The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-11-23
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AT HOME NEWS.

A companion for the lone woman, COM
fort every hour, Independent telephones.
The annual banquet of the Scottish Rite
will be given at the Masonic Temple to-
night. The Masons are expecting at least
700 seated at the banquet tables.
Topeka is far below the average in
taxes of cities this size" said E B.
Stotts, city commissioner, today The
people of Topeka wish to have all mod
ern improvements and they must pay for
them
Hunters all report an abundance of
rabbits but few quail. Tom Doran killed
20 Dummies the other day without half
trying.
Ed McKeever is marketing his wheat
crop 1t is bringing 81 cents bushel-
The Topeka Motor league will hold a
meeting at the Commercial club tomorrow
evening to discuss the good roads ques-
ton The proposition is to improve the
highways to Lawrence, Ottawa and
nearby towns.
Officials of the Western Aero associa-
ton will speak at the next meeting Of the
Topeka Real Estate Dealers association,
two weeks from yesterday.
The motto of the Topeka Real Estate
Dealers association is Greater Topeka, .
and the organization has had made some
slogan pennants
sas." advance notices of which have al
ready been published. is off the press
and is a credit to the Kansas Association
of Real Estate Agents, the organ cation
that authorized its publication The
booklet or folder contains many illus
tTations. including an excellent one of the
state house. Among the county write-ups
in the publication, Shawnee county has
that will serve eye opener
The booklet is being distributed al the
Chicago Land Show today-kansas day.
Yuatka Nlinakuchi, the Japanese ma
tive missionary, who will come to Topeka
for the eight-day campaign of the Men
and Religion movement is a prominent
Mason. He was educated at Yale, ana
has been engaged in mission work in his
own country
Robert Stone will lecture before the
law class of the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Friday evening.
Albert T. Reid is illustrating two books
which are being published by Crane d
Co. one of them is THE Jayhawker in
other 1.-The Pioneers by Prof. w. A.
McKeever of the State Agricultural col
lege.
A meeting of road enthusiasts was
called together by W. W. Webb at the
Commercial club this noon. An effort IS
being made to induce 700 business men TO
agree TO go down to Usage city for ire
good roads meeting which will be held
December l.
A meeting of members of the First NJ.
r church was held this noon at the Com
mercial club for the purpose of discussing
the repairs which are being made in con-
nection with the church auditorium.
The local committee of 1O0." Men and
Religion movement. has organized s.
counties in the northeastern portion of
the state. and 81 towns One hundred
and seventy-three meetings have been
conducted by members of the committee
in this territory, and LAS committeeman
have been selected. This is in prepara-
ton for the big eight-day campaign
which will be held in Topeka December
1O-1S. and for the work which will fol-
low.
The wind in the last week or ten days
has sent many hat rolling down Kan
sas avenue 1t is not often that the
headgear of the women is waited aloft,
but it is noticeable that the women are
inclined to become angry when thing
of the kind occurs instead OF taking 1t
as more or less of a joke as the men are
inclined to do.
A committee is being appointed by
President T. A Borman of the State Fair
association to audit the books of the or
ganization-
For the purpose of raising money to
purchase piano for the new Van Buren,
school house an entertainment will be
given by the pupils at the Grand the
afternoon of December I. The children
are out selling tickets for the affair.
Miss Ceora Lanham is training the
The entertainment will be IN
the nature of an Indian play