The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-24
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vaudeville presented at the MldWlnter
next week.
A case of scarlet fever has been
quarantined at the home of w. Fl.
Cravens at 1905 East Tenth avenue
Barton Holland, son of J. c. Holland.
who was operated on at Stormont hos
pltal yesterday for appendicitis. is said
to be improving nicely.
Every hospital in the city is crowd
Ell to capacity and has been for the
past few weeks, most of the patients,
however, are from out of the CITY,
At the annual meeting of the Cathe-
dral club of Grace cathedral held last
night. DR.. William n. West was elect
ed president for the ensuing year.
A drunken woman at Sixth and Kan
sas avenue last night created disturb
ance with loud and boisterous talking
until she was taken in by an officer.
The top of the elevator shaft at
the National hotels remodelled build
ing has at last been reached. This
shaft is thirty feet above the floor OF
the roof garden.
The bootblack quartette at the Ma
jestic continues 20 attract the crowds.
After once hearing these clever singers
ii is almost impossible TO resist the
temptation to go again
Harry Thornton, with Mrs. Thorn
ton and their little pickininny in the
sketch entitled "A Mail Order Wife"
Novelty bill this week.
There is a prospect of skating on the
ponds adjacent to the city and the river
as we'll in the near future and the
hearts of the school boys and girls beat
joyously in anticipation.
John Kleinhans who has charge of
the pure food booth at the Midwinter
exposition is developing into quite
lecturer. He has an interesting story
to tell and he tells 1t well.
The street commissioners force Is
busily engaged in repairing the sewer
flushing tanks in the Fifth and Sixth
wards where number of the catch
basins are in bad condition.
The freezing temperatures of the
past 48 hours is reminder to the baby
sparrows which were Matched during
the recent spell of summer weather of
a sad mistake made by their parents.
]. H. FOUGHT, a North Topeka hard
ware merchant who owns the corner
lot adjoining the North Topeka fire
station has offered to sell the lot to the
city for $4,000 on the installnent plan
or otherwise. s
And now then comes the ruling of
the state board Of health that pop
must be labeled according to the con-
tents of the bottle although the base
ball season will not open for a num-
Der of months.
The largest crowd yet recorded at
tended the Midwinter exposition last
night This show is growing in pop
ularity and long before it is over all
records of previous years in point OF
attendance will be ecl1psed.
The weather last night became de-
cidedly cooler but this morning the
abundance of. clouds kept the atnios-
phere much warmer. The present
conditions would indicate that
snc wstorm is somewhere near.
mo- 90 NV ia
raising objections to the way the new
sanitary law WIS amended when 1t
was adopted by the council last Mon
day evening. The ordinance may
come I'D for third time before the
council
The following births have been re-
ported by the board Of health: Mr..
and Mrs. A. L. Sanderson, 1872 North
Western avenue, girl; Mr.. and Mrs.
Gill, 335 Michigan avenue, girl; Mr..
and Mrs L. J. Wonderly, 314 Han
cock street. boy.
George L. Douglass, the speaker Of
the famous Douglass house in the legis-
lative war of 1898, and the man who
broke down the doors Of Representative
hall with a sledge hammer, is in To-
peka for a short visit. This is the first
time he has been here for twelve years
DR.. S. J. Crumbine in an address be-
fore the Kansas State Bottlers' associa-
tion Yesterday afternoon informed the
bottlers they would be required under
Kansas laws to put labels on their pro-
ducts telling exactly what ingredients
are used in the manufacture OF their
goods.
The new asphalt plant operated by
the CITY is being worked overtime in an
attempt to repair the pavement where
# is in the worst condition but as there
are many more plumbers in the city
than there are employees about the as.
bo
is growing.
With the drop in the temperature
which has occurred during the past
forty-eight hours the name M1dWlnter
as applied to the exposition now IN
progress at the auditorium does not
seem so much out OF place as II ulu
the opening day.
The indications are that Cy Leland's
supply of cold storage apples which
we're SO much in evidence at the ses-
sion of the legislature last winter has
beer exhausted. There has been no
free distribution among the members
| of the house so far this season
Harry G. Butterfly Of Borden. Okla,
is in Topeka for the purpose of at
tending the funeral of his grand
father, Henry Burgess, who died In
| California, but whose BODY was
brought to this city for burial. MI.
| Butterly Is son-in-law of A. w.
Hopkins.
Jog in the southern end Of Topeka
avenue is causing a good deal OF war
| fare among the residents or the street.
The street is now being paved and the
residents on one side want the jog re-
moved while the "other siders" are
equally as strenuous in their objections
| to the change in the present plans.
| Dick Cooley of the Topeka baseball
| team has received the signature OF Ed
die Brennan. the little catcher VINO
worked here near the end Of the sea,
| son. In a letter which accompanied
| the contract Brennan reports that ms
| foot which was spiked near the END OF
| the season has completely recovered.
EFT am not in favor of the selective
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