The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-05-03


Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon lectured at
the Methodist church in Lawrence last
night
The Saturday Night club banquet at
the Throop hotel will begin at $3.50 to-
night.
The collision at the fair grounds
this evening will be held promptly at
o'clock as advertised.
Life Oak Grove No. Is Woodmen Cir
Gle will give a free pie social tomorrow
evening at Lincoln Post hall.
The Gamma Sigma society of Wash
burn gave its annual reception and
banquet at Steinberg's last evening.
Richard L. Thomas. candidate for
clerk of the district court, left yester-
day for Wales, accompanied by his
mother.
The ..Kensingtons'' seem to have
broken loose again as the announcement
is made that one is in progress this af-
ternoon.
The intercollegiate oratoricaI con-
test takes place at the Auditorium
Friday evening. Eleven states will
have representatives.
A general invitation IS extended to all
interested in theosophy to meet at the
home of Mrs. E. B. Greene. 1921 Mon
roe street, Friday evening, May a.
A number of Topeka people are
planning to go to Wichita Sunday on
the ROCK Island excursion TO attend
the White Sox-Wichita ball game.
The ice companies have announced
that there will be no advance on their
produce this season which is taken to
mean that there will be no reduction.
The Parker pike at the corner of
Third and Jackson streets, has become
one of the popular resorts for the young
ening.
There is one thing which may be said
for the convention which met in To-
peka yesterday. It did not deal in sur
prises and everything passed off as
planned.
The man who originated the 'Katt-
zenjammer Castle" which is in opera
ton on the Parker pike, has probably
provoked more laughs than any other
living man.
of Washburn's football squad for a
number of years and a graduate of
the college in 1902, was in the city
yesterday from Wellington.
The annual banquet of the Saturday
Night club, which is one of the events
of the year for those who are permit
ted to participate, will be held at the
Throop hotel this evening.
This evening at seven o'clock the two
engines which have been purchased for
the purpose will be wrecked at the fair
| grounds by a collision while moving at
the rate Of twenty miles an hour.
Early vegetables have become a bur
den on the market, and the prices asked
are proportionately low. Radishes com
mand but cent a bunch while lettuce
and onions may be purchased almost as
cheap
The first installment of the big hard
1 shell black bugs which do not seem to
pay any attention to where they are
! flying, have arrived in Topeka and
started on their oath provoking tour of
the summer.
1t is estimated that the railroads gave
away more than 100 900 miles Of free
transportation to members Of the dele
] cations from Kearney, Hamilton and
F'inney counties and their friends, but
may be they didn't.
It is estimated that al least five
| thousand out Of town people took ad-
vantage of the liberality of the rail-
roads and attended the Republican
convention which was held in Topeka
yesterday.
The Cooleycrows left for Hutchinson
last night where they viii play ball
with the local team this afternoon as a
warming up game for the opening of
the season with the Wichita team the
/ day following
notwithstanding the fact that the
force at the Cremerie restaurant was
/ more than doubled the rush and jam
at the noon hour yesterday was some
~
He fed nearly 1000 people at noon-
An Eagle baseball league has beer
formed consisting of the clubs from the
various Eagle lodges in the eastern Sec
/ ton Of the state. The first game in
| which the local team will participate
will be neld at the Athletic Park next
Sunday and will be with the Kansas
City team.
Word has been received from NJ J.
Drury, division master mechanic sta
toned at Winslow, Ariz-- stating thai
i his son, c.. J. Drury, who Is well known
In Topeka, passed through the earth
quake experience at san Francisco
4 with no greater loss than that of per
sonaf property.
The senior class at Washburr
lplaced huge four-ton boulder on the
campus in front Of the library build
ing with the intention of cutting ths
class numerals on it. The lower
classmen got busy during the night