The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-27
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Sedalia plays the Saints tomorrow.
Game starts at o'clock
The state house has received its sum-
mer quietus. Few state officers are
there
E. w. Hoch will speak at the Butch
ers' and Grocers' picnic in Topeka next
Wednesday.
Gentry Brothers show will be in To-
peka Monday, September II. Advertis-
ing car No. 1 arrived today.
George Lugton, the veteran elevator
conductor at the federal building, cele-
brated his seventy-third birthday on
/ Friday.
The Barnum-Bailey shows are trying
to break the circus parade custom. In
only a few cities have they given pa
rades on their tour.
H M. Baum, arrested several weeks
ago for inpersonating a federal officer
in Rice county. Kan, was brought to
Topeka from Salt Lake on Friday.
Sanitary Sergeant Pay was on Friday
presented with a fine rocking chair by
the force in his department. The oc-
casion was his sixty-ninth birthday.
Some of the councilmen are starting
an agitation for the revision of the city
ordinances, and the provision of some
method to keep them in disable shape.
There viii be mass meeting for
those opposed to the Second ward sewer
at the home Of H. D. McNeely, 4o5 East
Locust street, Monday evening at 8
o'clock.
Mr.. j. E. Manley. delegate to the
Lake Geneva conference. will make his
tan Association, III East Eighth street.
Sunday afternoon at o'clock.
A. o. U. w. lodge No. II, organized
new team last night at the lodge
rooms at Sixth and Jackson streets.
Rev. Mr.. Martin, the grand lodge depu-
ty, had charge of the installation.
A building permit was. issued in the
fire marshals Office Friday afternoon
for a new store building at S13-S15-s17
Kansas avenue. The owner is given as
Roderick Slower OF Albuquerque, N. NJ,
The cost will be in the neighborhood
of $4,000.
Charles Samson. who won fourth and
sixth prizes at the st. Louis exposition
with his two standard bred trotters,
Wilkesbar and The Pope, against 126
competitors from Maine to California,
viii exhibit the two horses at the To-
peka state fair.
Sam Hicks. who lives at s27 Cherry
street, in Nashville, Tenn. has written
to Postmaster Guthrie asking if Joe
Hicks or any of the Hicks family live
in Topeka. If he can find the right
Hicks, the latter will get bunch of
money, although the amount is not
given
On September the wide tire ordin-
ance viii go into force. When Judge
Hazen declared the ordinance valid, an
extension of time was granted on it's
teamsters who felt that they should
have time to supply themselves with
the tires. That was in March. The city
council gave the teamsters until Sep
TENDER 1.
J. S. Dem. United States district at
torney, thinks that the attorney gen.
eral will issue instructions shortly, with
reference to preventing the obstruction
of the Kaw river channel. Injunction
suits are likely to be instituted in the
local federal court. The Wyand9tte
county people living at Kansas Eity,
Kan, want the river kept clear so that
foundations do not follow every heavy
rain.
From the lola. Register Lieutenant
Colonel Frank L. Travis, aide-de-oamp
to W. j.. Bailey. commander-in-chiefo of
the Kansas National Guard, returned
last evening from Topeka after his
strenuous pink tea campaign of eleven
days at Vinewood Park where the guard
was in encampment- Meeting friends
meet the enemy. There were from tKlir-
each meal except breakfast. Each
evening there was a social function of
some sort. 1t was at these affairs that
Colonel Travis established his reputa-
ton as a pink tea favorite as per the
reading notices in the State Journal.
After the Journals society editor
Travis praises in this direction
and advertised him as an eligible
bachelor life was one grand sweet song
with him.