The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-01-07
BRIEF BITS OF CITY NEWS.
A Collection of Important Para.
graphs for Your Consideration.

County Treasurer Bowen has taken
in over $1,000 900 in taxes this week. The
receipts were Tuesday $S7, 900; Wednes-
day $4,000, Thursday $4,000, Friday
S2S, 900. BY IL o'clock this morning over
$4,000 had been paid.
The members of the First Grand IN
dependent Benevolent society, coIored,
will attend the funeral of Austin
Sharp at the G. NJ. E. church, Thir-
teenth and Van Buren,, Sunday.
The strip of unpaved section down
the length of Fourth street from Polk
street to Western avenue which the
Topeka Railway company refused to
pave at the time the pavement was put
down and the tracks torn up for a
change of line from Fourth to Third
streets will probably be paved this
spring. Councilman Rice of the Fourth
ward who proposed the parking and
curbing of this narrow strip states that
the residents of that section do not look
with favor upon the park idea and will
probably present a resolution to pave.
As it is now there is a strip of exposed
land about four feet wide running the
length of two blocks. The rain and
weathering action is working upon the
earth and at the same time affecting
the pavement to the detriment of the
latter.
The revival meetings at the taber-
nacle, corner Sixteenth and Clay, con-
Quoted by Evangelist Neale Onerman,
are growing in interest and the outlook
for a great meeting is very bright.
Tabernacle Is warm and cosy. There
will be services each evening next week
at 8 o'clock. Song service at $780,
On January IA County Treasurer
Bowen will turn over to Sheriff Lucas
warrants for the unpaid personal
hunt up delinquents and attach their
property for non-paynent If you
have not paid your personal property
tax and wish to avoid a visit from
Sheriff Lucas pay up.
If you want well screened coal at
bottom prices call on Butterfly at 421
East Gordon street. Independent
telephone 279, residence 1853.
Fl. B. Kelley has taken out a build
ing permit for the erection of a frame
barber shop at 1135 Kansas avenue.
The cost is $500. He also will erect a
barn costing 500 on the same lot.
A building permit has been issued
to Tim Long for the erection of a
$1,100 dwelling on lots 1895 Taylor
street.
The Commonwealth Hand laundry
will be open and ready for business
at their new location, sol Topeka ave-
nue., Monday morning, and having
more than three times the room they
had at the old location, will be in
better position to serve their patrons.
This laundry has made more rapid
progress in the short time it has been
in business in Topeka than any other
laundry ever started here, which is
due solely to the excellent work done
by them. In their new quarters. they
will be prepared to do family wash
ing, and lace curtain work, and like
their linen work this class will re-
ceive the same attention
Topeka post No. II, and Topeka
Relief corps No. "a, will hold their
annual memorial services for their
dead, at their new hall, 216 West Sixth
avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 2:3O,
to which the public generally is invf-
ted. During the year the post has lost
four members by death, viz: Thos. G.
Peirraie and Sam Hindman, while the
corps has been more fortunate and lost
only one member, Mrs. Steele. The
sermon will be preached by Rev. J.
H. Skinner of Euclid Avenue NJ. E.
church and division chaplain of the
Sons of Veterans of Kansas.
1t has grown to be a. habit with To-
peka women that when they telephone
their grocers their orders, they fnvari-
able end UP with land a sack of Per
lection -four"
Rev Ralph Ward will be the speak
er at the Y. M G. A. Sunday club, III
East Eighth avenue. tomorrow after
noon at o'clock. His subject will be
"A Man That Lacketh One Thing" A
special song service has been provided
Ell Dorado Republican: Rev. Canon
Burke. of the cathedral of Topeka, will
be here Sunday, jan s, to hold SER
vices in Trinity church.
A Topeka man who is a dyspeptic
says he has almost entirely cured him
self. and that he will, by using no 9TH
er -four in his home but Perfection
Mr.. Jacob Miller. 1404 western ave-
nue., has returned from the hospital
after sustaining an operation.
Greatly in Demand.
Nothing is more in demand than a med
icine which meets modern requirements (
for a blood and system cleanser, such as
DR.. Krngss New Life Pills. They are just
rrfla. -. need to cure stomach and liver |