The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-06
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By the hydropaths who swill US,
BY the aIlopaths who bill US,
By the nervous fears which kill U.S.
Tell us, tell US, wee Bacillus
What, and why, and whence you areI
Say. are you a germ atomio7
Have you uses economic?
Are you truly niasmatic?
Are you solid or Emphatic?
Frankly. Is your cause 55ymotic?
When your business is transacted
Is your stay to be protracted?
And do you intend, Bacillus,
To return again and kill US?
Do make answer, II you pleased
London World.
Roller skating tonight. Ladies free.
Friday only s1.95 for Mems So,
$3.50 splendid shoes, odd lots but all
sizes at The Palace.
The Anti-Horse Thief association
Will hold a meeting at the Highland
Park school house Friday evening.
The place Of the Washburn banquet
tomorrow night has been changed from
Music hall to the First M. E church
parlors.
S. R. Wells. manager of the Novelty
theater, and Clarence Woods spent
yesterday in Leavenworth on theatre
cal business.
Frank Marshall the song illustrator
at the Olympic sings a very interest
ing song this week entitled, Fetch
oNcT Tie SduO0.
The King Manufacturing company
has applied for membership in the
Commercial club and will be voted in
at the next meeting.
Clarence Woods who has had
charge of the music at the Olympic
since the theater opened last fall, has
| resigned his position.
It does seem like rushing the season
somewhat but one Topeka commission
g a ri Sf nT~Iy nfafo
for seeding purposes.
The grind of city cases will COM
| mence in the district court Monday,
| twenty-eight cases in all being set for
trial during the week.
The title Of one of the cases set for
trial in the district court next week is,
City of Topeka against one barrel Of
whisky and other property
Westin. the impersonator at the Ma
jestic this week, makes quite a hit
with his work. His cleverest i'm
personation is that of Queen Victoria.
The Dixie jubilee singers will appear
at the Auditorium February 81. This
will come as one of the regular en-
tertainments on the pipe organ lyceum
course.
Mrs. Mary Robbins. an aged lady
who lives near Cages lake, fell on the
ice Tuesday morning and both bones
in the lower part Of her left leg were
broken.
w. L. Taylor will leave for New York
this evening where he will meet Lam
precht Brothers & Company to dis
cuss arrangements to build the Topeka
| & Southwestern.
City Treasurer M. NJ. Hale received a
payment of $18,506.74 yesterday from
County Treasurer Medlicott, the rem
nant of the 1907 taxes which have but
recently been paid.
Wilson McVey of Cooper college at
has
| tation as football player, has en-
| rolled in Washburn college and will
| be eligible to play next fall.
| Iincoln's birthday will be celebrated
by the children of Tennesseetown Feb
ruary II. The celebration will take
place in the kindergarten rooms at the
corner of King and Lincoln streets.
| AS result of changing the train
crews of Santa Fe fast freight runs
Nos 121 and 122 and 80 from To-
peka to st. Joseph and Emporia, ten
Santa Fe enginehen and trainmen will
be transferred from Topeka.
1.-THE indications are that the pass
| age of the primary bill by the late spe-
| cfa1 session has taken away the meal
| tickets of a number of local politi-
clans" is the suggestion offered by one
| of the candidates for a county office.
| A large number of young men from
the Central, Railroad, Colored and
Washburn Y. NJ. G. AS will go to
| Wichita tonight for the state conven-
ton which will commence there tomor-
row and continue the rest of the week.
| Washburn will celebrate her forty
third anniversary tomorrow night with
| a banquet at M d. church. Dean Nc
| Eachron will act as POSTMASTER and
| toasts will be responded to by repre-
| sentatives from each class and from the
| alumni.
The members of the Wash burn
| basketball team who have been losing
| their games by a close score ought to
/ find some qualification from the fact
| that the Haskell Indians trimmed the
Aggies last night by score of
| SO to 10.
/ The day of reckoning has arrived for
the merchant who uses scales whose
accuracy is questionable, as DR.. ]. g.
| Crumbine, secretary of the state board
| of health, has notified his inspectors
who are abroad in the land at the
ton to this line of fraud.
/ The biggest hits of the weeks vaude-
vile acts in Topeka is that of Lii
Kerslakes trained pigs at the Novelty.
The pigs do all the stunts which
trained dogs generally pull off. And
the entire bill at the Novelty this
week is good. in fact, 1t is the best bill
seen in Topeka this season.
The story of the branch house of the
Hall Lithographing company which a
Denver papers says will be established
in that city seems to have been the
result of one of @. Gilfllan's Bean club
pipe dreams, judging from what Will
lard Hall, the president Of the COM
pany in this city. has to say on the
subject.
DR.. Garfield w. Weede of the Wash
burn football team and Mrs. Weede
will arrive in Topeka tonight from
Sterling where their wedding cere-
mony took place yesterday The stu
dents of the college are interested in
giving the new couple a reception
when they arrive tonight and Hugh
Hope, quarterback of the team, has
| been detailed to watch all of the