The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-08
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The old soldiers parade this morn
ing indicates that the veterans are al
! most as clipper as boys.
| Decorations along Kansas avenue II
honor of the G. A. r. festivities. car
hardly be called profuse.
| There was great rejoicing when the
sun appeared today. People had al
most forgotten his existence.
The hotel business in the city is tax
| ed to its utmost capacity this week on
account of the many visitors in the
| city.
! Hard luck Tuesday was ladies' day
at the ball park and the condition OF
/ the grounds was such a game could
not be played
With the extra electric lights and
signs on Kansas avenue last evening,
that thoroughfare took on regular
metropolitan air.
It's proper for everyone to hold his
| breath when discussing the weather
outlook these days for fear that there
| may be a setback.
The Washburn track team will go
TO Baldwin Friday where they will
have a track meet with the Baker uni
Versity track team.
DR.. c. NJ. Hensley has resigned from
the staff of the Santa Fe hospital. He
is now in business with DR.. J. P. Lewis
at 735 Kansas avenue.
Grand Army specials into Topeka and
VIII have several specials for the u c.
I. Friday, one from E. Reno. o. T.
All the monographs, graphaphones
and other talking machines in the
city are working overtime these days
grinding out martial music and war
songs.
S. A. Hayes. 511 Jackson. who has
had forty-siX years experience shoeing
trotters and roadsters. gives special at
tention to all kinds of lame feet and
interferers.
Topeka is taking on the air of a wild
and woolly west when a man can hold
another up in the business part of
town in broad daylight at the point of
a six shooter.
Rev. w. w. Caruthers will speak on
The Temperance Question in Okla
homa' at the Reformed Presbyterian
church. Clay street, between Ninth and
Tenth streets, this evening at o'clock
Malon Burgett, the deaf mute prophet,
believes that he has a grievance. He
thinks the city should quit employing
so many old soldiers and give an oppor-
tunity to others to get on the city's pay
roll.
Regular car service is maintained
between the city and Vinewood park
at half hour intervals but there are
not very many people riding out that
way as yet owing to the GOODNESS of the
weather.
William wadsworth, the former
Topeka boy. who plays with the
Blanche Walsh company had some
philosophic lines in the play last night
on married life, in these words: when
it's good, it's great; and when it's bad,
it's ="
Old Jup Pluvius interposed his face
between the clouds and the earth to-
day much to the qualification of two of
the Western association teams to saw
nothing of the myriads of fans who
have been tenderly watching and wait
ing for a game.
Here is higher education item in
the Washburn Review: Franks at HoI-
brook were everywhere evident on Nav
Day. One bunch of girls creased the
ladder leading to the attic of the build
ing and number of the girls did a
regular shoot the shutes."
H. c. Lindsey will sell at public auc-
ton Thursday, May 8, his entire livery
stock, including carriages, horses,
hacks, runabouts, top buggies, phae-
tons, surveys, traps and harness. The
sale will be held at his stables. 112-
ia West Fifth street, and will com
mence at 1870 sharp.
Councilman Howard has hung I'D
large electric Illuminated G.. A. r. dec
grafton in front of the Auditorium con-
sitting of a United States flag in vari-
cOlored globes, and the regulation G. A
R. badge This together with the large
number of flags purchased by the city
council makes the city hall the most at
tractively decorated building in the city
81 can't hear a word she says" snap
ped a girl during one of the thrilling
incidents of the Blanche Walsh show
at the Grand last night, and then she
proceeded to keep up a running fire of
audible comment so that those sitting
in her immediate vicinity could not
possibly hear anything on the stage,
even though their sense of hearing was
in working order.
A CRATER has been working a new
game in the vicinity of the Santa Fe
depot. He drops a fountain pen on the
walk and then, as some one passes by,
pretends that he has just found 1T and
offers the pen for sale. He sells it for
anything that he can get One man paid
1.25 and another got away for 25 cents.
The pens are so constructed, it is said,
that they won't write.
Frank Snyder, street commissioner,
saved the city $500 by removing 100000
brick from sidewalks on Walnut, Linn,
Ash and Elm Streets These streets
We're declared vacated when the Santa
Fe purchased the property on those
streets south of State street. Snyder
didn't have any authority to remove the