The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-03

peka Tuesday. He had a talk with
Governor Hoch.
George sharitt returned on Monday
from Fort Scott where the United
States court is in session.
The town is improving rapidly.
James Chapelle has put new barber
pole on the COPELAND hotel.
The Black Diamond chimney sweep
has contracted to paint the large stack
at the Continental creamery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant S. Roach of 1108
Garfield avenue are the parents of a
daughter, born Monday morning.
Mr. and Mrs z. H. Barry of 1908
West Eighth street are the parents of
a baby girl, born Monday evening
The hose wagon from No. station
was in the repair shop yesterday I'M
dergofng some repair work upon the
wheels
Nit White will again challenge the
Topeka Elks to a ball game to be play
ed in Emporia. Each lodge has one
game to its credit
The supreme court is now engaged
in hearing oral arguments on cases on
the docket. A grist of opinions is due
for this week.
Marshal's band will appear in con
cert tomorrow evening at the Auditor
ium. The new Instruments will be
used for the first time.
Topeka people who love art will have
an opportunity to see the best work of
modern artists after May Is at the man
ual training high school.
Roy Crawford win leave for EI Paso
in few days to manage a theater
there. He will stay six months and
then be relieved by A S. Kane.
There viii be a gospel service at
Quinton Heights school house Sunday
evening led by A. G. Pearson, assist
ant secretary of the Y. M. C. A.
State Free Employment Agent T. B.
fese-t-
mates on the number of harvest hands
which the state will need this season.
It is fortunate for some newspapers
that the State Journal baseball bulle-
tins are not copyright ed-otherwise they
might have to get the news from some
other source.
Steve Cave was in Topeka Tuesday.
He says that crops in his county look
better than ever before. They have
had more rain out there than there
has been here.
H E. Gaines has been awarded the
contract by the board of county com
missioners of building the foundation
for a bridge in Mission township at
81 per cubic yard.
The Topeka street railway company
has a gang of men at work fixing up
Vinewood park preparatory for the
formal opening of the season which
occurs on next Sunday.
J. A. Augustus, formerly physical
director at the z. n. G. A, left yes
terday for Oakland, Cal, where he has
accepted a position as physical di-
rector at the 7. M. c. A.
NJ. E. Sebree, division superintendent
of the FL Paso division of the Rock Is
land who has been in Topeka. the past
/ few days attending a time card meet
/ ing, was in Kansas City last evening
The county commissioners were busy
/ yesterday afternoon placing their o.
/ ks on county warrants. The county
] clerk and the county treasurer will be
/ busy paying them during the next
week.
! Walter Payne of Douglas, the bond
clerk in the state treasurer's office,
will be promoted to the position of
Especial assistant state treasurer on
July I. This is a new job created by
/ the legislature.
The Fort Scott Republican says: c.
B. Ramsey. who has been rusticating
at his home in Topeka and playing with
/ his son and heir, has returned to Fort
/ Scott to get ready to bid on some more
I paving contracts.
Attorney General Coleman has given
it as his opinion that a county superin-
/ tendent, under an old law. has the
fright to change the boundaries of
sch DOL districts, in spite of the fact that
/ the legislature itself has fixed the
/ boundaries of the district.
Captain John Seaton, who together
/ with Bale Waggener and Ed Howe,
/ own the whole of Atchison in a, close
| corporation. was in town yesterday.
Seaton was here looking after some of
his contracts with the Santa Fe rail-
broad. Seaton owns large foundries in
Atchison and does considerable foun-
dry work for the railroads
The great Casear'' and company pre-
Esenting the wonderful Hindoo Trunk
mystery is at the Star vaudeville the
alter this week. Nellie Everette, the
coon shouter from Tony Pastors New
York theater, is also on this weeks bill.
| Several other good acts are also given.
Amateurs contest on Friday night.
If the baseball writer on the morn
ing paper will devote a part of the
/ time he consumes in swapping and
snarling at ina ginary inaccuracies in
the State Journal baseball news to his
| own paper he may get the standing
of the Western association teams cor
rect There were only four mistakes
in the figures this morning.
The Leavenworth Times. telling of the
Sells & Downs performance Monday
/ said: Sells & Downs are after the
| money. They carry, or at least there
goes with them nice complement of
the gentry who have ways of getting
| the unsuspecting circus goers' money
| that are even less genteel than stealing
it. It is inferred that the show com
| pany endorses all this from the fact
that within the entrance tent bunco
game is operated before all those who
vas.
Neglected colds make fat graveyards.