The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-15

Novelty Vaudeville
Crawford vaudeville.
Star-BuFlesque
Councilman C. K. Holiday spent we'd
nesday in Kansas City.
The Kansas Authors club held their
regular meeting at the National hotel
last night
Easter decorations Of all kinds are to
be seen in the display windows OF the
city merchants.
The registration books at the election
commissioners Office close on Saturday
for the primaries.
Bobsled parties have taken the place
of the hammock parties which threat
ened the city last week
H. W. Bobby has purchased the cot
tage next to A. A. Hays, Fourteenth
and Fillmore streets, paying $1,000 Tor
the property.
avenue yesterday with miscellaneous
collection of COW bells distributed
about his cutter.
There will be a meeting of the Wo-
mans Branch Alliance Of Unity cnurce 2
at the home of Mrs. Z. S. Johnson, flo
Taylor street, Friday.
Since the chief of police has com
menced to show signs OF life the denial
Of ownership habit is breaking out
again among the owners Of joints.
D. H Martin has purchased new
White automobile a steam touring car
of Is horse power Martin viii convert
his present car into a roundabout
A case OF. smallpox in the family Of
J. N. Edgar in Highland Park, has been
reported to the sanitary department ana
quarantine measures have been ADOPT
ed
Send me a detective at once" tele-
phoned a Kansas avenue jeweler yester-
day Poor Gas has just escaped
through my meter and I can furnish
clew."
Speaking of the true test of friend
ship: A Topeka man who smokes
three-for-five cent stogies always in
sists on buying ten cent cigars for his
friends.
Oh. for some of the good old summer
January time weather. The sun mas
peeked through the clouds long enough
during the last ten days to make sus-
picion of melting
Just thfrty-six years ago yesterday
I landed in Kansas, said John Mac
Donald, land the snow storm that
ragged at that time makes today seem
like one in spring
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Smith and child.
who have been living at lSl quincy
street, will leave next week for Los
Angeles where Mr.. Smith VIII engage
in the grocery business.
The attorneys for the Santa Fe have
appealed the case in which Judge Pol
lock declared that the $4,000 ad-
vanced c. J. Devlin to pay his miners
was not a preferred claim.
Four cooking classes are being con-
Quoted at the home Of the Provident as
socia ton, Fourth and Jackson streets,
by the management of the institution.
There are forty-eight members IN the
four classes.
The Order of Malta. the highest de-
gree in knights TernplarisIn, was con
ferred on Thursday night on ninety
candidates, the largest number ever
taken In at one time by the Topeka
commandery.
The class in electricity at the high
school get some actual practice. The
Edison company gives employment to
a number of the boys IN the classes and
has them read the meters of some of
its customers.
David L. Brewer. Of SIS west
Tenth avenue, has the discharge and
other papers Of Albert A. Beck, OF
battery G, Fourth regiment Of artil-
lery. He got them at a sale of IN
claimed freight.
About 4.567s7s telephone calls
came into the State Journal Office this
morning from people who wanted to
know the result Of the McGovern-
Nelson fight The long distance lines
also came into play.
There must be a reward of some kind
in the next world for the man who
sprinkIes ashes on the icy walks, like
wise a fitting punishment for the man
who refuses to have the snow removed
and permits it to become ice.
The north room of the Comanche
building which has stood empty since the
building was erected by A. A. GODDARD
has finally been rented and will be oc-
cupied by an installment furniture
house now located on lower Kansas
avenue.
There has been less than week of
calm and the candidates for city offices
are just about as persistent as were
those for county offices last week. and
there is but the one redeeming feature
about this crop and that is that it is
lighter than its predecessor.
About 90 county commissioners and
county attorneys were in Topeka yes
terday talking over assessment matters
with the state board Of assessors.
They wanted to arrange some plan for
assessing pipe lines more uniformly
but nothing was accomplished.
Referring to the eterral fitness Of
things John LandgIaff, a rear estate
agent from Garden City. was in To-
peka yesterday closing q land deal with
/ local parties. I4andgraH is not sensitive
either as to his name or calling and in