The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-16
SNAP SHOTS
az HoME NEWs.

A great many Topekans have been m
Kansas City for the auto show this
week.
A large number of the motor car en-
| thusiasts in Topeka have returned
from the automobile show at Kansas
City.
one by ole, ten by ten and hun
dreds by the hundreds, people are learn
ing to appreciate Independent telephone
service.
Saturday afternoon at O'Clock the
Topeka basketball five will confront the
aggregation from the Westport school
/ in Kansas City
| Cecil F'orter, city draug.htsman. and
Assistant City Engineer Gibson have
returned to their desks at the city hal
after illness of several days.
The suffrage campaigners are in
sulting the college girls of Washburn
! burn old enough to vote! Ffet
The weather man missed his guess
yesterday when he predicted cloudy
weather for Thursday night and today
W TIL the possibility of showers or snow
fiurries.
The Rev c. B. Zook of the Walnut
Grove M. E. church will begin a series
| of Sunday evening sermons next Sun
| da-- which will be of especial interest
to men.
/ SCnIn1LoTS To-Day report the singing
! OF red birds and other spring visitors
! this morning. When the red birds risk
| their brightness in February it is d
sign of early spring.
| The Wilson Office Supply Co. carry
! in stock at all times the best of type
| writer ribbons for all makes of type
writer's. All coIors and combinations.
so cents, rs Gents and 81 each.
New trustees for the Walnut Grove
M. E. church are: G. NJ. Hammel. L. C.
| Thorpe, G. H. Griggs, J. L. Raines, Dr.
G. L Williams, T. A Blank. H B.
Lautz, M. G. NayIor, and J. H. Mills.
J. A. Stewart, general passenger
agent of the Rock Island Lines at To-
peka reports excellent crop conditions
all over Kansas. ct looks as though
the genial G. P. A. said.
mo wonder Commissioner Tandy
! saved money in his city department"
commented pedestrian who wad-
! today. HE isn't spenuing any money
! on cleaning the pavements.''
| The suffragettes have started a cam
| paign among the students of Washburn
college. The suffragettes are too late.
/ WaShburn has voted that way for a
month"; even has been suggested that
a girl be elected football captain.
A local real estate man says that
he is about to ship carload of pota-
| toes to Topeka at cost with view to
/ SCA41nS LAi01I 70 Tie pour OIL the CITY
at cost price. He believes that an
| enormous profits is made on the
"spuds.''
The city fremen received a large
| number of magazines from the first ap-
peal in this column. Most of these mag
aziues have been read-and the f1remen
wouldn't care if they had me re. Call
up your nearest station and the fir
men will call for the magazines.
! Twelve hundred copies of the Com
I
to supply the demand for the January
! issue. The publication is increasing IN
| popularity. Many commercial club sec
retaries are requesting to be placed on
the mailing list.
| Dr.. F. l. Loveland has returned to
| delivered an address. Sunday evening
| he will deliver an address al the open
| ing of the Grand Avenue Temple in
Kansas City. The Rev. J. T. Ream
occupies the pulpit in his absence.
| A. E. Sweet, general manager of the
second district of the Rock Island
Lines at Topeka, returned today after
accompanying the presidents party en-
their inspection trip tn sough this part
of the territory. General Manages
Sweet returned in his business car
1928.
The colored boys of Monroe school
have been making trouble in the south
end Of the city ''ganging'' on the white
boys have been injured from the fights
the colored fellows have started. The
situation is keeping g number of boys
away from school
This evening a hotly contested
basketball game will be played between
the teams of the Lawrence and Topeka
high schools. Topeka lost to Lawrence
some weeks ago, and the locals will
make a strenuous effort to get revenge
tonight. A game in the form of a, cur
tain raiser Will start at 7:15 o'clock. 1t
will be between the Santa. Fe ticket
auditors and the apprentices of the
Railroad 7. NJ. c. A.
George Clearinghouse will read a pa
per before the mem bers of the Topeka
Real Estate Dealers association
week from next Wednesday on the
question of municipal gardens in va
cant lots. This paper was to have been
given this week, but the reading was
postponed on account of the fact that
George P. McEntire was ready to read
paper on the freight question a S per-
tanning to Topeka, which he had been
asked to prepare.
EAST SIDE NOTES.