The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-03-23

the month. and will live at the house
on west Sixth street which the fam
/ lily occupied during the winter.
| The books closed last
night with a total Of 15,3S8 registered
voters on the books This is the high
| est number Of voters registered since
1901 when Hughes and Parker were
contesting for the mayoralty honors-
Judge Pollock of the United States
district court is spending a few days
at his home in Winfield, Kan. Inc re-
uainder Of the officers Of the court
have returned from Wichita where the
court has been in session the past Two
weeks.
! President L. H Murlin of Baker uni
versity, Baldwin. will speak at the
Central Y. NJ. c. A tomorrow after
noon at 3:45 O'clock, His subject VII
Smith of the Washburn music school
Will sing
One thing that can be said in favor
OF the warm weather is that IL does
not overburden the poor commissioner
of the county with business There
have been no requests for aid in several
days and the giving of coal to the poor
er people has ceased
There's one joy about hospital life"
saws an fmpecunious friend VINO seldom
has the price of a meal ticket, and who
has recently been i'll with typhoid. and
that is YOU never have TO worry about
where the next meal is coming from for
there is none a-coming-
Chauncey Brown. who recently moved
from Topeka to Garden City. has been
nominated for justice of the peace by
the Democrats and according TO the
treatment given W. H Thompson. who
was elected judge of the district short
IL after moving there viii be elected.
II is conceded that City Attorney
Dreaming has a rabbits foot or charm
r7cxb7 ca he
has not been able to locate the amulet
The latest indication comes with the
announcement that the Democrats have
failed to nominate man against nlln-
Walter Wellhouse the secretary
elect of the state horticultural society.
says that some of the best apple crops
have been raised in years with an
early spring like the present one, but
that there is serious danger of kill
ing frost when the trees are in bloom
in April.
There will be special passion week
services al the First Presbyterian
church next week consisting OF lee
lures by DR.. Estey illustrated with
of passion week Sunday, Tuesday.
and Friday evenings and
Easter Sunday afternoon
a new street car conductor was
handing out information to a stranger
where does that track lead to ?" ask
ed the stranger pointing TO the spur
that runs out from the end of the
Washburn car line to the college ath-
letic field THAT" why that runs
out to the Country club said the
N C with a knowing air.
1T has been less than a month" said
the city salesman as he gazed in an
up town dry goods store window at a
wax figure arrayed in the fiagTee, de-
coIIete creations of the summer season.
since that same wax face smiled at
ne from a bank of rare exhibits from
the fur kingdom, while the figure itself
displayed a heavy winter coat"
4 think that 1 have stopped a [ least
leo drivers of vehicles CT different kinds
this morning. who were driving on the
wrong side OF the street" said a good
natured policeman on Kansas avenue
at noon today. and asked them to de-
stst- Some of them get mad and tell
me that Trey know their own business
but NEST of them take the suggestion
good-natured and cross over"
The asphalt pavement on Harrison
street is probably in the best condition
Of any OF the old asphalt pavements IN
the city. But it viii not be in that
shape long. A large house was recently