The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-09-11
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w. S. Hancock, one of the managers
of an exhibit at the fair, is response
BILE for the following poem on Topeka:
There are cities that boast of their
grandeur and wealth,
There are cities that pirate of their size;
There are cities that preach on the Won
derful health,
Upon them rained down from the skies.
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And for others of cen greater worth,
Please bear this steel-riveted truth in your
There is only one Topeka on earth.
GO travel all over this wonderful land,
From Kansas to Kalamazoo,
From Oregon's shores, where the salmon
are canned,
To the restless Atlantic so blue.
Size up every city that falls meath your
ken
Investigate every worth,
And you'll say when you're back in the
There is only one Topeka on earth
Roller skating begins Monday night
at Music hall, 526 Quincy.
Queen Esther will be rendered by
the Oratorio society at the Auditorium
tonight.
Cement sidewalks are made by Has
kinS & Ramsey in the Mulvane build
ing estimates furnished.
George White, the popular Washburn
half back of the last three years, is
sick at Christ hospital.
The Scottish Rite bodies will hold
their first regular meeting after the
summer season at the Masonic Tenn
pie this evening.
kindergarten at Central Congrega-
tional church will open Monday morn
ing, Sept. IA, '08, under the direction of
Mrs. ]. G. Stricken. Phone 3Os4.
officer Bryant of the city force ar
rested Arthur Kitchcomer. a young
Indian from the Haskell institute at
Lawrence, Thursday afternoon.
The double header which the White
SOx annexed Thursday afternoon from
the Joplin team is the eleventh game
that they have won without a loss.
Dick Cooley has arranged post sea-
son games with Omaha and Kansas
City which will be played in Topeka
during the latter part of the month.
The Webb City baseball team
opens here this afternoon. And this
is the last team to appear in Topeka
during the present championship sea-
son.
Ottawa Republic: Dodge and
DR.. L. P Gentry and Bert Hanson
drove to Topeka today in Oliver
Bodley's auto.
The Washburn football team will
commence practice next week and
from then until Thanksgiving time
the main topic of interest on College
Hill will be football.
Scott Sidney, a Topeka man was
fined SIS for trying to kiss two girls at
Salina recently. Sidney is a laborer
who works for a Topeka contractor,
paving Salinas streets.
The Rock Island railroad will
send a special train from Topeka to
St. Joseph Monday evening for the
accommodation of the members of
the Thirteenth infantry.
Five thousand troops on a trip
from Fort Riley will arrive in To-
peka Saturday afternoon and spend
Saturday night and the following
Sunday at the fair grounds.
This is the first fair in Topeka or
anywhere on earth. for that matter.
where reporters detailed to write up
the show have been treated like men
who had climbed over the fence.
]. w. Creech. formerly representative
from Dickinson county. and B. L.
Thompson, a big stakeholder in the
Great Western of Kansas City, both
of Harrington, were in the city on bust
ness Friday.
All the railroads centering in To-
ness for fair week. And the crowd
of thirty thousand that attended the
fair Thursday shows a big volume of
business for the roads.
Rev. w. Morris, the Welsh evange-
list from California, who has been en-
gagged in Jail and slum work for the
last fifteen years, is in Topeka He
will visit the Jail here and slums dis
tricts of the city if he can find any.
One newspaper man who had a ticket
for himself and wife to the fair was
told by the gate keeper that his ticket