The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-11
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Atchison tomorrow for a short visit
with his brother, John Root.
The Smith Automobile company now
employ $50 men and can turn out 200
automobiles in year-almoSt one every
| working day.
| According to all the rules of the
! weather game for this year the next
two or three days ought to be most
| disagreeable.
G. NJ. Horton, local manager for the
| western Union Telegraph company in
Atchison, visited with friends in To-
peka yesterday
Luther Nellis left for three months
visit through the west Monday. Before
| returning he will visit in California
and Old Mexico.
| News received from H. w. Ruff, who
recently went to Arizona for his health,
indicates that he is much improved by
the change of climate
The singing of Miss Belle Bellman
at the Novelty this week is the top
liner of the bill at the favorite vaude-
vile theater of Topeka.
George White Washburn's baseball
shortstop and football halfback, has
gone to Cimarron, o. T., where he will
play baseball this summer.
marriage license was granted in
Kansas City Monday for the marriage
of Mrs. Cecil NJ. Grubbs of Topeka,
aged 20, and Wiley L. Davis of Topeka.
aged rs.
F. w. Watson, the nurseryman, ac-
companied by his family, left yesterday
for the east where they will visit about
the coast resorts during the next three
months.
Tom McNeal is advertised as one of
the speakers at the Water Celebration
banquet at Excelsior Springs this even
ing. He will speak on the subject
Kansas ess eg e8
Large crowds attended the perform
ances al the Novelty theater last night,
and they were not disappointed for the
show this week is we'll worthy of good
patronage.
McElvain of sos Madison street, have
recovered from severe attack of
measles and have been released from
quarantine.
R. S. Cone. of Garden City. formerly
law partner of Judge w. H. Thompson,
was in the city yesterday on legal bust
ness, returning home last night on No.
8 the Santa Fe.
Arthur Capper will have the first six
cylinder automobile in use in Topeka.
1t is being built by the Smith Auto
company and will be of 60 horse power
and seat seven people.
Il note" remarked a grain specula-
tor who does not know wheat from bar
ley, that the recent rains in Kansas
have again raised the condition of wheat
in the state above the n per cent mark
The latest estimate of H. K. Good
rich. superintendent of the city lighting
plant is that $1,S56 will place the plant
in good condition for the purpose for
which it is needed for a period of two
years.
dispensed there will be a reduction of
the present force of the police depart
ment which will reduce four or five of
the present patrolmen to the ranks of
private citizens.
For a week night attendance there
were far more people at Vinewood last
night than upon any other previous
week day. Calvert with his perilous
feats on the high wire was the center
of attraction.
Captain Richmond Hobson of osculatory |
Park for ten days commencing July Is
Captain Richard Hobson, of esculatory |
fame, will be included in the list of |
dozen lecturers.
The street department of the city was |
loaned to the East Side Improvement !
club for today and was used in clearing |!
alleys and hauling away cans and other |
refuse which has accumulated during |
the spring months.
This is the first spring in years and |
years and years that the black birds |
have not used the Bethany college /
grounds for a roosting place during |
their annual pilgrimages The people |
in the neighborhood miss them.
Wistar Williams. the captain of last
seasons football team at Washburn
college, left last night for his home in
Dunreith. Ind, where he will spend
his vacation. This is his first visit
home since entering Washburn.
J. F. Daniels and family, who have
resided in Topeka for the past quarter
of a century, have made arrangements
to move to Omaha where Mr.. Daniels
has headquarters as representative OF
the knights and Ladies of Security for
The Continental Creamery company
ball players defeated the Jensen Mfg.
team Monday on the Washburn grounds
by a score of IS to 5. VIM. Dickey who
the Jensens is disconsolate
and refuses to discuss the game with
his friends.
charge of the law enforcement work of
the State Temperance union and John
of Winfield, who is also .1den-
titled with temperance work, have
formed a partnership and will open an
office in Topeka.
The week day games in Topeka will
hereafter be called at four o'clock. The
White Sox will return from Joplin to-
morning and will bring the
Miners with them for series of four
games upon the home grounds. Friday
will be ladies' day.
Another feature added to the program
for the Chautauqua meeting to be held
in Garfield Park next month is a series
of studies in literature by Mrs. Mar
garet Hill McCarter of Topeka, who is
one of the western au-
thoritieS on literature
Mayor Green announces that he is
not we'll pleased with the way many
Of the dog muzzles fit their canine own
ers, and it might be added that the en-
tire dog population of the city agree
With him that the fixtures are nuis-
ance and of no earthly use.
Tt will be noticed that there is plenty