The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-20

merciaI men who travel out of this city
are commencing 10 arrive ana VIII
spend a short vacation with their faml-
lies.
Red" Downs, the premier second
base.nan of the Western Association,
judged from the price which was paid
for his release by the Detroit manage
ment. was third from the bottom of thu
list of second basemen as far as field
ing averages for the season were con-
cerne d.
Arthur Kane has announced his re-
tirement from the fields of poetry. He
has turned philosopher. And if anyone
wants the general principles, laws. or
causes that furnish a rational explana-
ton for anything just ask him about
them.
Residents in the southwest portion of
the city complain of the city electric
light service. A number of the lights
on Western avenue and Taylor were
temporarily out of commission for sew
eral nights in succession up until last
evening
At the regular meeting of the -api-
tola Rebekeh lodge No. 219 I. O. o. T.,
which was held on Monday evening
last, the degree was conferred on one
candidate and another candidate fer
membership was elected. After the bus
mess session was over refreshments
were ser-ed.
The fender on one of the street car
company's rapid transit cars failed to
pick up cur dog at the corner of Sew
J
ter the supper hour last night as ne .
was crossing the track. and as a re-
suit policeman was called to finish the
job which tEsea car commenced.
Tommy Heron, secretary of the To-
peka Kennel club says that he has al
ready received word from the owners
of more than two hundred dogs who
want to enter their pets in the first
bench show to be given by the club
Many of the requests for information
come from neighbOring states
James McCabe, city engineer, H. K
Goodrich superintendent of the city
electric light plant, and z. A. CLANCY,
plumbing inspector, have returned from
Salina where they have been attending
the sessions of the Municipal league.
w. A. s. Bird, secretary of the league,
was unable to attend on account of
sickness.
Clarence Scott Of the Cremerie
restaurant has received request from
the secretary of the Kansas Bee asso-
citation to deliver an address at the an
nual meeting which will be held on
the 27th and 2Sth of this month. The
subject assigned is The penetrating
qualities of the italian bee as COM
pared with those of the Dutch, or black
variety"
That's what call hard luck" grum-
bled a New York man who has been in
Topeka for year and half, and has
never mustered up courage to call on a
Topeka girl I made a date with a
Western avenue girl last night and just
as 1 got within block of her home the
fire dc department. passed me on its way to
q barn which was burning in the same
block, and the whole family must have
been at the fire, for though 1 hung about
for an hour no one would answer the
door bell"
A representative of the Topeka
street railway company was recently
bemoaning the fact that It seemed
like every body knocked on the street
railway company. one of the reasons
that people knock the street car ser
vice is on account of the new system Of
transfers, that compels those desiring
to change cars to do so at out of the
way places where they have to stand
from the weather in
stead Of at the transfer station.
A young musician of Topeka who
has heard the famous Guflmaut at St
Louis exposition on the big organ.
Prof Eddy in Topeka and the best or
ganist in Salt Lake City on their i'm
mense organ, declares that frequently
Mr.. Roehr of this city surpasses them
in bringing out the best Of which a
pipe organ is capable. Topeka is for
tunate with such organists as Prot
Penny and Mr.. Ieoehr to bring out this
beauties of the great pipe organ.