The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-08
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AT HOME NEWS.

Attractive office furniture, made in To-
| peka by the Ste1l Fixture Manufacturing
! Co., is on display in the windows of the
Old Mills building.
| A Topeka plumber tells of a case where
a woman insisted him taking off his
muddy shoes before he entered her house
to Tx the water pipes Madam explain
i ed the irate plumber. IF you knew the
circumstances I think you would much
rather have the mud ON your carpets than
nave me take off my shoes
Carpenters in Topeka report the con-
Sructlon OF q large number of sleeping
porches in the city this fail. Despite the
below zero weather the hot nights of the
summer time have not been forgotten.
City Engineer Young is working out his
plans to give Topeka a sewerage disposal
plant. The plant will cost about $3.50 900
ana mas been explained in detail IN the
State Journal many times. 1t is not
probable, however, that the plant will
be built for a few years.
The city is working more than so men
at the digging of the dirt from beneath
the Melan bridge This gives work to
many who have been without food and
fuel The tree trimming gangs are work
ing regularly.
The water boys at the Grand say that
more water consumed during the
Round Up than at any other play in
the history of the theater- The desert
scene made everyone in the theater
thirsty.
What has become of the move on the
part OF the topeka Real Estate Dealers
association to find suitable location for
headquarters for balloon flights? Also
what has become of the Boosters club
that the organization talked about form
ing2
Gilbert Hubbard will lecture on 1.-THE
March of the Centuries" at the First
Baptist church under the auspices of the
Topeka Ad club next Wednesday evening.
A reception will follow the lecture. The
Ad club met this noon to make plans for
the biggest meeting ever held by the
club.
a good many of the owners of autos
in the city are becoming careless about
going about the city in their machines
with no rear light.
In its advertising matter certain NOV
ing picture show adVertises as being To-
Gated on the Great White Way, instead
of Kansas avenue.
Because he was opposed to the ousting
of the superintendent of the city school
buildings some months ago, one member
of the school board takes every oppor-
tunity to make things disagreeable for
William Conry, the present engineer
However, Mr. Conry seems to be good
man for the place.
The social service committee of the Men
and Religion organization in Topeka
which includes representatives from the
various churches of the city will meet
at the Central Y. M G. A at o clock
this evening.
A meeting of the Kansas State Agricul-
turaI College Alumni association will be
held Friday night at the Commercial
club. 1
Secretary J. VIII Kelley of the CONNER
cial club will return to Topeka from his
extended trip among factory towns on
February 16. This news was conveyed in
a letter received today from Mr.. Kelley
He was in Portland, Ind, and was ex-
pectinE to be in Richmond on last Tues
day, in Dayton, Ohio, Wednesday, and
in Indianapolis, Ind, tomorrow
The Christian Endeavor society of the
First Christian church and the c. E. of
he ETfruf iris Of
now engaged in an efficiency contest.
Contests of various kinds seem to be all
the rage among the Christian churches
nowadays
Many persons in the city with dead
trees in their yards or trees that need
trimming have informed the poor that
they could have the trees for fuel if they
cut them. Scores of families have been
given heat through this source.
The sheet iron works at the corner of
Fifteenth and Santa Fe streets turned in
a fire alarm shortly after o'clock last
evening when an overturned oil stove
caught fire to woodwork in the office.
Inc damage was small
Many complaints have been sent to the
State Journal as regards the manner in
which street car crews allow their cars
to shoot down the Sixth avenue hill from
Harrison to Jackson streets. Many Pc
destrians have been hurt at the Jackson
street corner.
The poetica1 argument between Frank
farrell and Walt Mason, published in the /
state journal ABOUT q week ago, has
spread to other chimes. Out in California
the newspapers have copied it and the
FARRELL jingle is picked out a better
one than the Mason rhyme.
'Gee-muny Christmas!' exclaimed an
elevator man in a Topeka store. Here
are five baby buggies lined up to go up
In this lift and they are ringing for me
on every floor. I believe in race suicide
Several Topekans are on the program
of the thirteenth annual meeting of the
State Y. NJ. G. A. in Hutchinson Feb
ruary 1918. II. l.. HeinZman will speak
on 1.-The Kansas High School Field w |
w Bowman on fright and Wrong Con-
ceptiOns of the Functions of the State |
Committee and DR.. e. S. Pettyjohn on
The Associations Responsibility in the
FOIlow-up Work of the Men and Religion
high school conference will be presided
over by President Frank K. Sanders. |
Special solo numbers will be rendered b.
George Adamson-
Capt J. G. Waters will deliver the Lin
coin Day address tomorrow at the State |
university, Lawrence.
Boy Scout club has been organized
at tbs Third Presbyterian church. Fred
w. Bechte1 is at the head of the organ
ization.
gagged to train the choir of the Second /
Presbyterian church Miss Loveland is a |
daughter of DR.. F. L. Loveland of the /
First NJ. Z. church.
than a week away. The youngsters al
now stocking up with their supplies OF /
love tokens-or otherwise-which they
Val distribute on that occasion.
The Baraca organized Sunday school |
classes of the Methodist church have |
withdrawn from the Baraca Union of the /
city The only reason that was given |
for the action was that the finances of /
the classes were in poor shape, and that |
they could not afford to pay the dues |
which were one cent per month per men, /