The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-21

VIII be held April 1S and 10.
A meeting of the McNeal- mayor |
supporters will be held tomorrow at |
o'clock.
other tryout this afternoon for places |
| on the cast of the senior play.
The Thursday evening meeting at |
the First Congregational church will |
be good fellowship affair.
This is the time of year when those
who have nothing else to do fuss about |
how deep to plant sweet peas
The election of elders and deacons |
of the First Presbyterian church-an |
| annual affair-will be held Thursday !
| night.
The government weather observer |
| has now gone many day without |
| missing his guess as to the weather |
| conditions.
| The store building at S14 Kansas
avenue is being overhauled. Among
| other improvements, a new floor is
being put in.
| The water troughs in town have
been opened up for the year by street
Commissioner Snyder. This is another
sure sign of spring.
A meeting of the board of man
ayers of the Kansas State Fair asso-
citation will be held tomorrow at 1915
O'Clock in the fair office
A meeting of the Y. w c. A.
Geneva-Cascade club will be held this
evening for the purpose of selecting
delegates for the association conven-
ton in Cascade June 20-30.
| The Y. w. c. A. building at the cor
ner of Seventh and Van Buren, streets
will probably be ready for occupancy
| by the first of June. The plasterers
have just completed their work.
The regular bi-monthly meeting of
| the Topeka Local union will be held
in the First Congregational church
March 81. The state C E. president
and the new field secretary will be
| speakers
Under the auspices of the Brother
! hood of the Westminster Presbyterian
the State university will speak this
evening on "Society's Interest in La
Dor Problems
The Santa Fe officials have decided
old general Office building a pure
white. This is for the purpose of re-
hecting light into the north windows
Of the new building.
The colored department of the Y.
M. c. A. which now has EOS members
in good standing will enter into a
membership contest with the colored
department of Wichita in April. The
contest will last twelve days.
Miss Pearl B. Forsyth, associate Y.
w. C. A. secretary, will spend her va
cation in Indianapolis, Ind, her for
mer home, during April. She will at
tend the national association conven-
tion which will be held in Indianapolis
April 1926.
Say what you wish about the secre-
tary of the Commercial club-He OBJ
serves the motor car driving rules and
doesn't leave his machine heading the
wrong way on the street This is more
than can be said about the other GA
, drivers in town.
For the information of the friends
of Henry Lautz, assistant to general
manager of the Santa Fe: There are
still a few cigars left in that expen-
sive box he purchased in celebration
of the new assistant which arrived at
his home a few days ago.
The state fair management will
seriously consider getting Woodrow
| Wilson and w. J. Bryan here as draw
ing cards for the state fair next fall
| The matter will be brought up at a
, meeting of the board of managers
which will be held tomorrow.
Homer Fink of the treasurer's office
of the Santa Fe has gone to Florida,
where he will look at land which may
be purchased by employees in the
, chose Fink because they claim he has
the best sweet pea bed in town.
Good joke on the Santa Fe: When
: the largest engine in the world was
pulled out of the shops the other day
|, it crushed the tracks and ties into the
ground-it was so big and heavy. But
of course this track was not to be COM
pared with the tracks on the lead
, lines
. 1t was stated today by person in
: | terested in the extension of the class
room facilities at the high school that
the attic of the building could be par
titioned off into seven rooms. The
long climb to the top floor would be
the great drawback to the plan for
utilizing this portion of the building.
Mayor Billiard seems to be the favor
tie candidate for nomination at the
city primaries. McNeal says he and
Billiard will be nominated. LUX says
it is he and Billiard and Hughes thinks
Hughes and Billiard are the two nomi-
Inees But neither Lux. McNeal nor
Hughes think the other will be nomi-
mated.
i The city ordinances give person
the right to kill all chickens belong
ling to neighbors that run loose in your
yard. Mayor Billiard has received
numerous complaints from over the
city on account of chickens tearing up
new gardens and flower beds. The
law says you can kill these chickens,
but not eat them.
A young girl who was recently mar
ried lived in Kansas City before she
Icame to Topeka with her new hus-
band. All who have met her claimed
lshe was peach until the other day,
when she said: 1.-THE only thing
get maids here" Only one woman in
the club where she made this express
sion had a "girr'-and none of them
had maids
Were going to try to get the new
committees of the Commercial club
busy said the secretary of the club,
land the address this evening by Mr..
Berkowitz will have the tendancy to
arouse the committee chairman to
make an effort to make things hum
| this year. The dinner at $50 is not
| for the members of the club only. but
| anyone who is interested in the de-
velopment of Topeka is invited to at
tend
Principal A. J. Stout of the high