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


The successful orator in last nights
contest was born in Kansas, anyhow.
II you intend to pike the pike, to-
night is the night. for the show closes
this evening.
James Chambers left today for the
D-ty OF Mexico and will stop over at Ell
Paso en- route
william P. Patty, of Chicago, lee
lures at the high school Friday after
noon on the subject of liquid air.
c. d. Lyle will build a new eight
room house at S21 Lane street to cost
So, 700 This is in Westlawn addition.
The business of paying dividends on
oil stock has not resumed yet. Not as
far IS Kansas oil stock is concerned.
There viii be a meeting OF the mem mem
bers of the ". c. T. y. Monday after
noon at o'clock at the First Method
ist church.
A banquet will be given this evening
at the Throop hotel by Washburn col
lege in honor of the visiting orators
and delegates.
The original drawings for the engrav-
ings for William Allen Whites new
book, In Our Town" are on exhibit
ton in Topeka.
Mrs. Hochstetter of Scranton, Pa,
has arrived in Topeka and will assume
her duties as matron of the Lutheran
orphans home imme diately--
1t mas DEGI SuBSESLEQ NAcAt AAC@AASeAAA
Pete" who is to meet Jim Mccormick
on the evening of the Sth, insist that
his opponent wear muzzle-
There is one collector who makes his
rounds regularly who has such a pleas
ant way of breaking the news, that it
is an actual pleasure to meet him.
Everybody knocks on the dande-
lions. including the newspapers. and
at that the little yellow blossomed
weed seems to thrive as does no other
The quarterly payments of pensions
at the Topeka office necessitates the
making out of 1855 checks which
represent little more than $4,000
600.
Mrs. ]. E. Hazen will entertain the
ladies Of Topeka Hive No. II Ladies Of
Maccabees, on Thursday afternoon,
May 10. at her home, 627 West Sixth
avenue.
About one hundred members of
council number AZ. Y. c. T.. will leave
on a special train Thursday for their
annual meeting which will be held at
Wichita.
mexican Pete Everett and Jim Nc
Cormick, the bitter. have signed articles
for a 10-round bout at the North Shaw
nee Athletic association Tuesday even
ing, May s.
Mccormick, the prize fighter who is
soIourning in Topeka, is training for a
boxing match with Peter Everett. It
I Is supposed that his first step was to
have his teeth fled.
! There is one thing to feel thankful
for when oratorica1 contests are being
considered. No one is compelled to at
/ tend: unless they happen to be en-
ployed about q newspaper Office.
Mrs. John NJ. Wright of Topeka
furnished one Of the musical numbers
/ on the programme at the Booker T.
Washington meeting which was held
at Kansas City Thursday evening.
James McCabe, city engineer. has
issued a guess that paving on Kansas
avenue may be commenced by the 4th
| Of June. This. of course, is only {
guess, and must not be taken seri
ous1y.
r. T. Darby, who has been a mem
Der of the city police force for SONS
time, has resigned to accept his for
mer- position as Waterman at Vine
wood park, and will commence worl
at once.
Posters announcing the annua
convention Of the State Temperance
union on May 9. 10 and II are up
The convention will be held in To
peka. Governor Hoch IS one Of tn
speakers.
T. G. Dreaming, city attorney and c