The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-04

CARS al any OF the leaQ1n8 SLOTeS
Tonight is the last time the rink
VIII be open this season. MarshalIs
band
With the warm weather which ap-
peared today comes the opinion that
spring is now here to stay.
The enjoyment from a dime can best
be had from smoking a Burghart's
Aurora cigar. Every cigar of uniform
quality.
Oldest inhabitants are authority for
the statement that the apple trees are
in bloom just about a month earlier
this year than usual.
The ways and means committee of
the city council will hold a meeting
this evening for the purpose of dis
cuss1ng the city lighting plant.
Otto Kuehne of the Kuehne Pre-
serving Works left for Denver today
where he will spend several weeks at
his branch plant located in that city.
Two hundred and fifteen witnesses
will be called in attendance on the ses-
sion of the United States district court
which opens on next week Monday.
Almost time for the circus bill pos
ter to be around and the annual
scrap between city officials over the
amount of the license and the parade
A light frost nipped the tender leaves
on plant life in some of the low, damp
sections of the city last night, but was
not severe enough to do any great
The Ladies Aid society of Quinton
Heights has made arrangements for a
bazaar to be held at Baughman's hall,
Twenty-third and Lincoln streets, Fri
day evening, April 5th.
At the annual business meeting of
this week the salary of the pastor.
stephen s. Estey, was raised from
$4,000 to $4,000 per year.
Two days vet Of the Davis admins
tratfon. Mayor w. II. Davis presides
at meeting of the city council Friday
evening at which time the new city Of
f1cers take the oath of office.
County Attorney Schenck's method
of handling the Joint question has re-
suited in more reforms among a GER
tain class than all of the REVEALS held
in the city during the winter.
A. Reinisch. superintendent of the
city park is in Salina where he has
been invited to look over an extension
of the city park at that place and offer
suggestions for its improvement.
The momentots question, which is
the all-absorbing one with the baseball
fans of the city at the present time,
seems to have drifted down to the
proposition of. Where are we at?'
William Green does not have a high
opinion of the part of the south
through which he passed on going to
Florida. The swamp land and yellow
soil failed to impress the mayor elect.
The schools of the city will be closed
Friday so that the teachers may at
tend the meeting of the Northeast
Kansas Teachers association, which
will be held al Holton Friday and Sat
urday.
The last of the series of pipe organ
fund entertainments will be held at
the auditorium Friday evening when
Dr. Thomas E. Green of Chicago will
speak on 1.-THE Key to the Twentieth
Century
Between Fifth and Eighth streets on |
Kansas avenue on the east side of the |
destrians must pass out into the street I
on account of construction work which |
is going on.
Mrs. M. R. Hiatt, PA Wabash ave-
nue., Oakland, returned from White |
Rock, Kan, yesterday. where she at
tended the funeral of her son. who |
was accidentally killed Sunday by the |
kick of a horse.
Now that the last drinking resort has |
been wiped out, the thirsty people have |
no way of satisfying their thirst except |
to sign up at a drug store and as this |
goes against the grain" of most i'm |
bibers their thirst goes unslacked.
A white mark should be chalked up |
to the credit of the street sprinkling de- |
partment, even if it will look lonesome |
on the record book. The sprinklers were
out on Kansas avenue good and early
this morning and laid the dust in fine |
shape.
The National commission, which will |
hold a meeting Saturday, will pass on
the baseball situation in Topeka, and,
as their decision will be final, the To-