The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-12-06
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AT HOME NEWS.
Eat Batman's candies.

F! Boost topeka. Eat BaInanS cAnoleS.
ADV.
I'd like to see the head in that place
because it would be seen by the general
public"
The FraternaI Brotherhood gives a
dance tonight at Music hall, 9Th and
| Quincy.-Adv.
Edward Perry Baxter the blind plan
list, will be heard tonight in recital in
Boswell hall, Washburn.
Chief of Police Morris c. Jenkins
went to Kansas City on a business trip
| today. He will return tonight
The December issue of the CONNER
! ciaI Club Bulletin will be off the press
about the twentieth of the month
| Medical students in the senior class of
| the Washburn medical school are Civ
! ing series of practical talks at the
Railroad Y. NJ. G. A.
The Missionary society of the First
| Christian church held a meeting this
afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Some Ways
of Helping the Foreigners Within Our
Borders was the subject discussed
! One of the most important business
| several months will be held next
Tuesday evening. change in the
! constitution of the club will probably
| be considered.
| The lowest temperature of the year
| thus far was recorded early this morn
| ing The minimum was 1873 degrees.
! The wind shifted from the northwest to
| the west and thus prevented the mer-
curry from dropping to a lower mark
I'm interested in the disposal of the
head of Old Joshua, the buffalo that
died at Gage park said A. H. Bennett
today. Il believe that the commission
chamber would be an appropriate place
to place the head when it is mounted.
There is a possibility that the ma
! tional organization of engineers VIII
meet in Topeka. w. G. Bullen,
special representative of several en-
gineering publications, is in the city
working up interest in this conven-
ton.
The Jayhawker club will meet at
the Throop hotel a week from next
-Ionday instead of next Monday, the
meeting having been postponed a
week. The subject will be Taxation"
and Ed O'Neil, county commissioner,
will be the orator.
heard next Monday morning at the fed
eral building by Examiner Marshall, of
the interstate commerce commission.
The Topeka traffic bureau is particu
larly interested in seeing that Topeka
gets more equitable rates.
The work of tearing off the roof on
the Commerce building is in progress
preparatory to putting on tin roof.
Decorators will soon start work on
the interior of the fifth story occupied
larging the dining room will probably
be commenced in the Christmas holt
days.
The program of the Topeka Minis
teriaI union for the year 1912-1913 is
off the press. Aside from giving the
list of speakers for the season it con-
tains a useful church directory. The
next regular meeting of the OrganiZa-
ton will be held December Is, when
the Rev. C. A Finch will speak on
''The Relation of Christianity to Art"
The first basketball games in the
junior and senior Y. NJ. G. A. will be
played Saturday afternoon and evening
at the Central building. In the after
noon at three o'clock the first junior
Red team will play the second junior
Red team. At $3.50 in the evening there
will be senior contests between Red
and Blue teams.
New radiators are being installed in
the residence portion of the county
Jail in the general cleanup preparatory
for the occupation of L. L. Kiene,
thoroughly renovated for its new oc-
cupant, and will be placed in first
class condition by the county board.
The radiators were found to be old, !
and were not doing the work in
tended.
Green Carter and Edward Messed
were convicted of petty larceny in po-
lice court Thursday afternoon and
were fined IS each They were ar
rested Wednesday night while stealing
coal in the yards of the Union Pacific. |
Colonel J. NJ. Miller is acting pro- |
bate judge today in the absence of
Judge w. F. Schoch, who is attending |
the session of the probate judges con- |
vention at Lawrence.
Three prominent managers and edi- |!
tors of dry goods journals have been
making an inspection of local condi- /
tions with a view to ascertaining pre- |
ciseIy what the effect of the parcels |
post law will be on business. They are: |
w J. McDonough, of the Dry Goods |
Reporter, Chicago, Charles G. Phil |
lips of the Dry Goods Economist, and |
L. f. Garrison, Of The Drygoodsman, |
st. Louis.
There are about a half dozen loyal |
Topekans who are devotfng their time to |
raising money for the $3.50, 900 factory /
fund.- said a member of the promotion |
committee of the Commercial club to- /
day. "These men have been given a |
cordial reception, but they must neces-
sariIy work slowly as it often takes
considerable time to explain the propo- |
sition Now what We need is more men
in the field to help solicit the subscrip- |
tons"
Fees in the sum of $1S1 95 were col /
lected during the month of October by |
r. NJ Lee, clerk of the county court, |
according to a tardy report for the |
month filed with the board of county |
commissioners today. The report |
carried with it a receipt from Treasurer
Matt Weightman for the amount shown
to have been collected. The report also |
showed fees charged and unsolicited in |
the sum of $23.15 on the clerks books. |
During the month fine of 81 was the |
only one paid.
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