The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-11
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3 No one would charge that the " ea ~,
tia people are lacking in enthusiasm,
The council desks at the city na ~
have been rearranged ana drought -
a semicircle.
A good cool wind was blowing from
the southeast during the early hours
this morning.
one of the visiting bands has
tenor drummer who can actually play
rag time music on drum
The Street Railway company mas nau
the busiest week for year VIII
conventions meeting day ana nght.
Harry ]. Bone. United States ais
trict attorney. will deliver an auul sar
on Mark Twain before the SATURDAY
Night club tonight
Otis Hungate. Charles Magaw ana
few other of the notable leaders OF
fashion in the town opened the stra"
hat season yesterday
The regular monthly meeting OF the
Commercial club, which was scheori-
ed for last night, was postPoheo uii'i-
Friday evening of next week
A Toneka man who is planning long
overland tourney on a wheel VIII nave
his hair cut short in order to carry
as little dead weight as possible
If any one knows the whereaoouts OF
Miss Iottie Victor. who taught school
somewhere in Kansas during the VIM
ter of 19O6-07, please write 10 beia
Hughes, Santa Fe. No
A Topeka woman has made discov-
ery which she thinks will help eradi-
cate tbe dandelions. She waits until
the fuzzy seed poll has developed ana
then she goes around with a loren anu
burns the seed.
Charles Wilson designed and bullt
the Red Mems float which occupied
such a prominent place in the e. A
r. parade and which attracted such
favorable comment from the many
thousands who witnessed the process
sion.
Heard in the grandstand at the base
ball game from some of the feminine
fans: I would strike at every ball that
came by if I was PLAYING; Gee,
isn't married. Gee, I didn't know
that
'.rve been in most of the larger
cities in the state within the last
MONTH said a L. c. T. man last night,
land you can take my word for 1t
thai Topeka is 'drier' than any of
them. and drier than have ever seen
it before
The Mount Hope band, which came
with the L. c. t. delegation from
front of the National hotel yesterday
evening which was enjoyed by large
crowd, and early this morning they
serenaded the newspaper offices.
a crowd of L. C. rs. who filled one
of the cars enroute for the ball game
wall that old familiar prohibition dit
ty: How dry 1 am, ETC. and their
looks spoke louder than their words
for a good many of them had parched
tongues literally. hanging from their
mouths.
Although She city has been filled
with thousands of visitors during the
last few days Winfield Eaton, chief of
police, is able to report that it has not
been necessary as yet to arrest
single person for intoxicatiOn, and
that no reports of robberies or pick
pocketing have been made to the po-
lice This IS an unusually fine record
A housekeeper complains that some
vendors of Strawberries, who are ply
ing their trade in the city, are selling
boxes which are woefully shy of hold
ing as much as they ought to. She
says that the bottom of the boxes are
pushed up to such an extent that they
are hardly three-quarters as many
berries in each OF them as there should
be if full measure was given.
A crowd of L. c. T. delegates from
Wichita occupied a central portion of
the grandstand during the baseball
game yesterday at Association park
and rooted for Springfield to the great
discontinue of Topeka fans who held
the losing end Whenever the Spring
field team made an exceptionally good