The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-26
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D. F. Fielder, associated press oper-
ator on the Joplin Globe, is in Topeka
to loaf until the strike is settled.
Mrs. John Sargent is very seriously
ill at her home on Clay street. She
suffered from a stroke of apoplexy
Sunday morning
The Ohio club will hold it's sixth
annual picnic on the lawn OF DR.. w.
H. Roby, 21O1 Kansas avenue, Labor
day, September End.
Sunday was a record breaker for the
police department and from midnight
Saturday until midnight Sunday sixty
five arrests were made.
A small fire occurred yesterday
shortly after IL o'clock in the barn of
Mrs. Mary. E. Whitmore, 1907 Fill
more. The damage was small.
Walter LUX has left for Oklahoma,
where he is combining a pleasure trip
with prospecting trip and will prob
ably invest in Oklahoma lands.
Rev. Charles A. Finch, pastor of
the First Christian church, is in Leroy,
where he will conduct a revival dur
ing the next two or three weeks.
c. c. Clark, assistant chief of the
bureau of statistics, United States
statistics, spent Sunday with Major I.
j. Anderson, state statistical agent.
Edward ]. Bayzer left Saturday for
Hutchinson, where he is employed on
the construction of the new hotel be-
ing built by the Harvey eating house
system.
A banquet was rendered William Pet
erson, commander of Lincoln Post Sat-
urday night, his birthday, by the mem
bers of the post and the Ladies of the
G. A. r.
A number of colored Masons left for
Parsons this morning to attend the
Negro Masonic grand lodge of the state
which meets in that city commencing
Tuesday.
State Printer T. A McNeal will be
one of the principal speakers at the
Labor day exercises which are to be,
held in this city the second day of
September.
Thirty-five drivers of vehicles of var
ious kinds, including bicycles, were ar
rested Sunday for violating the ordi-
nances governing Illegal driving by the
police department.
superintendent L. D. Whittemore of
the city schools has been elected a di-
rector of the Central Y. M. G. A. to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
DR.. Norman Plass.
Albert Sarbach of Holton came to |
Topeka one day last week in his new
Wayne car, making the distance of As
miles, including stops, in one hour
and thirty minutes.
The Topeka Eagles won a double |
header ball game from the Mayetta
team Sunday on the grounds of the
latter the score in the first standing
The attention of holders of season |
passes to the Western association ball |
games is called to the fact that there |
are but twelve more games to be play |
ed on the Topeka grounds this season |
F. c. Bolz has been selected to repre- |
sent the union machinists of Topeka in |
the regular biennial convention of the |
Intcrna tional Association of Machinists
to be held in St. Louis commencing |
September 9.
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sas City Tuesday under the direction
of the Topeka Taft clubs and will |
carry Taft enthusiasts to the city at
the mouth of the Kaw at two dollars |
per enthusiast
F. B. Simms, S. H. Haynes and c. !
w. Thompson have been appointed by |
the referee in bankruptcy as apprais- |
ers to appraise the value of a flour |
mill at Ottawa, Kan. which has been
declared bankrupt.
Richer Walker. who has been con-
nected with the local weather bureau |
for the past six years. has left for |
Bismark, n. D., where he has accept |
ed similar position. Roy Barrie
succeeds him here.
Pawnee Bills circus arrived in To-
peka yesterday morning and all day |
yesterday and today the fairgrounds. I
where the circus will show, was a |
very busy place. Small boys were es-
pecially numerous.
Inc class OF boys from the Junior |
of the Y. M. c. A. who
have been camping near Maple Hill
for the past two weeks returned last
night convinced that they have had
the time of their young lives.
A carload of inch pipe has been
received by the water department of
the city for use in the district south
of Tenth street on Garfield avenue
and on Bolles avenue between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth shtreets.
b. F. Simms. S. H. Hayes and c. w.
have been appointed as ap-
praisers by the federal court to place
a value on a large milling property at
Ottawa which was placed in the bank
ruptcy court several months ago
The walls of the new addition to the
reached the fifth story. The work
men are rushing the work on this
building, and expect to have it COM
pleted in the quickest possible time
T J. Coughlin has returned from
his eastern trip which included his
meeting of the knights of Columbus at
Norfolk and the National Fraternal
at Buffalo. He was gone
four weeks
The sale of the paving bonds au-
-horized is being advertised by the city
n the daily papers. The bonds bear
per cent interest. This Is a new
departure, for bonds OF the city are
usually simply offered Tor safe III n
lancial papers.
A report has just reached this city
hat a Topeka man who was hunting
N western Kansas recently filled the
hide of a dog which he had borrowed
'or the occasion with shot instead of
bringing down one OF the birds at .
which he aimed.
A great many of the local fans are
,ery much disappointed today. Red
Davis, whose fame as a hitter is In
60x MI haf
yesterday When Davis doesn't hit
,ver 700 the fans accuse him of being
lick or laying down.
Half a dozen squaws with a CORE