The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-24
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There will be a dearth Of flowers for
Memorial day this year.
Marshalrs band will give a concert
| in the city park at p. m. Sunday.
Fifteen hundred dollars a day for the
next thirty days is the sum the friends
| of Washburn college hope to raise
The old stone structure at lis East
Sixth street, is being torn down and a
new structure will be erected in its
place.
Rev. T. S. Young of the First Bap-
fist church is in Kansas City where he
Will deliver an address at the Theolog-
zeal seminary.
Mayor Green has suspended sem
tence on the dogs in the city pound
and no more of them will be shot I'M
til further orders.
Another election is over but the usual
after effects are not noticeable today.
The election was about the quietest one
ever held in Topeka.
The Topeka Giants and the Kansas
City Jenkins, both of them colored
teams. will play at the Association
park Sunday afternoon.
The annual commencement exercises
at Washburn college will be held in
MacVicar chapel June 5, which will be
week from next Wednesday.
David P. Taft, who formerly had a
real estate Office in Topeka, has been
arrested in Kansas City on the charge
of using the mails to defraud.
DR.. J. Albert Berry, who has been
confined to his home for several days
with a severe attack of bronchitis.
is able to be at his office today.
The Topeka Bridge company has
begun work on the Sixth street via
duct again. They did not like the
bluff of the city in regard to suit.
An especial program has been pre-
pared for the regular meeting of the
u. c. Il. which will be held Saturday
evening at their hall on Sixth avenue.
The Washburn baseball team has dis
banded for the remainder of the season.
A lack of support on the part of the
student body has been assigned as the
reason.
S. D. Cooper, chief clerk in the tie
and timber department of the Santa
Fe, today moved his family into his
new home at the corner of Fifth and
West streets.
Rev. NJ. Mcdonald, of Mt. Olive NJ.
E. church, will address the colored de-
partment of the Y. M. c. A. Sunday
afternoon at 8 o'clock. Subject:
''Patrio tiSm.''
The opening session of the Shaw
nee County Teachers institute will be
held in the Topeka high school build
ing commencing June and continuing
until the 29th.
Along with the present spell of warm
weather comes the unwelcome evening
pastime of spending a few hours with
the lawn mower and the rest of the eV-
ening nursing chigger bites.
Although the Topeka team did not
arrive in Webb City yesterday in time
for the game to be played about a
thousand people called up the State
Journal asking about the score.
The new building which is being
erected at the corner of Seventh and
Quincy streets, is being pushed rapidly
to completion. The exterior work has
been completed above the second story.
81 note,' said a careful observer, that
while the season for June brides has not
paying considerable attention to the APP
preaching events in their advertising
space" Z %
One of the clever acts at the Nov
city this week is that of ALT Holt, the
mimic and entertainer. After imitat-
ing a dog fight he responds to an en-
core by appearing with muzzle over
his face.
The vote yesterday in the congression-
al election which in Shawnee county was
627 for Anthony and sS for the Socialist
candidate. Kinsley. would indicate that
after all the position of congressman is
not so very important.
Three big yellow cars crowded to
the guards carried about five hundred
pupils of the Oakland schools to Vine
WOOD park TINS morning Wnefe tney
will spend the day picnicking under
the eyes of their teachers.
The senior class of Washburn college
have abandoned their intention of pre-
senting 1.-The College Widow June 1
in the college chapel as they had in
tended, but will instead put on few
vaudeville stunts to amuse the Dopu- |
lace of College Hill.
arrangements are being made by the |
North Topeka Civic club to finish the |
house cleaning started on that side of |
the river on Arbor day. Mayor Green |
will be asked to lend the committee the |
use of the city street cleaning force to |
haul away the debris.
The work of completing the East Sixth !
avenue viaduct seems to be of the ION |
again, off again, gone again" variety, |
but commencing this morning the work |
Is ION again. though the contractors |
have not material enough on hands |
with which to complete the structure.
At the meeting of the Kansas State
Pharmaceutical association which has
0een in session in Kansas City this week |
Matt Weightman was elected assistant |
secretary. Mrs. Fred Snow was elected
vice president of the woman's auxiliary
which was organized at this meeting.
Petitions are being circulated in North
Topeka asking the city council to have
sidewalks laid on the north side of Kious
street from Kansas to Central avenue,
and on the south side of Saywell street
from Kansas avenue to Logan street,
another block.
ct was just AZ years ago today"
aid w. H. Wilson, that I stood in
inc with 10000 other men of General
shermans army in grand review in
after our command had
spent 20 days in the march from
Raleigh, North Carolina to the ma
ional capital"
Fire Chief Wilmarth has ordered the
buildings at SOC and 90S North Kansas
avenue RACED. They were badly dam
aged by the flood, 4 years ago and have
been tenantless for some time and are
considered a menace to adjoining prop