The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-04
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The city schools will open Monday,
January 9Th instead of Tuesday, as
has been announced.
! The street cleaning force with a
line of hose is doing the work that
| was expected of the rain yesterday.
/ Topeka chap got an Indian rain
god early yesterday morning and it
commenced to drizzle right away. He
swears by these rain gods now.
]. F. Billings who recently resign
| ed as sales agent for the Smith Auto
mobile company has closed a contract
with D. j. August for a Smith ma
| chine for immediate delivery
The rainfall vest lrday amounted only
.O6 of an inch but even this small
amount of precipitation was sufficient
to make the streets very muddy. and
the mud of a sticky variety.
| A remonstrance against the petit
ton asking that Garfield avenue be
paved from Thirteenth to Fifteenth
| street was filed with the city clerk
Friday afternoon.
February % will probably be the date
! for the holding of the county primaries
| The congressional primaries will be
| held on this date and most candidates
favor holding the county primaries at
| the same time.
w. F. Jensen, president of the Con-
tinental Creamery company will read
a paper at the regular meeting OF the
! Saturday night club this evening on
the subject. Are the Pure Food Laws
a Menace to Commerce ?'
A large crowd heard the Kansas Uni
! versity Glee club at the Auditorium last
night male quartette was the fea-
! ture of the entertainment Irwin Snat-
finger. the Topeka member of the club
| sang Floating on a Marcel Wave" He
was given good sendoff.
| W. H. Simpson, advertising agent for
| the entire Santa Fe system, will arrive
80, Nd will ar1a0 n
here for a day or two. Mr.. Simpson
| is on one of his annual trips over the
| system and after leaving here will con-
tinue his trip to the coast
DR.. C. M. England. who has prac-
| ticed medicine at Meriden for the
past quarter of a century has moved
to Topeka, where he will resume
practice. DIR. and Mrs. England will
make their home at 21S Locust street.
| Roy Wilson of Huron, a nephew Of
William Heron, 1107 Garfield ave-
nue. who has been visiting the Her
rons, was taken sick with smallpox
and removed to the city detention
hospital yesterday. The Heron resi-
dence was placed in quarantine
The Fraternal Brotherhood, 81
will install officers at the semi-annual
meeting of the order which will be
| held at Exchange hall the evening of
| January 9Th. Supreme Vice President
Emma r. Neidig of Los Angeles. will
be present and address the meeting.
! Newton Beal, of Smith Center, has
purchased the What Cheer farm seven
miles south of Topeka This is one OF
4 the best known and best improved
| farms in this section of the state. Mr..
| Bates who sold the farm has owned the
place for 16 years. The price was $50
per acre or $4,000 for the entire farm
The new Novelty theater will be OPP
| ened tomorrow. If the new theater at
1
1 larity as the old Novelty, the new the
/ alter is destined to become the Leading
vaudeville house in the city. An ex-
ceptionally fine bill has been secured
| for the opening week.
| The spokesman of the police COM
mittee of the city council announces
that the committee will in all probab-
| ility suggest some changes In the
Sunday closing ordinance, the change
will more than likely be another
cleat for the lid which is said to De
| slipping in places.
| One of the reporters while he was
going to sleep last night thought UP
| a good snap shot and when he
awoke this morning, he couldn't think
| of 1t, though he spent all the morning
/ trying to remember. This is hard
luck But he made this snap shot up
| to take its place.
The Santa Fe office building is rap
| idly becoming one of the bygone haunts
of the politicians in Topeka. A few
years ago the Office building was al
most as popular as the Copeland or the
state house. Now only an occasional
political straggler appears in the office
and then only for friendship sake.
The paving petition which is being
circulated for the repaving of West
Sixth avenue will probably be pre-
scented to the city council Monday.
| The pavement now down, cedar
block, has worn out and brick Will
| be put down to take it's place. It is
| claimed. that there are a majority of
signers already on the petition.