The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-08
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Dancing tonight at Vinewood.
G. S. Hovey, vice president of the
Interstate bank of Kansas City, is reg
istered at local hotel.
"A True American" is the play that
will be presented tonight by the pop
ular Kress company at the Air Dome.
The Santa Fe shopmen will hold a
mass meeting in the Novelty theater
Friday night to discuss the Sunday
closing ordinance.
The surviving members of the
Twentieth Kansas regiment are plan
ming to hold reunion in Topeka,
September 8 and 10.
Kansas avenue merchants are adj
vertising four punches of beets for
five cents. but at that no one has been
injured in the crowds of bargain hunt
ers.
mass meeting of the shop men of
Topeka will be held at the Novelty
theater Friday evening when the Sun
day closing ordinance will be discus
sed.
Topeka dairymen announce that the
price of milk will be advanced to ten
cents a quart if the city council passes
the proposed milk inspection ordin-
ance.
Oliver D. Wilkerson, son of Sheriff
John Wilkerson who is ill at the State
hospital, will be brought to the sher-
ifs residence at the county Jail for
treatment.
A meeting will be held at the Com
mercial club rooms this evening for
the purpose of further discussing the
Topeka and Southwestern railroad
proposition.
Dog days commenced in Topeka
this morning and mad or otherwise
all dogs must be kept tied up for sixty
days according to the ruling of the
city council.
Mrs. r. K. Graham. Mrs. C. l..
Cuff and Mrs E. T. Hearick enter
tanned about forty members of the
F'raternal Brotherhood at the T. F. B
hall on West Sixth street last night.
The Blanchard Construction COM
pany will Immediately commence
work on the mechanical engineering
building which they will erect for the
state at Manhattan at a cost of $685.
900.
Glen Wagner and Grant Harris,
two Topeka young men nave written
a song, "In the Autumn When the
Golden Rod is Waving" which will
shortly be produced in one of the
vaudeville theaters.
The Central States College of Music
is the name of a new school which
has been founded for the purpose of
teaching music by correspondence.
Prof. PetrOV1tcn BlSSlnS Is the nedO
of the new institution.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Elks will be held in the lodge room
in the new building this evening at s
O'Clock for the first time, when mat
tiers of Importance concerning the new
building will be discussed.
Senator Charles Curtis will deliver
a lecture on his trip to the Philippin es
with the Taft party, at the chautauqua
which will be held at Vinewood park
commencing July 81. Senator Curtis
is billed to appear July "a.
According to a bulletin issued by
the city water department the fluid
which has been substituted for the
muddy mixture which flowed through
the water mains last week is as pure
as the supply prior to the accident.
The Webb City team will be the
center of attraction at the local ball
grounds this afternoon and tomor-
row. The Webb City team is the hard
est team for the locals to defeat and
good baseball should result from the
remainder of the series.
All the clothing stores north of Sixth
street and Kansas avenue have agreed
to close ever yevening except Satur-
days and Santa Fe pay days at $3.50
during July and August and give
! their clerks a much needed rest,