The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-06
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| 1908 Topeka avenue.
Some of the window decorations II
honor OF the G. A r. encampment here
this week are especially fine.
A meeting of the w. c. T. U. VIII be
| held Tuesday afternoon at the home OF
| Mrs. Cooper, 1910 Central avenue.
1t cost Shawnee county just SIS Sat
| urday as bounty on coyote scalpS
which were taken the day previous
John Woodford, formerly a resi-
dent of Topeka and who was We'll
known here, died recently in Michi-
gan.
officials of the United States dis
trict court left Sunday for Fort Scott.
Kansas, where the court is in session
this week
The city council will meet this
evening The Topeka Kennel club
will also meet at the same time in the
council chamber.
John Rodgers, city engineer, is in
favor of locating ten arc lights in as
many different localities in the bust
ness district of the city.
The city clerk has received a check
for $4,000 from the Santa Fe as their
share of the cost of rebuilding the
East Sixth avenue viaduct.
The streets were crowded with people
this morning waiting for the Gentry
Bros. parade, which finally assumed
The boys who delight in running
about and tearing up the flower gar
dens in the city are abroad again and
carrying on their depredations.
An exhibition is being planned by
the members of the cOlOred depart
ment of the Y. M. c. A. to be given
at Metropolitan hall Tuesday evening.
The annual meeting of the Homeo-
pathic Medical society of Kansas will
be neld in Topeka commencing Tuesday
and lasting the remainder of the week.
If the present rate of speed is MAIN
tanned In rebuilding the East Sixth
street viaduct, this work will probably
be completed sometime within the next
two years.
The Rock Island will begin the erec-
ton of building just west of the pres
ent depot this week to relieve the con-
TESTED condition of the baggage and eX-
press rooms.
The annual track meet of the Kan
sas intercollegiate Track association
will take place in Topeka at the fair
grounds May 20, which is two weeks
from today.
The railroads of the state complain
that the rush for the new two-cent-a-
mile books has been so great that they
have not been able to handle it to their
satisfaction.
The street car ride to be given the
visiting ladies of the U. G. T. will be
Friday as published in the official
programme.
By winning the last of the series of
games with the rConvicts Sunday To-
peka's White Sox maintain their place
at the head of the association with an
average of 1000.
Members of the subsenior class of
the high school will give a class play,
THE Elopement of Helen; at the
high school assembly room Friday
evening, May, 10.
The advertisement of F. G. Kelly,
manager of Vinewood park. of skating
seems perfectly proper when the
weather conditions prevailing for the
past week are considered.
The Kansas Authors club will meet
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. P. Morehouse, PIG
West Eighth avenue. Eugene F. Ware
will be initiated as president.
The Jayhawker club, a, literary organ
ization composed of the native sons of
Kansas, will hold their first annual BAN
quet at the Throop hotel this evening.
In connection with the banquet a short
literary program will be rendered.
Herman Crow is in Kansas City today
where he expects to pass on Cooley's
to play in the American as
ISOLATION as well as discuss White Sox
dope with the ex-captain of the team.
with the Sunday closing ordinance
any reason for a Topeka man to
patronize the Sunday excursions which
are being advertised said a thirsty
Kansan yesterday.
The house cleaning has commenced
at the state house. a firm that does
house cleaning with a vacuum air
process started in Saturday cleaning
the dust from the statesmens shoes
cut of the carpets.
Governor E. w. Hoch officiated at
the laying of the cornerstone of the
Episcopal church at Lee
Sunday. Rev. f. NJ. Lynch
and Rev. A. G. Wark of this city also
spoke during the exercises.
Judge James Humphrey of Junction
City, the Democratic member of the
state tax commission VIII move to To-
peka as soon as he can secure a de-
sirable location. All the members of
the commission will then be residents
of the city.
With two vaudeville shows. a moving
picture show, the opening of Vinewood
park and the ball game, those who were
seeking amusement yesterday certainly
ought to have found a plenty despite
the Indictment weather.
Secretary Crumbine of the state
board of health will start on a trip
among the towns adjacent to Topeka
this week where he will hold pure food
meetings in the interest of the en-
forcement of the law passed at the
last session of the legislature.
ct notice. said a farmer. 'that the
green bug has found a friend in State
Auditor James Nation, who refuses to
allow Governor Hoch to spend his
contingent fund in populating the
state with Lady Bugs to prey on the
Green Bugs and their families
Capt. c. w. Brown, of Plainville, one |
Of the large stock feeders of Paradise |
Flats, is in Topeka today. He brings |
favorable reports of the wheat pros |
poets on the flats" which is one of the |
Dig wheat sections of north central Kan |
sas.
Mrs. A B. Cotton and Mrs. W. H. |
members and delegates of |
The L. of G.. A r., from Livermore cir !