The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-19

Remember A Ragged Hero at the
Grand Wednesday, Feb. 20. Beneht
| Provident association.
/ Miss Edith Laycock is in lawrence
| where she was called by the death of
her sister, Miss Stella Hayes.
| The annual meeting of the stock
1 holders of the Country club will be held
at the Commercial club rooms this ev-
| ening.
S. D. Cooper has purchased the lots
at the southeast corner Of Fifth and
| West streets and will erect residence
| at once.
| The Democratic city central COM
mittee will meet tonight at the Throop
hotel to perfect plans for the coming
| primaries.
The annual banquet of the Authors
| and Booklovers' club will be held at the
| rooms of the Y w. C. A. in the Ma
sonic building Wednesday evening at 8
O'Clock.
DR.. w. N. West was elected presi-
dent of the Central Whist asso citation
at its thirteenth annual meeting held
last Friday and Saturday at Sioux City,
Iowa.
The high wind of yesterday was in
strumental in drying up the country
roads which were still somewhat mud
dy. However, they are now in good
shape.
For ten days without break the
sun has shone with all the vigor of
midsummer and the temperature has
been high enough to suggest the same
season.
The rural carriers in Shawnee coun-
ty claim that they are having trouble
in making their schedule time on ac-
count of the muddy condition of the
country roads.
Hugh Kincaid, who formerly lived
with his parents in this city, was
killed by being knocked off of a work
train near Dulton, Missouri, on the 7th
Of the month.
The fact that the male Great ton has
all the best of it except in the chicken
terday when taxes were paid on eleven
dogs-all males.
Some smokers insist on having ten
cent cigars. If you are one of these
ask your. dealer for Burghart's Aurora.
This is absolutely the best ten center
sold in Topeka.
William H. Barnes, secretary of the
State Horticultural society, announces
that when his term of Office expires in
July that he will return to his farm in
Bourbon county.
There is as much difference between
five cent cigars as there is between day
and night. There's Burghart's Favor
lite for instance It's the best five cent.
straight. cigar made.
A meeting of the city Democratic cen
trail committee is called for this evening
to consider matters appertaining to the
Democratic banquet which will be held |
on WaSh1ngtOn'S birthday.
The board of county commissioners
be used in leveling the corner of Ro-
chester cemetery used as a burial plot |
for the poor of the county.
With a lecture. a musical entertain |
ment, two vaudeville shows and three
moving picture shows the people of
Topeka ought to have found a plenty |
of entertainment last night.
Topeka need not feel so terribly cut
up over the fact that six passenger |
trains are to be taken off, as two new
trains have been added to the service |
between this city and Tecumseh-work |
trains, however.
The Union Pacific now threatens to |
run a fast mail train between Kansas
City and Ellis which will go through |
Topeka This would give Topeka a |
Union Pacific train which will go west |
six hours earlier than any which they
now have.
IF there is one building in the city
which is as poorly ventilated as the |
representative chamber in the state |
house 1t certainly is the |
First Baptist church" remarked lady |
as she left that building after the Lind |
sey lecture last night.
The Mills Dry Goods store will open
a sales room in the basement of the |
store and the space underneath the |
sidewalk is being eXcavated to give |
more. room to the basement sales room. |
steel and cement arch.
Petitions may be circulated asking
the city council to require the city rail-
way company to erect suitable waiting
rooms at the outlying junction points
which the company has arbitrarily
established under the new system of
transfers. Such waiting rooms should
be located at Tenth and Kansas avenue;
Sixth and Kansas avenue; Fifth and
Kansas avenue and Fourth and Kansas
avenue.
A great many people will doubtless
be disappointed when the primaries
roll around and find that they are not
allowed to vote on account of not hav-
There is but a little more than two
weeks left for registering and those
who desire to vote at the primary
election had better make use of their
opportunity of registering while they
have a chance.
1t is reported that the Santa Fe has
practically closed its transaction for the
purchase of the H. S. Reed property
consisting of a house and three lots
south of the general office building on
jacks on street and that possession will
be given March 1. The Santa Fe re-
Gently secured an option on the proper
ty through outside parties, paying down
81 900 for the option. The building will
probably be used for storage purposes
pending the time when it may be need
ed for office extension.
1t is reported that the Union Pacific
railway contemplate running fast
mail train west from Kansas City 1eav-
ing that place at about three o'clock in
the morning in the event the Santa Fe
routes the fast mail over the Ottawa
cutoff. The Union Pacific could give
Topeka and Lawrence the same service
the Santa Fe now gives and would also
reach a big territory in central Kansas
not now reached by the Kansas City
papers as soon the territory
to the Santa Fe lines.
= Valuable Lesson.