The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-28
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The Knights and Ladies of Security
will spend $4,000 in remodeling the
National hotel.
A company has been formed at Ross
vile which will furnish the city with
gas but it is not of the natural variety.
Each person has six guesses as to
the proper way to pronounce the name
of the leader of the Topeka Orchestral
society.
Leland w. Warner leaves June to
take a position with the general live
stock agent of the Santa Fe at Kansas
City. Mo.
Seventy-six students will graduate
from the high school this spring. AS
usual in such cases most of the grad
yates are girls.
A number of Santa Fe officials
from all over the system are in. To-
peka this week attending a time card
meeting of the system.
j. c. Holland left for Ohio yesterday
on the receipt of a telegram notifying
him of the serious illness of his father
who is well advanced in years.
Winter is still on deck, but it is just
phere to come along and wash it into
oblivion for few months at least.
According to the annual port of Fire
Marshal Wilmarth the department re-
sponded to 256 calls during the past year
or less than an average of one each day
The statute books containing the
statutes of the last legislature are out
and all laws which depend upon their
publication in the statute books are
now in force.
As is usual after a sudden change
in the weather there are now a large
percentage of the people of Topeka
who are trying to recover from the eff
fects of colds.
The annual ceremony of the seniors
bestowing their caps and gowns upon
the juniors at Washburn college
formed a part of the chapel exercises
at the college yesterday.
The veterans of the Spanish war are
requested to meet at the office of S. A.
Halnnell, 1873 Kansas avenue, this even
ing to complete arrangements for the
observance of Decoration day.
Judging from a story of a robbers
camp near the city and the yellow back
fiction feature woven into it 1 would
suggest said the cigarette fiend, that
the author try some other brand of the
wecd.'
The number of contagious diseases
IN Topeka during the past month has
been greatly reduced and there are
in the whole city, most of these being
measles.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Kassebaum
formerly of Topeka but now living in
P1ttsburg, Kansas, are the parents of
a son, born Sunday. Mr. Kassebaum
Pittsburg.
Bishop Frank MilIspaugh. of the
Kansas Episcopal diocese, will deliver
the address to the graduation class of
st. Johns Military school at the COM
mencement exercises to be held Wed
nesday morning.
Miss Virginia Hagar has resigned
her position as stenographer at the
Copeland and gone to Kansas City to
take position with the Humboldt
Cement in
A. Long building.
Floyd J. Evans who has been employ
ed in the general mana gers office of the
Santa Fe has resigned to accept a posi-
ton as stenographer in the office of the
chief engineer of the Rock Island at
Fort Worth, Texas.
Members of Marshalls band have
decided to purchase new hats. AL
though the design has not been select
ed as yet the members are going to
get the newest things on the market
in the way of band caps.
Lectures on farming by Prof. f. A.
Popenoe of the agricultural college at
Manhattan will form a part of the
course of the Shawnee county institute
which will open next Monday morn
ing in the high school building.
According to the reports from the
office of the sanitary sergeant the mi
crobes of the city are not working over
time and there is dearth Of contagious
a
many reported this month as last.
The first annual concert of the Tope-
ka Orchestral society at the auditorium |
this evening will be conducted by its |
organizer, Halfdan Jebe, and you can |
pronounce the surname as you please |
but the correct pronunciation is some |
thing like ''yaba."
More incongruous costumes are to |
be seen on the streets these days than |
is customary. Women walk out with |
peeka boo waists on, and fur boas
around their necks. while combina-
lions of straw hats and overcoats are
prevalent among the men.
The one drawback to the circus
which is now on in North Topeka is
the heavy layer of dust which is on
the ground in the show district. In
some places the dust is two inches
thick and is especially fine for those
who are wearing low shoes.
Henry Shaffer who was convicted of
a thirst parlor on lower
Kansas avenue has offered to pay the
800 fine assessed if the court will remit
the jail sentence, but Judge Urrny re-
fused the offer and the case has been
to the district court
The White Sox will open up
series of four games in Topeka Fri
day. The Webb City team will be the
opponents. Friday will be Ladies
day and will be the last one for some
tine as the team leaves after the
Webb City series for another trip.
An employee of the Carnival company
showing in North Topeka this week has
caused the arrest of one of his fellow
workmen for stealing his shoes off of his
feet while he slept which indicates that
insomnia is not one OF the shortcomings
Of this particular member of the COM
pany.
The RED Can Bill' introduced in
he last session of the legislature by
". A. S. Bird, became a law with its
in the statute books which
we're issued yesterday. 1t provides
hat gasoline must not be put in a re-
ceptacle of any kind which is not la