The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-01-20
George NJ. Noble was in Kansas


The Y. NJ. C. a basket ball team
win play the K. U. team in Topeka Fri
da~.
Mrs. H. E. Gooden, who has been Sc
riously sick for seven weeks. is i'm
proving.
John Sargent is one of the contract
ors for the new Lawrence court house
building.
Glass day exercises for the senior
class of the Topeka high school will be
held Friday.
The total number of people registered
at the election commissioners Office is
a little less than 900.
A pair of long-eared mules of the
regulation army style now pull the in
sane asylum wagon
Prof. George B. Penny has asked for
| the use of the Auditorium February %
for the Maulek concert.
East Eighth avenue people are talk
ing of a pavement from the Shunga-
nunga to the city limits.
The street force is excavating the dry
mud from the West Tenth avenue and
Huntoon street pavements.
The ceiling of the marshals office in
the federal building, which collapsed
some time ago, is being repaired.
"Cider" Smith said something would
happen between the 10Th and 22nd.
One happening was last nights rain.
Roller skating is being revived by
old roller skates in the garnet at home.
An Independent toll line, which will
extend from Topeka to Kansas City,
has been completed between the latter
place and Lawrence.
| A cottage prayer meeting will be held
at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. o. Bad
ders by the members of the West
minister Presbyterian church.
The booth space offered by the Kan
sas Midwinter exposition has been sold
out. The exhibitors are now getting
their displays into the building.
Mrs. Norman PIass will entertain the
Ladies' Aid society of the Central Con-
gregational church at her home at
Washburh college on January 27.
Harry Howe. formerly of Topeka
and now employed in the treasury de-
partment at Washington, has received
an increase in pay from $1,000 to 81, 200
a wear.
Wesley Stouffer, who has been stem
ographer for the city council, has gone
to st. Louis where he will be in the
employ of the Laclede Gas Light COM
pany.
Miss Minnie Rener, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Rener. and James P.
Dyer, were married in Kansas City to-
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Dyer will live in
Kansas City.
In a few weeks the baseball fever will
set in. 1t will be manifest first among
the small boys; then it will break out
at Washburn, and finally it will take
hold of the league players. ~
This is vacation time for the mem
bers of the graduating class at the
high school. The seniors are always
extended privileges during the two
weeks prior to commencement day.
The jury in the district court has had
little to do this week. The case set for
Monday was the trial of Blanche Boies.
The trial lasted Is minutes. Two cases
were set for Tuesday, and in each case
the defendants plead guilty.
The candidates whose names will be
on the Republican ticket before the
primaries of February q will meet
county commissioners room at the court
house and draw lots for positions on the
| ticket.
Prof. C. P. Grimsley, who is in charge
of the mineral exhibit at the Worlds
Fair says that the floor space allotted
to that department has been limited
to 1, 800 feet and has not been definitely
located yet.
The meeting of the Topeka baseball
people who are behind the new league
| mercial club rooms Thursday night for
the completion of their organization.
A stock company is to be formed.
William Harklerodes of 1888 Quincy
street is 90 years old, and states that he
has recently received his second sight
He has been obliged to use glasses for q
great many years, but within the past
few months he has found them un-
necessary.
The test of the revolving nozzle which
! it was proposed to use above the stage
of the Crawford. was not very success
: full. In spite of the fact that the fire
| department put on fire pressure for the
test the nozzle refused to revolve. L
threw the water out in every direction
: however.
Tho AtcbiSon Globe saws. The Cravv.
; ford theater, Topeka, which was CLOSED
; last week, is to reopen Friday. The
proprietors claim that they have made
it fire proof. Since the Iroquois tragedy
we believe that a theater which is de-
clared fire proof would be the mos
dangerous kind.
L. L. Bettys, the head of the Bettys
Investment company, which maintains
7 a branch office in Topeka and handles
/ investments in oil properties in Kan
t sas Wyoming and California, was mar
i, ried Tuesday in Kansas City to Mrs
Jennie V. Rawson. They will live OF
Troost avenue.
E Lineman Anderson of the fire depart
ment inspected the line to the water
7 works plant Tuesday afternoon, to fine
| out why the electric connections be
tween the fire department headquarter
I and the pumping station do not worl
E better He found the trouble to be il
the electrical mechanism at the pump
: ing station, which had become dirty.
Notice signed by superintendent Johl
Purcell has been posted in the Santa F
shops stating that working hours vii
close at $50 in the afternoon instead o
6 O'Clock. The reason for the reduction
in hours is shortage in work, though i
: is customary in the winter to close
little earlier than in summer. Up t
: this time, however, the work has bee
so heavy that the men were obliged t
d work by electric light.