The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-03
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AT HOME NEWS.


/ league will be held a week from to-
day in Gemmeil hall
The board of directors of the Com
mercial club met this noon. Routine
business was the order of things.
The finishing work is in progress at
| the new A. Zahner building in the niue
| hundred block on Kansas avenue.
The Gordon building is now being
| put in shape for occupation by the c.
a. HARLAN Furniture company
IT'S a fine day, isn't it?' is ques-
ton that has been asked perhaps fifty
thousand times by Topekans today.
Garfield defeated Central Park
Wednesday afternoon on the Central
Park gridiron. The score was II to 6.
A wild teal duck has Joined the
family of tame ducks in Cages park
and is apparently pleased with his new
home.
! Numerous meetings of parent-teaca-
| ers associations of the various schools
of the city will be held in the near
future.
The Arts and Light Embroidery
club will meet Friday afternoon at
the home of Mrs j. j. h1ng, 1zzo
North Jackson street.
All is peace thus far at the high
school. There have been no outbreaks
on the part of rival class organizations
as was the case last spring.
t E Miller chief clerk of the pen
sion office, leaves today for Mayetta on
account of official business for the
: Masonic lodge.
Four large, old trees on the corner
of Fourth and Monroe streets Will be
sacrificed for the new White Way to
be built on Fourth street.
The campaign for new members at
the Y. M C. A. will be formally
launched Friday noon when lunch
con will be held for he workers.
a meeting of the soccer football en-
he Ilxad
some time next week by Tom Powell
1t is probable that club will be
formed.
w. L. Driver, who served last summer
as. supervisor of the children's play
grounds. has plan whereby the work
will be undertaken on a larger scale
next year.
who Crucified Jesus Christi and
''The Empire of the Subconscious in
Human Life" are two sermon themes
upon which DR.. F. L. Loveland will
preach next Sunday.
John H. Nicholson of Beloit, Wis,
president of the National Gideon or
sanitation, will be in Topeka October
10. He will deliver an address under
the auspices of the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
Morton Albaugh. F. L. Campbell, j.
H Harrison and B. F. Flenniken leave
Monday to open court in Kansas City,
Kan. Court, in all probability, will con-
vene only a few days.
The contractors in the city are rush
ing their work while the pleasant
weather lasts. There is good deal
of work in progress. too. Compare |
lively few men are idle at the present
time.
Otto Barth, president of the Topeka
Ad club, will appoint committee to
prepare a bill to prevent fraudulent
advertising, which will be presented in !
the course of the next session of the |
legislature.
Late Thursday H. T. Jett, supervisor |
of penmanship in the city schools, met /
and eighth grades and gave them !
pointers concerning the teaching of |
penmanship.
The Brotherhood of American
their hall. 119 West Sixth avenue,
Wednesday evening. A class of four
was initiated and six new applications |
were discussed.
1.-The people who like to see scenes
in foreign countries and in America
the pipe organ moving picture show
at the Auditorium" said w. w. Webb /
in charge of the shows
Dean A. C. Peck of Denver, who
needs no Introduction in Topeka, will
be the first speaker in January in con-
necticn with the Men and Religion
series of Sunday afternoon theater
meetings for men.
numerous persons of the West side
each evening indulge in the pastime
of shooting blackbirds. The trees a re
thick with them, and their noise an
noys the nervous people of that sec
ton of the city.
The local realty men are interested
If some proposed legislation which
will be of benefit to the land men of
Kansas. The first meeting of the local
association will be held next Wednes-
day noon at the Commercial club.
Topeka lodge, No. 81. T. F. B.,
elected Mrs. E. T. Hearick as deputy
for the lodge. Prizes aggregating
$500 have been offered by the supreme
lodge and Topeka lodge is attempting
to capture one of the large prizes
Two drunks and one Juvenile case
is the total number of arrests that
have been made by the police in two
days. The DRINKS were fined IS each
and George Bailey, who was arrested
for stealing bicycles. has been turned
over to the juvenile court for trial.
There is expected to be some fun
over the ushers in connection with
the pipe organ picture shows at the
Auditorium the first three days of next
week. Some of the men are planning
to be bedecked in costume. The pub
lie will have the chance to guess their
identity.
Workmen are busy on the first floor
of the new wing of the Potwin school
The job should be completed by the
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