The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-28
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AT HOME NEWS.

The Provident association Wooo
yard will probably be closed the END
of this week.
Several meetings will be held al
dawn on Easter by Christian Endeav-
orerS of the city.
The weather man had cheerful
tidings to tell today. He has predicted
fair weather for tonight and Friday.
A meeting of the advertising COM
mittee of the Commercial club was held
today. This was the first meeting fol-
the committee.
Miss Lima Bresette will entertain the
students of the high school some time
in the next week by story telling in
the assembly hour.
The Nuts and Jeffs of the Santa Fe
offices will indulge in a game of in
door baseball at the Central Y. M. G.
A. next Wednesday evening.
The concert which was scheduled to
be given at the First Congregational
church by the intermediate G. E. So
ciety has been postponed for two weeks.
Two of the attractive new houses on
Van Buren, street, between Twelfth
and Thirteenth streets, have been
sold. The purchasers were John Steven
and John Hartley.
Old river men are surprised at the
lack of drift in the river. They say it
is a good sign. River men are not
afraid of high water when it is not ac-
companied by driftwood.
The white tickets good for the pic
ture show entertainment at the audi
forum Monday evening are now ready
for sale by those who want to COM
pete for the prizes offered.
Clarence Messick's orchestra will fur
nish music in connection with the art
display in Gemmell hall of the Contra
Y M. c. A. this evening. great
many people saw the exhibit Wednes-
day evening.
ar
agent of the Rock Island Lines in To-
peka is in California. The recent
snow storm seemed to have caused
migration of all Topeka railway Of
ficials to the west.
DR.. s. S. Estey will speak in chapel
at Kansas university Friday morning.
REV. Estey is regarded as a leader
in church work not only in Topeka
hut all over the state" remarks the
University Daily Kansan-
Word is received from Atchison
that the Jacobs muItiplane will be
shipped to the New York aeroplane
show. 1t will not be given test be-
fore this exhibition the owner fearing
that parts might be broken.
There is an art exhibit at the Cen
trail z. NJ. c. A. that is decidedly in
teresting The leading photographers
of the city have placed on exhibit Oh
the walls of Gemmell hall their best
work and some of it is excellent
The seventeen team captains chosen
to lead in the Topeka-Wichita Y. M.
c. A. Endurance contest. April s-1S,
are enlisting men for their respective
teams. 1t is expected that 500 men
will act as workers in the contest.
The construction of a three-story
brick apartment house has begun at
919 Quincy street. ]. w. Wilson will
be the owner. F. B. Cooper is the con-
tractor. Each apartment will consist
of four rooms. The cost will be $4,000
The board of city commissioners
have decided that May Is is the last
day for sidewalk petitions in 1912
After this date all petitions will be
held over until the 1913 work. Score
of petitions are being circulated in the
city.
The Provident association has sent
away for garden seeds which will be
given to the poor of the city at nom
fnal cost. The association would like
to know of available lots that could
be used by poor people for garden
purposes.
Down town fire companies were
called to the home owned by P. ].
Clevenger at 500 West Tenth avenue,
today, following an explosion of floor
oil which had been boiling on stove.
The damage was small. No one was
hurt.
More than 900 dogs have been reg
tstered at the city hall. This leaves
balance of more than 1000 to come
IN Frida yand Saturday. After Satur-
day the licenses will be doubled ana
the dog catchers will start out with
their guns.
The public service companies own
ing poles on Kansas avenue have
promised the board of city commits
Eioners that they will begin taking
down their poles the first of April. A
similar promise was made last fall,
last winter and every thirty days be-
tween time.
The Woodmen of World will have
an open meeting and social dance this
evening. Refreshments will be served.
John w. Kaiser, the state manager
for Kansas, will present N. W. Wolf
with a gold badge for having the least
number of suspensions for clerk of the
order in 1911.
twenty-five or thirty men apply
every day for work." said Secretary
Guy T. Justis of the Provident associa-
tion today, land there would be more
AZ we had had anything for them to
do. I imagine there has been more
real suffering this month than during
the cold weather"
Lew Williamson, owner of the Cozy
and Best theaters says that the same
high standard of pictures which he
put on at the auditorium during the
contest, will always be found on ex-
hibition at his two houses. These with
high class music and effects are shown
daily at sc admission.
A number of the more modest
members of the faculty of the Wash
burn college were terribly shocked at
the article in the State Journal tell
ing of the plans of the college drama
tic club to dress a girl as a boy in
the annual play tomorrow night. But
the faculty will attend the show,
just the same.
IF a moving picture show were ar
ranged to be held once a week at the
Auditorium I'd wager that there would
be a full house every time" said a
Topeka business man today. ''It strikes