The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-17
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| Sidney Gerow, son of T. B. Gerow.
state employment agent, is seriously
sick at Fort Scott.
| N. b. Burge. who is very sick with
rheumatism at his home. SIG West
Tenth. is slightly improved.
| A meeting of the Topeka Colored
| Business league is called for this ev-
| ening at 429 Kansas avenue
Gull and Johnson, the novelty
dancers at the Olympic this week. are
| the best ever seen in Topeka.
L. D. Eversole, who has an office in
| the Office Block and resides in the same
building, is seriously i'll at Stormont
| hospital.
Mr.. H. J. Bevelle will tomorrow
move to his new home. 1119 Morris
| avenue, Lowman Hill, which he re-
| Gently bought.
The Topeka high school eleven will
! play the Kansas City, Kansas, high
school next Saturday on the grounds
of the Kansas City Athletic club.
Six automobile loads of eastern lum-
bermen are expected to arrive in To-
peka in time for lunch Saturday on
their way to Denver, Col, for an out
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. W. Ferguson left
yesterday for Odell, Illinois, where
they were called on account of the
death of Theodore Mccormack, father
of Mrs. Ferguson.
II would just like to call your atten-
ton to the fact" sighed Tom L. Barns
steward of the Elk club, that the price
of one dozen choice apples will buy
three dozen California oranges this sea-
son.
The October meeting of the CONNER
c1al club which has been postponed from
time to time, will now go over until the
second Friday in November, when the
regular meeting for that month will
be held.
d. O.. Coe, 119 East Sixth avenue, is
constructing a business building two
stories high that will cost $500 when
completed. J. c. Wilson is erecting a
dwelling at 7O5 West Seventeenth
street costing $4,000.
Robert Pierce has about come to the
conclusion that his dog, which he
priced so highly, followed off the Bar
mum d Bailey show, induced by some
OF the roustabouts or hangerson who
follow all of the big shows.
Pete Hauser, who was formerly a
member of the Haskell football team
and visited Topeka often, has turned
up this year at Carlisle, where he is
taking the east with his place kicks
and line bucking and is talked of as
being likely candidate for the All
American eleven.
Word has been received from H w.
Ruff. exalted ruler of the Elks, that 1t
will be impossible for him to be pres
ent at the laying of the cornerstone of
place will be filed by Robert Pierce
Mr.. Ruff has been in the south and
west for number of months on ac-
count of his health.
Owing to the fact that Arthur E. Still
well, president of the Kansas CITY.
Mexico & Orient railroad, has been UNI
able to secure slides with which to
illustrate his lecture, his appearance in
Topeka has been Indefinitely delayed.
He has announced that he expects to
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Illustrated some time during next month.
Floyd Stevens, who has been i'll at the
Santa Fe hospital for the past eight
weeks, has been taken to the home of
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stew
ems, 312 East Twelfth street. The young
man attended high school last year and
was one of the popular students. When
school closed he accepted a position
with Santa Fe surveying corps and
it was while with them in New Mexico
that he was striker with fever.
The biggest lot of apples in To-
peka were probably harvested this
week by Captain A. M. Robinson of
No. 2 hose company. Captain Robin
street, secured 20 nice sound apples
from one tree in his back yard. The
tree is one of those left from the old
Douthitt orchard which covered that
going to keep them until Christmas
and then use them said Captain
Robinson.
Emporia Gazetteer Harry Frost, who
used to edit a weekly paper called the i
Lance. at Topeka, grew weary of mold |
ing public opinion many years ago, and
went to Detroit, where he became as
sociated with a railway supply COM |
pany. 1t is said now that he is a mil |
lionaire multiplied by two or three. He |
was seen in New York recently; his !
family was on an ocean steamship en- |
route for Europe, and Harry was hav- |
ing lots of fun exchanging Marconi- |
grams with them-which is an amuse- |
ment a trifIe too expensive for news /