The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-23
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uehce at lll5 Woodward avenue.
The Kansas Equal Suffrage associa-
tlon Will hold its annual meeting in To-
Co. eo''''''eite-e
Mrs A. G. Killinger of 1905 Harrison
street has been taken to Stormont hos
pltal where she will undergo an opera
ton.
The next game on the Washburn
football schedule will be the Drake
game week from tomorrow. This
is also the hardest game on the Blue
schedule.
A reception will be given to the high
school students tonight at the Central
Y. NJ G. A. All the privileges of the
association will be at the disposal of
the students.
Councilman c. E. Jordan is in receipt
of an invitation from Mr.. and Mrs. G.
w. R. Ward, living in Menoken town
ship, to attend their fiftieth wedding
anniversary.
The Topeka high school and the
Emporia high school teams will clash
on the Washburn gridiron tomorrow
afternoon. The Washburn team has
no game scheduled for tomorrow.
Eddie Brennan. the White Sox utility
catcher, who was taken to a hospital
a few days before the Western Asso-
citation season closed. for a slight OPP
GRAFTON, is able to be about again.
A meeting of the members of the
Democratic state central committee will
be held at the Throop hotel this even
ing, number of the members of the
committee arriving in the city during
the night.
The falling leaves and the slush on
the ground is making life miserable
for the street car motorneerS. The
leaves form a sort of insulation on the
rails. while the slush makes the grades
difficult to climb.
were forced into service this morning
and as a result the early morning traf-
fc was handled without crowded cars
as is the case when the smaller cars
are used on stormy mornings.
The gang of laborers which is en-
gagged in cleaning the channel of the
KaW river under the Melan bridge Is
meeting with some pretty big obstruc-
lions. Some logs are pulled out of the
debris which are forty feet long.
| Dick Cooley will 90 to Kansas City
| tomorrow to attend the annual meet
| ing Of the Western association, when
| it is expected that the final transfer
of the Topeka and Wichita franchises
to the Western league will be made.
The chances are that Hutchinson
| will take the next annual convention
| of the Anti-Horse Thief association
| from Topeka as the business interests
of the salty city are offering bigger
| inducements than the Topeka mer-
chants.
Born, Oct. q, to Mr.. and Mrs Jesse
E. Hickey at 1877 Lawrence street. a
| daughter. This is the first birth of a
| female child reported to the secretary
of the board of health for two weeks.
They have all been boys SO far this
month.
A novel entertainment is that fur
| nished by George w. Hussey, ven-
| triloquist, and his group of wax figures
Il A. =, {I,fex W.;
| attraction has proved particularly
pleasing to the children who have at
tended the performance this week.
Work was commenced this week
| placing gravel on st. John street for
| distance of five blocks to connect the
| new Jackson street paving with the
Rochester macadam road and thus
give the farmers good roads all the
way into the heart of the city.
The only big football contest to-
| morrow in this vicinity is the game at
Lawrence between K. U. and the
Washington university team of St.
Louis. Coach Weede and members
| of the Washburn squad and a num-
Der of Topeka people will attend the
game.
Tonight is your last chance to regis
| ter for the county, state and national
election to be held next month. Topeka
| has the largest male registration al
ready this fall by several hundred that
| the city has ever had before. The total
number of names registered last night
| at the hour of closing was 1886, there
having been 800 people registered yes
terday in spite of the bad weather.
The special committee appointed at
| the last council meeting by the mayor
| to re-christen several of the streets of
| the city have quite job ahead of
| them. There are two Fifteenth
streets. two Norris streets, two Locust
streets, a Garfield street and Car
| field avenue and West street has four
names in it's long flight, namely, West.
Boles, Willets and Arch street. Clay
runs into Buchanan street and
Fifteenth into Piercy street and then
| on into Walnut street
The Biddle creek spillway, which is
now finished, is a nice and ingenious
| piece of engineering work. The old
| bed of the creek channel north of
| Eighth street is filled up and the flow
| of water from the creek is diverted
| west via the spillway to Locust
| street and carried down this street to
| Shunganunga creek at Fourth street.
| Locust is to be paved. 1t is a new
| idea to use a paved street for a creek
| bed. but it was the only way to save
| the flooded district in that section of
| the city from the waters of the creek:
The people over there who are now
| kicking on the plan will yet take off
their hats to Engineer Rodgers.
Many people have wondered what has
become of the new patrol wagon pro-
posed for the police department. The
specifications for this new vehicle were
read in council meeting some weeks
ago and occupied an hour in the read
| ing. A battleship could have been
| built on less paper. Well, they were
referred to the committee on public
| improvements and the city engineer.
They will appear soon in the council
/ and will be modified so as to call for
only eighteen inch pipe, two course
work and sand filler. The grade VIII
be three feet to the mile and flying
arch will be used instead of span
Rodgers will have complete plans 70
accompany the specifications LOOK
| out for the new Black Maria
Councilman Miller announces that he
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