The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-18

I 1T takes stupid people to make good
| teachers, remarked teacher in the
| high school.
! Miss Bertha Rowles will have charge
! of the lunch room which will be MAIN
| tained at the new Y. w. C. A. build
ing.
!, Secretary Guy T. Justis. of the To-
peka Provident association, viii take
| SO boys out on fishing trip Satur-
| day.
j. B. Smalley, general superinten-
dent of the Rock Island lines, has gone
to Rock Island, Ill.,. on company bust
ness.
meeting of the transportation
committee of the Comm ercial club was
held this noon at the Commercial
club
/ Ernest r. Rulings of 519 Lincoln
street is able to be out, after an oper-
alton for appendicitis and long siege
in a hospital.
The postoffice baseball team defeat
ed the Lowman Hill team Wednesday
by a score of to Z. The game was
| featured by the fielding of Springstead
and the batting of "Pick" Hunter.
/ The optimistic temperature of the
/ Topeka ball fans has dropped. despite
| the warm weather. When the team
| won three games in succession the
joy thermo meter rose to the top of the
glass.
| "A meeting OF the members OF the
| Westminster Presbyterian church Will
| be held Friday evening for the purpose
of discussing plans relative to the rails
| ing of the money for the proposed new
| church.
| The Rev. Robert Gordon, who has
| accepted the passionate of the First Bap-
| fist church. has written that he will
| arrive in the city June 1. He Will
preach at the First church Sunday,
| June 4.
|
The areaway adjacent to one of the
largest bakeries of the city contains a
! pool of water, which has become stag
nant. The stencil is not pleasing to
those who pass that way, and the con-
Editions are anything but sanitary.
Farmers coming into Topeka state
that on account of the dry weather 1t
has been necessary to replant much
of the corn. The only people prohting
from the dry weather are the ice men,
the soda fountains and the city water
works.
The doctors who are giving their
services, gratis, at the clinic which the
Topeka association for the Study ana
tains at 1OS West Eighth street. are:
DR.. C. M. Hensley, DR.. C. E. Joss, DR..
L. ". Sans. DR.. E. A. Billings.
Everything at the high school now
centers towards the closing events OF
the school year. Glass day exercises
L, and diplomas will be presented at
the Auditorium the following evening.
| Prof. J. w. Hudson, of the University
of Missouri, will be the speaker for the
| occasion.
| The gymnasium season at the Provi-
dent Association closed Wednesday
night-in fact all the regular classes
have completed their work for the sea-
son. The official closing took the form
of a social. The young people present
numbering between 40 and so persons
| enjoyed a program of games. Refresh
mentS were served.
young Topeka woman is just re-
covering from scare she received
the other day. She went down into
the cellar and saw a small potato with
Ia sprout running from one end. Think
ling it as a mouse, she rushed fran
tically upstairs and slipped on the top
lstep. You may have heard this joke
before. If so, don't read it.
| Commissioner Stotts discovered the
lother day that on many of the trees
lin Garfield park poison ivy was en-
idangering the visitors to the park.
Standing away ten yards and direct
ling the work, he had three wagon
lleads torn from the trees and thrown
Isioner was poisoned and his eyes were
Iswelled shut this morning.
| Charles S. Sturtevant, manager of
the high school annual, is doing some
hard work in order to get the publ
cation out by Thursday, June 1. The
| annual will contain an unusually large
number of illustrations this season. A
number of the members of the faculty
of the school have been the victims of
their kodaks in characteristic attitudes.
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