The Topeka state journal., 1911-09-29
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This is pay day for the teachers of
the city schools.
The high school students viii be
given a reception at the Central Y. M.
c. A. this evening.
A rally of Men and Religion work
ers will be held at the Iris theater Oc-
tober 8 at $3.50 o'clock.
The Baraca classes of the city will
hold a reception at the Central Y. M.
c. A. next Tuesday evening.
There is nothing thus far slated for
the board of education meeting Mon
day evening but regular routine busi-
ness.
Secretary H. L. Cook of the Kansas
State Fair association is taking sort
of vacation. He will be back in his
Office next week.
''Is this the Young Women's Y. NJ.
c. A. % was a question asked of a Y.
w. c. A. secretary by someone talking
over the phone
The enrolment at the Y w. c. A.
is now 1882. 1t has been increased by
about SO since the completion of the
new $50. 200 home.
A street car hit a farm wagon at
Fourth and Monroe streets at noon to-
day. No one was hurt but the horses
We're badly bruised.
A marriage license was granted in
Kansas City Thursday to Jack Wilson
| of Topeka and Bessie Clayton of St.
Joseph, Mo.
The Washburn college prohibition
association has begun its meetings this
fall. What does college anti-booze
club do? That is a question. They
usually debate.
A number of Topeka commission men
who, despite the big supply of melons
held up the prices, now are facing the
market with their stores full of melons
that are rotted.
The houses in the city that have
been rented for the summer while the
owners were away on vacation are
filling up again and the flats over town
are being occupied.
Otto Foburb, gormerly a member of
the staff of the Central Y NJ. G. A. and
now general secretary of the Naper-
vile, Ill, association, will be married
October to a young lady in western
Kansas
All of the Masons of Washburn col
Iege met on the campus this afternoon
and organized what will be known as
| the Masonic club. Washburn may pc
able to get a Masonic fraternity IN the
near future.
On account of structural steel fail
| ing to arrive in Topeka work on the
Fillmore street bridge has been delay
ed. The residents on the other slde
of the bridge may cheer up-the creek
will soon be frozen over.
Mrs. Lillian Mitchner was today re-
elected president of the state W. g T.
u Word was received this morning
to this effect from Kansas City, Kan,
where the state w. c. T. Z. conVen-
ton is being held.
The morning paper takes the credit
for the approval of the appointment of
DR.. Stewart as city physician: 1t IS
now up to President Ripley and Pres1-
dent Nudge to consult the paper about
~ IF al
A new time card on the Rock Island
calls for the slicing of the summer
trains to Colorado and a reduction in
the connections of these trains The
new card has no effect on the regular
east and west service through this city.
The Santa Fe shops in Topeka were
closed all morning Taft day and the
1900 employees were given a chance
to view the president despite the edi-
torial in the morning paper to the ef-
feet that the men were FORCED TO work
or lay off
H. E. Rood. for many years bust
ness manager of Harper & Brothers,
New York, speaks before the Ad club
members October 21. He will meet in
conference also with the publicity
committee of the Men and Religion
movement.
If all of the men who have been
quoted on the failure of prohibition in
Kansas back up on their statements
like some officers and Wen known men
have recently, it goes to prove that
this resubmission talk is all based on
bluff-pure bluff
The big stores in Topeka are re-
ceiving thousands of dollars worth OF
holiday goods every day. Every inch
of SPACE is being used to store the
goods that will be placed on the
Shelves before the do Your Christmas
Shopping Early cry begins.
The state Journal is very glad to
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street car service in the southwestern
mart of the city, but it must be remem-
bered that it was the Topeka Railway
company and not the State journal
that installed this new loop line.
Tomorrow is the first football game
of the season. Washburn and the Col
lege of Emporia cross bats-no that
isn't the word-they cross-bones-
that's it. 1t will be the first game of
the year to see what the Blue squad
has to offer to Topeka enthusiasts.
After Margaret Hill McCarter's new
book has been read widely over the
country, you will not be able to pur-
chase land in the Solomon valley for
less than a thousand dollars an acre.
And Mrs McCarter told the truth
about this verdant spot in Kansas.
The Washburn Review is getting
after the college girls because they
girls to have pep? Isn't it the duty
Or the men students to display that
chara cteristic And isn't it the dreamy,
drowsy girl who takes the mems
fancy?
Lou Huffman. the man who was at
tached to a ball and chain at the city
detention hospital has taken down
with smallpox and has been confined
to the hospital for good Washburn
medical students made the diagnosis
and turned the man over to the city
physician