The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-17
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Once a year it happens. Tomorrow,
| Saturday. April Is, any suit in August's
store $S.SS and a $500 vest free.
Today is Good Friday. However
those who are compelled to be out of
doors today will be inclined to dispute
this assertion.
The next baseball game on the Wash
burn schedule will be played next
Thursday afternoon between Washburn
and st. Mary's.
Augusts have engaged Is extra cloth
ing statesmen for their choice of any
suit in their house for SS.S8 sale to-
morrow. They give $500 vests free.
The Sherman Stock company con-
tinue to play to crowded houses at the
Majestic. 1.-The Village vagabond" is
the bill for the remainder of the week.
A merry-go-round is being erected on
Jefferson street between Fourth and
Fifth and indications are that it will
do big business among the East sid
ers.
The Knights of the Rose Croix
branch of Masonry will celebrate the
Resurrection of Christ with Easter SER
vices at their temple on Jackson street
Sunday morning.
Alexander H. Brill of Topeka, % years
| of age, and Gladly Liper IS years of
age, also from Topeka, were granted a
marriage license yesterday by the pro-
Miss Hattie Lowell has just received
box Of Gala lilies and ferns from
Mrs. Captain McKittrick of Bakers
field, Gala. Mrs. McKittrick is
daughter of the late General w. B.
Shafter.
One of the cleverest clog dancers
ever seen in this city is Miss Bessie
Allie, who is doing a turn at the Nov.
city theater this week. Tonight Albini
the wizard will give his expose of Anna
Eva Fay and other mediums.
A meeting of the Home Missionary
society of the Methodist church will
be held in the church parlors Satur-
day afternoon at o'clock for the pur-
pose of meeting Miss Nellie Snyder,
one of the national organizers.
The Western Wooden mill of North
Topeka has been awarded a contract
for the manufacture of $1,000 yards of
cloth for the United States Smelling
company Of Salt Lake City. The goods
represent an outlay of about SIS, 900.
A new bill of moving pictures was
put on at the Aurora theater last night.
Red Davis, the Topeka outfielder, will
arrive in Topeka today and will wait
here until the return of the team.
Transportation was forwarded to him
yesterday.
that the rain which began to fall in
Topeka early this morning is quite
general and will greatly help the
wheat crop, which is now being looked
upon as the only means of reviving
good times.
The management of the Topeka &
Northwestern railroad announce that
daily train service will be resumed on
the Onaga line May Is, which means
that Topeka will again become the IA
vorite shopping point for residents
along this line
On account of the rainy weather the
baseball game and relay race which
were scheduled for this afternoon be-
tween Waskburn and Kansas uni
versity have been called off. Arrange
ments will probably be made for hold
ing the two events at a later date.
Charles A Gardner of the auditors
office in the Santa Fe building, will
leave Immediately for a tour Of the
west carrying with him an assortment
Of ox-blood shoes purchased from local
shoe men which is said to be the fin
est shown in this part of the world so
far this season.
Thirty Russian families who live in
North Topeka are preparing to leave
the 9Th of May for Garden City where
they will be employed during the sum-
mer months in the sugar beet fields.
hTey return after the beets are har-
vested in the fall and the men and boys
find employment in the Santa Fe shops
Now that the baseball season is ap-
preaching the gas company and the
Edison company have been talking of
a game between teams from the en-
ployes of the two institutions. The gas
company recently issued challenge
to the Edison company but the latter
have so far refused to formally accept
although they have talked about 1t