The Topeka state journal., 1908-07-13

Mr. and Mrs. John Irwin, 707 Jeffer-
son street, are the parents Of a son born
Sunday.
A meeting of the Topeka Oratorio So
ciety will be held this evening at the
Commercial club rooms
The city council meets this evening
to consider the repeal of the Sunday
closing theater ordinance.
3 c. K. Holiday has been confined to
his home. on East Sixth avenue since
Saturday by slight indisposition.
There Will be meeting of Republic
can negro voters at Guys hall Thurs
day evening by Fourth ward voters.
The Ohio club will meet Wednesday
evening on the lawn of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. H. Bomgardner. 1895 Mulvane street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Real, who have
spent several weeks visiting with
friends. have returned to their home in
Topeka.
Bath tub chains are in strong de-
mand nowadays with the owners of
dogs who use them to tie the CANNES
in the back yards.
! John MacDonald's history of the
Saturday Night club was distributed
as a souvenir at the Jubilee banquet
in the roof garden Saturday night.
Referring once more to misfortune:
T. ]. Coughlin has received new au-
tomobile which was willed to him by a
distant relative who recently died in
the east.
L. M. Penwell, after spending a week
visiting in Leavenworth. left that city
Saturday evening for ST. Paul where
he will attend a Masonic gathering Of
Shriners.
The band concert which was to
have been given in city park tonight
will be given Wednesday night when
the Kansas merchants VIII be here en-
masse.
H. w. Ruff. past exaled ruler of the
Elks, left Saturday night for Dallas,
Texas. to attend the national meeting
of the Elk order as the representative
of the Topeka lodge.
The heavy showers which occurred
about O'Clock this morning have
been very conducive to cooler weather
today. The hot spell of the past
week seems to be broken.
Marshalrs band will go to Atchison
Saturday to play at the annual birth
day picnic of Balie Waggener, which
is given for the benefit of all the
young children Of ArcnIson.
Cyrus Leland, Jr.. who is opposed to
w. r. Stubbs being elected governor Of
Kansas, spent Sunday in Topeka with
for Ottawa where he will speak this
evening. 4
The merchants of Kansas will be
here in force Wednesday of this week
and there will be plenty doing in To-
peka for a few days as Topekans are
intent on showing their visitors a
good time.
Today is an off day for the White
Sox. Tomorrow the Topeka team
will open a three game series in Enid
to be followed by another three
days sojourn in Oklahoma City. The
next home game will be with Wichita
a week from today.
Garfield park is proving a popular
place of amusement as is evidenced by
the crowds which attend there every
night. Last night there was a big
crowd one of the biggest of the sea-
son and the street cars were packed
both going and coming.
1T looks to me as though the board
of directors of the Commercial club will
be compelled to look outside of the city
for a president, said disgruntled
member of the club when he heard that
George w. Crane had refused to ac-
cept the presidency.
T. c. Russells.. a speaker known all
over the United States, will deliver a
lecture on ITO He'll and Back" at the
Auditorium on Wednesday evening.
The admission will be free and an in
tereSting pipe organ programme Will
also be given.
Volume 76 of the Kansas Supreme
court reports is now IN the bindery
of the state printing office, and will
probably be ready for distribution
next week. This book completes
three full years work of the court
that have been reported In two years.
So far as is known,says a physician,
the only person who has ever died OF
rabies in Shawnee county was man
who was bitten by mad cat and af
forwards died while confined in the
county Jail, and SO far the city council
has not passed an ordinance muzzling
cats.
There will be no band concert at the
City park this evening, Band Master
Marshall having swopped dates with
Manager Kelly of Vinewood park. The
band will play at Vinewood park this
evening in place of at the City park
and at the City park Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday when the city
will be filled with out of town mer-
chants. ~
1t seems impossible to get rid Of
smallpox in Topeka, for just as the
health department is getting ready to
announce that the city is free from the
disease another case is reported. The
homes of A. w. Burbank, 134 Wood
ruff avenue, and William Drake. 1921
North Van Buren street, were quaran-
tined Saturday.
The three members of the council
committee on police voted unanimous
ly for the exoneration of Detective
Hutton and Patrolman Leach after go
ing into the charges preferred against
them by two North Topeka women. A
mistake was made in stating that
Councilman Fraser did not vote to
clear them. Those composing the COM
mittee were Councilmen Stanley,
Howard and Fraser.
The Topeka Street Railway COM
pany should see that its conductors
give the public a little more courteous
treatment Yesterday afternoon a
few minutes before the ball game, an
aged couple were waiting a Vinewood
car. The conductor refused to stop
the car although there were but few
occupants in it, and directed the
couple to take the next car. which
they did. The next car happened to
he a bali mark car and the cOuple