The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-29
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Arrangements have been made 70
close all of the freight depots IN t t,e
city Labor day at O'Clock In the
morning.
Charles W. Hoag of Houston. Texas
and Miss Jennie H. HackenstaH OIL - -
peka, were married at ArkansaS ny
yesterday by Rev. George .. Nlcholas.
The White Soy opened a series of
three games with Oklahoma IN Iopeka
today to be followed by another series
of the same length with LeaVeh"or run
Jessie H. Hackenstaf ofTopeka mar
ried Charles w. Hoag OF Houston, Lex lex.
at Arkansas City Wednesday aIler-
noon. both parties meeting hal1 way.
The City club meets this evening at
the Commercial club rooms TO DISCUSS
commission government TOT topeka
Everyone interested is invited TO at
tend.
The members of the Christian En-
deavor societies of the five CHRISTIAN
churches of the city will hold their quar-
terly rally at Garfield park Friday from
to o'clock.
F. G. Dreaming. city attorney, while
swimming in the tank at the Central
Y. M. c. A. bruised his head badly by
swimming into the brass rail- ABOUT the
edge of the tank.
The executive council of the state has
decided to hold a rummage sale and dis
pose of the odds and ends which nave
accumulated about the capitol for
number of years past.
The contract for hauling the coal used
awarded to the Topeka Street Railway
company, that is the company will haul
it from the railroad yards.
An influx of Norman missionaries
has invaded Topeka and as a result
competition is pretty keen as to who is
making the most noise on Kansas ave-
nue. during the hot nights.
The Oklahoma City Nets will open
up a series of three games on the Local.
grounds this afternoon. This is the
last series for the Nets in Topeka. To-
morrow will be ladies' day.
Only a few more days and the youth
of Topeka will be compelled to start in
school again. The public schools open
in Topeka September 10. which Will be
one week from next TueSday
The telegraphers' strike is inter
fering still to a certain extent with
messages. A telegram which was hled
yesterday morning in Denver only ar
rived in Topeka this morning.
At the price set on such thefts by
Judge Simon of the city court yester-
day, when he fined two boys $l9 for
for stealing two watermelons, this class
of thieving promises to become unpopu-
lar.
President Norman Plass of Wash
burn college has returned from trip
to the northwest and will now engage
actively in the campaign for fifty
thousand dollars which is to be raised
over the state
Topeka failed to land the Woodmen
of the World encampment for this year
for the good reason that no meeting
will be held this year according to
ruling made by the head officials OF
the organization.
Earl r. Reyes. formerly of Topeka,
who is now sporting editor of the
Oklahoma City Times-J ournal, is in
Topeka to see the Topeka Oklahoma
City series and to renew his acqua1nt-
ance with friends
The Kansas Medical college, which
is the medical department of WASH
burn college, Will start next Wednes-
day in their new quarters at 519
Quincy street The school year for the
NEEDLES will comprise thirty weeks
According to the report of DR.. S. ].
Crumbine, secretary of the state board
of health, the water used in nine of
the larger cities of the state is impure
and unfit for use, but Topeka is not one
of the cities included in the list.
Charles L. Wood of the National
hotel, secretary and treasurer of the
Missouri and Kansas Hotel Mems asso-
citation, is in Kansas City making ar
engagements for the convention of hotel
men in St. Louis next October.
Agents in the employ of the Santa
Fe captured q of the men attached to
Pawnee Bills Wild West show and have
given them employment in the santa
Fe shops and nave room IOr nearly d
thousand more men.
Miss Minnetta Ritter won first place
and the silver medal offered by the la
dies of the Willard Temperance union
at the contest which was held in Oak
land last night. Second place and an
honorary reward went to Miss Bina
Otis.
Miss Alice Cavanaugh of the High
land Park school secured the first prize
for penmanship in a contest conduct
ed by the Topeka Business college |
among the students of the seventh and
eighth grades of the city schools and
the second year students in the county |
high school. The first prize was six !
months scholarship in the business
college.
mo, there is nothing to that rumor |
that 1 am figuring on moving to Cali |
fornia to live" said County Commits |
sioner w E. Sterne this morning" at |
least not at this time. When the time |
comes that I feel that I am so old that |
1 have outlived my usefulness 1 will |
probably move to that section of the |
world where the warm waters of the |
ocean and the balmy breezes Will keep
the rheumatic pains from my bones I
am not going yet, though perhaps an
item to that effect will be timely In ten
years and may be not for 20, 1t depends
entirely on how l feel.
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