The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01

is the record made by the Glee clubs
engagement here.
Work has commenced at Arkansas
City on improvements by the Santa
Fe. which will cost total of $4,000.
The new buildings include a store
house, which will cost $4,000, and a
plant and shops constructed especial
ly for the repairing of oil tank cars,
which will cost $4,000. The Santa
Fe is also building a new station at
CarrOlton, Mo.
During the last year patents for 10,-
| 600 acres of government land under
the jurisdiction of the Topeka federal
land office have been issued. There
were 22O applications for entries call
| ing for a total of $4,000 acres. These
! figures are contained in a report the
commissioner of the general land Of
flee, made to the local land office. In
| the Dodge City district patents were
| issued for a total of 41,00O acres.
! Charles A. Prosser, former secretary
| of the National Association for the
Promotion of Industrial Education,
will speak before the Rotary club at
! it's monday luncheon Wednesday
noon. Mr.. Prosser comes from Min
neapolis and at present is president of
| the William Hood Dunwoodie institute
of Minneapolis. He was instrumental
! in obtaining the enactment of the
| Smith-Hughes bill passed by congress.
Altho A. R. Young, city engineer,
! has rendered his resignation, to be-
come effective February /, it is not
probable that it will be accepted by
! Commissioner w. G.. Tandy. Tandy be-
| lieves Young can be induced to remain
on the job until April 1, when Tandy's
term of office will virtually expire and
| then all the work planned by Tandy
for his last term will expire. Tandy
| has announced that he will not be a
| candidate for reelection.
By a previous agreement with the
Southern Pacific, the Santa Fe has
surrendered the operation of a short
| line known as the Sunset railway
in California, between Bakersfield and
the West Side oil fields. The Santa
Fe has operated the road for the past
| five years. The road is owned Jointly
| by the Southern Pacific and the Santa
| Fee. The operation of the road will
be under the direction of San Joa-
quin division officials of the Southern
| Pacific
| The state 7. M. c. A. high school
secretary, Lawrence K. Hall, has been
appointed to the international staff of
| the association, and will be in charge
| of the work among the boys in the
rural fields and thru the county de-
partmentS, with headquarters in New
York City. Mr.. Hall left last night
! for New York City. Mrs. Hall and
! their two children will follow about
March 1. Their former home was at
1857 Mulvane. They have both been
| prominent in the work of the Lowman
Memorial church, and Mr.. Hall was
one of the leaders in the work of the
Kansas Older Boys conference.
! The Colorado Springs Chamber of
| Commerce will run a series of four
advertisements in the Saturday Even
ing Post during this and next month
advertising the merits of Colorado
! Springs as a winter resort. The sug-
| gestionS for all the series were made
| by G. e. Hathaway, now of Colorado
! Springs but for many years an en-
ploye in the advertising department of
I the State Journal. The series will be
a work of art, according to the Col
orado Springs Gazette. Hathaway's
original suggestions Were taken by an
artist and sketched into what is re-
ferred to by the Gazette as the APEX
| of advertising writing"
Methodists over the entire United
! States held special prayer services
Sunday, for the unification of the two
main branches of the orga nization, the
Methodist Episcopal church and the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
For several years measures LOOKING
| toward the rejoining of the two bodies
! nave been under way. The split in
| the Methodist church occurred in
1874 The services at the First Meth
odlst church at Topeka were in the ma
ture of a night-watch PRAYER meeting
Services were held continuously from
1880 o'clock in the evening until mid
night. Senator James A Troutman
spoke on The Year at Home and