The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-22

The church baseball league sched-
ule began this afternoon.
Hugo ]. Miller has gone to Atchison
TO decorate a theater there.
There will be some novel amuse-
ments' as attractions for the state fair
next fall.
DR.. Frank X. Sanders will speak
tomorrow morning at the First Con-
Bregational church.
J. s. Hatton of the Y. NJ. c. A.
training school, Chicago, is spending
several days in Topeka.
Chief Wilmarth says the state house
must have fire escapes. The east wing
in particular is in need of adequate
exits.
Mrs. Isabel Macarthur will be the
leader of the Y. w. c. A. vesper SER
vices tomorrow afternoon at 4:45
o'clock.
The final dinner in connection with
the Topeka-Wichita Y. NJ. c. A.
membership campaign will be held
this evening at the central building
at 6:15.
We'll Done VS.. Beautifully One
Half Done" is the subject of an ad-
give at the First M. E. church tomor-
row evening.
Phil Billiard, with two women in his
car, skidded into the curb last night
and broke a wheel. The papers keep
that item in stock for use at mo-
ments notice.
c. s. Bishop, general secretary, of
the Kansas City Y. NJ c. A. is in To-
peka today attending the conference
OF the college association presidents
at Washburn college.
This is boys day at the central V.
M. G. A, and because of the fact that
membership campaign is in progress
there n al Iv Ior 10
of youngsters present.
The city commission law states that
all appointments shall be made by the
first of May. The outlook now is that
not until the last of next week will
the commissioners complete their Of
flee filling.
The new Rock Island time card be-
ing prepared in Chicago. will have lit
tie effect on the trains running
through Topeka. is the report return
ed to this city by General Passenger
Agent Stewart.
Chester Anderson, 1922 Lane street,
was thrown from his bicycle on Nor
ris avenue between Tenth avenue and
Eleventh street. and suffered a broken
arm. his wheel struck loose brick,
causing the accident.
Paul Boodagh. a native Persian,
will speak in Gemmell hall Sunday
afternoon at $3.50 o'clock on the re-
Al6lOn anu CUSTOMS OF MS native ldnu.
Mr.Boodagh is a student at Baker
university and speaks English very
fluently.
On and after May the Topeka
postoffice will be closed all day Sun
days. Transients can get their mail at
the general delivery window, however,
and business men can rent boxes for
their Sunday morning mail if they
care to do so.
Prof. L. L. Dyche. with his fish car
'"rhe Angler" came to Topeka last
night. He put $50 crappie he had left
in the Kansas river, though there was
a. scramble to get them. They were
suffering from being kept in warm
water.
On nearly every occasion of the col
ored population clouding up for a gooC
time somebody gets hurt. At a jubi-
lee near Fifteenth and Quincy streets
last night Walter Atchison was sho
and seriously hurt by Roy Anderson
The gun man gave himself up to the
police.
The Topeka Wichita "Aeroplane'
membership campaign will come to {
close this evening at $3.50 o'clock. Fol
the last three days there has been 81
lent fiying-that is no reports have
been received by either association o
progress made. Wichita was slight!
in the lead three days ago.
The City officials are considering
the public golf links proposition sug
gested few days ago. Mayor BILLIARD
says he knows nothing about golf an,
knows less about how to lay out
links-but if the rest of the commits
sioners agree to the improvement h
will not stand in the way.
There is a law in the city telephor
books that asks patrons not to swea
over the telephone. But il a persol
could give the returns from the Stat
Journal office to inquiring fans as t
the outcome of the baseball game
when it is reported that Topeka ha
lost the game. they would hear ever
variety and every form of swea
words in the bowery dictionary
Morris Tucker, who lives at %
Woodlawn avenue, hoped off NOV
ing street car between Seventh an
Eighth streets on Kansas avenue las
night and had seventeen stitche
taken in his scalp. Tucker doesn
recall just what hit him, whether
was the street car or a post or tn
pavement, but he was taken to the OF
flee of DIR. o. o. Moore, where til
stitches were made.
A local nursery advertised in til
State Journal that a number of wa
nut trees would be given away a Gel
tain day this week. The sale was
begin the next morning. When til
down town office of the compan
opened that morning, crowd of pee
pie were waiting at the doors to pre-
cure the trees. The entire bunch We
given away before the average citize
had finished his breakfast