The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-30
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Go to IIudson's tomorrow night if
you want to learn to dance.
Topeka needs a Dusenberry to look
after bicycle riders who are using the
sidewalks.
Lincoln post and Lincoln circle will
give free entertainment at their hall
on East Sixth avenue this evening.
Next Sunday evening DR.. C. NJ. Shell
don will commence the reading of a
sermon story to his congregation.
James A. Troutman has removed his
law office to the Mulvane building, over
the Bank of Topeka. Both phones 1907.
A new sorority has been organized in
the music department of Washburn
college. It will be called the Alpha Mu
The annual fair of the Indian Creek
Grange will be held at the farm of J..
l. Pollum on the Sth and 9th of Oc-
tober.
Edward Brennan, one of the White
Sox catchers, is at Keith's hospital
where he will undergo an operation
today or tomorrow.
The Commercial club has appropri-
ated SIS to be used in celebrating the
| appearance of Judge Taft in Topeka
| Saturday. October 8.
Howard and Albert Pattan and E.
C. Flower left today for Wabaunsee
county where they expect to hunt
ducks for a day or so.
DIR. E. F. Sharp, principal of the
Burmah academy will deliver a lee
ture at the North Topeka Baptist
| church this evening on Burmah.
H G. Everett, secretary of the Cen
trail Life Assurance company of Des
| MONIES, Ia, is visiting with the state
manager for the company, j. E. Carr.
On the east side of Kansas avenue
between Seventh and Eighth streets,
are two holes which are nearly a foot
deep. And this in the splendid new
| pavement.
DR.. Perry Lloyd. senior at Wash
burn college, will have charge of the
medical department at the Provident
| association and will answer all calls
sent to that institution.
Most of the ball players of the To-
peka team have returned to their
| homes for the winter and will con-
fine their playing from now until next
spring to the winter league. I
The drivers of autos in Topeka are
growing careless about the use of
| lights. A wreckless driver without
| lights narrow missed o. w. Bronson az
Tenth and Topeka avenues last night.
Evangelistic meetings are being
held nightly at the Central Park
Christian church by Rev. Mr.. Scrivner
of Beloit. The subject for tonight's
meeting is: us 1t Well With Thee?''
The mems Brotherhood of the To-
cal churches will be the guests at a
reception held in their honor at the
Central Y. NJ. C. A. this evening for
which an elaborate program has been
prepared.
The government weather bureau
which issues the corn and wheat bull
letin during the growing season dis
continued this service today, owing to
the early frost which has put an end
to the growing season.
oil, 49,
ed their officers for the ensuing term.
Grant Willis is president OF the seniors
Arthur Meyers of the juniors, Edward
Ingham of the sophomores and Frank
Redmond of the freshmen.
The first order for 200 automobile
licenses which was made by the city
clerk is almost exhausted as 1877 Ii
censes have been sold to Topeka auto
mobilists, and another order will be
placed for new supply this week.
The weather this afternoon is just
about of the made to order variety for
the Kansas City-Topeka gun club
shoot which is taking place at the
fair grounds The best feature of the
weather is the absence of any wind.
One student at Washburn has a
motorcycle and before, between. after
and during class hours he speeds the
co-eds around the pavements on Col
lege hill. He has the football hero put
larity.
Hurbert W. Callahan. of Garden City,
a former student in the medical de-
partment at Washburn college, spent
today in Topeka visiting former class
mates, He will leave for Chicago to-
night to enter the Chicago college of
surgery
The number of signatures attached
to the petition for a new pavement of
West Eighth avenue indicates that
the ponds and lakes which have been
so plentiful opposite the Capitol
square are to soon become affairs of
the past.
The street railway company has a
force of men working on West Sixth
avenue raising the low joints in the
track and cementing between the ties
preparing to repave the car tracks as
soon as the contractors have comp1et- |
ed grading the street.
The law firm of Troutnan & Stone
has been dissolved by mutual consent.
Robert Stone, the junior member of the
firm, will continue his practice in the |
present offices in the Crawford build |
ing, while James X. Troutman will open
an Office in the Mulvane building.
When the contractors began to tear |
up the cedar block pavement on West |
Sixth avenue they feared that they |
would be at an extra expense to get |
the old blocks hauled away. Then |
came drop in the mercury and since |
that time they have been compelled to |
employ watchmen to prevent the re- |
moval of blocks from the sidewalks.
The Washburn Glee club organized |
last year by Professor Look of the /
music department will be reorganized /
this year. Professor Look died of |
typhoid fever last summer and it was
thought that the club would be dis |
banded but arrangements are being /
made for concerts this winter. The |
Glee club is scheduled to appear at the |
Auditorium this winter under the au-