The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-01-15
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The Washburn Glee club will make
it's initial appearance at the college
chapel Friday night.
There are more than 1000 male vot-
ers who must register again in or
der to vote at the election this spring.
Holland & Squires, Topeka archi-
tects, have dissolved partnership. Mr.
F. c. Squires will go to New York to
study.
The slang of Al Watson in The
Dog Catcher presented by watson,
Wallace and Keith, is making big hit
at the Olympic.
Washburn college claims to have
wonder on their faculty. The Won
der is in the form of professor with
hypnotic powers.
The Scottish residents are preparing
to celebrate Burns birthday, the 9th
of January with a literary and must
cal programme.
The cold wave flag was displayed at
the top of the flag pole on the wealth
er bureau building this morning for
the first time this winter.
Have the Scotch Wooden Mills, 532
Kansas ave, make your next suit. The
price, SIS, includes a SIS fancy silk
vest free, if ordered this week.
Electricians, carpenters and decora-
tors are busy at the auditorium get
ting it in shape for the Midwinter ex-
position which opens next Monday.
The board of managers of the Ma
sonic lodge at Newton has approved
the plans submitted by ]. c. Holland
of Topeka for remodeling their tenn
pie.
Some of the stunts performed by
Judge, De Coma and Judge, the iron
jawed aerialists at the Majestic thea
ter this week are little short of mar
Velous.
The grievance committees of the
organizations of the conductors and
brakemen of the Santa. Fe are holding
their semi-annual meeting in Topeka
this week.
Among the exhibitors at the chicken
show now being held at Convention hall
in Kansas City. is Frank Foster of To-
peka who is showing a pen of Rhode
Island Red fowls.
The Washburn Review celebrates
the new year with a new style of head
lines which although not SO handsome
as the abandoned style are much bet
ter in other respects.
There are nearly 1000 men in the
city of Topeka who will be COM
PEELED to call at the office of the COM
missioner of elections and register be-
fore they can again cast ballot.
At the annual meeting of the Ma
| tional Guard association held at Bos-
ton this week General j. w. F. Hughes
was elected secretary and added an
other title to his list of holdings.
Secretary T. J. Anderson of the
Commercial club has sent out 500 let
tiers to business men of the city asking
their opinions of the proposed bank
ing law and the parcels post scheme
The Wash burn Glee club will make
its first appearance in Topeka January
II in the college chapel, the organiza-
ton being the first of it's kind of
which the college can boast since 1900.
Grading for the new paving on To-
& nYnHnfad
menced today and following this on
the other stretches of pavement which
were authorized by the council last
year
Members of the legislature from all
parts of the state have commenced to
arrive in the city, the opinion prevail
ing that it is the early arrivals who
get the best boarding and rooming
places.
H. A. Tibbals has been selected by
the Business Mems association of En-
poria as a committee of one to in
vestigate the plans Of the Rebate As
ISOLATION as applied by the merchants
Of Topeka.
C. H. Rhodes who acted as judge at
the state poultry show recently held
in Topeka, is officiating in the same ca
pacity in Kansas City this week at the
show which is being held in Conven-
ton hall
The Christmas vacation which
closed last week marks the beginning
of a long study period for the students
of Washburn college, as the next va
cation will not occur until the middle
of the summer.
The grievance committees of the
Santa Fee conductors and brakemen
are holding q meeting in Topeka this
week debating the proposition of the
demands they are to make from the
company for the coming year
1t is evident that the Independent
Telephone company believes in keep
ing its light shining, at any rate the
electric sign street.-the ed across West
Eighth avenue was permitted to burn
until near the noon hour today.
Dean F. T. Lee of the new WASH
burn theological school will assume
his new duties at once. The next step
| at Washburn should be an engineering
| school as Washburn every year loses
| lots of students on this account.
Clarence B. Martyne is making a big
hit at the Olympic theater this week
as a black face comedian. Martyne is
we'll known in Topeka, as he was the
singer of illustrated songs at the old
Novelty for the greater part of last
season.
The students of Washburn college
will find it mighty hard shedding next
week on account of the midyear eX-
| aminations which come at that time.
All social functions will be suspended
| and the air of mourning will be as
sumed.
| All of the officers and attaches of
| the federal court with the exception
| of Morton Albaugh, clerk of the dis
trict court, and Clarence Keller, depu-
| ty United States marshal are in Kan
sas City attending the January session
of court.
The prohibition interview of Senator
Charles Curtis in the Chicago Record
Herald recalls to the minds of the older
TODekanS time when Curtis
county attorney and had a hand in en-
forcing the measure which was at that
time a new one.
The Novelty theater is rapidly vim
| ming it's way to the front as the most
popular theater in Topeka. Harry