The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-18
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Washburn and Colorado university
played at Boulder this afternoon
Judge Pollock is expected back from
Lafferty. O., about the middle Of next
week.
The Mutual Ice company win erect
a $4,000 barn at First and Quincy
streets.
Vernon J. Rose. chief of police of
/ Kansas City, called to see Governor
i Eoch yesterday.
The Washburn basketball game win
/ be played this year at the skating rink
! at SIG Jackson street.
A masquerade is being arranged for
Thanksgiving evening by the manage
/ ment of the skating rink.
| L. M. PenwelI has sold his newspaper
1.-The Sunfiower Undertaken" to 1.-THE
| Western Undertaken of Chicago.
There viii be a meeting Of the w. c.
T. y. at the First Methodist church
Monday afternoon at three o'clock
Clarence Keller, who was operated
upon at Christ hospital last Monday for
appendicitis is improving very rapidly
Work has commenced on the third
story of the Topeka Y. NJ G. a. build
| ing at the corner Of Ninth and Quincy
streets.
Morrow and O'Rourke, who former
/ ly owned the Hotel Throop, have pur-
chased the Hotel English at Indian
apolis.
! a woman VIII SPEAK aL Lu0 1OpShc@
| Birthday banquet given by the Com
mercial club on December 5. She has
not yet been selected.
The pipe line for natural gas has
reached Ninth street and Western ave
nue. and is plainly seen as the pipes
are on top of the ground.
Among other things that fell into.
the hands of the sheriff when the big
| pinch" came off at the Townsend joint
was box of beer pumps.
The State Journal will have wire
direct to the football field at Boulder
this afternoon and will bulletin the
tOuchdOwns as they are made.
County Clerk Newman has returned
from western Kansas where he has been
for several days inspecting his chances
of landing the place of state auditor.
The Washburn basket ball team
have made arrangements with the
| owners of the skating rink and Will
hold their games there this winter.
w. L. Dexter. for several years sec
| rotary of the State Temp Union,
will leave next week for Bingham,
Utah. where he will work as a mis-
/ siOnary.
| Harry. Johnson, of the Bell Telephone
/ company has received the necessary
patent papers from Washington on
| railroad block signal system which he
has invented.
Charles NJ. Sheldon, pastor of Cen
Sunday on account of sickness. His
pulpit will be filed by DR.. Lee. pastor
of the Seabrook Congregational
church.
This is one of the saddest days of the
season. There is no football game to
attend. Washburn has two teams in
the field today, but they are both play
ing out of town.
Joseph A. DeBoer, president of the
National Life Insurance company of
XTa-~V 7r,raf md fVxrfn
governor of that state, called to see
Governor HOch Friday. The governor
was not at home.
A night-shirt parade on Kansas ave
nue. is threatened by the Washburn
students for tonight in case the team
wins at Boulder this afternoon-there
isn't much danger.
A building permit was issued to the
Mutual Ice company yesterday and they
viii Immediately begin the erection of
a s., 900 barn on the corner of First
and Quincy streets.
Mr.. Charles E. Wardin is the latest
member to be admitted to the autOnsO-
bile aristOcracy of this city. The pur-
chase OF a Winton machine gave him
the desired admission.
Colonel Bill Fisher, politician, and
man of other attainments, came down
for a few hours yesterday, but return
ed home on an early train as there was
nothing doing in any of his lines
The beauty spot in Topeka is at
Tenth and Jackson streets where on
four corners are 26 telephone and cleo
trio light poles by actual count. Ihe
society for the prevention of putting up
| telephone poles should get active.
Sunday afternoon Governor Hoch
will address a big mass meeting at the
Methodist church in Lawrence, which
is held for the purpose of starting the
campaign for $4,000 to complete the
new Y. M G. A. building.
Grant Henderson, a man found in
sane in Phillips county, will be sent
| back to Iowa. The state board of con-
| troll has discovered he is not a resi-
dent of Kansas, and that Kansas is
not obliged to take care of him in
| its hospitals.
A. Demuth of the Cash Dry
1 Goods company, returned from st.
1 Louis yesterday, where he has been for
a week attending the sale of dry goods
arranged as a combination sale by the
wholesale merchants of that city.
| The entire fire department with the
/ exception of station No. 1 was called
out last night at $50 to put out a fire
/ on the top of a telephone pole in the
alley at the rear of the Mills dry goods
/ store. The department thought at first
that the fire was located in the dry
/ goods store.
W A. S. Bird and H. Ward Page have
formed a law partnership and will have
offices in the building at sol Kansas
avenue. The new firm should have all
| kinds of business, as one of them has
| the alphabet pretty securely attached
to his name and the other member of
the firm parts his name in the middle.
| Agents representing a Chicago por-
/ trait house are going the rounds
| through the residence section of the
city and fooling the customers on the
/ old game of a free picture and then
when the time for delivery comes try
| to force payment by asking an exorbit-
! ant amount for the frames and threat
! ening arrest and blackmail.
/ Col. Clarence F. Gooding Of the census
department at Washington who is gath
ering statistics from the Office of the
! city treasurer and city clerk compli-