The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-12

| oU cent DOX OF the remedy. write To-
| day. The sample costs you nothing.
Pyramid Drug Co., 143 Pyramid Bldg,
Marshall, Mich.
Paper company made vacant by the
| resignation of Luther Frasure, who
will handle the city for the new paper
| company recently organized.
A representative Of the Commercial
club will be sent to Atchison this week
Benedict's college with view of find
ing what chances there are for it's re-
moval to Topeka.
Mrs. Christian Parker filed suit for
| trict court Monday evening, alleging
gross neglect, abandonment and nom
| support. The couple were married in
| Topeka 16 years ago.
Councilman c. H. Kutz of the Fifth
| ward will run for the office of city
treasurer next spring. He was con-
sidering the candidacy of county clerk
but changed his mind and switched to
the city office in preference.
The members of Beulah chapter,
No. "a, Order of the Eastern Star,
will give reception to the grand
officers of the order and visiting dele
gates of the grand chapter at the
Throop hotel this evening
The members of the Spruce club,
composed of the merchants on the
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Seventh street and Eighth avenue,
will hold a meeting at the Commercial
club rooms Thursday evening.
. Fishing at Silver Lake ought to be
good when the water goes down. The
high water will have brought a large
number of fish into the lake and with
2 the cessation Of rains, the water will
l go down leaving the fish behind.
: A wag has suggested that the cellar
like excavation discovered on the farm
, i <f Tv,I
arranged for the reception of A. c.
Townsend of Topeka, who had made
arrangements to visit her home.
Sam Gardenhire: a formerly of To-
: peka attorney who now resides in
: New York city is the author of a new
; has for plot the "doings'' of the up
per crust at the national capital.
According to the report of Street
Commissioner Snyder I, cost Topeka
$30,154 to keep the streets of the
city in good condition last year, this
} sum, including a few incidentals ex-
pended in other necessary work of
a kindred nature.
At a meeting of the directors of the
| Topeka & Southwestern Railroad
company held at the Commercial club
rooms Monday afternoon, w. L. Tay-
: lor resigned as a director of the COM
pany and ]. W. Robinson was elected
: to fill the vacancy.
C. B. Hamilton, sealer of weights
and measures, after inspecting all of
| the wagon scales in the CITY, found the
ma jority of, them off about 25 pounds
in ton and several of them correct
to the ,ound. One of the city scales
was off SO pounds and will have to
| be fixed.
The cross arms and wires have
been removed from the Independent
Telephone company's poles on
Seventh street preparatory to remov-
l inc iOh hi oh
been useless since the company's
wires have been placed under
ground.
The State Dental association which
is being held here is being widely at
| tended by dentists from over the state
Those who attended the meetings of
the association yesterday were shown
the oldest set of false teeth in the
United States which were carved from
| ivory in 1850.
Ezra Meeker who is seeking to have
the government recognize the old
Oregon trail as national highway
has deposited $25 with the state
superintendent of schools which is
Kansas schools writing the best essay
on 1.-THE oregon Trail"
The body of the wagon and the can
vas covering of the old prairie schoon-
er of Ezra Meeker which has been in
the city for the past three days is COW
cred with the names of persons who
have scrubbed there their addresses
The souvenir fend has also cut pieces
from the body of the wagon.
A Taylor street housewife per-
mitted two colored men to examine
her home from cellar to garnet so they
could tell her how much it would cost
| her to have the carpets taken up and
cleaned. They left and she grew
suspicious and notified her husband
that they had taken her diamond
locket. Before he could reach home
she found the article of jewelry, but
| in the future a man to get in that
house will have to carry letters OF
recommendation.
One of the party of surveyors for the
proposed interurban road from Cot,
| feyville to Topeka and Kansas City
via Lawrence spent Monday in this
city. He stated that the party had
| reached a point in the survey from
| Coffeyville to point few miles south
| of Lawrence and would enter Topeka
the latter part of this week. He de-
| clared that they were making a per-
manent survey and that every indica-
| ton pointed to the line being buila
this year. The Kansas Traction COM
| pany is behind the project.
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