The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-11
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The campaign for the twelve thous-
and dollars state fair fund is now well
underway.
Mr.. W. G. Smyzer is Ill at his home
| on West Eighth avenue with an at
tack of grip.
Sixty new members will be added to
/ the local branch of the q. c. T. at a
| meeting next Saturday night.
The management of the Aurora the
| alter is having the old front removed
and a modern entrance will be provided.
The committee on gas and electric
lights will meet at the committee
| room at the city hall on Friday even
/ Ing.
Sam Huston has been granted a
| building permit for the erection of
dwelling at 1412 Fillmore street to
cost $1,000.
| Another sign of spring-thee numerous
| advertisements of the horse BARRIERS
who are anxious to clip the family steed
at so much per clip.
A benefit entertainment will be given
at the rooms of DR.. Eva Harding this
evening by the members of the Topeka
Orphans Home association.
The Democratic city central COM
rnittee will hold a meeting tomorrow
night at the headquarters of the
Bryan club on West Sixth street.
The gymnasium classes of the Central
Y. NJ c. A, are planning to give a
grand exhibition of gymnastic events
in the Auditorium on the evening OF
March q.
All of the gymnasium leaders of
the Central Young Mems Christian as
ISOLATION will be rendered banquet
by the association at Gemmell hall,
Monday evening, March %.
Karl Hummel. the impresario of the
amateur performances at the Majestic
theater coined a new word last night
when he asked the audience not to in
dulge in any ''roughneckology-
DR.. Robert B. Stewart, who was re-
Gently injured by fall from his horse
has recovered sufficiently to be around
the streets with the aid of a cane. He
still wears a plaster cast on his knee.
Prof. Petrowitch Kissing has been no
titled by the United States patent Of
fee that he has received a patent COW
ering every point of originality on his
new musical instrument, the dolcette.
Spencer Abbott, first baseman for the
White Sox last season, received 500 ad-
vance money from the management of
the Evansville team yesterday and ex-
poets to leave Topeka some time next
week
A new maple floor has been put in
the gymnasium at the manual train
ing high school. The pure food law
operates with reference to maple
syrup but does not touch the hard
maple floors.
At the annual meeting of the Lake
View Shooting and Fishing association
held Tuesday, George A. Clark was
elected president, Eben Baldwin of Lake
View, vice president, and w. F. c.
Reichenbach, treasurer.
The new baseball suits for the
Washburn baseball team have arrived
and are on display at Fullerton's store.
The suits are gray with a blue W.
worked upon the breast of the shirt.
The socks are blue with a white
stripe.
The Kansas intercollegiate track
meet will be held in Emporia May IT.
The Wash burn track men are working
hard and are anxious to make repu-
tation in this line of athletics-some-
thing that Washburn has never en-
joyed.
Charles H. Sampson has sold his
black trotter, Lord Direction to A. H.
Hubbard, and the animal will be
shipped to the farm Of the latter
near Springfield. Mass The con-
sideration named in the bill of sale
is $500.
J. w. Clough accompanied by his
wife. has gone to Iowa to visit Mr.. |
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