The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-02

M. A. Low returned from Washington
Tuesday.
The Republican city primaries are
just two weeks off.
Fred WeIlhouse, the apple king. says
that this will be a record breaking year
for apples.
The Topeka Baseball association will
meet at the Commercial club rooms
Monday evening at O'Clock.
The Topeka Choral society, assisted
by the Symphony orchestra, will give
concert at the Auditorium March 8.
The price paid by J. W. Gleed for the
Bennett flats on West Twelfth street.
which he will remodel throughout, was
$12, 600.
There will be a meeting Of the To-
peka Pipe Organ association at the
Commercial club rooms at $3.50 p. m.
Thursday.
The state oratorical contest at which
of Kansas will compete, will be held in
the Auditorium on March II.
There will be a meeting of the execu-
tive committee of the Republican city
central committee at the city building
at 1870 o'clock this afternoon.
Manager Alberts of the Topeka
League baseball team has signed con-
tracts with Jim Kellar, inf1elder, and
Clyde La France, catcher, for the COM
ing season.
Harold N. Keifer. of Topeka, has
been granted a patent on new kind of
the local telephone office and is a
young man of great promise.
Miss Nina Kinsey, daughter of c. R.
Kinsey, division storekeeper for the
Santa Fe at Enporia, has come to To-
peka to accept a position in the milli-
merry department at Crosby's.
The report issued by DR. F. H. Snow
of the State university at Lawrence to
summarize the weather for February
shows that Lawrence and Topeka
shared about alike as to weather.
Dodge City had a range of tempera-
ture that ought to suit the most faStidf-
Gus. According to the report of OBJ
server Enigh the minimum during Feb
ruary was and the maximum 83.
| Washburn won the football cham
pionship of the state last fall the girls
basketball championship this winter,
and has a good chance to scoop up the
baseball horors this spring.
People living near Soldier creek on
| Central avenue claim that the banks
of the creek will have to be raised by
the city to prevent overflows this
spring. The city council will consider
the matter.
Miss Grace Bishop of Lawrence and
Ralph Judkins of Topeka were married
| Monday night at the home of the bride
near Lawrence. Kas. They have re-
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home here.
The candidates for nomination before
the Republican city primaries win meet
at the office of Election Commissioner
r. S. Williams at the city building
Thursday at noon to draw for positions
on the ticket
According to the Manhattan Nation
alist, Rev. ]. K. Miller will complete
his work there March IS. The rest OF
the family will move to Topeka next
week and get settled in their new home
in Potwin.
The Chanute Sun says: c. F. Kim
ball, organizer of the Missouri & Kan
sas Oil company, leaves for New York
tonight. Mr.. Kimball resides at Topeka
when at home, but expects to become q
Chanuteite in the near future.
The business of the United States dis
trict and circuit courts, which are sit
ting at Kansas City, Kan, will proba-
bly, not be finished before the end OF
the present week. The Wichita term
of court will open on March IA.
The st. Marys Eagle says: Frank
Leach was up from Topeka and spent
Monday with his parents and other
friends. Frank will manage the foot
ball team at Washburn again this year
but says that hereafter he will cut cut