The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-27

Fee, and was rescued by cutting a piece
| out of the f1ue.
Pat" Campbell, son of ]. A. Camp
bell, $40 Clay street, is beginning a mo.
torcycle campaign for the office of coun-
ty treasurer. Campaigns have been
made in buggies and automobiles, but
| Mr.. Campbell claims he is the first
| candidate to make use of motorcycle.
A meeting of the women's Com
mercial club will be held tonight in
the rooms of the Topeka Commercial
| club. The Rev. c. A. Finch, pastor
| of the First Christian church, will
speak. All the working girls and
women of the city are asked to be
| present.
Superintendent C. S. Risdon of IN
dependence says the president of his
| board of education will attend the
school board conference at Topeka,
Nov. 81, and it is likely that the
board will dismiss the Independence
schools in order to permit the teach
ers to attend the association meeting.
Three Topeka ministers assisted in
the installation services at the Third
Presbyterian church Sunday when the
Rev. Irwin Gilmore was formally in
stalled as pastor of the church. DR..
S. S. Estey presided over the ceremon-
les, and the Rev. J. r. Hicks and the
Rev. Ralph Ward also participated.
The forecasts of Blake, Foster,
Hicks and others are not taken seri-
ously by sunny Flora, the local
government observer. He said: You
could take their forecasts for October
tober just as well. You will notice
that the forecasts of these men are
not similar
Superintendent John F. Bender says
the Arkansas City public schools will
be dismissed during the meeting IF
l. +l,.,%
each teacher who attends will receive
SIS in addition to her regular salary.
The board of education will also send
one or two of its members to the
meeting of the school board confer
ence.
The Topeka high school boys feel that
they were given some raw decisions in
the game with Emporia last Saturday.
1t is stated by the manager of athlet-
les, c. H. Hepworth, that seven times
when the Topeka boys pushed the ball
to within a yard or two of the op-
ponents' goal line they were penalized.
The boys say it was the worst deal
handed out to them in years.
The advice of the postoffice depart
ment in Washington is that Christmas
presents should be sent early this year
to avoid the rush in mails and parcels
post. Leroy Powell, superintendent of
delivery in the local office, expects to
be flooded with surplus mail before
Christmas and believes that a little
note, do not open before Christmas"
would not only aid the authorities but
the customers as well.
According to a story told on a street
car rather an unusual incident oc-
Cured not far from the Crosby mills
on Sunday. negro was seen to
come from behind freight car with
a big whisky jug in his hand. A negro
policeman called to the man to halt
the latter paid no attention to the
demand and the policeman fired The
oullet struck the jug and the negro
continued on his flight with the han
die of the jug only in his hand.
Tom Powell has made definite ar
engagements for his soccer football
team to clash with the team of the
Kansas City Soccer Football club at
Kansas City on Thanksgiving morn
ing at IL o'clock. Powell wants TO
meet all of his men Wednesday even
ing at 532 Kansas avenue at O'Clock
The practice game next Sunday at
the western League park will take
place at O'Clock in the afternoon in
stead OF 10 O'Clock in the morning as
has been the case the last few weeks
There are large number of former
stars in soccer football who are
working out for places on the team,
and 1T is expected that Topeka will be
represented by strong aggregation.
The first assembly of the wear will
be held at the high school wednes-
DAY morning. On account of the fact
that the seating capacity of the as
sembly room is but $50 and the en-
rolIment in the institution is over 1900
it has taken the management of the
school some time to work out a plan
for the holding of assembly hours. |
The plan adopted is to have one group
700 students-meet on Wednesday. |
and another group next Wednesday. |
consist nf 10
of the last three years and !
group "B" of the students of the first !
year. "A number of years ago the as |
sembly room would seat 1850 persons, /
but in case of a fire nearly half of the !
l $50 persons would probably have |
been burned.