The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-09
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There will be dancing at Hudson's
hall tonight.
Councilman C. K. Holiday will leave
Friday for Joplin, Mo-, where he will
spend several days on business.
Dr. Eva Harding and DR.. May Stout
are now located in their new offices at
10 Kansas avenue, where they occupy
the entire second floor.
The officials of the United States dis
trict court are expected to return to-
day from Kansas City, Kan, where the
court has been in session this week.
Garden City is represented at the
grand lodge meeting of the Odd Fell
lows of the state now in session in this
city by B. F. Stocks and c. E. Sexton.
A meeting of the judiciary commit
tee OF the city council is called for
Tuesday evening for the sole purpose
of discussing the Sunday closing of
theaters.
A marriage bureau has been started
in Topeka and the proprietors should
reap handsome results during the
week with so many Odd Fellows in
Topeka.
The city council has decided that the
second hand street lamps offered to the
CITY at bargain were not a bargain
and the deal is off as far these lamps
are concerned.
The following building permits have
been issued: ]. A. Coulter, business
house, ITO West Eighth avenue, $1,000;
brick addition, 3S by IS feet, for Jen-
sen Manufacturing company, cost ST.
Geo.
The enrolment of the city schools
including the graded and high school
shows decrease of SO from the en-
rollment for the first month OF last
year. the total enrolment this year be-
ing 6.329.
Out at Washburn the freshman
and sophomore classes are still squab-
bling over the rules which are to gov
ern the annual cane rush between the
two classes and it is doubtful whether
the two classes will get together.
F. G. Dreaming, city attorney. has re-
turned from Kansas City, Kan, where
he addressed the Mercantile club on the
commission form of government and ex-
planned some of the workings as applied
to the Texas cities that have inaugu-
rated 1t.
The absence of police on the city
streets is accounted for by reason of
the fact that majority of the force
has been subpoenaed as witnesses in
the district court where they are need
ed as witnesses in criminal cases now
being tried.
A souvenir postal card received from
g" Gilfllan of Denver, Colo, carries |
the suggestion that he is singing in |
choir. The location of the choir is not |
given and his friends are left to guess |
as to the rest. |
Marriage licenses have been issued |
In Kansas City to Earl Ernest Fair |
child, aged 81, of Topeka, and Anna |
Pearl Rodecap, aged "a, also of To- |
peka, and Charles J. Mills, aged so, of |
Topeka, and Louise Stenberg, aged 46, |
of Excelsior Springs, Mo.
President Norman Plass of Wash
burn college, whose announcement of |
resignation was made a short time |
ago, has made his resignation effective
commencement day and President |
Plass will continue at the head of the
college until the end of the present
school year.
1t is q fact often commented on that
every time bank installs a new bur-
glar proof vault it is touched off acct
denta1ly. This happened last night at
the Citizens bank in North Topeka
and is another form of advertising that
is a good one as far as attracting at
tention is concerned.
H. K. Goodrich, superintendent of the
rity electric light plant has asked for
a vacation which he will spend in the
vicinity of jamestown, Va. Mr. Good
rich will revisit some of the places in
that neighborhood which he first be-
came acquainted with during the civil
war as a Union soldier.
The interest in Topeka over the
worlds championship games is more
intense than the baseball interest in
Topeka during the past season in the
Western association. Last night the
crowds in front of the State journal
bulletin window were lined up out into
the street. Every game throughout
the series will be bulletined from the