The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-14
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/ In number OF school rooms in Topeka
| today the children are allowed to have
valentine boxes.
The chief event in Topeka for this even
| Ebert Hubbard
L. D. Roose will build store building
az 1910 west Seventeenth street which
Will cost $1,000.
spseaking of fruit, have you seen the
beacn az The Novelty this week." asked
the theatrical reporter
III. lnere IS always a crowd OF people on
/ for ~ 70 watch the work Of excavating
LOT the new State journal building
me annual banquet of the Baraca
oT;saIlized Bible class of the First Baptist
cnufch VIII he held Friday evening.
The Christian Enthusiast the official
organ of the the Local Union of Young
Peoples Societies in. Topeka. will he Is
sued this week
Marble time is now here. 1t will not be
| lohg before the tops viii be all the rage
among the youngsters, and the kite sea-
son viii be on.
The boys work committee Of the Provi-
cent association met at the Commercial
among the boys.
The Topeka Real Estate Dealers as
soclation held meeting today which was
addressed by George McEntire who spoke
to Topeka.
The weather man says that the condi-
tons tomorrow will be pleasant The
chances for very severe cold wave be-
lore the spring season opens are now
rather slim.
Jesse Shaw spoke at the Central Y. NJ
=. A. this noon on Topeka H20.'' Next
week Wednesday a talk will be given
on The Making of Modern Pictures by
local photographer
Labor conditions are not quite as serI-
Gus as was the case a few weeks ago. for
there is now some exterior construction
work in progress. However, there are
still some unemployed men.
The monday attendances the last two
days at the Commercial club have been
50 large that it has been necessary for
few of the members each day to wait a
few minutes before finding a place to sit.
This shows that there is new spirit at
the club.
The Topeka men who are on the pro-
gram of the thirteenth annual state con-
Ventlon of the Y NJ c. A. of Kansas
which will be held in Hutchinson Fec
ruary 1918, are DR.. E. S. Pettyjohn. H. L.
r>einznan. President Frank K. Sanders,
and W. w. Bowman. Between so and 81
1opekans VIII attend the meeting.
DR.. Arthur S. Henderson will speak at
the First Congregational church this
evening on the CITY Field" This is the
second of a series Of four talks mis-
sions.
Rev c. B. zool1, pastor of the Walnut
Grove NJ. E. church. spoke this
morning in the interests of the Men and
Religion movement at the street railway
car barns. the Santa Fe school of tele-
graz =, and in the general offices of the
Santa Fe. He spoke on the subject, THE
Ministry of a Man."
An addition known as JewelTs addition
vii lbe thrown open to the public. The
tract contains So acres of land and lies
east of Chandler street
The men of the city interested in Bible
study have been asked by President
Frank X Sanders to meet at the Central
Y. NJ. c. A this evening at 6:15 o'clock.
DR.. Frank l. Loveland left today for
II lin he will 6Rl al
dress tonight.
The students of the high school will
probably play a series of interclass base
ball games next spring, but the high
school will not have a representative
nine. 1t is the opinion of the Instructors
of the institution that baseball could not
be made to pay in financial way.
The office of the State Fair association
IS not the busiest place in town just now.
Secretary Cook is in California, and his
assistant is away today
mus far this month thirty new fam
lilies have been investigates by the Provl-
dent association. This is not coming Up
to the record of the first half of January.
but it is an unusually large number of
new families for a period of two weeks.
Topeka has confidence in the new mar
ager of the kaws, Dale Gear, and there
was never so much interest evinced in
baseball in Topeka as is shown at the
present time in the team that is in the |
making.
As soon as the weather moderates the |
Commercial club will again begin to agi- |
tate good roads, and Will give some val !
liable assistance to the farmers that are |
willing to get to work on the roads OF |
their particular vicinities-
superintendent f. F. A. Reinisch Is
planting out 80 trees at Gage park. They !
are encased in frozen earth. This is the |
best time of the year to plant these /
trees" said MIR Reinisch-
w L. Osborne formerly owner OF a
grocery at Seventeenth and Kansas ave
nue. has bought the Willet & Robins I
avenue.
George seybold Topeka timer. is
starting work his new shop on Kan
sas avenue south of Tenth avenue.
Mayor Billiard warns all boys and girts
under Is and IS years of age to keep off
the streets with their dads automobiles.
The police are on the lookout for them.
Many complaints have come to the office
of the mayor
Physicians of the city board of health
state that there are no cases of spinal
in the city despite the reports
to the contrary
Thirty men. all with families and all
ont of work. were waiting for City Com
missioner Stotts when he arrived at his
office in the city hall this morning And
Stotts had to turn them down-no more
tree trimming work-the city is out ot
funds.
In the report of f. e. Roudebush's talk
before the Taxpayers league It was
stated that the cost per pupil In the To-
peka schools in 1910 was SS72 per year It
should have been 1872 per month
The school children are looking forward
10 the half holiday Washington's birth
lay.
Robert stone DR.. Arthur S. Henderson,
D. o. Coe and DR.. E. s Pettyjohn will be
HE sneakers of a Men and Religious cam