The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-18
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The skating season was brief in
deed.
James E. Larimer has recovered from
a severe attack of tonsilitis.
The New National hotel building is
being equipped with fire escapes.
s. J. Bear is watching the legislature
but he says he has no ak to grind
Joe Rank has only been away from
Atchison three days but he is already
homesick.
The Kansas Midwinter exposition will
open at the Auditorium at 1:So Mon
day afternoon.
The Cremerie restaurant is crowded
with legislators now and MONDAY
caucuses there are frequent.
The Kansas Retail Merchants asso-
citation will meet in Topeka on Tuesday
and Wednesday of next week.
The condition of Mrs. ]. ]. Schenck
the open air both day and night.
Fred o. Morns was last night
elected president of the North To-
peka Civic club for the second term.
w. H. Kients, formerly with the Ideal
Bakery, has gone with his family to
Los Angeles, California, where he will
spend the winter.
The majority of the members of the
legislature will remain in Topeka over
Sunday now that the Sunday closing
lid has been lifted.
The local candidates for Office are IN
quandary. If a state primary law is
enacted they may have all their COM
paigning to do over.
Eugene S. Quinton says that he has
been voted by some one ever since he
became of age and he has declared his
political independence.
Fred McMann will leave next
month to begin preliminary work for
he oil lie p Shn Ia will he
advance agent again this year.
John Macdonald is engaged in
writing a history of the Saturday
Night club which will celebrate its
quarter centennial anniversary this
year.
Washburn day will be celebrated on
February this year with a banquet in
place of the usual reception which has
been the feature of the celebration in
the past.
Washburn chapel was crowded last
night to hear the concert by the Glee
club, which is the first real good glee
club which the college has boasted in
ten years.
The Commercial club directors met
yesterday afternoon and after dis
cussion of the county fair idea, de-
cided to lend all their efforts towards
this project
George Satterthwaite whose dead
body was found at Syracuse, Kan.
yesterday spent week in Topeka
month ago the guest of Cecil Howe
of the Kansas City Star.
E. W. Thompson whose Canuck
dialect recitations have made him
famous in Topeka, acquired his know
ledge of the language by living among
the French Canadian people.
After having been closed for months
and almost years the East Sixth street
viaduct has been opened for the use OF
ia 90 %Iar,
flooring is only laid for temporary use.
With the sun shining with its present
warmth and the mercury climbing
higher each day the indications are
that the sample of skating which the
recent cold spell furnished will soon
disappear.
The final touches in the work OF
getting the auditorium ready for the
Midwinter are being made today and
it is expected that by Monday every
thing will be in readiness for the big
two weeks show.
The Topeka Amateur Music club will
meet Tuesday evening January q, at
the home of Miss Blanche Hughes
where they will be entertained by Pro-
fessor. H c. Fell, the newly elected
president of the organization.
Tomorrow night at the Novelty
there will be but one show and seats
can be reserved in advance for this
be better than anything yet seen al
the Novelty. --.
Judge, De Coma and Judge, the
clever iron jawed acrobats at the
Majestic this week still continue to
draw crowds. For an act of its kind
it stands alone as far as anything in
it's line which Topeka has seen.
An order which was issued yester-
day afternoon from Chicago, closes
all the departments of the Santa Fe
shop Saturday afternoons. The
shops will be closed this afternoon for
the first time under the new arrange
ment.
The directors of the Commercial club
have adopted the plan of meeting Sat
urday Of each week at the Elk club