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

Kansas City today attending the thir-
hseenth annual meeting of the Kansas
!. Missouri Hotel Mems associat ton, which
will be In session today and tomorrow
| at the Midland hotel.
| There has been a decided slump in
| the price of eggs around these parts.
/ They are still something of luxury at
| from % to rs cents a dozen. If the help
full hen would only get real busy the
price of eggs would soon be normal.
A country supper will be given at
| the Highland Park school house on
| Friday evening, January 4, from TO
o'clock, the proceeds to be used IN
purchasing new piano for the school,
| A programme will follow the supper.
DR.. S. B. Dams of the chemical de-
partment, Washburn college. will give
| a lecture soon before students of the
| college on the origin of chemical
formulas. The lecture will be later
repeated for the students of Kansas
university at Lawrence.
Even though the mercury has raised
several degrees in the exposed Their
| mometers during the past twenty-four
hours the weather man insists that
| there is a cold wave coming and tfse
prospects are that if he keeps at this
guess long enough he will bevindicated.
The list of marriage licenses granted
| in Kansas City yesterday contains the
| names of two brides from Topeka. Miss
BERTHE Adams of this city and Fred f.
-
| license to marry, as were w. E. James
of Kansas City and Harriette E. Sra
| pies of North Topeka.
Nearly 1000 of the $500 necessary
| for the construction of the foot bridtr.
connecting North Topeka with the main
portion of the city has been subscribed
and the Santa F'e shop men who are
vitality interested in the work are jub-
ilent over the success with which the
committee is meeting.
The new city charter act of the city
will be completed by Saturday and
will then be ready for consideration
by the city club. A large NUMBER OF
letters have been received by r. U.
Dreaming, city attorney, from mem
bers of the legislature endorsing the
proposed new city charter.
From the unusual sale of tickets for
the Midwinter exposition. the prognos-
tications of the pessimists around town
that interest in this show was dying
out, are about as close as the usual
guesses made by those who take ap-
parent delight in trying to kick ths
props out from under everything.
The city sanitary department is mucn
exercised because Mrs. Mabel IaIpotI
of Kansas City yesterday removed neT
sisters child sick with diphtheria against
the orders of the board of health from
1924 Van Buren, street to Kansas CITY.
The child has been very SICK WITH
diphtheria and was under treatment az
course have been exposed in the re-
moval of the child.
Mr. J. B. Larimer was elected to
the office OF chairman of the executive
council of the Kansas Bar association
made vacant by the death of r. b.
WEIGH and has prepared the pro
gramme for the bar meeting Her.
bert S. Hadley, attorney general OF
Missouri. will deliver the principal aq-
dress while Eugene F. Ware will de-
liver an address on Lawyers of An
tiquity' with data procured from
documents secured in Europe Chas:
p. WEIGH, formerly of Topeka, now OF
Coffeyville, also appears on the pro-
Pramme.