The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-12


And the day we wear a tag
There's Mothers Day, and Fathers Day,
And others by the peck.
But the day really celebrate
Is the day l get my cheek.
Social dance tonight at Moose hall,
Saunders Orchestra.-Adv.
Money to loan-repayable monthly.
Capital Building & Loan Assn.-Adv.
The city fire marshars office has
sued to George o. Golden a permit to
build a s2.s00 frame dwelling at AIS
Reno street.
| Work on the big storm sewer on
Brooks avenue is progressing rapidly
according to reports from the city en-
gineer's office Two hundred feet of
the big six foot sewer is now com
plete.
Three concrete gangs in Commits
| sioner Tandy's department are at work
/ fixing up the curbs and alleys. One
! gang is at work laying a concrete base
| in the alley between Polk and Taylor
on Third and Fourth streets. A curb
gang is on Fifth street between Lin
coin and Lane. Work on Eleventh
street also is being pushed.
Harry Endlich, manager of the Out
/ look. denied today that negotiations
for the sub-leasing of the building &C
cupied by the Outlook at 733 Kansas
avenue to the United Cigars Stores
company had ever been attempted
We have a long time lease on this
| building and will remain there, doing
! business in the same way" he said
A marked Improvement in the con-
| dition of Miss Anna Purcell of 507
Monroe street, who has been i'll dur
| ing the last few days, was reported
this morning Her condition now Is
| not believed to be serious. She is a
sister of John Purcell, assistant to
Vice President Storey of the Atchison,
| Topeka and Santa Fe railway. Mr..
Purcell is in the city.
Commissioner Tandy has received
the new one-half ton truck that was
ordered purchased for the engineering
! department not long ago The new
truck is today in the hands OF the
painters who are lettering the side and
will be pressed into service within a
day or two The new truck can han
| die two gangs in place of one and will
be used to transport the gangs rapidly.
| No change was reported this morn
| ing in the condition of Mrs Mary
Lakin-the first white child born in
| what is now Shawnee county-and
| who is seriously i'll at her home. First
! and Western avenue Mrs Lakin be-
came sick last month while visiting
her daughter, Mrs. ]. S. Pullman. in
Boston She was brought to Topeka
| March II. by Mrs Pullman and an
other daughter. Mrs. W. j. Curtis OF
Topeka.
Paving contractors from Leaven-
worth are in the city today getting
pointers from the city engineering d.
partment as to costs and methods en-
ployed by Topeka in their paving cam
paign. That Topeka is being taken as
a. model for other cities is evident
from the fact that within the pas
4 week several contractors and city of
4 ficials of various cities have paid {
visit to Topeka to make investigation.
and observe various methods employed
here
To accommodate followers of tn,
Rev. Billy Sunday, who will conduct {
religious revival in Kansas City il
May, a special train will be run by tn,
Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe rail
way between Emporia and Kansas
City May Z. The train will leave EN-
poria at O'Clock in the morning anc
will arrive in Kansas City shortly be
fore noon Returning, it will leav,
Kansas City about 1890 p. m Tit
special train will be run in addition
to the regular trains operating be
tween Kansas City and Emporia.
"A larger average of recruiting al
through the west" was the report o
Lieutenant S. B. Cole of Kansas City
who was in Topeka on official business
Tuesday. He gave orders for the for
warding of the two latest recruits a
the Topeka station to jefferson Bar
racks for preliminary training TIL
men will be sent into the Mexican ser
vice within a few weeks. Paul Nc
Allister of Horton and Lester Rich
ardson of Holton are the two latest Il
sign enlistment papers They max
| eleven enIistments during the las
! twenty-five days. the time that tn
Topeka station has been open.