The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-01-02
SNAP SHOTS


There will be one big round Of con-
ventiohs in Topeka this month.
The January meeting OF the board
OF education will be held Monday
night.
The gymnasium classes at the Gen.
trail 7. NJ. c. A. will resume work next
week.
The annual masquerade ball of the
w. o. w. will be held at Kirkpatrick
hall January %.
There were hundreds Of Topeka
people who were caught" Friday on
the 1915 telephone gag"
A meeting of the agricultural COM
mittee Of the Topeka Commercial club
will be held Monday noon.
Topeka Post No. II, G. A. r., will
mold Memorial services at the Lowman
Hill chapel Sunday at p. m.
Several OF the offices Of the state
mousse kept their forces busy half the
usual New Years holiday yesterday.
A new carpet has been purchased
Tor the office at the Commercial club.
me room has been redecorated also.
The Brotherhood Of the Central
Congregational church will meet at
the Commercial club quarters Tues
day noon.
The semiannual letting of contracts
for state charitable and penal institu-
lions will take place next week. Bids
were opened Thursday afternoon.
Considerable interest is being taken
In the vOlleyball team tournament that
Will be arranged for the winter term
OF work among the business men.
Skating on the Centralpark ponds will
be impossible in the event Of another
early freeze unless the ponds are flood
ed while the temperature is high enough
to permit.
The soccer football season is not
over by any means according to Tom
Powell. Powell expects to arrange for
a game with some Kansas City team
to be played in Topeka soon.
Services will be held Sunday at the
German Evangelical st. Paul's church.
Rev. G.. HI. Kruger, pastor of the
church, will deliver q sermon at the
evening service. !
DR.. Roy B. Guild will give an Illus
trated lecture on ConstantinOple at
the Central Congregational church
Sunday night. Doctor Guild spent a
city of Constantinoule. He attended
the Solamlik upon the invitation Of
the sultan. The slides were made
from photographs taken by him.
Mrs. Frances E. Beauchamp. presi-
dent of the w. C. T. o., of Lexington.
KY, will speak at the First Presbys,
terrain church Sunday morning on
O4AS
OF the strong speakers at the I. F. A.
convention which came to a close FRI
day night. DR.. 8. s. Estey will speak
Sunday night on Christ. the Central
Of Christianity
The members Of the Kansas Dog
Protective association are requested
to meet in the writing room of the
hotel, this city, on Monday
evening, January 4, 1915, to consider
decisive action upon the present dou-
BILE dog tax laws. All who oppose the
present law and desire it's amendment
or repeal, are invited to attend this
meeting. p. H. Coney is president .
The Kansas utilities commission Is
making a special study Of the proposed
Increase of freight rates in western
states affecting grain shipments. Rate
advances are to be taken up by the in
commerce commission this
year. orders for increases on LOO COM
nodities having been suspended until
March 81. The utilities commission
will probably make a special appropria-
ton for the representation Of the grain
interests of the state, which are not
now otherwise prepared with counsel,
to defend their cause before the inter-
state commission.