The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-11

arrangements with employers who
will need extra help during the holi-
days.
The October number of the Atlantic
Educational Journal contains full
reprint of the "Clean Up Day Drama
which was enacted in Topeka by five
pupils of the Grant school, Lillian
Lewis. Eva May, Francis Falley, Har-
( old Evans, Leonard Williams, and
/ Elmer McEwen.
w. L. Porter, city commissioner of
parks and public property, to whom
was referred bill from DIR. c. Q.
Lull for $50 for professional serv-
| ices, made no report at a meeting of
the city commission today. At the
time ne bill was referred to him, he
said it would be no use.
DR.. J. P. Mum, of New York city,
physician to Mrs. Helen Gould Shep-
ard, and John F. Moore, international
secretary of the world for railroad
Y. NJ. C. AS, will speak at the Rail-
road Y. NJ. G. A, December 10, ac-
cording to an announcement made by
Secretary T. E. Prout this morning.
Henry B. Lautz, assistant to c. w.
Kouns, general manager of the Santa
Fe, is reported to be much. improved
today Mr.. Lautz has been seriously
i'll of typhoid fever at his home in
Fillmore street. Wednesday afternoon
he was slightly de1irious, but he spent
the night well and today was greatly
improved.
bill from George T. Hare for
$500 for an alleged injury to his IL
year-old son when a rock fell on his
foot at Eleventh and Morris streets,
for which Hare claims the city was
responsible, was referred to the city
commissioner of finance and the city
attorney at a meeting of the city COM
mission today.
Bids are to be received by the city
November % for the printing of 500
copies of the revised city ordinances.
OF these $50 are to be of paper bind
ing and fifty in law buckram. There
bined building, plumbing and electrical
inspection ordinances, and the same
number of the city health ordinance.
A white man and a colored man
each claiming to be j. H. Harris sue
ceeded in having checks caShed to the
amount of SO, representing that they
bore the signature of James A. Prin-
gle, contractor. One was cashed at a
racket store at 61S Kansas avenue,
and the other at the Paxton store.
They were signed with a lead pencil
and were clumsy limitations of Prin-
giles signature.
One hundred and fifty people at
tended the opening meeting of the
Swedish Evangelical Mission ministers
at the Swedish Bethel church last
night. 1t is the twenty-fifth annual
session of the mission. The Rev. A.
Grandin of Randolph, president of the
ministerial dSSOCldllOI, SaNS the ~ III
cipal address of the evening. Morn
ing and afternoon sessions were held
today and there will be a meeting this
evening at the church.
The 'tskinning" of w. G.. Tandy, city
commissioner of streets, which was
the announced intention of several
good roads enthusiasts failed to ma
terialize. The "skinning'' was to have
taken place at a meeting of the city
commission today, but the delegation
failed to appear. where is the dele
cation which was coming over to
skin Tandy?" inquired Mayor House,
just before the meeting adjourned. No
one was able to answer.
When a vote was being taken today
at meeting of the city commission
on the passage of an ordinance max
ing the license for solicitors for pic
ture enlarging concerns SIS per day, /
Mayor House said he desired to ex-
plain his vote. 1.-The newspapers have