The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-26

SNAPSHOTS
There will be a big one mile race at
| the rink tonight.
Topeka council No. AZ will hold its
regular monthly meeting at its lodge
room on West Sixth avenue this even
ing.
The students OF the music depart
ment of Washburn college gave re-
cital Friday afternoon at the college
chapel.
Mrs. Frederick Carson of FL Paso.
Texas, will sing at the evening service
at the United Brethren church sun
day evening.
Hogs are commanding a higher
price than they have at this time OF
the year since 1903 and reached the
highest since July.
Rev F. G.. F'ishback will address the
colored department of the Y NJ c. A
Sunday afternoon at 8 o'clock Subject,
THE World for Christ
Fourteen of the members of the leg
is1ature now in session were at one
time or another students at the state
university at Lawrence.
Mayor w. H. Davis is attending to
his duties at the city hall again after
suffering for the past several days
from a very severe cold.
The midwinter class which grad
yates from the Topeka high school
next Friday evening is composed of
thirteen boys and twenty nine girls.
r. J. Baker, general superintendent
of the Santa Fe at La Junta, Colo, left
last night for La Junta after having
been in Topeka all week on business.
P. G. Hughes, formerly of Larned,
Kansas, and an old time resident of the
state, but now postmaster at Busch,
Oklahoma. was a visitor in Topeka to-
day.
The members of the Topeka Kennel
hotel ana talked over plans in prepare
ton for the club show which will be
held here March 60.
The city board of health has quaran-
tined the house at 512 Topeka avenue
for measles. H. S. Acott at 831 Topeka
avenue was quarantined for measles.
not diphtheria, as announced.
The second term at Washburn will
open next Thursday. The examina
tions of the first term viii be over
Tuesday and Wednesday will be util-
lied for the registration for the second
term.
Rev. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor of
the Plymouth Congregational church in
Brooklyn, N. Y, will lecture at the
First Baptist church tonight. His sub
ject will be. THE America of Today
and Tomorrow
Election day falls on the thirteenth
of March this year and though the un-
date when it will be held there is no
dearth of candidates for the various
offices threatened. ,--
The mercury took another drop last
night and this morning there were
more frozen water pipes and even the
gas pipes in some instances were SO
filled with frost that fires could not
be started until they were thawed-
The graduating class of the high
school this term numbers forty-two.
The commencement exercises will be
held in the auditorium next Friday
night. DR.. Estey will preach the Bac-
calaureate sermon Sunday at the First
Presbyterian church.
The Topeka Kennel club will hold an
important meeting at the National
hotel parlors this evening at 7:30. All
of the members of the club and those
in dogs are asked and urged
to be present Dean Kaye, the presl-
dent, will preside over the meeting.
Harry j. Bone, United States district
attorney for Kansas, left last night for
New York city where he will deliver an
address before the Kansas club of New |
York city on Kansas day. Mr.. Bone
will remain in New York about week |
where he will also look after business
matters.
A morse DolOHSitS " LII. - "a. MI
CURE broke loose from in front of the
Copeland hotel where it was standing |
hitched last evening, ran down Kan |
gas avenue towards Fifth street, col |
lided with telephone pole and |
wrecked the buggy besides injuring |
itself badly.
Judging from the protests which are |
coming to the members of the city |
council from the residents of the Fifth |
ward relative to the sewer which is |
supposed to take care of the drainage |
from that section of the city, there |
will be a position open for an expert |
engineer soon-
r The anti-Sunday baseball bill has |
passed the lower house of the legis- |
lature and though it may weather the |
shoals of the senate there is but little |
doubt that the fans of the city will |
be able to witness Sunday ball owing |
to the amendments that have been |
on the original bill.
"A. Adams of Kansas City has Sc
cured the services of Joseph Taggart |
attorney of Wyandotte |
county who will assist him in recover
ing possession of his children who
were given to the Childern's Home
Finding society of Topeka and which
Only two days more, today and
Monday. for the candidates for city
office to make up their minds whether |
hey will run or not on the Republican
ticket The list of entries closes on
Monday at IL o'clock. The entry list
5 at the Office of Assistant City At
.orney W. C. Ralston at the city hail.
Desmond Reduced in Rank