The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-18
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The high school girls of the Y W.
c. A. held a spread this afternoon.
There are any number of people who
can tell you just who will be success
full at the primary
DR.. D. NJ. Fisk of Washburn college
will give free illustrated lecture lHiS
evening in GemmeH hall.
sylvia Pankhurst, the famous Eng
lish suffragist, will speak this evening
at the First Baptist church
Miss Ella Cowgirl will lead at the
vesDer services of the Y. w. c. A Sun
day afternoon at 4:30 o clock.
A special offering will be taken at
the Central congregational church To-
morrow for the starving Chinese
A concert will be given by Halls
orchestra from to $50 o'clock at
the Novelty theater Sunday afternoon.
Sunday Afternoon With the Poets"
IS the general theme for the Y. w. Z.
A. vesper services tomorrow AFTER
noon.
Prof. H. NJ Cottren, agricultural
commissioner for the Rock Island rail-
road will spend the week. end in To-
peka.
". Baird of the Scovillc Evangel-
istic company has left for Enid, Ok,
the next point which will be visited py
the evangelists.
w. A. Layton of Osborne, Kan, ex-
meets
peka in the near future. ii : VIII pur-
chase a home on College avenue
Sunday night is the last meeting OF
the ScoVille revival series, although
DR. Charles Reign Scoville will give a
nav lecture at the Auditorium Iues-
day evening.
DR.. Crumbine being called out of the
citv will not give his lecture at the
First Presbyterian church Sabbath ey- ,
ening. The pastor, DR.. Estey' VIII
preach morning and evening.
The city commissioners have vacated
the alley between Ninth and Tentn
and Topeka avenue and Harrison
street.-the alley running east and west.
The property goes to the owners abut-
ting.
The lecture to have been given by
General Manager c. w Kouns OF the
Santa Fe on Tuesday evening Will De
given on Friday evening, March "a at
O'Clock, when all men will be well
come.
A committee of the Christian En-
deavor will receive book donations TO-
morrow morning at the Westminster
Presbyterian church. The books are
to be sent to the Stillman institute III
the Philippine islands.
The parks committee of the Com
mercial club will consider some means
by which the park property and the
parkings in the city can be protected
There is a city ordinance dSdAAlSI IllS
destruction of city property in the
parks, but it is not enforced.
H NJ Leonard will speak on 'SThe
Fallacy of the Perpetuity of Assess
ment Life Insurance" before the
members of the Kansas Association Of
Life Underwriters at meeting which
will be held Monday noon a. the Com
mercial club.
The people in the city who petitionet
for asphaltic concrete paving and nov
have an injunction staring them in thu
face on account of a scrap between thu
paving contractors and the city com
rnissioners, are worried. 1t is feared
that endless court proceedings will de
lay the pavement.
The city and the county have failet
to settle the differences on the soutl
side dixie excavation near the Melal
bridge If they wait much longer tn
concrete dixie will be built and it Wi
cost just twice as much to take GU
this land Then the taxpayers will hav
a real howl coming.
Postmaster A. K. Rodgers has com
pleted the February payment of tn