The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-26

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Some hae meat they Gamma eat
| It's tougher than blanket;
| But others haze sausage mill
| And willing hands tae crank it.
| mo apologies to Burns)
DR.. L. E. Sayre, head of the Kansas
| university pharmacy school, was in To-
peka Wednesday.
| 1t is expected that the wedding OF
| Miss Anna Hoch will take place at the
| governors mansion on New Years day
John Q. Royce went to Des Moines
| Ia, yesterday to spend Thanksgivine
| day with his mother, who is IA years OF
| age.
Most of the smaller football teams O.
| the city are playing football today
| games being pulled off on almost every
| corner lot.
The city schools are closed until mex
Monday, and the school population OF
the city is enjoying the temporary re-
| lief from books.
A new fire alarm box has been in
| stalled on the east side of Van Buren,
| street between Sixth and Seventh
| streets. 1t is No. 46.
Several of the Washburn students
whose homes are In nearby towns left
last night for their homes and big
| Thanksgiving dinner.
The Santa Fe ran a special train to
Kansas City this morning for the Mis-
Sourf-Kansas game. Several hundred
people went from Topeka.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners will next week resume their
work Of inspecting the Missouri Pacific
| railway tracks in Kansas.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Wood of Eureka
are visiting Attorney General and Mrs.
F. S. Jackson this week. Mr. Wood is
manager of the Eureka telephone sys-
tenn.
Shunganunga Ray, well known To-
peka character was married Wednes-
day. The name of the bride was not
learned as the license was secured
in Hutchinson.
The. Washburn second team left this
morning for Holton, to oppose the
Campbell college team in a game this
afternoon. Manager W. w. Stah1 ac-
companied the team.
The Topeka Southwestern has COM
menced the first steps of securing a
right of way through Topeka. 1t is
planned to start the construction work
within the city in about two months.
w. H. Kemper, grand master of the
Odd Fellows, is making a weeks trip
through the western part of the state,
visiting lodges and making public adj
dresses to Odd Fellows and their
friends.
E B. Jewett. the former warden of
the state penitentiary, who was in To-
peka recently, thinks that John Collins
is guilty, but says that he won't oppose
pardon. He says Collins is a model
prisoner.
John @. Royce, former state bank
commissioner, has purchased the A. A.
GODDARD residence at GIG Taylor street.
Mr.. GODDARD has purchased the property
formerly owned by E. H. Blake, at Six
teenth and Boswell avenue.
Some astonishing facts about the
tuberculosis situation in Topeka will be
tod To cfofn f1Iha
vention by w. J. V. Deacon, the statis-
tician for the state board of health. The
state convention will be held Dec. 8 in
representative hall.
A beautiful country town effect was
produced when two cement sidewalks
were built across Tenth and Jackson SITS.
to the southeast corner of the state
house grounds. When a city has to
build sidewalks over its pavements it
means that the pavements are made
quate to say the least.
There was big celebration at Wash
burn last night. 1t was not to gain en-
thusiasm for the football game today
but because of the new 'owP' car which
the street railway railway is running
to the college. It used to be a hard
ship for the students to take a 1:30
car back to the college or else make
the two mile walk.
J. F. Snyder, George E. Joss, George
T. Mattingly and David Funston have
called a meeting dL LIl0 SSIllIdi dI n
Christian church for Friday night at
which all residents on Lincoln and va
einity who are opposed to the change
of the name of that street to Burl-
ingame street as proposed by the spe-
cial committee of the council, are urged
to be present
Inspector Reyes. recently appointed
by the mayor and council to take
charge of all work Of excavating and
filing the pavements of the city, is still
on the job. After working on the
rough places on East Eighth street he
has turned his attention to the depres-
sions on South Kansas avenue where
the gas company did a lot of work this
year laying pipes for gas service. From
the beginning Inspector Reyes has
made there is hope of a smooth pave
ment in Topeka by next summer.
It is not likely that the council will
take action this winter in the matter
of another arch for the Melan bridge,
but there is a plan on foot to organize
a drainage district for the south side of
the river that will take steps to widen
the channel of the Kaw at this point.
II is stated that both the Rock Island
and the Santa Fe are willing to widen
their bridges as recommended by the
recent report of the war department. |
Engineer Rodgers is figuring on plan
to cut out the banks on the south side
without adding another arch
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