The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-09-27
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AT HOME NEWS.

The male chorus of the Central
church will meet for rehearsal tonight
at the church at o'clock. The choir
will meet at 7 o'clock.
The following girls will hike to
Pauline Sunday and return by train:
Isabel Long, Mary Smith, Sophia
Saddle, Katherine suppes, Louise
Conrad, Lillian Wellson, Frances
Smith, Josephine Smith and Lena
Resac.
McRae's social dance tonight. Dane
ing school Monday night.-Adv.
The Commercial Club Bulletins for
September were distributed today.
In case that a soccer football league
is formed in Kansas this season H. b.
Howard will offer a silver loving cup
to the winning organization. Tom
Powell, manager of the Topeka team,
is of the opinion that sufficient inter-
est has been aroused in the game to
form league. The first meeting of
local soccer enthusiasts for the sea-
son will be held next Wednesday even
nue.. All Topeka men who care to
play on the Topeka team this season
are requested to attend the meeting.
Mrs. Cary johnson has gone to Den
yer to visit her daughter, Miss Eva,
but not on account of her daughters
health was indicated in the State
Journal Thursday. Miss Johnson is
quite well.
H. D. Driscoll, commissioner of the
Topeka Traffic association, is expect
ed to return home from his western
trip within a day or two.
Charlie Burge, the clever soccer
football half back, who played last
season on the Topeka team, will leave
Topeka next Tuesday for South Amer
lea. Burge is a painter by trade.
The pleasant weather today brought
a large number of shoppers to Topeka
from other towns. The Topeka Re-
bate office was a busy place.
Every day several new students are
enrolled at the high school. A number
of the classes are extremely crowded.
The Last Days of Pompeii,'' being
shown at local moving picture house,
is one of the most elaborate produc-
lions that has been seen in Topeka.
Three thousand persons take part in
the performance, and the picture is
spectacular to say the least.
District Attorney Fred Robertson
and Morton Albaugh, clerk of the fed
eral court, have returned from Wich-
ita. Court will close there next week.
Deputy Marshal B. F. Flenniken will
return from Wichita today.
J. L. Harrison. marshal of the dis
trict court, is in Washington. D. c.
no experiment. 1t was thoroughly
tested and proven before we thought
of offering it to you.-Adv.
Spencer Bridges is the man respon-
sible for the disappearance of the
buggy taken from the barn of Will
liam Scott on Lime street early yester-
day morning. Bridges drove the bug
gy into Martins livery stable in North
Topeka yesterday and left it. No war
rant has been issued against Bridges
charging him with theft, for Bridges
was arrested on another charge yes
Bridges he was put under arrest
charged with violations of the liquor
laws.
The city of Topeka is charged with
land grabbing in a suit filed today in
the district court by J. NJ. Kessie-.
KesSler says he is the owner of lots
Nos. so to So inclusive in Santa Fe
addition to the city of Topeka, and
that the city of Topeka is unlawfully
the west twenty feet of
these lots. The suit is the outcome of
a dispute as to the location of the cor
rect boundary line of the west line of
the lots, or the street line. A restrain
ing order is sought against the city
to prevent appropriating the disputed
strip.
To the end of his term of office,
Mayor Cofran declared this morning.
city hall. 1t isn't SO much that the
mayor wants one for his own use. He
doesn't mind clim bling the stairs, he
says. But he thinks it is shame that
visitors to the mayors office, and 9TH
er city offices, especially on the third
floor, should be compelled to climb
the long, steep stairs to the rooms. Il
the city ought to furnish an
elevator he declared. Il hope the
will not let us forget that
there ought to be an elevator in this
building. / am going to keep working
for one as long as L am mayor, and
may not stop at that. 1 want to see
an elevator installed"
Commissioner w. G. Tandy and the
city engineer are busy today testing a
new machine which it is claimed will
break up the surface of macadam roads
without injury to the road. The tests
are being made on the Lincoln street
road south of the Shunganunga bridge
The value of the machine lies in its
use in filling holes, etc, worn in the
surface of the macadam roads where
the foundation of the road is in good
shape. If the machine proves to be
all that is claimed for it there is
chance it may be purchased by the
city. 1t works equally well in level !