The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-01-16
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AT HOME NEWS.

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Neb-, on fair business.
The Kansas Bankers association VIII
meet IN Topeka on May % and "A.
The work of constructing the Midwinter
begun.
1. Gilberg will speak both afternoon and
evening before the Jewish society in st.
Joe on Sunday.
Club Bulletin win be ready for distribu-
ton the first of the week
| A report from Washington today states
| that Senator Charles Curtis is confined
TO his bed, suffering from neuralgia
Those in Topeka who burn natural gas
are dreading the receipt of the bill from
| The gas company the first of next month
| An attempt is being made to arrange
| a basketball game for Friday night be-
| tween the fives of the Emporia and To-
peka high schools.
In the last three days more than 1000
| articles of clothing have been distributed
/ among the worthy poor by the Topeka
! RroV1dent association.
| There is a instructor in the high school
t who spends most of his time lodging the
lawyers who are on his tracks with
| view OF making collections of money.
pr. Winfield s. Grenfel Of Labrador
fame, will speak at the First Presby-
! terrain church Thursday evening.
The weather man says that a large per-
! centage of the snow on the ground in
topeka will disappear In the next two
or three days.
Members of the city engineers onfce
passed the State Journal building this
morning when a wagon load of paper was
being unlOaded into the basement. They
figured out that placed end to end this
paper would reach nearly across the
state of Kansas.
reporter started in to call on Man
morning. Get your number he yelled
from behind his desk. your are the
four hundred and seventeenth person who
has been in today"
For the first time this wear fha ire and
snow on the pavements made "a noise like
melting today. When the slush forms the
city street department will have the big
gest job of the season on their hands.
The revenues of the street railway COM
pany should make a good showing for
the first half of January 1t didn't mat
ter whether person wished to ride or
not-he had to or freeze.
The last part of June last year the
thermometer registered LIS. The first
part of this month it was 19 degrees be-
low zero. In other words the climate in
this territory varied 134 degrees The
weather man always tries to satisfy
everyone in Topeka.
Now that it is a little warmer and is
not out of order to say nice retrospective
things about the last cold wave. honestly,
right down in your heart, don't you feel
in better shape physically than you have
in a year? Doctors says this cold spell
should have given you a new spirit.
Commissioner Stotts reports that three
hundred men have asked him for work on
the tree trimming gangs over the city.
The city is employing fifty men at this
work All are heads of families.
The plan of the weather bureau to give
out shippers forecasts in the State Jour
nal each day meets with the hearty and
appreciative approval of the shippers in
Topeka- 1t will be of great assistance to
them in their perishable shipments.
The Santa Fe railway turned over
enough coal to the Winfield inteTurban
company TO keep that road in running
order for number of days last week |
The Oklahoma City electric light plant
also was kept in fuel by the Santa Fe.
It is the general opinion that it wasn't |
location of the Topeka American It was |
the persistence of the editor in publishing |
his own poems.
A Topeka man who was at Goodland |
hot wind at that place on that day. The |
mercury rose from 20 ben zero to 40 |
above, a difference of 50 de = es, and the |
cutters were full of water from the melt |
ing snow.
Walter A. Smith, who will be the vice |
president Of the new mortgage company |
which is being capitalized for 100000, |
states that he came to Topeka because |
he considered it the best financial and |
business center in Kansas.
J. r. Burrow, president of the Central |
National bank, has returned from a visit |
to Smith Center He says that between |
Mcfarland and Smith Center there were |
slowly with man ahead to inspect the
track. He says not e. passenger gruInbIed |
at the slow time made.
The high school basketball team Will go
to Kansas City Saturday, where they will
clash with the strong five of the Central /
high school; The men who Will go on the
trip will be Washburn (captain), Hell,
Anderson, Woodford Holt, and Lane, a
substitute.
The Item Biscuit Co. of Omaha is hav-
ing built a pretentious booth in front of
the Auditorium platform in preparation
for the Kansas Midwinter exposition
The Bour Coffee~Co- of Kansas City has
the space directly in front of the main
entrance and the booth is well on the
way to completion.
Barteln and Murphy are pair of COM
edy acrobats who in their speciality en-
titled Bumps and Falls are expected
to provoke much mirth at the Midw1nter
exposition
A. F. Coulson of the Throop hotel re-
ports not so many persons have taken |
of his offer for shelter at night |
from the cold since the weather mod
Grated.
There has been marked increase in
the activity at the Commercial club IN
the last few weeks. New workers for
the public good are developing who have
not previously come to light. The noon
day attendances are larger than ever be-
fore.
in Topeka with capital stock of $100O
by Walter A. Smith and John P. Slaugh-
ter. The latter will serve as president
and the former as vice president
DR.. Arthur S. Henderson spoke tins
under the auspices of the Men
and Religion movement in the Mills store,
the central fire station. Dougherty's Bus
ness college, and the Continental Cream
cry Co.
A picnic supper was enjoyed at the BIZ
meeting of the Topeka Local
United Brethren church. Music was fur
lished by the Odeon male quartette COM
posed of A Clifton, G. Fenton, c. Strat-