The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-26
SEEBSFors.

Two popular young men in the Santa
Fe offices are to be married within the
next month
Ruth Massey. the little daughter OF
Arthur Massey, is dangerously i'll with
typhoid fever.
The president Of the Topeka Percy
White fudge club IS wearing new
$3.50 diamond.
w G. Bailey. who has been booming
boomerangs in New England all sum-
mer, has returned.
J. E. German Of Chicago, freight
traff1c manager of the santa Fe. was IN
Topeka Thursday.
The streets this morning were badly
in need of cleaning after the display
o. fireworks last night.
Preparations are being made for y :
paviug s..sh win soon be started on
Clay street between Tenth aven..e and
II 'rteeath.
Considering the awfulness of the
styles OF the latest creations in wo-
mems headgear but little has been said
by the critics of the city.
Fred Cree. a reporter in Kansas City,
who was hurt by being hit by a falling
brick at Thursdays fire is & nephew Of
Frank Peacock of Topeka.
A large number of farmers are put
ting their apple crop in cold storage
with the belief that they will get bet
ter prices later on in the winter
The Colorado football team will rot
go to Lawrence until Saturday The
men say that they like Topeka ard
they do not want to leave until hey
have to-
A teachers examination is III progress
at the court house today and viii last
over Saturday when a banquet Will be
given commencing promptly at IL
o'clock.
Several hundred dollars worth of
ffr-e,r
drawing the crowd to the Auditorium
to hear Vice President Fairbanks and
Henry Allen speak.
Mayor ". II. Davis and several of
the cOuncilnen We're prominent at the
Fairbanks meeting at the auditorium
last evening, by accepting invitations
to sit on the platform.
A doorkeeper at one of the theaters
is said to have left the city leaving
many who are mourning his departure
on account of the bills which he failed
to settle before leaving.
The Topeka D. A r. members were
invited to sit on the platform at last
nights meeting because Mrs. Fair
banks wife of the vice president, was
formerly the national regent
You may yet register if you hurry
not after the Office of commissioner
Of elections is closed this evening It viii
be everlastingly too late as far as as the
November election Is concerned.
Owing to the serious illness of DR.. J..
T. Mcfarland who was TO address the
ministerial meeting Monday, october
%, the date of the meeting has been
postponed until Monday, November 3.
The October meeting of the United
Commercial Travellers of America will
be held at their lodge room on West
Sixth avenue tomorrow evening, when
a number of candidates will be initfa-
ted
Saturday evening is the time set for
the social session of the Elks and the
programme will be as interesting as it
Of the best ever attempted by the local
lodge.
The Rock Island special train from
Manhattan will reach Topeka in two
sections tomorrow morning at 9:15
| o'clock. It is claimed that 1900 are
coming for the Manhattan-W ashburn
football game.
On the southwestern corner of the
block at Taylor street and Twelfth
street is 4 small hard maple tree whose
leaves changed by the autumnal frosts
depict the varied hues of the big woods
in all of their beauty.
The weather conditions of the state
have been reversed for some time
past and while the sun has hardly
shone in the western portion for the
past two weeks 1t has prevailed almost
continually in Topeka.
The sign raised on the stone over the
door of the old Real Estate building at
the corner of Seventh and jackson
streets is being chiseled away and in its
place will be the new name Of the
building. The Shawnee"
The regular monthly meeting of the
Satui day night club viii be held at the
office of Ferry & Doran tomorrow even
ing when a paper on Browning and
the Sea" viii be read by Justice Burch
Of the state supreme court.
During the parade last night num-
Der of hoodlums who came into possess
sion of supplies of fireworks discharged
them into the crowds standing on the
sidewalks and streets and a number Of
minor accidents was the result.
Some time since a new mayoralty can
didate has come out. Gossip says that
two more will come out and the friends
of the two men are anxiously waiting
! for them to announce themselves 50
that they can draw a sigh of relief.
If germs are in the least sensitive,
! Topeka should be q health resort since
/ the Parker-W ashington company be-
/ gan stewing asphalt on the streets. No
/ self respecting R1croDe or germ would
stay around and inhale that fume.
The early fall frosts have almost de-
nuded the trees of their foliage and
nearly doubled the work of the street
cleaning department to say nothing of
performed to keep the lawns about the
city in slightly condition
In Topeka it is beginning TO appear
that girl in order to be fashionable
has to wear pompous green hat. III
enc office in Topeka whore .wo young
ladies' are employed there are two
| large green ones adorned with green
furbelows Of varied tints of green.
Politics and religion may not mix but
they are mixing in Topeka and rubbing
| elbows The Nethodists are having a
big Sunday school convention and the
f re- "a A Sc
here along with rally meetings OF. both
Democratic and Republican parties.
"The hotel where I am stopping, -
remarked a politician who IS in To-
/ peka has some advantages even
II. ouEh it does not have a bath IN
every room. for I feel safe in enter
ing almost any of them when I am
! - and .raat 2 driral. of lic.,1cr