The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-27
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AT HOME NEWS.

+; III AT HOME NEWS.
/ The Payne Shoe company has just had q
large electric sign installed.
! The Bank of Topeka is taking donations
for the relief of the Ohio flod victims.
] Mr.. and Mrs E. c. Trumble of 3oG
! Gambler street are the parents of a boy
! 1t appears that the city political cam
paign has gotten to the mud Singing
stage.
/ The speed offerings of the Kansas State
! Fair association for 1915 have been issued
in folder form.
! e board of directors of the CONNER
| cial club and the membership committee
he'd joint meeting today.
Material is being put on the ground for
/ the construction of the Gordon Brothers
/ theater on West Eighth avenue.
The Topeka Walking club of the high
| school and the Forensic club will pra baby
| clash in baseball in the near future
Roy Crawford states that the seats for
! Maude Adams have all been sold except,
a few box seats and a few single seats.
| meeting of Central Y. NJ c. A. Boys
| Poultry club will be held late today
| Thirteen boys joined the club al the first
| meeting a week ago.
Friday afternoon and evening the Star
! theater. Ill East Sixth avenue. will give
| entertainments for the benefit of the To-
| peka Orphans Home.
There is an areaway adjacent to a To-
/ peka bakery that would not pass inspec-
| ton by the state board of health Water
| Is allowed to accumulate.
Arrangements will be made whereby the
! pupils of the city scholS entering the
! home garden contest this spring will oe
! able to purchase seeds at reduced prices.
The insurance men of Topeka are, reap
| ing a harvest as result of the rece7t
destructive storms over the country. That
is, they are writing dozens of policies IN
Topeka.
tween numbers next Tuesday night when
the Apollo CO. gives an entertalnment-
the last one of the series-for the Pipe
organ fund.
The annual congregation meeting of the
Second United Presbyterian church will
be held next Wednesday evening. A sup
per will be served at o'clock by the NELL
of the church.
The Topeka Traffic Bureau will hold
their annual meeting some time in May:
H. D. Driscoll, the commissioner, will
present report of the work accomplish
ed in year.
The disagreeable weather of the last
few days has not been conducive. to busl-
ness in real estate circles. 1t has also
t.ept scores of shoppers from outlying
towns away from the capital city.
The Rev. Theodore Hansen, secretary of
the ansas Welfare league had charge
of the Y. NJ. c. A extension meetings to-
day at the Mills building. the central fire
station, and the Topeka business colleges.
The plan to manufacture iceless refrig-
orators in Topeka which was discussed by
persons interested at the Commercial club
did not materialize: The samples Of re
frigerators were shipped back to Cali
fornia today.
B. W. Baird, a prominent farmer of
Valencia, hauled three big loads of cain
seed to Goes seed store East Sixth.
There were 80 bushels in each load and
the seed was raised and threshed on Mt
Baird's farm.
The Rev. John A. Bright will preach
in CIeburne next Sunday He occupied a
pulpit in that town last sunday. He IS
travelling through Riley, Washington,
Marshall and Nemaha counties, delivering
fraternal lectures.
The sunshine today came a great
relief from the disagreeable weather of
the last few days. 1t is probable that
it will not be long before the annual dan
delion crop the state house grounds
is in the process of making.
C. Starr, superintendent of city schools,
and Arthur Capper will be among those
who will speak at the meeting Of the To-
peka Industrial Council Friday night. IN
dustrial Education in Topeka will be the
general subject discussed
Tom Powell will organize an amateu"
baseball nine tonight at 8 o'clock at 532
Kansas avenue. His team will play the
Smeltzers of Kansas City a week from
next Sunday. The nine will be open for
games with teams in this part of the
state.
The Rev. H. ]. Corwine. pastor of the
Third Christian church. will speak before
Union April 7 on 1.-The Chrfstianzation
of Modern Literature" On May the
Rev. W. 1. Cole will speak on Literature
The Topeka chapter of the American
Red Cross society is receiving contribu-
tons for the relief of the flood SUFFERERS
of Ohio and Indiana. Contributions should
be sent to Mrs. B. B. Smythe, secretary
of the chapter, room 9, fourth floor of the
state house.
The Auditorium May Z. and will be
turned over to the stationary engineers
of the state. Already seventy-five booths
have been rented by supply houses and
various appliances and accessories will be
bod TNvx,1 I,t1v,6 rod md Nv
sons are expected to be in attendance.
The Commercial club has started an
industrial survey of Topeka. All indus
trial concerns are asked to furnish this
information: Number of employees: the
annual payroll. and the value of the an
nual output This information will be OF
value to those contemplating the estab-
liShment of new industries in Topeka.
= In the series of inter-chool field con-
tests at the Central Y. NJ c. A. four
teams will meet next Saturday afternoon.
clash at two o'clock and Clay and Cen
trail Park at three o'clock Indoor base
ball contests, and relay races will be
among the events.
Two hundred Topeka high school stud
ents have pledged themselves to- pur-
chase season baseball tickets privided a
nine is formed at the high school to rep
resent the institution. 1t will probably be
necessary to sell another two hundred
tickets to insure the financial success OF
the opposition. 1t is up to the students
if they want a team this season. 1t has
peen several years since the school has
had a team.
The Central Y. NJ c. A will conduct d
baseball membership campaign tins
spring which will continue for three days
1t will be Giants Red SON- Ralph
Searle will act manager of the Giants
and Richard j. White of the Red SoX. /
The present membership of the associa-
ton is 1520. About five hundred mem
BerShipS will expire in the next two or
three months and for this reason it is was
deemed wise by the management to con-
r. 2T17TN ion to,
and also recruits.