The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-24
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Harry Bone, United States district at
| torney, is in Ashland where he will
remain on business for the remainder of
the week.
VIM. Supple, president of the Cap
ital Broom works, has gone to Okla
homa to buy his years supply of
broom corn.
holders and directors of the Santa Fe
railroad was held at the general office
building in this city today.
The fire department is receiving the
benefit of the usual number of false
alarms due at this season of the year
| on account of burning leaves.
The members of the street depart
Inent have turned painters for the oc-
casion and are painting the bridges in
side the city limits with a coat of deep
red.
The followers of the washburn
football team who attended the game
at st. Marys yesterday had a fine op-
portunity to learn the fine points of
| roofing.
The contract for paving about the
Wells Fargo express office and the space
between that building and the depot
has been awarded to H. w. Gilmore by
the Santa Fe.
/ Another ninety-year-old resident of
Shawnee county has been discovered
which indicates to some extent the
dearth of news as viewed from the
standpoint of a newspaper reporter.
The auction sale of unclaimed ex-
press advertised for Saturday suggests
the thought Something for nothing -
crowd OF those who would get rich
quick.
Rev. L. c. Schnackle, who was re-
Gently elected secretary of the Home
Missions for the Congregational church,
has purchased the residence at 1904 Col
lege avenue. which he will occupy as
his home.
Washburn's goal line was crossed
for the first time this season yesterday
when the ball was carried across, the
result of a tumble by one of the
Washburn stars, but then accidents
will happen.
Burning rubbish in the alley be-
tween Eighth and Ninth and Blu
chanan and Lincoln streets threatened
to set fire to several barns and caused
a run of the hose company from No.
4 fire station.
Yesterday was really for sure, truly
good day for City Attorney Dreaming
in the district court remarked one of
his attorney acquaintance, "for he Sc
cured two hung juries and that beats
losing the caes.''
Charles M. Rigdon of Topeka, aged
80, and Mrs. Edith Frederickson, aged
"a. of Kansas City, were married yes
terday at Kansas City. Mr.. Rigdon is
d
and lives at 1850 Polk street
The ducks and wild water fowls in
their flight southwark seem to be CIV
ing Topeka and vicinity wide berth
and the sDortsmen in the central por-
ton of the state are receiving the
benefit of most excellent shooting.
According to the story told by Au-
gust Palm he is the possessor of
large bunch of trouble which has been
handed to him by an unknown enemy
who first caused his arrest for harbor-
ing a vicious dog and has followed
him Systematically since.
There is a remarkable display Of ap-
pies and potatoes in the show window
of the Famous clothing store at 617
Kansas avenue. One of the apples
corresrondingly large. They were raised
at Weiser, Idaho. and were brought to
Topeka by o. B. Foote.
well, the nerve of all things in this
world shrieked the State Journal So
ciety reporter as she hung up the re-
me up over the telephone and asked me
to go across TO the transfer station and
tell some man L never heard of to call
her up and 1 the busiest person in the
town at this very minute"
The season of the year is at hand
when the joker in the hunting party
returns to the city with the be-
whiskered story of how one of the
members of the party shot the tame
ducks used as decoys. The attention
of S. E. Barber, who has just re-
turned from a hunting trip TO the salt
marsh district, is called to this item.
Two trees with ten lemons on
them, not the artificial kind that are
handed to people you don't like, but
the real things, are on display at the
home of T. B. Jennings, section di-
rector of the United States weather
bureau, 324 Willow avenue. The lem
ons are good sized and one of them is
as large as a mans fist. The trees are
several years old.
Speaking of the giving away of a
baby at the Majestic theater, DR.. Hard
ing said: Humanity is the cheapest
thing in the world. Babies are cheaper
than puppies and men are cheaper
than mules. Even the great state of
Kansas refuses to recognize the exist
ence of an infant until it is one year
old in the hope it may die before that
time. If it manages to exist one year
a place is made for it in an institution"
The bill at the Olympic this week is
the best yet offered by this popular the
alter.