The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-22
SNAP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

Long distance service Is just the thing
for this weather over the Independent.
The County Medical society will have
a meeting tonight at the Kansas Medical
college.
The Commercial Club Bulletin has gone
to press and will be ready for distribution
within day or two.
The ice in the rqiver is melting. With
few more days like today the solid forma-
ton viii be broken out.
There win be public reception at the
Commercial club Friday evening for Dale
Gear, manager of the kaws
One of the first duties of the new Of
ficers of the Commercial club will be to
choose the committees for year
There will be an examination for teach
ers' certificates held in County Superin-
tendent John F. Eby's office on Friday
and Saturday of this week.
Coal dealers in Topeka are delivering
fuel to consumers from the cars as they
arrive from the mines. The demand IS
so great that it is impossible to unload
a surplus in the bins.
Pledge tags will be tackled on every
member Of the Commercial club tonight
which will read: Il am a booster. L
pledge one new member within 30 days
for the Commercial club
The good church people who went to
meeting Sunday morning without rub
especially the women-had diff
cult time in getting home without step
ping in puddles Of water
The Kansas Nidwinter exposition is
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| Every day the vaudeville shows Will pc
| held from 3 to 4 O'Clock in the afternoon
| and from to 10 in the evening
The flag over the Rock Island passenger
| to the late vice president, +. Q. Melcher,
and the general solicitor. E. B.. PIERCE,
| the two officers who were killed In
| wreck early this morning
| Kansas avenue has on it a thick deposit
of filth. In the debris there are thou
| ands of cigar stubs. This is the accumu-
! LOT of RI of month. since
| the snow that has now practically disap-
peared first fell.
Some of the Commercial club members
1 had such a Jolly time at the theater party
Friday night in the Novelty that they
would like to hold a similar Qualification
in the future which could be enjoyed Dy
the entire membership of the club
Scores of neighb ors in Topeka are get
ting their heads together planning on pur-
! chasing coal by the car load this summer
| In this manner they are able to place i
in their bins much cheaper me 10"
market on coal is May and June.
DR.. J. W. Mahood of Sioux City, Iowa
will speak at the First M: F. churcf
every evening this week with the excep
tion Of Saturday evening. He is the leader
of the forward movement under the
auspices OF the Methodist churches o.
| Topeka
This evening a reception and smoker
will be rendered the new members OF tn'
Commercial club. The members OF I'M
teams in the recent contest viii serve s.o ~ ~
| the reception committee and all the ol'
| members are expected to be present q
| give the 400 recruits the glad hand Llsh
| refreshments will be served
The Miller plumbing ordinance requlr
ing all plumbers to place service pipes q
least Sc inches below the surface OF IN
ground was passed by the board of cit;
| commissioners this morning If this ordl
nance had been in effect last fan tner
, [atnI,id have been no frozen service pipe
in Topeka this winter
It was stated in the article on the re
cent spelling contest in the schools ina
80 {1,5einer from the reports that wer
l in Friday afternoon. Reports that nav
been received at the superintendent OF
f,ce since that time show that the stat
. -+-aa+ aod central Park schools d
t equally well, and that the Lowmian ~
! school has a high grade of 80, which put
/ that school at the head OF the hs1'