The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-05
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Marshalfs band tonight for the
skating at Music hall. Ladies free.
Contracts are being sent out today
to the players who will compose the
White Sox aggregation next seas on.
What has become of the statue of the
Goddess Ceres which was to have been
placed on top of the state house dome
Topeka Union No. 10, N. A. A. will
give a dance tonight at A. o. U. W.
hall at Sixth and Quincy for 25c a
couple.
Albert T. Reid, who has been seri-
ously i'll with grip and was for a time
threatened with pneumonia, is cons1d-
erably improved.
The forty-third anniversary of the
founding of Washburn college will take
place Friday night at $50 with ban
quet in Music hall.
Robert H Grebe of 314 Harrison
street has accepted position as head
miller with the Kramer Milling COM
pany of Anthony, Kansas.
Art Adair, a rube comedian and must
cal actor at the Majestic this week is
one Of the top liners of the bill and is
certainly good in his line.
Zeck and Zeck with their novelty act
house with their many hits. The Olym-
pic now has four shows day.
The gas pressure yesterday was
three pounds higher and again the as
sertion is made that the plant at Scip1o
will give no further trouble.
David Palmer and John Hunt are
new members of the Gleed law firm
! which will hereafter be known as
Gleed, Palmer, Hunt & Gleed.
According to the list in the hands of
Sheriff Wilkerson there are over 400
residents of Shawnee county delin-
quent with their personal taxes.
The Washburn basketball team will
go to Lawrence next Saturday where
they will meet the Kansas university
basketball team Saturday night.
At the request of the board Of coun-
ty commissioners all of the offices at
the court house were closed this after
noon during the time of the funeral of
Mrs. j. j. Schenck.
The congregation of the First Swed-
ish Lutheran church has offered the
pastorate to Rev. A. T. Seashore of
Minneapolis, Mimi, who has expressed
a desire to come to Topeka.
The last sign of the late Topeka
Daily Herald has been taken down.
Johnson & Beck, plumbers, now
occupy the room formerly used as a
newspaper office.
Mrs: Arthur Armstrong of 222
Jackson street, who has been quite
sick with the grip is improving. Her
two children Dorothy and Theodore,
have also been quite sick.
The fifth lecture of the Shakespeare
course by Prof. Richard G. Moulton
will be given at the high school audi
forum tonight, the subject being
"Othello; A Study Of Plot
Miss Charlotte M. Leavitt, professor
of English at Washburn, has again ia
ken up her duties after having spent
the first semester doing special work in
her line at Columbia university.
The Hod Carriers union has notified
the Topeka contractors that the union
will insist on the payment of $3.50 per
day for mortar mixers and 50 for
wheelers and scaffold builders after
May 1, 1908.
Politics has taken a back seat for a
short time. All the classes of Wash
burn college have elected their class
officers for this term and there will be
no more political battles until near the
end of the season.
Judging from the number of entries
which have been received for the To-
peka bench show, this show which will
be held in the Auditorium February
1929, will be one of the best in the
country this season.
Prof Frank T. Miner of Chicago,
who is one of the leading authorities
on musical affairs in the entire coun-
try, will be given a reception at the
Central 7. NJ. G. A. tonight. He will
give a short talk on musical affairs.
A reception has been arranged for
Prof. Frank T. Miner of Chicago this
evening at Gernmen hall, in the Y. M.
G. A. building. during which he will
make a short talk on music culture
and it's relation to municipal affairs.
Irwin Cook, who graduated from
Washburn college last spring, is in To-
peka for a few days visiting with col
lege friends. He Is on his way to the
University Of Michigan where he will
take a course in the law department.
Earl F. Keyes, a former Topeka boy
who has been doing reporterial work
on the Oklahoma City Times-Journal
for some time, has resigned his position
there and Is now chief clerk In the Of
fee Of the Oklahoma state auditor at
Guthrie.
The Columbia Comedy Four at the
Novelty theater this week is making q
great hit. 1t is one of the best quar-
tettes on the vaudeville stage and nc
one is satisfied with hearing them but
once. The entire bill at the Novelty
this week is far above the average.
Owing to the scarcity of news pre-
vailing at Washburn college the man
ayers of the Washburn Review have
persuaded one Of the young ladies' to
elope. AS yet, however, none Of the
young lads of the school have been in
weighed into becoming the other party
AS an evidence that the Standard Oil
company is not attempting to cciIec,
| surplus funds with which to pay the
| fine assessed by Judge Kenesaw Noun
| tain Lands, the Topeka wholesale
dealers in gasoline have been notified