the Provident
association Immediately following their
oyster spread
The melting of the snow left the main
thoroughfare Of the city in a dirty CON
dition.
in the neat announcement of the an
nual picnic dinner which will be held
Saturday evening by the L. c. T. organ
ization is this statement: Aided by our
ladies we will feed all who are unfortu-
unable to find some loved one who would
put up a lunch for them There viii be
music. and those who like to play cards
Will do So
announcement of the L. c. T. blowout
tomorrow evening reads: Requested that
our ladies don't bring anything to drink.
The committee will furnish pickles, cell
cry, water, and coffee
John thinner. the juggler this week a t
the Novelty. recently made a tour of the
west with the Harry Lauder IOdu snow.
Prof David Seymour will give IS min
ute organ recital prior to the holding of
the evening services at the First Baptist
church next Sunday evening
The annual report of Secretary Horace
l.. Hall of the Provident association
showed that the receipts Of the associa-
ton amounted to $732l72, while the ex-
penses totaled S7,650-32
Rev. Davis Shut and DR.. W. w Yates
will be among the speakers at the re-
union this evening in Gemmell hall of the
former Perry. Kan, citizens who are re-
siding in Topeka
a cremation service" will take place
at the First United Brethren church on
New Years day. Three thousand dollars
in notes and mortgages will be cancelled
..An of our men are tremendously en-
thusiastic about the work in Topeka,
writes Fred 3. Smith, the leader of the
Men and Religion movement in America.
1--WE have heard nothing better"
Fred Nixon. the we'll known chimney !
sweep professed Christianity at meet |
inc OF the business mems Bible class in |
the Y. NJ. c. A. building
The annual box picnic Of the II. G. T. |
organization viii be held tomorrow even |
ing.
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