The Topeka state journal., 1908-04-09
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Social dance at McRae's tonight,
w. c. Stephenson & Co. insure autos
against collisions as well as fire.
The Topeka ball team will go to st.
Mary's tomorrow where they will play
the st. Mary's college team.
Lincoln Post G. A r. has asked the
city council for the free use of the
auditorium, May 80, Memorial day. I,
The city council meets again Friday
evening at O'Clock. This is the time
when the new councilmen are seated.
At the meeting of the city council
tomorrow night the two newly elected
members of the council will be sworn
I in.
After reading the report of the H.
H. club on top of page six don't you
think 1T pays to be an active mem
| Der?
The smallpox scare seems to be sub
siding. Five cases were released from
quarantine yesterday while but one
new case was reported.
w. s. Whitten, commercial secretary
of the Commercial club of Lincoln,
Neb., will speak at the meeting of the
Topeka Commercial club tomorrow
| night.
The office force of the Smith Auto
| mobile company is busy sending out
checks to the stockholders. A divi-
dend of per cent has just been de-
clared.
The next baseball game on the local
schedule will be played SATURDAY. be-
tween the Topeka team and a team
| composed of Topeka players and mem
bers of the Elks' lodge.
Fred Heere, who has been in
charge of the tailoring department
at the Palace clothing store for the
past seven years has accepted a sim
liar position with Felix and Son.
According to the new schedule laid
down as law by the city council last
| night it will cost clairvoyants five dol
| lars day or seventy-five dollars a
year to read life lines in Topeka.
| The issue of the Washburn Review
which appeared yesterday is a special
| number devoted to the interests of the
Y. M. G. A. and Y. w. c. A. of Wash
burn. 1t is a very we'll edited num-
ber.
The new electric elevator for the
| Mills dry goods store which has been
| has arrived in Topeka and. the work
| of installing the lift will commence
1 Immediately.
| With a view to keeping cool during
| the summer months, w. E. Scotton
| who was not elected councilman from
| the First ward, has submitted a bid
| to the city council for sprinkling the
| Melan bridge.
One of the best and highest priced
vaudeville acts ever seen on the To-
| peka vaudeville stage is the little In
dian playlet wild Flower" which
forms the leading number on the Nov
| city bill this week.
The glee club contest tomorrow night
between Washburn and X. u. will mark
| the last appearance of the Washburn
| Glee club for this season. The contest
also promises to be the biggest musi-
cal treat of the season.
| Miss Gusta Torjusen, a domestic in
I,n 70 mil of Trr6 A " &c,
preparing to spend the summer in
Sweden. 1t is not definitely known
where she will spend the following
winter, but possibly in some southern
resort.
Sunday and Monday baseball team
from Kansas City will play here. This
Kansas City team will be captained by
Louis Armstrong, the old Topeka cap
tain and will contain in the lineup sew
eral Of the Kansas City American as
sociation team.
I One man who served on an election
board was waiting in front of the office
at the city clerks office yesterday
morning at 6:15 when the city clerk.
c. B. Burge, came down to work. The
man wanted his pay for his services
on election day.
John E. Lord who is the fashion
plate of Topeka as far as the head
gear for mankind is concerned, has
/ opened the season with a new hat, the
rims rivaling in width the Merry Wild
I ows shown in the millinery parlors OF
the city.
'I am a woman who voted for the
bonds'' came in clear feminine tones
/ over the telephone yesterday, "but ]
want to tell you that the State Journal
! deserves the credit. It did it with its
little hatchet on Monday The State
Journal blushingly acknowledges the
compliment but acknowledges that the
people did it.
That theater with divers kinds o1
! amusement can be made a success ir
Topeka is evidenced by the crowds
which attend the Aurora every week
This is the third week for this thea
ter and during this time three entirely
distinct forms of amusement have beer
provided all with unusually good sue
cess for a popular priced theater.