The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-07

Star=Burlesque.
Crawford-Duke of Duluth.
Mrs. scherubers male quartette at
Washburn presented her with a statue
Of Bach.
h Bank of Topeka recently pur-
chased $4,000 worth of japanese
bonds for a Topeka investor.
There will be a ball game at Athletic
park Sunday the Cooley
Crows and the Kansas City Blues.
The arrival of a son is announced by
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank B. Croker, VINO
live on Kansas avenue, south OF the
city.
The biggest dramatic event Topeka
has ever had will take place at the
Auditorium tonight when Sarah
Bernhardt appears.
The hammock season has opened ana
a number of them were to be observed
on the front porches last night and all
Of them seemed to be occupied
The white c~arnation for which so
many searched at the ring last Wednes-
day evening appeared last night two
days late, but it was worn by the man
agef.
Hugh Cameron attired in his well
known style was in Topeka this morn
ing and that he is
to make a lively campaign for the e
islature.
Jacob Mueller of 14O4 Western ave-
nue.. an employee of the Santa Fe cabi-
net shops, has been taken to the n
Fe hospital suffering from an IN
jured foot.
Mr.. Dana Smith, a January graduate
of the Topeka hig school, leaves to-
morrow for Chicago to accept a posi-
ton on the Chicago. Milwaukee & st.
Paul railway
There is not the slightest reason for
the fact; as the sun shines me tem-
perature is high and the hens are busy
singing their lays but their product
continues to soar.
The contract for the wiring of the
new court house which is nearly COM
pleted at Newton Will probably be
awarded to E. p. Jordan of Topeka as
his bid was the lowest n made.
]. c. Webster, who for the past two
years has been day clerk at the Ma
tional hotel, has accepted a temporary
position at the Copeland hotel and will
not travel as has been announced.
A practical demonstration of the
working of the King split log road
drag viii be given on the unpaved
streets in North Topeka this afternoon
by Mr.. King, the inventor of the drag.
There was considerable promiscuous
shooting on Topeka avenue last night
near Sixth. The cause remains a Sc
cret and no one seems to know any
thing about it more than the fact that
the shooting occurred
A motor tricycle. or something of that
kin has made its appearance on the
streets and attracts almost as much at
tentiOn as a flying 1t is blue
in color and one small wheel appeared
to be pushing two large ones in front
of it.
It is interesting to watch half a
dozen Topeka men Who are past the
three score mark take physical culture
lessons In the hope of renewing their
youth. Talk about woman's vanity,
it is not to be compared with that of
mans.
The first chapters of In His Steps
will be read at the Parkdale Methodist
church Sunday morning and illustrated
with s~tereOpticon views. The entire
book will be raed on the succeeding
Sundays and the thrilling portions il
Illustrated.
D. Ward King, who claims to be a
farmer and who will give a demOnstra-
tion Of the working Of the King road
drag this afternoon In North Topeka,
parts his name in the middle, which
gives rise to the suspicion that he does
not work at his calling.
A Topeka girl who is an admirer of
the Republican councilman from the
Second ward, and-who wore a bunch
of white ribbon (the color used in
decorating cab and carriages) on
election day. was repeatedly asked If
she belonged to the w. c. T. U.
a girl VINO WORKS III a GOWN Town
office was quite indignant the other day
because a lady who had been inquir-
ing for a house girl the day before
called up the next morning by tele-
phone and said. "Is this the individual
I was talking to yesterday? ?" Which
again proves that the English Ian
guage is much abused
John Kelly Of Philadelphia has
written Probate Judge Hayden asking
him to look up the records of mar
rage licenses issued in 1S48, and see
if one was granted his uncle, Johr
Hughes, and Margaret Beere in that
year. An unsatisfactory answer has
been return as there are 10 records in
this county that far back
The Atehison Globe is responsible
for the statement hat D. 0. McCray,
the only real literary Teller" in Kan
sas. was in town this morning, en- route
for Hiawatha. where he viii read a
paper before the eastern Kansas
Teachers association. Mr.. McCray
lives at Topeka. and makes a living
writing for eastern newspapers.
Prof. Francis ". Kelsey, head Of the
Latin department in the University OF
Michigan and secretary of the Archae-
illogical Institute of America, will lee
ture in the Washburn college chapel
on The House of the Vettii in Pom
peii.' The date of the lecture, which
will be illustrated with the stereopti-
con. is April 10. at $3.50. There vii
be no admission fee.
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