The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-10
SNEBSFors.

J. i. Hurley, general manager Of
the Santa Fe, was In Kansas City
Tuesday.
This was another such day. from
the standpoint of the weather that
makes life worth living.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Authors club viii be held at the Cope
land hotel this. evening.
The Santa Pc officials are busily en-
gagged on a new time card today which
viii GO into effect about the first of the
month.
The station improvements around
the Union Pacific passenger depot In
North Topeka have been practically
completed.
A few late watermelons are straying
into the market and they have a finer
flavor than any of those which have
gone before.
Constantine Chumos, the confection-
er, claims that he is the father of the
first Greek baby to be born in the
state of Kansas.
overcoats and heavy wraps were
much IN evidence this morning, in fact
the pedestrian without one or the
ether of them was the exception.
There are some agonizing times in
store for sam Radges' friends. He has
run out of new stories and has started
in to tell all his old ones over again.
Oldest Inhabitants are shaking their
snap is not to last long and that in a
/ few days another warm spell VIII be
/ here.
Already the song. When summer
comes. again. is becoming popular with
some folks. particularly those who were
wishing for cool weather not 50 long
ago.
Life on the bounding main seems to
appeal to the young boys, for several
who have applied at the local naval
recruiting office were seventeen or
under.
1t is currently reported that Con-
gresham Charles Curtis has been So
licited to join the Improved Order Of
Red Men by a committee of members
from that lodge.
For the first time this year the Wash
burn students worked up a few wells
at the football game Tuesday afternoon
and as usual the voices of the gentler
sex predornfnatedi
A wealthy farmer living near To-
peka who has recently purchased a
new automobile has just awakened to
the fact that the country needs bet
ter roads as well as the city.
The registration books at the cleo
ton commissioners office close on the
26ta of this month"; This leaves four
| teen actual days in which to register,
counting out the two. Sundays.
Now is the time when those who are
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delight in wearing them. After a while
when cold weather comes they viii wish
they did not have to wear them.
For fear that some of the nonsense
of last season may be over looked a
Topeka school teacher is said to have
propounded the How old is Ann"
problem TO her class IN mathematics.
A big crowd stood out in front of the
State Journal bulletin board Tuesday
afternoon and were furnished with com
prehensive bulletins on the progress Of
the championship ball game at Chi
cago.
The santa Fe has abandoned the
plan of heating their Office building
from4their ovn~plant and in the future
steam Will be supplied for heating pur-
/ poses by the Edison Light & Heat COM
pany.
A new brick sidewalk is being laid
in front of the buildings at 602 and 604
Kansas avenue to take the place Of the
antedated affair which has been in use
for the past quarter of a century or
such a matter.
Eve got a few baseball tickets that
I would like to exchange for some win
ter underclothing, said a man this
morning with fists rammed down in
his trouser pockets and bright car
mine coIored nose.
With the first pinch of winter wealth
err yesterday came complaint from
the clerks employed in the Santa Fe
office building that they were slowly
! freezing, and they worked nearly all
day clad in their street wraps.
The work of removing the old pave
ment from Kansas avenue has been
completed from First Street to Sixth
avenue. The old plan of using a pillow
and steam engine has been discarded
and the work is being done by hand.
The street railway company IS show
| ing their customary hardness in re-
in their cars in working order It IS
much warmer to walk these cool morn
ings than it is to ride on the cold cars.
The attention of an attorney in the
/ Columbian building is respectfully
called to the fact that there is a pen
/ guage over the telephone, and this