The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-24
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! Mrs Ralph McNeill Of San Diego.
| Cal, is here visiting Mrs. A. A. Rid
| ings and family.
The fine weather today brought a
large number of out OF town shoppers
| to Topeka today.
Engineer J. B. Mcneil of San Ber-
/ nardino. Cal, is here visiting his moth
| err and other relatives
There will be a meeting of the To-
| peka Motorcycle club at the CONNER
| cial club rooms tonight
A meeting of the Shawnee Motor
league will be held tonight at the
Commercial club quarters.
Straw berries grown in southern
Texas are selling at downtown stores
today, two boxes for quarter.
The Rev. William Murchie Of Red
Oak. Iowa, will preach tonight at the
, Second United Presbyterian church
J. W. Going of San Diego. Cal, and
formerly of Topeka, after having
spent day in the city. has left fer
| Chicago.
Dr. William Burgess. secretary ef
the American Vigilence association,
with headquarters in New York City,
! will give an address at the Auditorium
! Sunday afternoon
Tom King, city passenger agent of
the Santa Fe, operated upon at the
| Santa Fe hospital a week ago, will
| be released from under the physi-
! clans care Sunday.
! A building permit has been issued to
Mrs c. w. Jewell for the erection of a
| SO OGO two story brick veneer apart
ment house at 1916 Fillmore street. The
contractor is ]. H. Gurtler.
| W. L. Porter, city commissioner of
parks and public health, is prepar-
! ing a list Of internal Improvements at
the city detention hospital New beds
! and bed clothing are included in the
| list of comforts for the pest house.
| A change has been made in the plans
! for services at the Second United Pres
! byterian church, and Rev. William
Murchie of Red Oak Ia, who preached
| last night, is to preach this evening at
! s O'Clock, and tomorrow afternoon at
2:3O.
| A committee of the Commercial
hour speakers once every two weeks
consists of the following members:
Charles p. Adams. n. b. Burge,
George Godfrey Moore, w. O. Risby
| and E. H. Adams
| Charlie Smith, the veteran and pop
ular old hotel keeper at Wakarusd
died of heart failure last night He
| has journeyed to Wakarusa in the
| fishing season-and at other times in
the year. His chicken dinners were
| famous in eastern Kansas.
| Elmo whitmore of the Rock Islam
| Offices, the young bachelor who has
| taken it upon himself to recruit good
looking nurses for service in the Mex
! lean war; has received fifty-one sp-
plications in Topeka alone The Joke
PLAYED upon him by fellow employees
has reached the serious stage
Next year the tuition for high school
pupils who are non-residents will be
raised 1t is now four dollars a
month. 1t will be raised to actual cost
based on the figures for the present
school year. That will be in the neigh
| borhood of five dollars. Approximate
Nv one hundred and fifty persons are
in attendance at the nisn scnooi VINO
are non-residents of the city
Farm Credit Laws Enacted by the
state and Administered by the
Bank Commissioner" will be the gen.
| eral topic for discussion at the meet
| ing of the shawnee Alfalfa and Farm
| ers, institute at the Commercial club
| quarters at O'Clock Saturday after
| noon. r. A. McNeai will speak He
| will present an original plan. Fred $.
| Jackson will talk on the legal aspect
| of a state rather than national sys-
tern.
| The Kansas Engineering society IT
which C. A. Forter. Office engineer
Of the city engineering department.
is secretary, conducted a meeting OF
! the executive committee IN ME- FOR
ter's Office at the city hall this after
noon H. A. Rice of Lawrence. pres
ident of the society. was among the
members present The society has on
the press big edition of the last
proceedings which will be issued
soon
! Several representatives OF the Kan
sas State Fair association will 60 in
automobiles at O'Clock this evening
to Granville to attend a meeting OF
| the KaW Valley grange They viii IN
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