The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-20
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The last number taken out on au-
Iomoplle registration is No. 63S.
The lighting committee of the
Commercial club will meet tomorrow
noon at the Commercial club.
Dr. Pettijohn promises to tell some
startling things about Russia at the
First M. E. church tomorrow night.
The State Journals bulletin window
VIII tell you all about the opening
game In Wichita tomorrow afternoon
between the kaws and the Jobbers.
The Santa Fe has made its new gen.
erai Office skyscraper fireproof. Now
1t mas gone so far as to plan on in
stalling steel furniture in many of the
Offices.
Topeka has now 1875 points in the
"aeroplane" membership contest, as
against LISA for Wichita. The local
association has taken a squirt in the
last day or two.
Between now and the close of the
Topeka Wichita Y. M. C. A member
ship contest there will be silent fly
ing; that is, no word will be sent of
the progress of the campaign.
Today is the last day of the attend
ance at the opening game contest. The
guesses filed up until tonight will de-
eide the winner of the season pass to
all the Topeka games this season.
W.G.Tandy, city commissioner, turns
in several hundred dollars a month to
the CITY treasurer for the sale of dirt
following the grading of streets. The
Elmhurst syndicate has purchased
5000 loads lately.
The Kaws.- the hope of Topeka
baseball fans, will leave tonight at
1850 for Wichita, arriving in the
morning A load of fans will occupy
a Pullman attached n the train
DR.. E. S. Pettijohn, medical director
of the Knights and Ladies of Security,
will give an illustrated lecture on his
trip through Finland and Russia and
his visit to Tolstoi, on Friday evening.
April 81, at the First Methodist
church.
Members of the board of directors
of the Y. w. c. A. are taking turns
about looking after the association
office work during the absence of the
secretaries at the International Y. w
c. A. convention in Indianapolis.
The demand of the state charter
board that school societies pay the full
Incorporation fee of $27.50 is almost
prohibitive. A frat is little more or
less than a dormitory and helps a
school take care of its enrolment.
DR.. S. S. Pettyjohn has announced
| that he will take out what is called a
Sustaining" membership in the Y. M.
alton a boost in the Topeka-Wichita
campaign, which will close Saturday
night.
Local nursery dealers say that bust
ness was never better for trees and
shrubbery than it is this year. One
| Topeka firm has found it necessary to
establish downtown headquarters. This
! kind of weather is inducive to the city
farmer.
There is a question up in the city
garden circles whether lime is good
fertilizer or whether it is death to
growing things. 1t is surprising to
learn how much the man behind the
| mahogany desk knows about such
| things.
Rev. John A. Bright of 1900 Red
den street has returned from a three
months absence. He has been in
| ing evangelistic work Mr.. Bright
will deliver the ninety-second anniver-
sary address next Wednesday at New
ton, Ia.
The proposed municipal golf course
| in Topeka has met with approval all
| over the city. The statement of the
plans in the State Journal last evening
has aroused the golf enthusiasts whose
| clubs have been hanging in the cob
| webs for years because they had no
| chance to play the game.
If an invoice was taken in Topeka
| VI Tie OplHlOnS VI Lie lOT d
street car line to Gage park everyone
| except the street railway officials
would be in favor of it. And possibly
I Superintendent Patten would be in ia
| vor-if he didn't have big traction
company in the east to contend with.
| Washburn and Kansas university are
/ batting the ball at Washburn yard this
afternoon. But after witnessing a
number of football games between the
| two universities a baseball game is
| considered both tame and devoid OF
thrilling scenes. But there is plenty
of rivalry and good playing, just the
same.
By the way, what has become of the
paving injunction that prohibited the
Kaw Paving company from laying
| aSphaltic concrete in this city? Resi-
dents on fifteen block in Topeka are
| anxious to know when the work will
| begin. The weather is good enough
| for work to have progressed nearly a
1 month-but not a foot of dirt has
been removed.
| The Topeka manufacturers and job
bers are going to ask the railroad men
to explain the present system of rates
| Possibly the railroad men will accom-
modate them-but it is safe to say thai
| if they do no one will be able to un-
| derStand the explanations. The rate
question to Topeka is the making OIL
the breaking of manufacturing inter
ests in the city.
The drainage board is cutting the