The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-10-28

today People are building homes Just
outside the city limits where they will
| have plenty of room.
The Kaw Paving company of Topeka
has hard luck story to tell. They
have a big damage suit against them,
they have been delayed three months on
from trust, and a fire burned their
equipment on Polk street.
Il spent all evening playing fan-tan
with a girl friend for a kiss said a
young Santa Fe man this afternoon
And, say, she won every game and l
had TO run to catch the last car-with not
one KISS to my credit.
In order to cut down expenses a mum
Der of the heads of the departments in
the general OFFICES OF the Santa Fe have
have doubled up certain desks.
Il saw four for rent signs on my
way down town., said one man to anoth-
er today The second man didn't believe
it SO he loaded No in his motor to go
out and see where they were. They dis
covered that all of them were dressmak-
ing signs.
A number of persons have called up the
State Journal office today inquiring as to
when the street car company intended to
place hea ters in their cars for the winter
This IS the wrong paper, gentle readers
heaters, chair, clocks and meat choppers.
After trying vainly for two months tn
cultivate growth on his. upper lip,
Commissioner Miller has given it up
And for a tenth of a century, this city
commissioner was a barber in good
standing. The profession has been dis
graced-
1t looks as though false hopes have
been aroused in the hearts of the loyal
Washburn supporters. Once more the
team with the blue and white stockings
were trampled in the mud
The proposition to place traffic police
men at the Sixth and Eighth avenue cor
era o agan % ehef Of 6e D9c eenSG
dress up his draffic squad with white
and ribbon on their clubs. it may be a
success.
After warnings, threats and appeals
augmented with arrests and fines the
jay drivers of Topeka still hitch their
horses to the great white way poles. 1t
would take policeman at every pole TO
stop the practice.
The photographs of the visiting dele
gates to the municipal league convention
at Topeka the first of the month, have
been completed and they are on exhibit
ton at the city hall. The picture is I'M
usually clear.
The city is waiting patiently for MaIon
Burget to say whether not Mayor
Billard will be governor The mayor adj
mits that he would like to know himself.
It looks as though tomorrow would be
a bad day. This means that the aver
age man viii spend the entire morning
trying to tell his wife that she shouldn't
risk taking cold by dragging him to
church.
Now the Rock Island is advertising its
de luxe train to California With all of
these trains for first class travel only
average
vidual who has enough to money to do
nate for tourist service2
I don't blame the people of Wichita
for violating the prohibitory law once in
awhile said Commissioner Miller today
Il have Just returned from there and L
tried with dangerous results to drink
their city water. 1t tastes like salt and
alkai."
One of the Christian Endeavor societies
in Topeka church is all wrought up
over the attempts of a man who is said
to be trying to run the society. They
have thrown their religion to the winds
because of the squabble between the
outs who wish to get in and the in
who wish to stay in
Topeka made a gain of 17.9 per cent in
bank clearings this week. This is sec
ond to the largest gain of any city in the
country for this date.
A meeting of the directors of the
Wichita Terminal company was held in
the office of General Manager Kouns of
the Santa Fe Friday afternoon and
mortgage for $2509,00o vas approved.
this company.
The cooking and sewing classes of the
Topeka Provident association met this
Morning.
For the first time this season gym
work was INDUCED in by the girls of the
Provident association this afternoon.
The manufacturers committee of the
Commercial club will consider some plan
by which it will be possible to induce
small manufacturing enterprises to To-
cate in Topeka.
The annual Harvest Home service will
be held tomorrow at Grace Cathedral.
An elaborate service has been arranged.
Secretary H. L. Cook of the State Fair
association has left for Salt Lake City,
Utah. and other points in the Mormon
realm
George w. Crane estimates that there
are 700 automobiles actually in operation
in Topeka, and that something less than
one hundred of the machines that have
taken out of the city or have been
thrown on the rubbish heap.
The leaves are almost entirely off many
of the cottonwood trees in the city which
suggests that winter is extremely close
al hand.
A meeting of the finance committee of
the Merchants association was held this
noon at the Commercial club.
The real estate men expect to have an
unusually large attendance at their meet
ing a week from next Wednesday noon.
A new cement sidewalk is being laid i'll
front of the Y. w. c. a. building.
Topeka presents a beautiful appear
ance say those who have climbed TO the
dome of the state house recently. The
colorings of the leaves are more brilliant
Topeka certainly looked like a big
manufacturing city from the top floor OF
the largest mercantile store in the city
today. The smoke hung low and gave
things a metropolitan aspect
1t will be optional with the K. K. X.
members who attend the tacky" party
or not they mask for the occasion This
will be just great big party for the
members OF the OFSdIlIal1OA ana lncu
girl friends. 1t will not be a money MAX
ing affair. There will be a good oTcheS
ira present. and there will be eats that
can be purchased at a K K X bar.
The party will be discussed at the meet
ing Of the members OF the organization
Monday night at the Commercial club.
Charles Harris, at the head of the
state employment bureau. says that we
have enough persons of the laboring
class in Kansas who have no money to
their name, and he is of the opinion that
it is not wise to advertise with the object
of bringing more people here. He adj
nits however, that there is no state IN
the Union where a man who has at least
limited means can do better in bust
ness way.
The next regular meeting of the To-
r>aI-a I .ncaI ,1r1inrl will be held at the