The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-11

Coughs parents. Mrs. Clough will
leave from there for Los Angeles,
where she will visit ner daughter,
Mrs. Charles Sheffield. for several
months.
Topeka sure looks like pennant
winner to me-" said one of Topeka S
real fans today. 1.-THE remainder Of the
league seems to be up in the air while
Cooley has one of the most promising
bunch of players in the west signed at
this time
Plans are being made for the re-
building of Rice hall at Washburn
college as soon as the spring weather
thing and about twenty thousand dol
lars will be expended in the remodel
ing of the building.
A special meeting of the board of ed
uca alton will be held this evening for the
purpose of considering the final plans
for the Central Park school building
and arranging if possible to immediate
ly provide fire escapes for the school
buildings of the city.
Johnny Walker who operated a pool
room in Topeka for several years, has
gone to Kansas City where he will
be manager of the pool hall Of John
King. the Chicago National league
catcher, while the latter is playing
ball with the Chicago team.
William A. Benson. who is well
known in Topeka, having lived here all
his life has been employed as stenog-
rapher to A b. Poole, the new score
tary of the Topeka Commercial CLUB.
He was at one time proprietor or
grocery store on West Sixth street
The announcement that the Wash
ington baseball team would be here
for three games week after next, Will
be hailed with a great deal OF en-
thusiasm by the local baseball fans
who are clamoring for chance to
see Cooley's 1908 try-outs perform
The first baseball game on the
Washburn schedule will be game at
Lawrence with the K. U. team week
from next Tuesday: reports from n.
u. indicate that the Lawrence team
will be of inferior quality this year
owing to the number of new men In
the lineup.
Some one interested in the sidewalk
in front of the Rhodes flats at the cor
ner of Western avenue ana WesI Si FL
avenue raised few low bricks ana ols
tributed q wheelbarrow load OF sano
on the walk and dumped the remainder
of the wagonload in the street In front
of the building
The members of the Washourn
Dramatic club who are in the cast Tor
the professors Love Story" Whlch
will be played at the Grand March 20,
have been presented with couple OF
hoxes for Drown of Harvard which
will be presented by Henry Wooorull
at the Grand March IT.
The city Republican central com
mittee will hold a meeting tomorrow
night in the rooms OF the court OF
Topeka. At this time those VINO nave
paid their campaign assessments Will
be declared the official nominees OF
the party for councilmen and mem
hers of the board of education
The Washburn College Dramatic So
ciety will play 1.-The Professor Love
story at the Grand week from Fri
dav night The members OF the cast
have been working faithfully on their
parts for several weeks and the play
ought to be about the best seen IN
amateur circles in Topeka this sprlng.
There will be a preliminary debate
at Washburn college tonight Tor the
purpose of selecting the team of de-
bators which viii! debate f. u Iater
in the spring. Markham, Templeton
and Preston will represent the w. 9.
L. s. society while Watts. webb and
Campbell will represent the Gamma
Signals. The debate will be on the
Resolved, That the state OF
Kansas should grant the same Suffrage
rights to women as to men,.
John Kitchell, a familiar figure
about Republican headquarters in
Topeka for years, as well as one OF
the land marks at the state house.
has made arrangements TO enter tne
National Military home at Fort
Leayenworth. He has been i'll for
some time and in a weakened con-
dition. and while attempting to
descend the stairs leading to his room
in the Stormont building yesterday,
fell and sustained severe bruises