The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-04


next Tuesday after a two weeks vaca-
! ton.
The Jones. Dry Goods store is getting
its stock ready for shipment to Kansas
City.
Early this morning the temperature
took on the aspect of an approaching
winter. 80
Burghart's Favorite five cent cigar
can be had at all good dealers, hotels,
| clubs, and restaurants.
| Volley ball has become about as pop
ular with the members of the Y. NJ. c..
A. as basket ball has been.
If the cold weather will only continue
for a few days, skating will be in order
OH the lakes. in Central park.
The ways and means committee of
| the council meets this evening at the
committee room at the city hall.
Charles e. Tucker, Topeka news
paper reporter was married yesterday
hafternoon to- Mrs. Pearl Whitcomb.
Although the open season for quail il
| a thing of the past a local family en-.
joyed a fine feed Of them, yesterday.
The waterworks department has
turned over to the city treasurer
$1.315.4O in collections for the month
of December.
The annual election of the board of
directors of the Commercial club will
be held in the club rooms next Friday,
a week from today.
Although automobiles continue to
grow in favor the local horse dealers
say they have q hard time to supply
the demand for high class horses.
Representative C. M. Beeson of Ford
county is in the city today in the in
terest of j. S. Simmons of Lane coun-
ty who is in the race for speaker.
The annual melting of the CONNER
cial club for the purpose of electipg
officers for the ensuing year will be
held at the club rooms one week from
tonight.
A new dancing class for adults will
open at Steinberg's Monday evening.
January Z, Masonic building. Social
dancing every Tuesday and Saturday
evenings. sg
The twenty-fourth annual meeting
of the Bar association of the state of
Kansas will be held in the supreme
court room, Topeka, January 80 and
81, 1907. ere
The usual influx of legislative lobby
lists has not been apparent as YET
around the political centers in the city.
Maybe they have decided to stay away
this year .t-f1Ar
The cold wave which was promised for
Topeka last night did not come up to.
advance notices as the mercury did not
fan as low. as way expected. but no one
is complaining, K s,%f 80 Hrci-
Fred webster Of webster & Tulloch
has sold. his home on the corner of
Clay and Fifth Streets to p. J. NJ.
for a consideration Of $4,000.
The legislature will convene next
Tuesday. Hereafter most of the colored
men of leisure VIII move their loaf1ng.
place from East Seventh street to the.
second floor of the state house.
The fifteen thousand Midwinter ex-
position tickets which were placed on
sale yesterday at ten cents We're sold
the first ten hours after they were
paced in the hands of the merchants.
Mr. r. Ashland, a vio.inist, is on the
and his playing of some of the old time
airs is exceptional. Every audience so
far this week has applauded him to the
echo. Sf@ r.tf
1t has been several weeks since one
of the Santa Fe's through trains has
been in on time. The traffic is very
heavy and the trains are unable to
make their time on account of inferior
engines. a.
made by the city board of health:
Mr.. and Mrs. Christ Thompson. 120
North Quincy street, boy; Mr.. and
Mrs. John Mcdonald, SIS Lawrence
street, boy. 4s5
So far only. twelve men have been
found in the First ward who expressed
a willingness to shoulder the RESPONSE
bilities of councilman from that section
of the city upon the retirement of Coun-
Gilman SiTnrnsc
About as much wire pulling is being
INDUCED in by the boys who are candi-
dates for the positions of pages in the
.ranches of the Legislature as there II
by the several candidates for the Unit.
ed States senatorship.
A number of Topeka landlords are in