The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-09-12

News item: - Z. Timon, liquor deal
er, has purchased a new $27o cash regis
ter"
II you did not vote at the election
last spring it will be necessary to
register again If you expect to cast a
ballot this fall.
Chauncey Brown who has been serious
" III at the home of his parents, 6S5
Taylor street with typhoid fever for
some time is Improving slowly
1.-The Zolas' are the favorites on the
bill at the Novelty theater this week
and continue to get most generous APP
plause from, the audiences for their clev-
I er and novel acts
There were about three women to ev-
cry man in the rgrandstand at the races
! Yesterday. This sort Of knocks in the
! head the theory that everybody WORKS
/ but father"
The State oJurnal has made arrange
Inents for the results OF ball games
announced from the judges stand at
the races each afternoon.
Councilman Hughes. who suffers
I somewhat from insomnia, has partial
/ " cured it by sleeping out of doors all
/ the summer and intends to keep Il up
during the winter months
The Red Cross society of Kansas will
met in the G. a. R rooms at the state
house Thursday afternoon at O'CLOCK
All ministers of the city are particular
/ " invited to be present at the meeting.
Small children still run automobiles
about on the streets of Topeka though
there is an ordinance prohibiting any
one of &c years of age or younger
from running an automobile IN the
city.
From the races decided at the fair
grounds yesterday it is evident that the
/ most sensational racing ever seen IN TINS
/ section Of the country VIII be the oFueI
49,. s77 inc Ene
Five thousand eight hundred and
| eiehtv-nine pupils were enrolled in the
city schols yesterday and that despite
| the fact that horse racing Of the most
approved kind is in progress at the falr
| grounds
Evangelist John A. Bright Is con-
Quoting evangalistic work in Prince
ton. IA, under the auspices OF the
churches of that city and word re-
ceived indicates that he is meeting
with fine success.
The fact that the school attendance
4 has increased this year 442 over last
wear Droves that there is no longer
anv hope for the small boy to escape
the grasp of the all reaching arm OF
the school marin.
The cold wave which was predicted by
the weather bureau, arrived as per
schedule and was about the most wei
with it as it did a shower which 1resh-
ems the air and lays the dust
There was a district between Kansas
avenue and Jefferson street on Eighth
avenue that was dry as 1t was possible
to make it this morning. The water
works company was connecting the JET
ferson and Eighth street mains
In apologizing to the crowd for the
fnadaa11acy of the numbers for the dr1Y-
ers' arms at the races at the ian
grounds yesterday afternoon, Staftel
Kennedy get his tongue twisted py say
ing that the regular numbers Tor ths
horses arms had not arrived
Charlie Samson may know something
about horses but he is mighty poor a
picking winners He conhded 10 M
friends sure things in each OF the 1oui
/ races yesterday and the best any q
! them could do was to win third money
in one event. The rest are going yet
.I wonder why they don't have tbs
Darby2 When are they going to have
the Darby ?" said one young laoy
the races yesterday afternoon, to show
how interested she was in the event O.
the dav. But she proved to be *
pifxsr'' for she left before the Derb.
was run on the excuse that she had Il
press a dress.
The trouble starts today between Jop'
In and the White Sox, the rivals IN th4
race for the pennant in the western as
ISOLATION. Though the Joplin bunch nas
not inspired as much fear as to the re
suit of the series with them as have a
/ least two other teams in the association
who have been defeated good and HARD
on the present trip
Frank Baker OF the Benedict Rea
Estate company was overcome viii
hest yesterday while standing At tn
4 foot Of the stairs leading to MS oflice