The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-06

The cry; play BALI
Anyhow the fruit buds haven't been
killed yet.
Miss Carbotta Conklin who has been
dangerously sick at Christ hospital with
pneumonia is slowly recovering.
It is expected that 400 delegates will
attend the Methodist conference which
will meet in Topeka next week.
The thermometer yesterday went as
high as II degrees which makes the
warmest March 5 for Topeka In
twenty-one years.
Farmers report that the moisture
which has fallen during the past two
or three days has resulted in the fields
being in prime condition for blowing.
A game of basketball Is scheduled for
Monday night between the company L
team of Emporia and the Topeka ag-
gregatton representing Washburn col
lege.
Durno the magician, will appear at
the Auditorium tonight. The proceeds
Of the entertainment Will be turned
over to the pipe organ fund-that Is
what is left.
The big revolving storm doors which
have done service all through the win
ter months at the postoff1ce building.
have been taken down-another evil
dence OF spring.
The Leavenworth high school basket
ball team will meet the Topeka high
This will be the first time this season
the two teams have met.
John Macdonald editor of the
Western School Journal returned
home today from Washington. D. c.,
where he attended a meeting of the
National Educational association.
Among the purchasers Of fast horses
Oh No 10 % b. Rol 40
day was Dick Cooley. owner Of the To-
peka ball team, who purchased what he
thinks will prove to be world beaten.
Carl Rouse. who has established a
reputation as the champion runaway
boy of Topeka by efuding the vigilance
of his parents on four occasions during
the past four months is missing again.
The implement and seed dealers of
the city report a large increase In sales
this week owing to the fact that the
weather conditions are such that plow-
ing and planting time seems to be at
hand.
The present spell of warm weather
has been sufficient 20 arouse lot of
the latent baseball enthusiasm of the
city. A number OF school boys were
seen playing on the state house lawn
this morning.
Blue birds and robbins have made
their appearance in some parts Of the
CITY ana ILLS IdCt 6OOS 10 IlS DSuSl
that winter is over although March
has bad reputation in this section of
the world.
The Washburn basketball team
will leave next week on a trip
through the southern part of the
poria, Wichita, Winfield and other
college towns.
One Of the results of the present
warm weather has been to bring large
number of gnats and other insects out
of their Information. However, 1t is the
general opinion that they are a little BIZ
premature.
A permit was issued yesterday for the
erection of small church at the cor
ner Of <srattan and Seward avenues,
the cost of the structure being placed
at $500. 1t will be known as the Galilee
Baptist church
The site of old Quincy school house
in North Topeka is for sale. The
board of education hopes to receive
enough money from the sale to pay
for the site of the new building
known as Quincy school.
Theodore wirhie, who has been en-
pIoyed as mailing clerk for number of
years in the postoff1ce in the fedora
building, has been transferred to the
North Topeka postoff1ce and his place
will be filed by George Feiderling.
lIN SCHOol pOPdlGtAOL thC oihSi
ent schools Of the city were put
through a fire drill practice yesterday.
The Cleveland disaster has served as
an incentive and 1t planned to re
peat these drills once every week.
Some of the persons living in house
in the 1000 block on Monroe street, which
Is under scarlet fever quarantine,
are not observing the regulations, and
are leaving the house and circulating
around the streets at will. SO 1t Is re-
ported.
Election Commissioner H. 8. Titus
calls attention to the fact that the
spring election is less than a month
away and that there are hundreds who
will lose their votes because they have
failed to register unless they get busy
at once.
The drizzlins rain of the past two
days in conjunction with the high tenn
peratures and warm sunshine today
has had about the same effects on the
lawns about the city that the same
conditions would have had in the late
spring time.
The local baseball season will open
hree weeks from today, when Presi-
dent Comiskey with one of the teams
of Chicago White Sox will attempt to
defeat the local aggregation. Two years
ago in a similar game Topeka won by
a score of to 1.
II the present weather is kept up
much longer, it will not materially in
crease the chances of big fruit crop.
The buds will begin to appear with a
few more days of this kind of weather
and then a late frost or two will put on
the finishing touches.
Otis Hungate received a TELEGRAM
this morning stating that his pointer
Mint Julep, was awarded the silver
cup at the St Joseph dog show for the
best pointer in the exhibit She was
also prize winner in the Topeka show
capturing three first prizes
Referring to busy places" said Man
ager w. p. Hemphiu of the Independ-
emit Telephone company, "the operator
IN charge OF our information bureau
answers on an average 1900 ouest,ona
every day of the week and during a