The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-16
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Skating tonight. Ladies free.
Hudson's dancing class for beginners
opens Monday evening, Sept. q.
H. Harrison of De Pere Wisconsin
is visiting his sister, Mrs. Cyrus Corn
ing.
Miss Myra Corning has returned
from her vacation trip of four weeks
in Chicago and Wisconsin.
The Washburn football players will
get their first touch of practice on the
Washburn field this afternoon.
A. W. Thompson and family of
Atchison will arrive in Topeka Friday.
Mr.. Thompson will engage in business
here.
According to the city health depart
ment there is not case of contagious
disease of any kind within the limits of
Topeka.
The walls of the new Thomas gym
nasium at Washburn are now COM
pleted up to the tops of the first story
windows.
During the sickness of Judge VIM.
A. Johnston of the Kansas supreme
court. Judge r. A Burch is the acting
chief justice.
Two boys, John Jackson and c. A.
Swartz, were arrested Tuesday after
noon for riding their bicycles through
the state house grounds.
Walter Engle and Amelia Hyatt
claiming
married Tuesday by Judge Hugh
Means of Douglas county.
o. w. Prout, secretary of the Rail-
way Y. NJ. c. A, delivered an address
to the Mems club of the Lawrence
Baptist church Tuesday evening.
City Clerk C. B. Burge left yester-
day for two weeks vacation as was
granted him by the council Monday
night. He will spend the time in the
east.
The west Side Forestry club will
hold an outdoor meeting Thursday
afternoon of next week at Cages
park to which all members of the club
are invited.
Chester Davidson of Garden City
has returned to Washburn for the
school year and will act as steward
for the boarding school during the
present term.
Frank Marshall who was heard in
the Topeka theaters last winter as a
singer of illustrated songs, has Joined
the navy at the Yarba Buena, CAL
ecruiting station.
Since the city asphalt repair gang
completed work on East Fifth street.
this we'll travelled thoroughfare is one
of the best paved streets in the city
and is greatly improved.
After a short visit with his parents
IN Topeka Ray Woolverton left for
Chicago Tuesday to take advantage of
q scholarship awarded him by the
University of Chicago.
Fred Freeman, vice president of the
Merchants National bank. made mis-
step Monday, an uncommon thing for
him to do, and as result is connneo
to his room in the Copeland hotel.
Wayne Hurlburt. the complaining
witness in the case against c. w.
Trickett. which the attorney general
dismissed Tuesday. is brother of
spec Hurlburt, the baseball player.
The Topeka team will leave tonight
for Wichita where three games will be
played. From there the team viii go
to Hutchinson where four games will
be played in three days, ending the
season.
Robert Pond of this city. who has
been teaching at Marietta college,
Ohio. for a number of years, will
leave Topeka Monday to take post
graduate work at Johns Hopkins uni
versity.
When the new Branner street viaduct
IA completed the new loop of the street
railway company between Sixth AMI
Seventh and Kansas avenue and
Quincy street will be used by the Oak
land cars.
IT'S probably just as well that Judge
Eimons of the city court did not decide
that there is no fine or cost attached
10 beating up an official OF the state
fair" suggests an agrieved exhibitor
before the event closed"
The janitor at the city offices swept
out a peck OF dead insects from the