The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-08
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The elephant goes around,
The band begins to play,
Those little boys near the lions cage
Had better get out of the way.

The band begins to play,
Those little boys near the lions cage
had better get out of the way.
Mrs. Hillard has returned to Coun-
ell Bluffs after a weeks visit with
Mrs. T. G. Rodgers.
Tomorrow will be Ladies' Day at the
ball game instead of today as there
will be no game today
Colonel George w. Veal is in Bart
lesVllle, Okla, attendin ga reunion of
the Sixth Kansas cavalry.
Richard Bergman left Germany on
August 27 and will arrive in Topeka
by the middle of this week.
Cement sidewalks are made by Has
k1ns and Ramsey, the Mulvane build
ing, who also furnish estimates.
The city schools will open September
day will be given over to teachers
meetings.
John Dougherty, depot master for
the santa Fe at Atchison, is in Tope-
ka for few days visiting with his
daughter, Mrs. Robert Finney
The K. and L. of S. band gives
free concert on the roof garden
Wednesday evening this week, only ten
cents for the round trip in the elevator
Although it is still early in fair week.
the accommodations of the local hotels
are taxed to capacity and many guests
of the city are unable to find accom-
modations.
3. H. Pugh left last night for South
Dakota on a business trip in the in
terest of the potato digging machin-
cry which he manufactures in To-
peka.
The Mr.. Curry who won the prize
at the Labor day picnic at Vinewood
park as the most popular man in To-
peka is not the Mr.. Edward Curry of
Highland park
Today is one of the big days of the
state wide fair. The Derby race is the
chief attraction of the day, and it is
the seventh race of its kind to be pull
ed off at the local fair grounds
The ball game at Athletic park
having been Cancelled on account of
the Derby today will be played We'd
nesday following the regular game
and admission will be free to the la
dies
Members of the Twentieth Kansas
regiment are beginning to arrive in
Iopeka preparatory to the big sham
battle Thursday afternoon. and the re-
ception in the state house tomorrow
night.
The Ringing circus arrived in three
| dlfterent trains over the Santa Fe this
| morning and small boys are in evil
| dence everywhere as a result.
The local branch of the National Ri
| fie association has received the annua
medal to be awarded to the winner OF
the 200 yard army rifle shot. The time
and place of this shoot has not beer
decided upon.
II. NJ. Miller, the new manager of the
Novelty theater, left today for Wich-
tia, where he expects to open a theater
for the Orpheum people in the near
future II no suitable location can be
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new theater in that city
Secretary Rex Kreipe of the state
WIDE Ialr association is congratulatins
himself upon the brand OF weather
which is being dispensed in Topeka this
week. Not infrequently in past years
nave the local state fairs been marred
by Indictment weather
Solomon Tribune: Mahlon Bishop OF
topeka, who owns section of fine
bottom Iand three miles southeast OF
| town, is looking after his interests here.
he has 300 acres Of exceptionally fine
| corn on his place and says that he Is
well pleased with his investment here
As far as Topeka is concerned, TODAY
| is an otfday in the Western Associa.
| ton There is such a plethora of other
attractions that Manager Cooley decd
ed TO postpone todays game uni
thursday afternoon when it will be
| played as the second game of a double
| header.
The annual meeting OF the stockhold.
ers of the Kansas Midwinter Exposition
association will be held at the office Of
the president, in the Parkhurst-Davis
building, corner First street and KAN
sas avenue, at p. m. Wednesday, Oe-
tober I, 1908, for the purpose of elect
ing a board of directors for the ensu-
ing year.
Skenes Park is the place finally Sc
lected for the circus today and this
can be reached by taking the South
| Topeka cars to Thirteenth and Kansas
avenue or the Vinewood Park cars to
the ball park. The South Topeka cars
are five blocks from the park while
the Vinewood cars are only four
| blocks.
Again the joke is on Chief of Po-
| lice Eaton, who last night ordered the
| Democratic Flambeau club to cease
| firing because the noise was disturb
ing the meeting of the city council.
| The noise was being made by the
Lincoln Post drum corps and the
Democratic Flambeau club was not
on the streets during the evening.
| Old Communion Set Found.