The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-11

city clerk, assumed her duties at the
city hall today.
The Tippin Restaurant is the rather
suggestive name of an eating place
West Sixth avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. E. Hazen of 627
Fillmore street are the parents of a
son born yesterday.
A meeting of the ways and means
committee of the city council will be
held Friday evening at o'clock.
The second of a series of two ball
games with the Kansas City Blues will
be played at Athletic park tomorrow
afternoon.
The old wall show cases in the store
of Robinson & Marshall are being torn
out to make room for more modern and
attractive fixtures.
Carpenters are at work reshingling
the roof of the Seven Day Adventist
church on the corner of Western ave-
nue. and Fifth street.
The baseball season in the big leagues
opened today and the State Journal will
bulletin all the scores of this league
during the entire season.
Captain Stahl of the Washburn base
ball team directs the play from the
side lines. He does this because Joe
Cantillon and othr great managers
do.
Invitations have been issued to the
members of the L. G. T. and their
wives for an evening at cards Satur-
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street
The Washburn baseball team left on
their trip this morning. They are play
ing at st. Marys this afternoon and
tomorrow they will play in Manhattan.
Their trip will end Saturday at Fort
Riley.
At the morning roll call in the police
station this morning a large number
of changes were announced and many
who were formerly on the force are now
jobless.
The big switch board which is to be
installed by the Independent Telephone
company in its new building on Jackson
street has arrived and will be placed IN
position at once.
The porte cochere which has stood in
front of the Crawford opera house has
been removed and will find a similar
place in front of the Grand opera house
on Jackson street.
The beautiful new granite fountain
presented to Topeka by the National
Humane alliance ought to be placed in
one of the most accessible locations on
the Topeka streets.
OF the dozen calls received over the
telephone at the State Journal office in
an hour this morning asking about a
verdict in the Thaw trial but half of
them were from women.
De Coe. the man with the tables and
chairs at the Novelty theater this week
furnishes enough excitement in one
evening to last the average patron of
that play house for a week
There are but three days left in
which the committee having in charge
the raising of $1,000 for the purchase
of site for the Sisters hospital to
raise the required amount.
DR.. ]. P. Lewis is seriously i'll at his
home on Harrison street with an old
ailment which has incapacitated him
from attending to his practice since the
earlier part of last winter.
The schedule of the Western asso-
citation ball games is to be published
in the Sunday morning papers, ac-
cording to ruling made a the meet
ing held in Wichita yesterday.
If there was any possible way i'm
proving the quality and workmanship
of BUrghdrt's Aurora ten cent cigar, it |
would be done at once, but it needs no |
improvement as it is as good as is pos |
sible to make.
The waterworks department is lay
ing pipe on Taylor street between |
Twelfth and Huntoon streets. The |
water was turned off in that part of I
town this morning while connection |
was made.
The district convention of Christian
Endeavorers including all the societies
in Topeka, will be held at Wamego,
on the 18th to 21st. low railroad
rate has been made good on the 18th
for the event
bytery which has been in session this
week at Junction City, Rev. N. A.
Sheddo of Olathe was elected moder-
Gtor to succeed J. S. Glendenning of
Topeka.
Emporia has already commenced pre-
parations for a large representation at
the meeting of the u. G. T. which will
be held in Topeka on the 10th and 18th
of next month, and besides their band
will send a delegation of 200 people.
Fred c. Slater the Topeka attorney
who has been working for a pardon for
Willie Sell for 81 years, had the unique
experience yesterday afternoon while
taken for his client by a large crowd
of people who We're in the train.
The Western Association baseball
season will open in Topeka May with
the LeavenWorth team as the orpo1. nts
of the Cooleycrows. The pennant will
be run up at that time. This will make
the season open three weeks from to-
day. Il
Touch not. taste not and handle
not" referring to liquor is a part of a
letter of advice which Governor Hoch
sent to Willie Sell along with his par
don, yet on top of this advice the gov
ernor advises him to accept a clerk
ship in a Kansas drug store.
The women of the U. c. T. met at
the home of Mrs. E. w. Poindexter,
911 West Eighth avenue this after
noon, for the purpose of devising a Sc
ries of entertainments for the wives :
Of the travelling men who will be in
he city at the annual meeting of the
y. C. T. next month. ,
The real championship game of ten ,
ais of Topeka has been decided when
John E. Lord and James E. Larimer i
net in doubles Chester W. woodward i
md James r. Wick, the latter winning
by the following score 81. SIS. 40 /
The match was played off on Jim ]
Nick's courts.
The official board of the First Meth '
odist church at a meeting held last '
"A chit voted RI Taiaa the salary of their 1 Z