The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-02-23

not start for home until after mid
night. Street cars and jitneys had
stopped running and as a result many
people wendell their way homeward
in the snowy night.
The office of w. L. Porter. city
buildings was flooded today by water
leaking through the roof Of the city
hall. The roof has been patched near
ly as often as there has been snow
this winter. A new roof is needed.
THAT must be quite a fashionable
party across the street." commented q
stranger in the city to her host while
ternoon. "Oh. no-not necessarily in
Topeka" replied the woman. You
see all those machines driving up to
the house are jitneys.'
Parents who permit their minor
children to carry firearms are vfolat-
penalty attached. There is also a city
ordinance on the subject. r. L. Cof-
ran. mayor, says parents as well as
children in Topeka need some educat-
ing concerning the use of firearms.
Police officers are breathing slight
ly easier today. The tearing down of
the two partitions in the main lobby
at the city prison has been completed
and the work of plastering has begun.
When completed, about ten days from
now. the interior decorations Of the
local jug" will be greatly improved
over the former appearance Of the
place.
Representative Brewer who has
complained of the wine dinners in To-
peka. given by the ''soulless corpora
tions" for the legislators, surely must
nave mistaken a Saturday evening
train crowd to Kansas City for To-
peka entertainment. Kansas City en-
rpH he
islature Saturday highland Sunday
morning.
The Topeka Rotary club will meet
Wednesday noon at the U. c. T. quar-
ters. Willis Gleed will speak on
"Washburn College" DR.. Roy B.
Guild will preside. Ray N. Lattner.
manager of the New England build
ing. will give business talk. II. D.
Driscoll. commissioner for the Topeka
Traffic association, will give q sketch
OF the life of Lattner. George Hart
will look after the dinner arrange
! ments.
An hour of standing in the snow
watching one of the electric wire poles
of the Edison company became tire.
| some to the wiremen of the College
Hill fire station. After extinguishina
a dozen blozes on the pole all within
an hour at Thirteenth and Lincoln
streets. the firemen gave up the .jot
as useless. The blazeS were due tS
wires which had short circuits on &C.
count Of STOW. After midnight a crew
from the Edison company arrived and
made things right.
j. b. Billiard. a member of the Com
mercial club and former mayor Of
Topeka. suggests that a committee OF
) unemployed be added to the presen
list of committees. Favorable actor
undoubtedly will be taken and a com
mittee named. While the labor situa
ton Is being relieved as spring an
, proaches 1t is likely that every seasor
. there Will be many persons out O
. employment. A committee of thi
character could do valuable service II
finding the right kind of employment
! Commercial Club Bulletin.
Negotiations are being made for ,
site Tor new creamery in Topeka
The plan is to establish a branch o
an Omaha creamery at Topeka Rep
resentatfves have been here to lool
over the ground and the chances ar,
good that the new industrial plant will
be established. This will give Topek,
three big creameries and severa
smaller institutions that handle milk
1t will establish Topeka as the great
est creamery center OF the world. Tn
Beatrice Creamery company (Conti
mentally including the process butter
has the largest output of any simila
, institution in the world. The Com
merciAl club il interested in the Drop
osition.