The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-02
And the ground hog did.

And the ground hog did.
The entrance of the Cozy theater is
being redecorated.
Mrs. J. G. Waters is conva1escing
from an attack of pneumonia
The next issue of the Christian En-
thusiast is booked to make its ap-
pearance February L..
Most every one has it-all need it.
Everybody wants one. Satisfy that
desire and order an Independent today.
The Topeka five will confront the
team of the Kansas City high school in
a. game of basketball Friday evening
on the Central Y. NJ c. A. floor.
Work is progressing rapidly on the
new moving picture house at the cor
ner of Seventh and Quincy streets.
This will be the largest motion pic
ture house in the city.
The Merchants National bank will
move into its new quarters in the New
England building on Saturday and will
be ready to do business under less
crowded conditions by Monday.
The city is making it's annual at
tempt to obtain the $65,000 paving bill
charged to the state. Despite the fact
that attorney generals have ruled the
bill legal the legislatures have turned
down the bill.
Prof. F. w. Blacknar of K U. will
deliver an address on social betterneut
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evening. The lecture is free and IS
under the auspices of the Anti-Horse
Thief association.
8. W. Mullinix, superintendent of
motive power of the Rock Island,
headquarters in Topeka, has announc-
ed the appointment of w. NJ Connolly
as travelling engineer of the Kansas
division with headquarters in Herring
ton.
The city commissioners met at the
city hall this afternoon and transacted
the usual routine work connected
with the passing of the monthly bills
and reports The appointment of
A. r. Young as city engineer was con-
firmed.
The good weather of the last week
has been a boon to the contractors and
builders in the city. Enough work has
been resumed on the Santa Fe gen.
eral office building to add two more
stories to the structure. The ninth
story has been reached.
Albert MacRae, editor of the EN-
ployees Magazine of the Santa Fe, has
been in Topeka the last few days. Ed
itor MacRae has the distinction of
getting out one of the best railroad
magazines published. He has made
marvellous success of the Santa Fe
publication.
David J. August secured from the
Santa Fe a large portion of the Cali
fornia palms used in decorating the
banquet room for the buffet luncheon
and has decorated his store with them.
He invited the public to come in and
see them. Some of them reach to
the ceiling of the store
Despite the insisting statements
printed in the Morning Capsule to the
effect that the Rock Island did not in
| tend to remodel the general office
| building-just tear out few parti
tons, the officials have had every room
! repainted, all the woodwork vanished
and every floor has been remodeled
and changed.
More than 1900 employees of the
Santa Fe visited the buffet-luncheon
rooms in the new building Tuesday
/ evening after the entertainment for
| the editors. And after the formal
visiting was over about 500 couples
danced on the cement floors. There
4 was some trouble at first on account
of union members of the orchestra.
| Considerable credit is due the boys
| orchestra of the high school, which