The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-15

Memorial church. Several persons
| joined the church at the revival meet
ing held Tuesday night.
The Topeka high school football
team will clash with the Ottawa high
school eleven at Ottawa on Friday in
stead of Saturday. 1t seems that it is
games at ottawa on Saturday.
Police officers have been ordered to
arrest all suspicious characters in To-
peka in order to discover the negro
who attempted to rob two Topeka wo-
men Monday night and early Tuesday
morning.
A number of persons have already
signified their intention of joining the
church as a result of the revival meet
ings that are being held each evening
at the Redden mission. The meetings
will continue until the end of the
week.
L. s. Harvey, assistant United States
district attorney, returned to Topeka
today from Leavenworth where he has
been attending the session of the fed
eral court. Attorneys Robertson and
Brady will remain there until the adj
jOurnment.
A large number of reservations for
rooms have already been made by
teachers who will attend the annual
meeting of the Kansas State Teachers
association in Topeka, November 81.
The Y. w. c. A. has received thirty
five applications for cots.
Chief of Police Josiah Ross said
this morning that the recent warn
ing to autOists to get drivers licenses
has found fruit. The city officers have
received scores of applications for the
permits, among them being three APP
plications from the police department.
The barber college at 327 Kansas
avenue was broken into last night ana
81 was taken from the cash drawer.
Nothing else was taken. The burglars
~ rr1o In 1nO IL
of the building, the same method used
in a dozen petty burglaries within the
past month.
The autumn seems to be the best
time of the year for farm boys to
leave home for the cities. Local Off
GERS have received several letters from
farmers asking them to find some
youthful farm boy with a yearning for
the city but nearly always it is discov-
cred that the youths return before
very many days.
The Cathedral Boys club football
team is going to Rossville Saturday
to play the high school team there
The local team will go there in auto
mobiles and expect to make a good
showing in the first game of the sea-
son. Charles Kouns, James Perry and
Carl Henderson are captain, manager
and coach of the team, respectively.
In speaking of the rumor that the
secretaryship of the Commercial club
and that of the Kansas State Fair
association would be combined, J.
Will Kelley, secretary of the Com
mercial club, said today: II have
heard some talk about such an ar
rangement, but that is all L know. No
official suggestion has ever been
made
The statement published in the State
Journal that Mckee Richmond, come
dian at the Novelty, isn't Irish is, ac-
fn NTr q
says he was born in the north of Ire
land, and is proud of it. Richmond
styles himself The Irish Caruso."
Deepest apologies, fresh from the Blair
ney Stone. are herewith presented to
the son of Old Erin.
]. Will Kelley, secretary of the
Commercial club, has returned from
a trip to Dayton, Ohio. Mr.. Kelley
spent Sunday afternoon with his par
ents in Portland, Ind. Mr.. Kelley
stated that he went to Dayton on
purely personal business. There
secretaryship of the Commercial club
of that place, but a great many ru-
mors are now making the rounds.
The stage of the Kaw river at To-
peka this morning was but "a feet.
This is but four-tenths of a foot
above the lowest mark reached dur
ing the recent drouth. This shows
that the greater part of the water
that has recently fallen in Kansas has
sunk into the ground. According to
Sunny" Flora. the local weather OBJ
server, the subsoil is still dry, al
though there is plenty of moisture for
a depth of two or three feet.
Miss Eliza R. Butler, daughter of
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
Columbia university, will spend Oc-
tober 81 and % in Topeka with a
view to organizing n Y. w. c. A.
among the girls of the Topeka high
school Miss Butler is the national
secretary for high schools and sec
ondary schools with headquarters at
New York City. She will be accom-
panied by Miss Lucy L. Riggs, field
student secretary of Denver. Colo.
T. A Borman. editor of the Kan
sas Farmer, will speak at agricultural
meetings in ten towns in Labette
county in the week beginning Octo-
Der 20. The Labette County Bank
ers' association has arranged the Sc
ries of meetings for the benefit of the
of strong speakers have been pro-
cured. The towns at which the meet
ings will be held are: Altamont,
Mound Valley, Angola, Edna, Bart
lett, Chetopa, Montana, Labette, Hen
derson. Dennis and Oswego.
Arrangements will be completed for
a reunion of the soldiers of the Tween
tieth Kansas regiment on October 23-