The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-27
SNIP SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

| club will soon be announced.
The river is again frozen over. The
| thickness OF the ice is not great, how
| ever.
Halls orchestra will furnish music this
evening at the Ad and Commercial club
banquet
A meeting of the land men OF the city
viii be held Wednesday noon at the Com
mercial club
The Christian Endeavor society of the
! First Congregational church will hold a
| business meeting and social at the church
| Thursday evening
Scores of persons going along the
/ streets today were hit by chunks Of snow
and ice falling from roofs, store signs,
and overhead wires.
The demand for dried fruits isn't as
| great this season as is usually the case,
due probably to the fact that the prices
are averaging higher
Secretary Guy T. Justis will give an adj
dress on local social conditions at the
| Central Y. M. c. A. this evening which
will be illustrated with stereopticon
| views.
fires In the last two or three days. 1t Is
almost impossible for the fire horses to
make good time through the snow clogged
streets.
All the social service workers Of To
peka are expected to attend meeting at
the Central Y. M C A this evening for
the purpose Of forming a working organ
ization.
Canned peas will be selling at extreme
" high prices in April, May and June.
The Gamers have exhausted their supply.
and the dealers are almost in the same
predicament.
IF Roosevelt is elected president of the
United States,'' said Col ]. W. F.
Hughes. lit will be the last president
a king or emperor"
E. B. Whitmore transportation clerk
| in the office of the general superintend-
ent of the Rock Island in Topeka has
12d IN f7kaG7x Tor 81 m h
cago and Rock Island
The hens are grouchy again. The snow
has made them peevish and they refuse
to bear any fruit As a result the price
of eggs advanced cents a dozen. Eggs
are selling now for 80 cents dozen.
Secretary Guy T. Justis will occupy the
regular church service hour at the First
Congregational church a week from next
Sunday evening, giving illustrated adj
dress on social service work in Topeka.
A number of preachers in the city
mon for next Sunday evening by the re-
cent storm. They will give the sermons
that were announced for last Sunday
night
The city street lights were not in use
last night The city officials deemed it
wise not to turn the current in the wires
while they were laden with snow and ice
and when there was danger of breaks in
the line.
Great weather for the kids And the
doctors say that it is less dangerous to
turn them loose in the snow for the
whole day than only to allow them to dip
into 1t now and then. Just keep their
feet dry.
The difficulty Of getting .eaen fruit to
town and the indisposition of the fowls to
lay while the snow is on the ground has
caused a scent advance in the price of
eggs. EGGS are now retailing at 80 cents
dozen.
A meeting Of Commercial club officials
was held at noon today to further dig
cuss the May festival which it has been
decided to hold to raise money to pay OF
the indebtedness on the great pipe organ
This has been hard period for ever
green and pine trees Their limbs are
weighted down with heavy snow and ice
and many large trees have been broken.
The trees on the southwest WashbuTn
campus were beautiful.
Albert NJ. Patten, general super1ntend-
ent. and Howard Patten, city superln-
tendent, worked all Sunday and last
night as well as all day in an attempt
to clear up the tracks A force of one
hundred men were on the job.
Chief Clerk Gilliland of the passenger
department of the Rock Island in To-
pelka predicts that the Kaw river will be
out of its banks before the end of the
week. Mr. Gilliland believes there IS
trouble ahead for the railroads.
The Kaw river has shown no signs of
rising on account of the recent snow
storm and the subsequent melting Of the
soft stuff However. the real thaw has
pected that viii reach the danger point
The rural free deliveries found it nearly
impossible to go over their routes Mon
day and today. The horses struggled
through the snow which in many places
was five and ten feet deep. The country
roads out Of Topeka were almost i'm
passable.
If Topeka photographers and post card
companies did not obtain number of
views Monday 1t will be their financial
loss The city never was SO beautiful
.-I.1
campus looked like Yellowstone park III
the winter
AS soon as the frost is out of the
ground the Commercial club will again
begin to agitate good roads and will prob
ably assist farmers who are willing to
devote their services to the improvement
of the thoroughfares by lending them
road drags.
Rather than allow its employees to go
home in the deep snow the manager of
the Independent Telephone company Mon
day served meals to the girls at the CEN
trail Office Girls who had to go to their
homes were taken in carriages and an
motor cars.
A committee composed Of W. w. Webb.
range for the time Of holding the May
festival that the Commercial club has
decided to give. The committee will also
decide what price or prices it will be
well to charge.
The month of February is going to be
a poor one for the street railway com
pany. With a short month. decrease in |
receipts, snow blockade expenses and a |
list of unfortunate conductors the COM |
pany will have to step aside and allow |
>Iloom" to enter.
Secretary J. VIII Kelley has asked L d. |
Graham to prepare an article setting |
forth the Inducements to farmers and |
truck gardeners to settle in the vicinity |
of Topeka Mr.. Graham viii tell Of the |
possibility Of making a good living grow |
ing alfalfa. garden truck, hogs, chickens, |
etc.
Cab men in Toneka renort the hest dax