The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-04
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The Kansas Medical college. Wash
burns medical school, will open its fall
term next Wednesday.
The party of Topeka autoists who
left four weeks ago for Colorado, re-
turned to Topeka Thursday afternoon
Robert Campbell, who was formerly
employed as a reporter on the Topeka
Herald, now has a beat on the Sal1na
Union.
Julius Snattinger, manager of the
Lion shoe store on East Sixth avenue,
returned Thursday from a business
| trip to Omaha.
The street railway is now connecting
the line on Quincy street with the East
Sixth street. line and the new loop is
almost completed.
S. Stanton has completed plans for 4
thousand dollar addition to his resi-
dence at 1907 Topeka avenue and work
Will be commenced Immediately.
The annual picnic of the Ohio club
will be held at Garfield park Labor day,
Monday, September Z. All natives of the
| Buckeye state will be made welcome.
R. c. Bradshaw has purchased the A.
| L. Close property on Woodlawn avenue,
Potwin, and will shortly occupy 1t as a
| residence. The consideration is placed
at $500.
D. P. Paxton. of the firm of Paxton
| and Paxton, and W. Cochran, buyer
for the firm, have just returned rom
| months visit to New York and other
| eastern markets.
Five thousand soldiers from the reg
ular army will be quartered at the fa1r
grounds the 18th of the present month
| for two days on their way from Fort
Riley to st. Joseph.
The advance sale of tickets for Pima
fore which will be given at the Audi
| forum during fair week by the Topeka
Oratorio society," indicates that the
| Auditorium will be well filed.
The reproduction of the battle OF
Marilo by the Twentieth Kansas reg1-
I>ment will be the feature at the fair
grounds next Thursday afternoon. Gen.
Funston will be here for the occasion.
The two Blacks at the Novelty thea
ter this week have an act that is hard
| to beat. The two brothers are among
the topnotchers in banjo playing ana
| can do some great dancing as side
| line.
Gerald Benton, a State Journal car
rier and a son of Otis L. Benton, OF
Oberlin, has been taken to the Pasteur
| institute at Chicago. He was bitten
| by dog this week while delivering MS
papers.
The map of Topeka and city direc-
| tory which is being sold by the pem-
bers of the Twentieth Kansas Veter-
ans association sells for fifty cents
and not ten cents as has been errone-
ously published.
The next appearance of the Topeka
| baseball team on the home grounds
will take place next Sunday when
series is opened with the Springfield
Midgets. A double header will be play
ed next Sunday.
Grover Gaugh. aged 81, and Kath-
crime Her, aged 10, both residents OF
| Kansas City, were married by the pro-
bate Judge Thursday. Note the given
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political belief of his parents.
Thrift item: A Topeka drayman has
| so wagon loads Of cedar blocks which
he has hauled from West Sixth ave-
nue. stored in shed at his home and
expects to realize $3.50 a load for
them before the winter is over.
The indications are that number of
special trains will be run into Topeka
during fair week for the benefit of pa
irons living in this part of the state.
The Rock Island road has already an
nounced a special train service for the
week.
One of the latest songs to find
place in the music stores of Topeka is
kings Ex,' a product of Topeka peo-
pIe. Ruth Huntoon and Harvey G.
Parsons, the latter cartoonist and
dialect writer on the Topeka State
Journal
Dave ]. August has just returned
from three weeks vacation spent at
Atlantic City and other eastern points
He drove his automobile on most of
the going trip and as far back as Chi
cago and had the machine shipped
from there to Topeka
The committee of seven appointed
from the membership of the CONNER
cial club to supervise the expenditure
of the $4,000 subscribed to the state
fair fund met at the Commercial club
rooms Thursday afternoon and audited
the bills which have so far been pre-
scented.
L. A. Conner, who has been manager
of the Ridgley Mercantile company for
some item, has been transferred to the
home office in Des Moines, Iowa, and
his place filed by the appointment of
Paul Miller who will Immediately move
to Topeka with his family.
This item is written for the benefit
of those who have not paid strict at
tention to the standing of the teams in
the Western Association: Topeka oc-
cupies the pennant winners position
with a good strong lead of 81 points
over Wichita and is Sc points ahead
of Oklahoma City.
The labor organizations of the city
are planning for a day Of unalloyed
pleasure at Vinewood park Monday
| and have arranged an excellent pro-
gramme which includes addresses by j.
| D. Botkin and w. r. Stubs, candi-
dates for governor on the Democratic
and Republican tickets.
The old flag stone walk in front of
the Hanley building, 40 Kansas ave
| nue. has been removed and an up to
date cement walk will take its place.
| IT had that walk laid thirty-five years
ago, the grasshopper year." said the
owner of the property, George Hanley,
| land it looked like a shame to spend
| the money but it has certainly stood
| the wear of time WE'LL