The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-11
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AT HOME NEWS.

Dr.. A. S. Henderson will speak at the
Central Y NC. A Friday noon.
The annual business meeting of the
First Congreg ational church will take
place this evening.
It has been decided to hold the Kar-
nival Knights minstrel show at the Audi
toriuTn February Is and 10.
The board of city commissioners passed
an emergency ordinance this morning for
the purpose of paying Off the men who
were hired to trim trees. The tree trim
mers hired were men who were out of
work and who had large families.
The Parents Teachers association of the
manual training room tomorrow after
noon to discuss matters pertaining to the
welfare of the pupils of that school. The
meeting will be at p m.
City License Collector Mattingly re-
ported to the board of city commissioners
this morning that in the month Of De-
cember he had collected $1,199-75 and had
turned the money over over to the city
treasury.
Hereafter the city board of plumbing
examiners and the city board Of health
will not be given a regular salary. IN
stead they will be paid only for the
called meetings. In the past many meet
ings were held with no business on hand.
1t looks as though the month OF jan
uary was going to break all kinds of cold
weather records to say nothing of hun
dreds of water pipes.
Information for gas users from City
Plumbing Inspector Conklin: Don't open
the valves in your furnace at night when
the pressure is low You don't get a bit
open as you would If the pressure was
high. Then when the pressure rises in
the night you will not be in danger of
gas escaping in your rooms.
The average man who is burning coal N
a furnace these days reports that 1T takes
ton of the black diamonds a week to
keep the house from freezing This is one
of the reports that a person hears on the
street car every morning.
At O'Clock last evening fire companies
were called to 120 North Madison street
to extinguish a fire on the roof of the
house owned by John Penwell. Sparks
from a Rock Island locomotive caused the
blaze.
Marshalrs band will play at the Audi
forum beginning at 2:30 Sunday after
noon A big contribution box will be
placed in the doorway. The money given
viii be turned over to the Provident as
ISOLATION for the city's poor.
If you have any crumbs left over from
dinner this evening or breakfast tomor-
row any time, don't brush them with
the rest of the garbage and throw in the
city cans. Throw the crumbs out in the
back yard that the hungry birds might
live.
A Topeka man living on the West side
woke up last night and found his wife
squeezing one of the uprights on the iron
was crying. Tell the plumber to come
right out-the pipe is broken"
One man working in the city tree cut
ting and trimming gang has a sick wife
and nine children at home He is keep
ing them alive with the 81. Is day he re-
ceives from the city. Think this over
and bear your own little worries more
cheerfully.
A man was in Topeka this afternoon
who lives in Amarillo. Tex. He said he
could have driven all the way to this city
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ground is covered with snow the entire
distance, he said
The Rock Island reports more snow and
wind in southwestern Kansas. As a re-
tied up again and 1t is necessary to de-
tour trains or hold them at terminals.
Southwest Kansas has given the rail-
roads endless troubles this winter.
Farmers near Topeka are filling their
ice houses with ice twelve inches thick
that they are cutting from creeks and
the river. Many farmers are building
houses for ice.
The fire department has been getting
its share of the cold weather The head
quarters records show nineteen fires since
the Iirst OF the month And the nrenen
say it is no easy matter climbing out OF
an icy suit Of clothes.
The commission chamber at the city
hall was so cold this morning that II was
necessary to conduct the sewer examina-
lions in the office of the city attorney.
The board OF commissioners met in an
other part OF the building
What constitutes a BOULDER That is
worrying Attorney Schenck in the city
sewer case at the city hall City En-
gineer Young testified that a pebble was
a piece of rock about the size of a mans
two firsts. Schenck claimed that was 2
boulder.
The men of the Commercial club who
are working in the membership campaign
with the thermometer below zero and
piercing northeast wind blowing at a as
mile an hour pace, are certainly display
ing loyalty.
The state realty men before adjourn
n1ent decided to take the exhibits that
were admired at the Chicago Land show
and which are now in cold storage IN
Kansas City, out OF the frosty place and
display them at the Kansas City Land
show. February 26-March 4
There is a coating OF snow and ice from
southern Kansas to the north pole This
will have the tendency to keep the tenn
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