The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-02
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L. ]. Kenney, who has been city jail
er for the past three weeks, has been
appointed second sergeant.
The students at Washburn are fall
ing in line with the organization of a
Taft club, which will march in the
parade Saturday night.
The crack baseball team from the
Santa Fe general offices will play
against the Midgets Sunday afternoon.
the game being played at Association
park.
Topeka is included in the list of
nineteen speaking dates which have
been assigned to Governor Hughes of
New York who will visit Kansas next
week.
The Sunday school superintendent
of Topeka will hold a banquet at
Gemmell hall in the Central Y. NJ. c.
A. building this evening commencing
at o'clock.
William Coulter, the mule king of
Kansas. whose ranches are located
near Garden City, is in Topeka today
with choice collection of his long
cared beauties.
The druggists reports filed at the
probate judges office Thursday in
dictate that S91 more liquor sales were
made in September than during the
preceding month.
The University of Kansas band of
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republican state central committee t.
be on hands for the Taft demonstra-
ton Saturday evening.
The Santa Fe Railroad company
has promised the entertainment
committee that it will decorate it's
depot building in honor of the APP
pearance of Judge Taft, Saturday.
Another shipment of campaign liter
allure has been received at Democratic
state headquarters, the consignment
containing 212,000 documents bearinS
on the present campaign conditions.
w. w. Bowman, secretary of the
Kansas Bankers association, delivered
an address at the national meeting now
in session at Denver. Colorado, on THE
Cipher Code" at Thursdays meeting.
The scene has been shifted in the
windows of the big Kansas avenue
stores and in the place of the thin
gauze creations are to be found thu
more substantial styles of early winter.
The rebuilding of Rice Hall at Wash
burn college is progressing fast and
Contractor F. NJ. Spencer who has the
week, the first three floors will be
ready for use.
The thousands of blackbirds that
roost at the Bethany college grounds
throughout the summer held a mass
convention this morning in spite of
the primary law and decided to
shortly take their departure for the
south.
The gas company announces that
there will be absolutely no advance
in the price of it's product this win
ter, but the burning question with the
consumer is: Will there be gas
enough for heating and cooking pur-
poses?
]. A. Nelson of Topeka, who has the
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in Atchison has been compelled to
come to Topeka for workmen in spite
of the fact that he offered Atchison
stone masons fifty cent an hour for
their services.
Judging from the condition of the
two teams. the game tomorrow be-
tween Washburn and the State Normal
games of the season. And with all the
visitors in town, there ought to be
great crowd in attendance.
Commencing Saturday morning the
Lutheran league of the Kansas con-
ference of the Swedish Lutheran
church will hold three days series
of meetings in Topeka, the first meet
ing to be held in the evening at the
Swedish Lutheran church, corner of
Fourth and Tyler streets.
A force of street car company en-
ployes are at work today tieing the
rails of the West Sixth avenue lines.
In this instance tieing means boiling
the rails on the opposite sides of the
track together so that they cannot
spread. Some of this work was done
when the track was first laid but run
ming short of long bolts portion of
the line was left united with the re-
suit that these rails are not as rigid
as the ones which were tied when
the track was laid.
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