The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-15
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Senator Charles Curtis is billed for
speech at Booker T. Washington park
In Kansas City next Tuesday.
The city schools open today. Wash
burn college is registering students to-
day and begins active work Wednes-
day.
During the absence of DR.. S. G.
Stewart. his practice will be in
the hands of his son, DR.. R. B.
Stewart.
c. e. Jewell, treasurer of the Kan
sas State Exposition company, says
that the exposition company made
$4,000 last week.
The Wichita Fair association had
gross receipts of $4,000 last week. The
gross receipts of the Topeka state fair
were nearly $17 ,OO0
w. w. Dunford who is employed in
relaying the Sixth avenue pavement
assisted in laying the old cedar block
pavement on this street 90 years ago.
| lot of advertising is being done
now for the Cannon meeting on Thurs
day evening. Cannon posters are be-
ing put in all the windows on Kansas
avenue.
The rain today will be a good thing
for the Y. NJ. c. A. courts where the
Topeka tennis tournament is being
| played off. The courts were getting
very dusty.
Int CITY SCIlOOlS T6OpeHSu lHIS
morning with increased attendance.
And for the next nine months Topeka
youths will have to pursue the paths
of knowledge.
Football practice at Washburn col
lege will start tomorrow. There are
a larger number of places to be filled
than usual and competition will be
much stronger.
D. w. Mulvane, state member of
the National Republican committee.
left today for Chicago, where he will
confer with Chairman Hitchcock on
the local situation.
Mr.. and Mrs. ALI Klingenberg have
just returned from Montana and
Wisconsin where they nave been all
| summer. Mr.. Klingenberg is dean
of the Washburn school of music.
w. B. Kirkpatrick, national presi-
dent of the Knights & Ladies of
Security, and j. V. Abrahams, ma
tional secretary, attended a picnic
given by the order at Emporia, Mon
day.
In accordance with the usual Gus
tom the directors of the r. R. Y. NJ.
G. A. have arranged a series of enter
| tainments for the winter which will
be given every Friday night. The
course will start October %.
The last Saturday Evening Post con-
tains a piece about j. L. Bristow.
1t tries hard to be funny, and fails.
The man who writes a good deal of
the who's who stuff in the Post goes
| to desperate extremes sometimes to
| find a joke.
Topeka lodge No. 81 and Oakland
| lodge No. 402 of the F>raternal Brother
hood gave a reception at the National
roof garden Monday evening in honor
| of the supreme president, James A.
Foshay, of Los Angeles, who gave an
address. Governor Hoch was present.
Tomorrow will close the Western
| association in Topeka. Webb City and
| Topeka will be the opposing teams.
| The Topeka team will take a trip on
| the road starting Thursday and will
| play at Wichita and Hutchinson. The
season closes at Hutchinson next
Tuesday.
L. l.. Kiene borrowed a dog,
packed his hunting outfit and left for
| the short grass country Monday to be
on hand at the opening of the prairie
| chicken season today. He has numer-
Gus friends in that section of the state
| and there is no doubt but he will re-
| turn home with a well filled game
bag.
A North Topeka subscriber of the
State Journal takes exception to the
statement of the street commission
er that the flood damage on the North
side is repaired This party says that
| jackson street would be a death trap
| in case of another flood and that the
| only way to make it safe is to build
a dixie on Soldier creek from Curtis
| cemetery to the river.