The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-02


Grand-Dramatic version Parsifal.
BADLY MIXED.
The weather's badly mixed, alas
little while it SHOWS
And then across the whitened grass
The balmy zephyr blows.
While rich the rose trees gemmed with
The North's wild rat-tat-tat
Right of the clothes line rips the buds,
And off the fence the cat
The champion lady skater of the world /
viii be at the rink tonight.
Remember the Orphans Home benefit /
at the rink tonight. Tickets 1Oc-
Topeka was visited by the first thun- !
der storm OF the season last night.
March did the right thing by the old
tradition and came in like lion.
A $4,000 building is to be erected at
1905 Kansas avenue by John b. SIMS
Harry Bone, United States attorney,
viii not return from Washington before
next Monday.
The bills of the waterworks depart
ment were audited yesterday by the
board of trustees
The claims and accounts committee
of the city council met this afternoon
and passed upon the months bills.
Herman Grow and party of friends
went duck shooting on Thursday night
at Campbell's ranch. near Ashland
Clothes do not make popular actresses,
/ but the lack Of them goes long ways
towards accomplishing the purpose.
All west bound trains on the Santa
/ F'e were late yesterday on account OF
| the wreck Of No. 4 east of Kansas City
Ferry in Fairy Land" who is at the
/ Novelty theater this week, is proving
| the greatest attraction that the theater
1 has ever had.
! r. c. Bradshaw, rural route No. 8 out
/ 7f hae he
/ WoodlaWn avenue, Potwins for sale at
/ a great bargain.
The real estate transfers Of the last
/ two weeks of February were more than
1 double the number of those Of the first
two weeks of the same month
L. D. Whittemore of the city schools is
4 in Louisville, Ky, this week attending
the annual meeting of the National AS
ISOLATION of School superintendent.
There is this to be said of Topeka
from the woman's standpoint, there are
/ no old maids in the city. They are al
ways girls, no matter what their age
/ may be.
The plats. specifications and esti-
! mates for the brick paving which viii
be done this year Will be submitted by
the city engineer to the council Mon
day evening.
Secretary Van Hook Of the T. A. A.,
] announces that preparations are being
made by the association for an athletic
exhibition to be held in the club quar-
| tiers March 10.
Captain White, of the Washburn col
| lege baseball team, has received 10 ap-
/ plications from ball players who are
anxious to get places on the college
team next season.
The heavy wind of yesterday revealed
the fact that striped hose are still fash
fonabIe. and the stripes are just little
broader and more numerous than they
have been in the past.
Phil Mayer of Topeka was on
Thursday night appointed by FreslasilI
D. NJ. Shiveley on the stair OF uIlptres
for the western association. ). A. AO-
bolt refused the place.
Thomas Dixon will not lecture at the
Auditorium under the auspices OF the
Pine Organ association as has Deeu
pOpularlX supposed. The lecturer who IS
coming is q brother, Frank DlXon'
The demurrers- to the indictme nt OF
John Billy and his sons for allege9
land frauds by the recent federal gran q
Jury will be decided at Il O'Clock on
Saturday morning by Judge Pollock.
Skunk hides are quoted at thirty-flV,e
cents each. A man who understailus
the business right Wen mlght 40 q
thriving business in TINS clty' anu lt ~ :
is notning. personal in this item at taat
A fne hall, Is by 1875 arranged SO thai
II can he thrown into a large ana sLflal
hall is offered for rent by the PaIace
Clothing Co. It also contains Two alts
rooms. toilet wash stand and IS nealeo
The open winter has told on the city
as a market for hay. Usually at TINS
season of the year hay IS selllas a.
T from ten to twelve dollars per ~
1.lf1iia at present it is only bringing
3 from five to six
The proposition of the purchase o.
GARFIELD park is again being agllage.e
by the citizens Of North 1opS5ka 90 a. oof
= sserns quite probable that the SS,OV,
,oacasssTv for it's purchase VIII Ds
. raised at no distant time
l Among those most prominently men
z / toned for the Office of sher1n py tht
e Democrats is Tim Donovan VINO Is ~ " :
D IN the employ of the Santa re as
enaeiaI of1cer AS thief catcher A4r
, 5onovan has a reputation that is more
t ! than local. -. ,-,,,,,,
The building at 50g Kansas . aN el.'I
was purchased yesterday by J. X MuI
vsne for SIC. 600 from T. B. Oden. Tn
y building is now occupied by the fatWeI
+ shoe company. The Marine Clolnlni
/. company Of Rockford, Ill, Will oceup.
1-onieht at the Auditorium the girl,
+ GYMNASIUM classes of the Topeka hlsl
School will give an athletic enter q u
meut at Auditorium. to be 1oiioWe9 ~
basketball game between the boy
~ the Topeka high school ana N
n bows Of the Kansas City manual tram
ing high school. 1900.
o The Chanute high school is prepaF
u ing to send q team to compete IN In
o Tnterscholastic Relay Race leagl
when was recently organized b
Washburn college for the purpose Q
bringing the high schools Of the star
IS in competition at Topeka in athletl
events. The meet will be pulled off i
- Topeka on the 2sth of April
E. NJ. Drake, formerly Of MankatS
: has formed a partnership with Z: {
E Co. doing a general real estate. in
surance and loan business. with office
in Central National Bank building MI
DraIxe has had much experience IN thes
i5,se and VIII add materially to Nj
PiaJ<ley's we'll established business. A
s roaf+ers entrusted to them will hav
D nrompt and careful attention.