The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-29
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Dancing at Steinberg's academy
| saturday evening, August 80.
c. A. Beardsley, 1858 West street, is
| seriously i'll at Stormont hospital.
| Mrs. w. R. HAGEN of 500 Harrison
! street, who has been i'll with typhoid
| 1eYer, is convalescing.
The ordinance requiring dogs, wheth-
! er licensed or not be kept tied, expires
Tuesday, September l.
| The wife of Mitch Bundy, turnkey at
| the county jail is seriously i'll at the
/ family home east of the city.
| The returns of the assessors for Kan
sas indicate that Shawnee county has
! listed more libraries than any other
county in the state.
The old stone building which has
stood in the rear of the National hotel
! for years has been condemned as I'M
safe and is being torn down.
| DR.. S. A. Boam, who has been under
| treatment at -Stormont hospital for the
past ten weeks, has returned to his
| home on West Tenth avenue.
A double header ball game will be
! played between Oklahoma City and the
| White Sox Sunday; that is if the visit
ing team is over its pouting spell.
Wilson Carter, prominent colored
| Mason from Garden City. has been in
| Topeka this week attending a meeting
/ of the colored Masonic bodies of the
state.
| Entries for the purse races for the
| state fair closed Friday but according
| to the rules of the association the
| books will be kept open until midnight
! tonight for belated mail entries.
! Residents of Topeka living in the vi
! clnity of Washburn college complain
! that this section of the city is suffering
from the depredations of thieves who
are nightly robbing refrigerators which
stand on kitchen porches.
!
the weather department that the con-
/ slgnment of summer resort weather
| which Topeka has been receiving is
| is about at an end and that warmer
weather may be expected next week.
! Fred Brown, a real estate dealer it
! is understood, will announce himself
soon as a candidate for city treasurer
| Others who are out for the same office
| are Councilman G. r. Kutz and J. D.
! Patttson, sergeant of the sanitary
police.
Il am for that umpire. right or
! wrong. remarked one of the judges
who presides at a court which meets
| in Topeka, as he watched Fridays ball
! game. Il like the way he hands down
his decisions even under adverse cir
cumstances." -
Collections from the office of the in
! spector of weights and measures have
fallen down considerably during the
| past two or three months. The office
! is now far from self supporting
| though it was understood at the time
| that it was created that it should sup
port itself.
| The number of automobiles returned
| by the assessors of Shawnee county
| suggests the thought that a much more
| complete record of the owners could
have been made had an assessor exam
! ined the city clerks books and looked
up the numbers sold for machines I'M
der the city ordinances.
The negro employees on the new
! Martin-Dennis sewer now under con-
struction were almost routed from
work by the discovery of a portion of
| human skeleton while excavating and
as a result they are still so scary that
lif another skeleton is, discovered the
contractor fears that he may be with
| out any Workmen.
Rev. D. T. Grout, of the Wesleyan
Methodist church, will preach his fare
| we'll sermon Sunday morning at II
| o'clock. The young peoples society OF
! the church will have charge of the ev-
| ening meeting. There will be no SER
vices at the church the following Sun
day as The pastor will be out of the
city attending conference.
The cedar blocks from West Sixth
avenue are in strong demand for fire.
! wood and as the blocks are given free
! all sorts and conditions of wagons are
| lined up ready to cart them away.
People are SO ANXIOUS TO get Inem lhat
| they dig the blocks out with picks
| themselves and thereby save the con-
| tractors considerable work.
AS Conductor Hammond was running
the car containing Clarence Lake. who
was injured by falling off of the Shun-
ganunga bridge Friday, back to the bal
| park so that he could receive medical
| attention, a big red faced, well fed APP
| pearing individual remarked: This is
| a lot of inconvenience to put the pas
| sengers of this car to. for some little
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