The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-25
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III AT HOME NEWA
The stage of the river is the lowest
it has been in several months.
The teams in the Central Y. M. c.
A. Basketball league will compete in
a contest next month.
! A meeting of all the Christian En-
deavor presidents of the city will be
held this evening in the First Congre-
/ gational church at 7:15 o'clock.
After this afternoon there will be
no rummage sale held this week at
of Thanksgiving.
The Topeka Local union will make
an effort to provide a growing plant
for every shut-in in Topeka on
Thanksgiving day.
w. B. CoIIinson, chief clerk to the
general manager of the Santa F'e in
Topeka, is in Memphis spending his
vacation with his parents.
| According to the dealers the price
| of hay is slightly lower now than it
was at this time last year. The prices
| average $40 ton as against $12 last
year.
| Despite the fact that Mayor Billiard
owns coal business he is the hardest
working mayor in Kansas in an effort
to procure a better gas supply this
winter.
SCOT falling on shingle roof
caused a small blaze on the two-story
frame dwelling of H. NJ. Wallace at
615 Harrison street Sunday morning
at $3.50.
Automobiles report that the roads
in the vicinity of Topeka are extreme
ly dusty. A good shower would be
appreciated by the motorists and the
pcp-pop men.
The campaign to raise $4,000 to
complete the new Grace cathedral is
IkaiT7 oh 7ie mt In
cludes the sum necessary to provide
fitting windows for the structure.
No school is being held this week
at the Highland Park building ac-
count of scarlet fever which developed
last Tuesday. However, only one case
of the disease has been reported In the
school.
The Rock Island is clamoring for
day laborers. Considerable track work
in Kansas will have to be abandoned
unless the road can find additional
help. There is no excuse for the idle
this fall.
Next Friday and Saturday the an
nual convention of the Kansas Student
Volunteer Union will be held at Wash
burn college. One hundred delegates
the conference.
Nearly eight miles of paving in To-
peka this year, Already property own
ers are sending in heavily signed pc
titions for more. A good definition of
increased value in city property.-Com-
mercial Club Bulletin.
1t is announced at the general offices
of the Santa F'e that all passenger con-
ductors hereafter will have santa Fe''
IN gilt letters on their coat lapelS.
The Santa Fe does not want to be
mistaken for any other road.
The board of city commissioners
this morning approved and accepted
officially the Great White Way con-
struction work on East Fourth ave-
nue.. The tests made by the electric
light department have been successful.
The Grace cathedral vesper services
Sunday afternoons, taking the place
of the evening services, have proven
popular with the members of the
church. It is probable that other
Topeka churches will adopt the plan.
The animals, the red lemonade" the
chariot races, and in fact everything
that is to be seen at circus, is being
shown the first three days CT this week
at local theater. The Hagenhack-
Wallace circus is being shown COM
plete in motion pictures.
The November issue of the CONNER
cial Club Bulletin, which is off the
press today, is frightened by an ex-
cellent cut of the Commerce building.
The publication contains much news
of general interest to the business men
of the city.
E. J. Shakeshaft, assistant general !
passenger agent of the Atchison, To-
peka & Santa Fe in this city, has cele- !
brated the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his work with the Santa Fe. He is !
one of the best known and most popu- |
lar officials of the road.
The Provident Association will be |
glad to give assistance in the way of
distributing Thanksgiving baskets. The
association will deliver the baskets, or
will give the names of deserving peo- |
pie who would be cheered by being /
the recipients of good livingstone
Hundreds of Washburn students
will leave the city the first of this |
week for their homes over the west. /
The college adjourns Wednesday after |
noon for the annual Thanksgiving va |
cation of three days. Several students
will attend the football game for the |
championship of Kansas at Manhat- |
tan.
The first quarterly meeting of the |
Topeka Federation of Churches, of
which DR.. Roy B. Guild is at the
head, will be held at 6:15 o'clock |
this evening at the Central Y NJ |
G. A. The constitution and bylaws /
of the new organizations are off the
press and will be distributed among
the members. The object of the or |