The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-07
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Roller skating tonight Ladies free
The West Sixth avenue macadam
road has been badly cut up by the brick
wagons.
f. l. Good, night clerk at the Throop
hotel is seriously i'll with an attack of
pneumonia.
j. T.. Hurley, general manager of the
santa Fe, is back in his office again af-
ter having been in Chicago for several
days on business
w. II. McAfee was elected president
OF the Kansas Good Roads association
at the meeting which was held at Man
haitian yesterday.
The action of the city council in vot-
Ing TO remove the lid next Sunday in
dlcates large falling off of the Sat
urday sales among the cigar dealers.
The division superintendent of the
southwest district of the Rock Island
held short general conference in To-
peka yesterday and returned to their
homes last night.
The advance sale of Midwinter tick
cts which We're placed in the hands or
the merchants of the city has proven
highly satisfactory, nearly all of the
tickets having been disposed of.
Professor Richard G. Moulton of the
University of Chicago will begin ser
les of six lectures Wednesday evening
The Tragedies of Shakespeare.
]. E. Taylor. who was recently ousted
as superintendent of the poor farm by
the board of county commissioners for
political reasons, announces that he Will
in all probability move, to Oklahoma
All of the departments at Washburn
college were opened this morning to the
students after vacation of two weeks,
with the exception of the medical de-
partment which opened day before.
Rev. A. R. Ogden, of Wichita, will
preach at the Seventh Day Adventist
church, corner of Western avenue and
Fifth street this evening on the subject
why Am a Seven Day Adventist"
After spending three Nays in Beth
esda hospital as the result OF second
operation on his arm, Emmett Dalton
is able to be about the streets Of the
city again. His arm appears to be much
improved.
L. G. Treleaven received word yester-
day that the pumping plant at Scipio
is now completed. but as long as the
temperature remains where 1t is the an
nouncement will not create much of
sensation.
The nineteenth annual session of the
Kansas State Poultry association open
ed yesterday. There were twenty-five
hundred or more chickens of various
breeds and strains at the Auditorium
this morning.
The home of Mrs. E. " Reeder, 1414
Harrison street, has been quarantined
by the city health officers on account OF
the Illness of Mrs. Reeder and Miss F.
Lyons who are suffering from light
attack of smallpox.
Miss Isabel Macarthur will give read
ings from her own compositions at the
Central Y. M. CA. building Wednes-
day evening for the benefit of the Y
w. c.. A. The Topeka mandolin club
will assist with the programme.
Crane & Co. want an apprentice in
their printing department, and in an
advertisement suggest to the applicant
the possibility of becoming member
of congress, senator or president, 1t
being taken for granted that these po-
sitions are filled from the ranks Of the
printers. - Il
E. L. O'Neil, clerk of the city court.
has paid good hard cash for three
columns of space, more orsless, in this
issue of the Topeka State Journal
which he has used in an argume nt for
the purpose of convincing the voters
of his district that he is the man who
should be county commissioner
Colonel w. A. Harris of Lawrence,
the recent Democratic candidate for
governor will address the evening ses-
sion of the Kansas Improved Live
Stock Breeders association in Repre-
sentative hall tonight. His subjecl
will be, Importance of Live Stock
Industry to the Agriculture of a Coun-
try
The first annual report of the Purity
Home and School of instruction was