The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-22
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The survey of the Topeka-Southwest
ern cross the Shunganunga in the fair
grounds.
Mr.. and Mrs A. G. Tourtlotte of 627
Monroe street are the parents or
girl, born Tuesday.
Ex-Councilman ]. S. Warner, who
has been dangerously sick at his home,
1927 Buchanan street. is improving.
Mrs. George Mckeever, of Valley
Falls, underwent a serious surgical OPP
Grafton at Christ hospital this morn
ing.
F. Hardisty has been granted
building permit for an addition to
dwelling at 223 Monroe street to cost
$1,000.
The camp of the Topeka Southwest
ern railway surveyors will probably be
moved five or six miles into the country
tomorrow.
Topeka is one of the few cities in the
state in which the jointists are not using
two per cent" as a means of lodging
the prohibitorv law.
After having occupied an office at $50
Kansas avenue for eleven years, DR..
H. w. Roby has moved to a suite or
rooms at 7O8 Kansas avenue.
There will be a meeting of the board
of education tomorrow night for the
purpose of letting the heating contract
The crop of county candidates has
bloss on1ed early and a person who
walks up Kansas avenue is apt to meet
one of them on every street corner.
Misses Elenore. Elizabeth and Mary
WOODBURY. Mrs. Florence Scott and
Miss Blanche Scott are attending the
Covenanter convention at Winchester
But few of the passenger trains en-
tering and leaving the city have been
on time of late, owing to the unprece-
dnT00
mect.
Arthur Gilyeat has been appointed
as assistant physical director at the
Central Y. NJ. G. A. Mr.. Gilyeat is at
present with the Santa Fe at Amarillo
as clerk.
The fact that light frost was report
ed Yesterday from Penbina, North Da-
kota, is probably responsible for the
"winterish" weather of the past three
or four days.
Rocky Ford cantaloupes have made
their appearance on the Topeka mar
ket though the price tag attached ind1-
Gates that they have been grown In
the vicinity of the city.
D. B. Dunkel of Lawrence and T.
w Davidson of Topeka have gone to
Kingman, where they will attempt to
get some horses entered for the Topeka
and Lawrence race meets.
A public drill by Capital council No.
1 degree staff will be given at Vine
Band concert at o'clock. Drill and
concert in the sound shell auditorium.
The carpets in the offices of the
mayor and city engineer have been
given a thorough cleaning. The moths
were getting into the carpets OF the
suite of rooms occupied by the mayor
l. L. Better has been granted
building permit for the erection of
new residence costing $500 on Gov
ernor's square. The house Will be two
etoriaS HIGH with Dimensions of 39X4O
feet.
John N Graft who has l'een general
manager of the Topeka Canning COM
pany has resigned and will travel in
the interest of an eastern company
which installs machinery for canning
factories.
The numerous improvements now in
progress on Kansas avenue IN the form
of remodeled buildings and new ones in
course of construction as well make the
street the popular thcroughfare for hur-
rying pedestrians
According to the slang of the race
track, Abbott, the new captain of the
White Sox, ''got off right" yesterday,
talking the pole at the first quarter
and hugging it until he won by nose
in a whipping finish"
A number of civil service examina-
lions will be held in Topeka commenc-
ing the 5th of next month and continU-
ing until the 10th and include a variety |
of possible occupations with the govern |
ment as paymaster.
Edgar Roberts, county attorney of
Finney county, is in the city today in
response to a call issued by attorney |
General Jackson who is comforting with |
the county attorneys of the state about |
conditions in general
The latest fish story from the So |
iourners in the vicinity of the northern
lakes comes from Justice H. F. Mason |
who fortifies himself by placing the
catch, a IA pound pickerel, 50 he says,
on Mrs. Mason, though he claims that
he was on hand at the landing.
John Ritchfe. who secured the sub |
contract for paving from H. N. Rice OF |
st. Joseph, has not yet commenced |
either on North Kansas avenue nor |
Central avenue. This means that no |
paving will be done south of the KAN |
sas river before the beginning of 1908 |
David Goddard, one of the early in
ha bitants of Finney county, was |
brought from Garden City yesterday |
and is in Christ hospital where he will
undergo a serious surgical operation In
the hopes of prolonging his life. He is
accompanied by his wife and one of his
sons who will remain with him until
the result of the operation is known.
W.. CREECH TO MINNESOTA.