The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-09
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Talk of TcTeka goes over the indie
pendent wires. Order now.
Monday is Lincoln'S birthday and all
of the banks of the city will be closed
on that day.
The concert given at the Central Y.
NJ. c. A. by some of the women of the
city who are musically inclined was
an enjoyable affair.
The attendance at the sessions of
the Kansas Bible institute has been
seven larger than had been anticipated
by the management.
The newly organized mission study
class of the c. E. of the First Congre-
gational church will meet Monday
evening at 522 Taylor street.
The Ernest Gamble Concert COM
pany which is said to be an excellent
musical organization will be the at
traction at the high schol assembly to-
morrow evening.
Commissioner Tandy announces the
opening Of Roosevelt street near the
asylum. \ bridge viii be built over
Wards creek and the street will be
graded and filed for traffic.
Next weeks edition of the Washburn
Review VIII he under the supervision
of the girls of the college. The co eds
VIII get ont the entire paper doing the
writing and the business dlreCtorshlE.
Raving and stormlng with rage the
editor Of the Washburf Review has
hurdened his readers with double col
umn editorial this week-the subject
of the editorial being that fresh and
current item-"College Spirit
The Rock Island lines is supporting
a movement by the American Red
Cross society to educate the railroad
employees in first aid to the injured"
work. The employees of Topeka will
be given lectures February 1915. ~
The paving specifications for the
coming paving season have been APP
proved by the city commissioners and
referred to w. c.. Ralston. city attor-
ney. City Attorney Ralston will pass
on the legal form of the specifications
and then they will be submitted to the
bidders.
Professor Wilm, CT Washburn college.
has instituted spelling reform. There
are so many students who nisspell the
common words in his rsychol lgy Glasses
hat he has grown frantic. The pro-
fessor should remember that the best
spoilers in the world are unable TO spell
psychological phrases.
The street railway tracks en- the new
Douthitt line are the best in tine city
"a single truck car can travel on them
without a bump or jerk. Patrons on
the Washburn line are PUMPED so hard
en- their daily trips that when they
leave home in the morning they are
hungry before Lney get DOWN IOWn.
1t is a curious thing how even those
who are most particular when it comes
to what they eat otter use the mouth
as wallet for coin which has been
we'll goodness knows where. This
morning a Topeka society girl who
boarded a street car was seen to put
the change which she received from
the conductor in her mouth.
What the citizens of Topeka should
do is to SDend more mOnaV for inStitu-
tons that provide work for the hungry
hungry after they are unable to work. -
said H. P. Miller, city commissioner in
one of his famous sermonettes at the
city hall this morning.
The big Terrible bull brought to To-
peka by Buffalo" Bone, city commits
sioner, is now so tame that the park
commissioner feeds the animal out OF
his hand. Small boys play in the pen
and kodak pictures have been taken of
Old Joshua within rive feet of his head.
Bad bulls, these. Nevertheless people
should be kept out of the pens because
a buffalo is always dangerous.
The intercollegiate, an inter-college
newspaper of Kansas schools Will be
Published i'll Topeka this year. The
Kansas intercollegiate Editorial asso-
citation was organized about three years
ago by the editors Of the Washburr
Review, the Emporia Life, the K. s. A.
c. Students Herald and the State Nor
nal Bulletin. 1t is now a progressive
organization.