The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-29

last year who is now in the insurance
business at Hutchinson. is visiting ac-
quaintances in Topeka today.
The prize "BiIlfkin'' of Topeka is own
ed by Clarence Scott and occupies one
of the circular radiators in the Cream
cry restaurant as throne where it is
worshipped by many admirers.
\ chorus of between three and four
hundred Shawnee county school chill
dren will furnish the music for the
meeting of the Kansas Teachers asso-
citation at representative hall this
evening.
sweepers on their tracks early this
morning, and the result is a dearth of
dirt along the right of way. The city
should now follow UP the good work
with the sweeper.
The building permits issued. for the
year 1908 lack but few thousand dol
lars of reaching the million dollar
mark and that in the face of the
panickv conditions which have pre-
vailed in the east during the year.
Sheridan Ploughe. editor of the Hutch
| insOn Independent, is in Topeka today
arranging for the annual meeting of
| the Kansas Editorial association. which
will be held in Topeka, February 1 and
| 2. Mr.. Ploughe is president of the
! ISOLATION.
The employees at the Edison plant
! have organized themselves into an edu-
| catiOnal association and every Wednes-
| problems of electricity. The class is
conducted by the plant foreman. Joseph
| Z. Gossett.
All of the Santa Fe employees at the
| shops are waiting breathlessly for the
| first of the year. This week there
were a number of shakeupS among the
| chief clerks and it is feared that the
| annual influx of friends" will take the
| places of the popular men.
| The annual reception at Crittenton
| Hon int oil x1-iI1 nn hn16
/ Wednesday, December so. All are earn
estly invited to attend and acquaint
| themselves with the work of this worthy
| institution. The hours Will be from 10
| to u a. m. and from to p. m.
| A meeting of the Kansas State Vet
| Urinary association viii be held in To-
peka on the 18th and 18th of next
| month. The organization has mem
that more than double this number
| of veterinarians will attend the meet
/ ing.
Street Commissioner Frank Snyder
has figured that it costs the city but
| Sc cents a square yard to repair the
| city's asphalt pavement since a city
! repair plant has been installed. Under
| the old plan the city paid about 81 per
| yard for repairing, or more than the
| original cost.
Mr.. A. J. Carroll, living at 319 Tyler
! street. had his forearm badly cut by a
| broken bottle while operating a bottle
/ al
! Topeka Pure Milk plant DR.. Ernest
dressed the wounds. The large muscles
| were lacerated and it will take some
/ time for them to heal.
l.. S. Newell and family of Grand
Junction, Colo, arrived in Topeka to-
fday for a visit with Mr.. NewelTs pa
| rents who live at Elmont. The parents,
| Mr. and Mrs. r. G.. Newell. will cele-
| brate their golden wedding anniver-
| sary Wednesday. December 80 in an
/ appropriate manner.
| After several days of hard work the
| city street force has succeeded in find
| on Eighth avenue north of the State
| Journal office. A leak in the water
main was responsible for the find and
| it has been repaired. and the pave
ment may be some day.
| Postmaster A K. Rodgers says that
/ there are still i large number of pack
| ages remaining at the postoffice which
/ are being delivered as fast as the car
ries can carry them. It would help thz
| postoffice employees TO have people call
/ for their Christmas presents. There are
| hundreds of them undelivered.
| The most stunning creation in female
! head gear seen in Topeka this season
was in evidence on Kansas avenue Mon
day morning. 1t is of the Merry Widow
type and of fearful dimensions with
| profusion of pink pIumeS and furbeIoWs
/ the wonderfully constructed bit of
| headwear.
| Washburn college reopens a week
| from today after a two weeks adj
| tournament. 1t is said that there are
! about twenty students who are afraid
/ to come back to school on account of
the faculty getting next" to dancing
party they held on the top floor of Rice
| hall just before the holidays. 1t will
| take the Washburn faculty a good
| many months to sweat" the real Sc
cret of the dance out of the guilty stu
dents.
| drunken man in the happy stage
| went staggering down Kansas avenue
! last evening stopping everyone he met
with the news that John Collins was
| innocent He said he had known John
| Collins for fifty years and he was
| never known to hurt a human being.
| When last seen he was at the Rock
| Island depot headed for the Melan
/ bridge where he said he was going to
| drown his sorrows-which consisted of
two empty bottles