The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-11-15
Lawrence this

avenue, returned to Lawrence this
/ morning.
Since the gas company has removed
/ the odOr from its gas an epidemic of
colds prevails. There must have been
something in the claim of the gas COM
pany that the OdOr in the gas sis good
for what ails you"
A week from today the trial of Cal
/ Heck viii commence in the district
court Heck is one of the two men
who so brutally assaulted Druggist
Kuntz last winter and crushed his
skull in a half dozen places.
Mrs. D. L. Carson. who has been
4 seriously i'll at her home, 207 Quincy
street, for the past five weeks, suffered
a relapse yesterday, and her condition
/ is considereds very critical by her
physician and friends.
Councilman Vim. Green wants the
city to do the sprinkling of the bust
/ ness streets and tax the cost up against
/ the property. At present the mer-
/ chants pay a stated monthly sum to a.
I private firm which does the work.
The first consignment of new
J tangled break fast foods has reached
/ this city. The town is being sampled
/ by the different companies and a
thrifty housewife should be able to
supply the table from the samples left
on the front porch.
( It is probable that within a few
/ days the sale Of the First National
1 bank and National hotel building will
! be completed to the Knights and
Ladies OF Security. This lodge has
$4,000 in the First National bank.
I The building is valued at $4,000
Miss Gertrude Boughton has been
chosen as an assistant instructor of
Latin and geometry in Washburn
academy. Miss Boughton is a grad
uate from Washburn of the class of
I 30 and later took a post graduate
/ course. She has been an instructor for
/ the past several years in the Iowa
| state asylum for the blind
The Chesterfield hotel was sold yes
/ terday by William Sells to Fred Ross
and Wood Fowler, the consideration
] being S16,500. Fowler announces that
| he will assume active control of the
/ property and that it viii be run as a
] hotel. Fowler was one of the big
! Four" and spent a term in the county
/ jail for running a gambling house.
The tract of land between Tenth
; avenues and Eighth and Lincoln and
/ West streets is being graded and laid
i out into lots by 6. A. Lyle, the owner.
i A large gang of laborers, teamsters
and graders with wheelers and
| scrapers are grading streets in the
tract and fixing up the property gen
/ orally.
| A young Topeka girl who is holding
down a rather lucrative position re-
ceived a substantial increase in her
! salary last week and has made the
/ semi-pubic announcement that she
! WISHES TO SET up housekeeping. eoflS
/ evidently feels that the increase in her
salary viii enable her to support a
/ husband.
! At the First Christian church on
/ Tuesday night the Ladies' Aid society
/ held an experience meeting to tell how
/ each one made the dollar which she
! contributed to the fund which is be
/ ing raised for the church. One Wo-
man said she pitched a ton of hay,
/ another said she shaved her hus-
/ bands neck, another made apple
! butter, another raked leaves. The
/ jobs were of all assortments and
/ kinds.
| From the BellevilIe Freeman. One
/ Of the recent copies Of the Topeka
! State Journal says that recently Ed
/ Heck. the catcher who developed
/ Dummy" Taylor, was talking with
/ the manager of the Topeka baseball
/ team and told him that he knew a
man who had been pitching some dur
/ ing the past year wh0 was certainly
a conner He stood over six feet tall
/ q total abstai Ter, a ball player ana a
/ thrower with a fee speed ball and a
/ quick curve And on tTeck's recon-
/ mendation the young fellow was inn
mediately sign IA. The sports IF Belle-
vile of course are inclined to believe
/ that this fellow is Zig" Owens for he
/ meets all the description and played
/ over this part of the state all last fail
with Mr.. Heck. Keep your eye on
/ Jig" Owens