The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-31
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day, February 6.
Ed G. Moore has issued a Topeka
hand book that is chuck full of in
formation about the capital city.
One of the best acts at the Olympic
this week is the act of Blanche Leigh
ton a coon shouter and singer of more
than usual merit.
clever acting in his playlet at the Nov
city entitled Love al-a-mode." He is
particularly fine actor.
Mrs. ]. w. Simmons, wife of Speaker
Simmons of the house of representa-
tives, has been elected president of the
Woman's Kansas Day club.
Vincent the infant member of the
clever Sully family at the Novelty this
week, is only two years DID, but he is
quite as popular as the others.
The legislature is still in session but
as far as actual business is concerned
the session is now a great joke. Most
of the men have left for their homes.
Nine. Carino with her string of five
trained bears at the Majestic this week,
is winning great deal of applause and
delighting the audiences with their
| work
An average of about $1,000 passen-
gers who pay their way are carried on
the Topeka street cars during a day.
This means about one thousand dollars
| a day.
Washburn college opened yesterday
and in few days the students Of the
| Topeka college will be hard at work
again.
| A barn at 1928 Lincoln street owned
| by Charles Bennett caught fire shortly
after o'clock yesterday afternoon.
| The building was saved. The source
| of the fire is unknown.
The streets and walks committee of
the city council has recommended
that twenty-five and one-half blocks
of paving be laid in the city of Topeka
| during the next year.
One of the best and most popular
priced attraction to be seen at the
Grand this season is the Grace Cam
| eron Opera Co, which appears tonight
in Little Dolly Dimples.''
Now that the county primary has
| been called off all the candidates who
| paid up their assessments are demand
ing their money back, which they paid
| for campaign assessments.
Uncle Jimmy Green, the dean of
the law department of Kansas univer-
| sity, is an interested spectator at the
sessions of the State Bar association
which are being held in Topeka today.
The snow of the weather department
failed to reach Topeka last night as
per schedule, but those who were up
early enough this morning could feel
a light drizzlfng rain in the atmos-
phere.
W. ]. Black, passenger traffic man
ager of the Santa Fee, passed through
Topeka on No. 1 yesterday en- route to
California where he is to attend con-
ference of passenger officials of the
coast lines.
The Washburn and Kansas univer-
| sity basketball team will play a game
| tomorrow night at Music hall. The
game ought to be a good one judging
from the seasons scores against OPP
| posing teams.
The sessions of the Kansas Bar as
ISOLATION will close tonight with a ban
quet at Music hall All the lawyers
who are here will attend the banquet
and several interesting toasts have
| been provided
Tonight and tomorrow night will be
| the last opportunity to witness the big
| vaudeville attractions at the Midwin-
| ter exposition. Tomorrow nights ses-
| sion will close the most successful ex-
position ever held.
! Rivalry between the two fraternities
at Washburn has taken a peculiar
] turn. AT senior class election yes
| terday two negroes who had never at
| tended a class meeting were persuaded
to attend and cast the deciding vote.
The man who has been hoping fol-
some wet weather to lay the dust that
| has swept up the paved streets III
| clouds for two months past was de-
| lighted this morning when he caught
| a glimpse of the rain drops coming
| down.
w. F. Buck, superintendent of motive
| power of the Santa Fe, who until
| few weeks ago held the position of me-
| chanical superintendent in Topeka, ar
rived in Topeka yesterday afternoon on
| his first visit here since he received his
| appointment.
| casual onlooker to notice the large
number of empty boxcars standing in
| the local railroad yards. This fact is
attributed by the local railroad men as
| one of the bad results of the present
| Industrial conditions.
Charlie Foster, the man who prob
| ably knows more than any other man
| in Topeka and who is considered
a walking encyclopedia, appeared on
the streets yesterday with his beard
and moustache missing.
The firemen at the headquarters
fire station, station No. 2, are as handy
with the needle and sewing machine
| as the average woman who prides her
self on her sewing. They own sew
ing machine which is pressed into SER
| vice frequently in the repair of their
| clothing.
Since the macadam road which ex-
tends out Central avenue a mile and q
half north of the Soldier creek bridge
has been completed, the country thor
oughfare is receiving a large amount
of travel much more SO than any
| other country road in the north part
of the city.
Once more the small boy feels that
fate has Disseminated against him for
did not the weatherman predict real
| winter weather for the later part of
| the week with an implied suggestion
of skating and has not the tempera-
ture been gradually rising for the past
forty-eight hours.
Tomorrow will see the close of the
| Midwinter exposition which has
| broken all records as far as attendance
is concerned. The vaudeville per-
| formances have proven exceptionally
meritorious and the event will be re-
| membered as the most successful one