The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-05

the coal barons made hay enough for
one week.
The four basketball teams of the
Y. w. G. A. will meet for practice Fri
will be arranged to take place later in
the season.
Rah for Shorey. The northwest
suburb of North Topeka had the long
sought minute street car service in
stalled today and pair of p. a. y. e.
cars are making the trip.
If all chickens in Kansas were as
valuable as the exhibition fowls at the
chicken show it would be as bad a
crime to steal a chicken in Kansas as
a horse-and possibly worse.
The Golden Belt Medical society,
which is an association of the medical
men in the central part of the state,
hold an afternoon and a night session
in Topeka today at the Throop hotel.
From the information gained at the
railroad stations, the orders for beer
from Kansas City have dropped alarm
ingly in the last month. Christmas ex-
penses together with cooler weather is
set aside as the cause.
E. T. Hollies, general freight agent
i of the st. Louis & Southwestern rail-
way of Tyler. Texas, is here with his
! wife to attend the funeral of Captain
| Burriss. Captain BurrisS was the
| father of Mrs. Hollies.
The Topeka Advertising club has
| held an average of one meeting for
| each two months for the last half
year. This is a record for nonactivity.
/ The meetings of the organization were
| formerly held once in two weeks.
| No word has been heard from Buff
falo Bone in the last few days. The
| first reports were so successful and
| interesting that the people expected to
see the herd of buffalo parading down
Kansas avenue sometime this week
George w. Murray, an ex-congress-
man of South Carolina, will deliver a
| lecture this evening at the Baptist
church, Third and Quincy streets.
| Murray, who is a negro, says he has
a special message for the colored peo-
| pie.
The menu has been printed for the
banquet which will be given for the
delegates to the convention of the
Kansas Association of Real Estate
Agents Tuesday evening, January TO-
| The affair will be held at the Throop
| hotel
Wichita has been trying for some
time time to get up a better chicken
show than Topeka. They are offering
many inducements to carry out this
plan. But this year Topeka has about
| 5000 birds on exhibition and Wichita
| about ], 900.
Invitations will be issued from the
office of the Y. w. G. A. the first of
next week for the annual membership
banquet and business meeting which
| will be held January IS. Miss Mary
| Louise Allen, a national secretary, will
be present for the occasion.
Central park ponds. the Shunganunga
| and all ponds in the vicinity of the city
| are covered with skaters in the after
| moons and evenings. The ice is rather
| rough on account of the wind that ac-
companied the freezing weather, but it
is skating just the same and the sport
| is rare in Kansas.
In view of the fact that there will
be many conventions and state gather
lngs in Topeka this month the hotels
In the city are busily engaged in filling
orders for rooms and making reserva-
tons for the coming events. Where is
that new hotel that was built on paper
by the Commercial club two years ago?
Now that the weather has warmed
up and the evenings are warm enough
to allow slow walking and much talk
ing the stage door 'johnnies'' at the
Majestic have made their appearance.
This Johnny business is a profitable
thing for the actresses-it is as profit
able as it is laughable.
If a photographer would take a bust
ness district view of Topeka from the
state house dome and destroy forever
the kind that are now on sale at the
stores he would be doing the patriotic
people of the city a great service. The
OLD view cards fail to show any kind
! Oh building at the corner of Eighth