The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-05

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| on Kaw street for $1,000
The Provident ASSOCIATION still has a
4 half buShel of garden seeds for dlstrl-
button among the poor.
/ The election was the chief topic of
conversation on the streets today
likewise this noon at the Commercial
club.
Under the auspices of the Epworth
league, Miss Ona May Miller will give
a free literary concert az the First
| Methodist church this evening.
A meeting of the Topeka Presby-
terrain society will be held at the First
| church April ST.. This is the thirty
second annual event of the kind.
| The new Leeper building at the cor
ner of Buchanan street and Sixth ave-
nue. is rapidly springing into existence
| This will be an attractive store and
| fiat.
There is a man in Potwin who has
lost his vote for several years. He al
ways marks his ballot with fountain
pen.
The friendly visitors class of the
Provident Association, met this after
noon. The members of this class are
doing a good work among the worthy
poor.
Baseball is all the rage among the
small boys of Topeka at the present
time. 1t will not be many weeks be-
fore the first pop stands make their
appearance.
The next store opening in order will
be that of the new warren M. Crosby
| store. 1t will be several weeks before
the new fixtures are in place on the
two upper floors.
From now on the committee in charge
of the arrangements for the state
Sunday School convention, which will
be held in the Auditorium May "a, will
hold weekly meetings.
No11y thar the election is over the
business men of Topeka will lind bust
ness more prosperous. There is always
lul in business circles the few days
! Immediately preceding an election.
The committees of the Brotherhood
of the First Congregational church are
hard at work devising means for rails
ing $4,000 for repairs and alterations
in connection with the church edifice.
The Central Y. NJ. c. A. and the
members of the committee of 100 OF
the Men and Religion movement Will
give a banquet for the brotherhood
organizations of the city April %.
The various teams in connection
with the Wichita-Topeka Y. M. c. A.
aviation membership contest are
organizing so that effective work Will
be done the first day of the campaign
April 10.
The fact of the erection of the Mills
building has caused an increase in the
rentals of the buildings in the nine
hundred block on the avenue, and the
property values have likewise IN
creased.
A representative of flying machine
firm called at the state fair office this
morning, with the idea of persuad1ng
the mana cement of the fair that an
other aviation meet should be pulled
off, in Topeka.
The women of Topeka are interest
ed in a new invention, The White
House pantry which is being shown
and demonstrated by Mcdonald &
Beck of Wichita in suit 301 of the New
England building.
H Won Schon, the engineering ex-
pert, is in the city today. Tomorrow
evening the men of the city are asked
to hear him speak at Commercial
club dinner on Hydro Electrical
Power for Topeka
The state fair Office is one of the
busiest places in the city. The man
agement will have several announce
ments of great interest to make at
later date relative to drawing features
for the fair next fall.
1t seems to be difficult matter to
find the right kind of a minister nova
davs The First Baptist and the First
CONGREGATIONAL churches are having
their troubles in trying to find men 10
fill their respective pulplts.
The building committee of the Y.
w. C. A. will meet late this afternoon
to discuss the advisability of Install
ing an intercommunicating telephone
system in the new association home
at Seventh and Van Buren, streets.
The new Mills building will not be
in an entirely completed condition for
another month. Work is still pro-
crossing on the two upper floors of the
| building, and there is considerable
work vet to be done in the basement.
Friday the Central Y. M. c. A. will
be open to all the boys of the city be-
tween the ages of 10 to 8 years from
| 9 to 6 O'Clock. The boys VIII be al
| lowed the swimming and gymnasium
| privileges, and free moving pictures
will be shown at $3.50 O'Clock.
The lecture on 1.-THE Passion Play"
by Dr. Matt S. Hughes of Pasadena,
| Cal. given election night at the First
| M. E. church. was attended by several
hundred persons. A sort of musical
! program was rendered. Election re-
! turns were given at the close of the
address.
| And still the board of education vio-
| lates the requirements of the law by
| failing to publish a quarterly state
| ment of the financial standing OF the
| board Early last year upon motion
| of the board it was agreed to publish
such reports. The last report that was
| prepared was published in midsummer.
The children of the city schools are
! looking forward with great anticipa-
| ton to the holiday which they will
have on Friday. Many of the teach
! ers of Topeka will attend the meeting
| of Northeastern Kansas Teachers as
/ ISOLATION at Atchison on that day.
Others will visit schools in various
cities.
These are the men who have been
chosen as team captains in connection
| with the Wichita-Topeka aeroplane
| contest: c. G. Blakeley, r. L. Bone, S.
E. Cobb, w. W. Cardwell. DR.. w. w.
Yates Charles Gibbs, John Hersh, H.
| c. Kibbee, Hugh Mcfarland, G. G..
Moore F. B. Parker and Clyde Part
ridge.
| Miss frankie Farrell, who opens the
| Novelty program this week with a
singing act, is known in Topeka and
wins a generous applause. She has a
i fat