The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-31
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| James La. COSlF6u, Iu6 real OSS&1e.@
! man, has returned from a business
trip to Kansas City.
| The Glee club of Ottawa university
| will give an entertainment tonight at
the First Baptist church.
The Topeka-Denver game yesterday
was postponed by rain. The Denver
team left yesterday afternoon for WeDD
| City.
The next baseball game in Topeka
will be played Friday when the lola
| team opens up series of three games
with the White Sox.
L. C. Lippencott a former resident
| of Topeka, has accepted a position in
| one of the hardware stores in EN-
poria and moved to that city
The men who own ice houses on
the banks of the Kaw have given up
all hopes of filing them with the nat
ural product of the river for this sea-
son.
Yesterdays rain did much for the
lawns of the city and this morning
they appear as bright and green as
they usually do a month later in the
season.
Yesterdays total precipitation as
far as Topeka is concerned amounted
to SO of an inch and being of the
drilling variety the ground was well
soaked.
The dog tooth violets are now in full
bloom, and hundreds of people make
excursions to the country on Sunday
afternoon to pick these pretty spring
flowers.
Among other things of which Tope-
ka may boast in one of the three larg-
est grindstones in the United States,
which was installed in the Santa Fe
shops last week.
The latest bit of scandal now agi-
tattng Topeka's smart Sc concerns an
out of town woman and the details
are such that the matter is being dis
cussed in whispers.
The Scottish Rite body of Masonry
of the valley of Topeka will tender a
reception to the members of Golden
Rule lodge No. 80 this evening at the
Masonic Temple on Jackson street.
Lolita, the fire dancer at the Aurora
theater is the leading actor on the bill
at this theater this week And she does
her stunt in a way that cannot help
but win favor with the audience.
The Santa Fe has promised the stu
dents of Baker college a special train
to take them home after the debate
which will be held with Washburn
college representatives Friday evening.
Albert M Van Note, the fourteen
year-old boy who left his happy home
in Kansas City delivered himself to
the police yesterday with the request
that he be returned TO his former
home.
"T have been s,andered again i"
complained the daughter of a florist,
"by a Topeka newspaper which said
that my new hat measures but SO
inches across when it is full 81
inches"
Dewey and Evans who do an aero
batic turn at the Novelty this week are
topnotchers in their line. Dewey does
,s,,l,
have never been equaled from the local
vaudeville stage.
The seventy-fifth Kansas report of
the supreme court proceedings was is
sued from the state printing office
Monday. This is one of the bulkiest
reports ever issued, it containing LOFT
pages of legal opinion.
The programme at one of the thea
ters this week is such that it has
stage Johnnies who have been in re-
tirement since the last chorus was
billed for an appearance.
Yesterday was an unusually busy
one for the city health department
and at the close, six mo adnnittance'
cards had been hung on Topeka
homes as an indication of the
prevalence of chickenpox-
According to Secretary Wellhouse
of the State horticultural society to-
morrow is the day that apricots
should commence blooming in Kan
sas, but they have been in full bloom
for more than a week past.
The official scorer in the city de-
partrnent which issues dog licenses
announces that according to his fig
ures there are about 2,400 dogs in
Topeka, though the guess of the about
town man would be that the half has
not been told to the city official.
The special committee of the Topeka
Commercial club which was appointed
for the purpose of Investigating the
electric lighting proposition will report
at a special meeting of the club which
is to be held at four O'Clock this af-
ternoon.
There will be big doings at Washburn
Friday of this week. The Baker de-
batting team and the Baker baseball
team will contest with Washburn This
will serve to open the college baseball
season and the date which will take
place in the evening is the one big
event of the year in debate.
'The state board of health has
given Topeka milk a clean bill of
health. but that does not alter the
on account of the foreign substances
which it contains is the expressi on
I of a Topeka man who does not keep
a cow
/ Today is the last day that payment
can be made on dog taxes at the min
imum rate. And there are a large
number of CANNES whose taxes have
/ not been paid for this year. It is not
unlikely that the dog catcher will have
/ lot of business on his hands before
| long.
81 want to look at some bed room
! slippers" said an out of town girl to
| a shoe clerk in one of the large Kan
sas avenue dry goods stores. "Oh,''
replied the clerk, what you want to
| look at is bedoir slippers" NO
| replied the out of town girl. ct want
bed room slippers, or boudoir slip
pers.''
Manager Harper Rigby of the To-
peka Midgets is trying to organize a
| Topeka city baseball league. A meet
| ing has been called for tomorrow night
at Robert Fullerton's store which all