The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-12-10
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The insurance feature of the H. H.
clup Is the best part of it.
| Ladies free to the skating at Music
nall tonight. MarshalPs band.
Felix & Son, who have a store in
Topeka, have opened a store in Kan
sas City.
| The Topeka Edison Office building
| at Eighth and Kansas avenue is be-
ing painted a muddy brown color.
Washburn ought to try the alumni
| plan for the management of athletics.
1t would probably be more profitable.
The autoist who neglects to take a
drive into the country is neglecting to
| take advantage of some mighty good
roads.
Fred S. Jackson, the states attor-
than yesterday when he was chasing
MS nat on Kansas avenue.
A reminder of the late frosts last
spring is found in the country, in the
fact that there is hardly nut of any
kind to be found in the big woods.
Carl Trap of the Santa Fe general
managers offices was operated upon at
the Santa Fe hospital for appendicitis
yesterday. He is improving rapidly.
Kansas avenue is respondent with
Christmas decorations and the effects
of the merchants are highly pleasing to
the eyes of their customers and friends.
The high price of meatsand especially
bacon is of little concern for the coun-
try contingency, for everybody knows
that this is hog killing time on the
farm.
The new Novelty theater will open
Sunday, December 90, which will be the
Sunday in the Christmas holidays in
tervening between Christmas and New
Years.
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Kansas State Exposition
company will be held this evening at
s o'clock at the Commercial club
rooms.
The third annual meeting of the
Topeka Provident association will be
held at their new building on the cor
ner of Fourth and Jackson street this
evening.
Things seem to be pretty quiet around
the state house. The janitors do not
arrest as many people for riding their
wheels on the forbidden ground, on
cold days.
George Martin, secretary of the
State Historical society, is in bad tenn
per- His offices are on the top floor
at the state house and the elevator
doesn't run.
The local merchants are beginning to
arrange their windows to suit the hOli-
day occasion. One window is particu-
larly effective. It, is Illuminated with
colored lights. ~ a.
Sheriff Wilkerson is anxious to meet
P. F. Plamondin- as he has a COM
mitment for him as the result of an
opinion handed down by the supreme
court Saturday.
Strange as it may seem, the gas sup
ply in Topeka did not diminish a
result of yesterdays cold weather.
Can 1T be that the Scipio connection
has been completed?
The anti-Sunday funeral agitation
is headed this way and inside of an
other week the public may expect to
hear of an outbreak in Topeka. 1t
won't be the first one.
F. S. Thomas, manager of the Santa
Fe Watch company who is recovering
from a prolonged siege Of typhoid fe-
yer has moved into the residence at
519 West Ninth street.
The gas company announces that it
expects to have the gas compressor |
now being installed ready for use by |
the goth of the present month and |
that then there will be gas to burn.
E. w. Thompson is making a repu- |
tation is a reader of Canuck dialect |
and may go on the lecture platform. |
Mckee Rankin in his best days |
wouldn't hold candle to Thompson. I
Topeka retail merchants quote nav
FL oranges at 40 cents peck or about
one cent each while a big red apple
five cents and a bushel of
hem would cost four or five dollars.
The substitute clerks at the post
office are being schooled in the duties
which surround the work of clerks in