The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-12-19

both vaudeville houses have provided
better bills than usual.
The ticket sale for the Merry Widow
continues good and by Wednesday there
won't be very many seats left. One
unique feature of the sale is the fact
that the good seats are being sold first
]. Willis Gleed will be the principal
speaker of the evening at the annual
New Highlander banquet to be given
this evening at Lawrence. Mr.. Gleed
is graduate of the university.
Fred 7. Evans, of the contracting firm
of Douglass & Evans, has been con-
fined to his room, 81, in the Keith block
for the past week with a serious attack
of muscular rheumatism. and is yet
unable to leave his bed.
A. B. Evans has purchased the F. E.
Barns interest in the Partnership
Real Estate company and he will con-
tinue the business under the same
name. Mr.. Barns will soon open an
other office in Topeka and branch out
on new lines.
According to the Atchison Globe.
Sam Finley, the alleged advertising
agent and eX-banker, has a wife in
Topeka. When he was first arrested
several weeks ago his bond was
for the money. Her reply was: Tn
closed you will find dollar. If you
are in jail, that is enough for YOU
1t took 200 policemen in Havana,
Cuba, to quiet disturbance caused
by Umpire Settley. who formerly UNI
pired in the Western association.
Settley has been with the Cincinnati
Reds on their transforming trip.
He ordered a Cincinnati first baseman
from the field and the trouble brewed
into free-for-all affair. Settley got
off lucky in Topeka.
Chess players representing fifteen
different cities of the state who COM
prise the Kansas Chess association
will meet in Topeka on Monday,
December % and play chess for two
days The tournament will be held
in the Y. NJ. C. A. building. Major
A. NJ. Harvey of Topeka, who has
held the championship for two years,
will probably get the prize again
Manager Dick Cooley. of the Topeka
Western League team, this morning an
nounced that he had signed a new third
baseman for his next seasons team
Mike Jacobs, who comes from the
Wilkesbarre team of the New York
State league. This is not the old Mike
Jacobs who umpired in the Western
Association. but is a real live infieIder
on whom the dope looks mighty good.
He is a high class fielder and a batter
of ability.
The Oakland fair came to an end
last night and it was decided that it
was the most successful in the history
of the town. Next time the fair is
given a new hall will be built for the
be sold The prizes for the most
popular man and girl in the city will
be decided at the meeting of the
Fraternal Brotherhood tonight. The
fair was a financial success as we'll as
a social triumph.
The fire department is aching to get
a chance to make run over the new
pavement on West Sixth street. Not
since this pavement has been renewed
has the department made q run in the
territory and the contrast to the for
ner pavement is so great the men wish
to try it out. Sixth street was always
abhorred by the firemen on account of
the wood block pavement and when a
run is made on the new brick block un-
derlining it will be the first on Sixth
street. for many years.
A petition came to the CITY clerk
last evening from the residents living
on College avenue from Huntoon
street to Fifteenth. This pavement
will extend the College avenue pave
ment from the college entrance to
Huntoon. The street railway has
tracks all along the route and the peo-
pie are building up this district in an
excellent manner. College avenue is
destined to be one of the prettiest
streets in the city and with all of the
new pavement the contest will receive
good support. The petition asks for
brick.
During the past ten days Rev. I. c.