The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-05

tended the Golden Belt Medical asso-
citation meeting at Salina yesterday.
Fire box No. AZ has been placed at
No. station, the box was formerly To-
Gated just one-half block away.
Judge William Easton Hutchinson
of Garden City is in Topeka today on
business before the supreme court.
Almost a week now and no new can
didates have announced themselves Tor
the Office Of mayor-1his Is getting
mighty dull.
A meeting of the veterans of the
Spanish war is called for this evening
at the Office Of DR.. Hammel, 1913 Kan
sas avenue.
The Midwinter exposition will open
on January Is, a Few days earlier than
usual this year, and the closing time
has not been decided upon.
1t seems quite proper that with the
approach Of winter and an ice harvest
in sight the Mutual Ice company
should enlarge It's establishment
one Of the young men who works at
the State Journal Office has been led
to believe by some Of his colleagues that
he has been drafted for service in
Cuba.
Nuts from the big woods. which lie
somewhere beyond the limits of the
city, are finding their way to the To-
peka markets by way of the farmer
boys and girls.
The following building permits have
been issued: G. z. Cramer, $1,000, SIS
East Tenth street; Mutual Ice and Coiu
Storage company, addition, $500. 116
East First street
Mrs. Guy W. Ludington of 461 SUM-
ner avenue. returned Tuesday from
GAYLORD, Kan. where she was sent as
a delegate to the annual conference of
the Wesleyan Methodist connection.
An old man who was standing in
front of the State Journal office this
morning shivering with the cold is auth
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snow Of the season would fall today.
The moolight nights are exquisite as
far as that feature goes, but the ham
mock brigade seenT to be in an eclipse
sinse the warmth has left the atmos-
phere and the GOODNESS Of fall has ar
rived.
Big platters piled high with country
made sausage have at last appeared
on the counters Of the city butcher
shops and an epidemic of dyspepsia
may be expected to appear within the
next few days.
J. S. Warner and A. G. Potter have
Just returned from the Thunder Noun
tain district, where they are interested
in several valuable mining properties
Mr.. Warner walked 20 miles one day
just for exercise.
John Robinson, a retired fireman and
son Otis Robinson are visiting his
brother. Sam Robinson, q mail carrier
who resides at 91S Quincy street This
is the first time the two brothers have
met for 30 years.
During the early hours of last even
ing an unusually strong wind, which
seemed to come from every direction
whipped up clouds Of dust in the
streets, and made things rather uncom-
Portable for pedestrians.
J. r. Haukla. formerly proprietor of
the Fifth Avenue and National hotels
in this city, but now of the Broadway
hotel, Los Angeles, California, is in
the city this week visiting with his
brothers and their families.
From the number of new cases Of
diphtheria reported to the city board
of health the indications are that an
epidemic of the disease may be expect
ed unless more strenuous precautions
to prevent contagion be taken.
Washburn viii go to Kansas City to-
morrow to play the football team Of the
Kansas City Athletic club An excur-
sion will be run over the Santa Fe and
it is expected that many of the college
students viii attend the game.
Mayor w. H. Davis has suggested to
MarshalFs band that cheap popular
concerts at ten cents a head be given
at the Auditorium this winter and
agrees that the council viii give the
use Of the Auditorium free Of charge.
The next college game of football at
home will come next Tuesday when
Washburn viii bowl over the Emporia
eleven. This game will serve as 4
criterion of the Kansas university team
as EmpoTia has already met UP with
the varsity.
Local tai1ors say that the clothes
that men viii wear next spring are go
ing to be so loud that it viii be just
one noisy time all summer long The
bright coIors that have belonged to the
feminine world are being appropriate
by the men.
There are four eligible and attractive
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feud which has existed all summer
long over who should occupy the ham
mocks. for there are two of them, has
Just been settled by the marked fall
in the temperature.
Rev. D. T. Grout of Concordia will
be the new pastor of the wesleyan
Methodist church at the corner of Third
and Jefferson streets. He will occupy
the pulpit for the first time Sunday,
october IA. His family will move to
Topeka in few days
The annual meeting of the Kansas
| Missouri Hotel Mems association Is
called for the 18th and 18th of De
cembeT and viii be held at the Mid
| land hotel in Kansas City according
| to announcements being sent out by
c. L. Wood, secretary Of the associa-
ton.
A couple Of fellows were discussing
| their financial resources the other day.
| One Of them delved IN his pocket and
/ 6shed out a quarter. ITS all I have
until pay day" he remarked. land I
] have had it in my pocket for some
time In fact, I'm beginning to re-
semble the moon, for I generally hang
onto my last quarter for a week
A WAGON in which a farmer named
Marken, from near Elmont, was rid
| ing was knocked from the track by a
/ northhound North Topeka street ear
/ last night about 9 o'clock while be-
/ tween Third and Fourth streets on
+ Kansas avenue. The car was moving
! slowly and no one was injured and but
+ little damage done to either the wagon
I or the car.
/ Drummer Evangelist Williams came
Fl in last night from Council Grove. Kan
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