The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-16

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First Christian church this evening.
The Topeka Baraca union will meet
at the Central Y. M. c. A. TINS even
ing.
The Philomathean society of the high
school gave program in the Assembly
hour Monday.
John E. Stanton has been chosen as
roe street school.
r. v. Hicks of this city has been
elected as president of the American
Poultry association.
Twelve hundred dollars has been
spent this season in the Improvements
Of the state fair race track
Rev. Ira Evans Hicks, evangelist Oh
Topeka, is holding revival services a.
the M. z. church at Mayetta-J
The people of Hoyt after making
footprints on the mud many years. are
walking on cement and like II.
S. ]. Hodgins will speak before the
class in advertising and salesmanshlp
at the Central Y. NJ. c. A. tonight
The concrete first floor OF the TOUT our
story ]. c. Gordon BUILDING on tne Vlu
Copeland hotel site lis being lalo To-
day.
A meeting of the parks committee
of the Commercial club. under u "
Coe, was held this noon at the COM
mercial club.
An attempt is being made by the
Provident association to ma noliIe
for an aged woman who came mere
Saturday from Boston.
DIR. w. w. Yates of SIG Lane street
who was operated upon for appenoi-
citis at Christ's hospital yesterday Is
said to be resting easily today.
Camp No. 14s R. N. of A. will give
a carnival in Lincoln Post hall wed
nesday evening No admission VIII De
charged and the public is invited.
Secretary Guy T. Justis of the Prov
dent Association, will speak peIoIe -, Inc
members of the C. E. of the FIRST Con-
rregationaI church next Sunday even
ing.
James G. Cannon, president OF tn ,9
Fourth National bank of New Hor5
City and president of the Men anu
Religion movement, will be IN the CITY
tomorrow.
If there is continuation or the oe-
mand on the part of those VINO Wis WISH
70 tale the teachers course at the high
school next fall, the class should De
a large one.
The supplement advertising Topeka
and the Commercial club that the
Commercial club is preparing lot t1e
state fair premium list will be declo-
eddy attractive.
I. d. Graham. D. o. Coe and 70
O'Neil will represent the Commercial
club at the annual meeting of farm
ers which will be held at Hays, hah''
June and 8.
A number of people in the city who
resolved in January to refrain from
taking ice until the first day OF June
have broken their resoiutlons anu INC
ice wagon stops at their door
The Topeka ti-Tuberculosis soci-
ety will hold an important meeting IN
Genrnell hall tomorrow night AT this
meeting the question of Incorporating
the organization will be discussed.
The suggestion has been made to a
prominent member of the commercial
club that a local horse thief associa-
ton be formed in Topeka. 1t is not at
all unlikely that such an organization
will be perfected
Everything is suffering for want of
rain-except the weeds City gardeners
people who are lucky enough TO own
a cherry and a peach tree and those
who have strawberry patches under
the bay window are praying for rain
All day Monday the city water in
the southwestern part of the city was
sandy and cloudy. The water depart
ment Law the trouble to connection
in the main that feeds this section of
town. In other parts of the city there
was no trouble.
The 'Kaw"-the annual student
publication of Washburn college is
out. The publication of the Kaw and
its distribution on the campus is one
of the events of college life at Wash
burn. The annual this year is an ex-
ceptionally good book.
1.-THE Mission of the Student and the
Scholar is the subject of an address
which L Gilberg will deliver before the
members of one of DR.. D. NJ. Fisk's
classes at Washburn college Friday
morning.
People who wonder why the taxes
at Wichita where they have spent a
million dollars for pavement in one
year are no higher than in Topeka,
should remember that in Topeka the
school tax is much higher than in
Wichita--or in any city for that mat
ter.
The back porch thieves in the west
ern part of the city who have been
stealing milk bottles all spring are
now prying their way into refrigera-
tors and stealing the contents. Despite
the fact this is done every night the
police have been unable to stop the
practice
j. D. NJ. Hamilton, claims attorney
for the Santa Fe, is planning to hold
a series of safety habit rallies along
the lines of the road. The campaign
will start the middle of June along
the western lines. Mr.. Hamilton is
the father of the safety sentiment on
the Santa Fe-
The new well at the city water
works plant will be completed in two
months, according to the figuring of
H p Miller, city commissioner. Com
missioner Miller made his weekly
INSPECTION trip of the water plant to-
day and found everything working in