The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
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Skating tonight at Music hall.

Skating tonight at Music hall.
F. A. Strickrott of Topeka, attended
the Easter Masonic services at WASH
ington. 4af /
Dell Travis has taken the Kansas fish
car. the Angler, from the Santa Fe
shops to Pratt, where it will be housed
for the winter.
Mahlon Burgett, the deaf mute PRO
phet, says in a letter to the paper.
that he is not now married, but that
he would like to be.
Washburn is planning to celebrate
the 345th university of William Shake
speare. The English department of the
college will have charge of the pro-
gramme.
John w. Newell has returned from
an extensive business trip in the east
covering Chicago New York, Philadel-
phia, Baltimore, Washington and Rich
mond, Va.
A meeting will be held in the Com
mercial club rooms tonight for the pur-
pose of taking action against the num-
erous fake advertising gratis now on
in the city.
Topeka is getting more metropolitan
every day. Il was necessary for po-
| liceman to keep the street open IN
| front of a down town store window
| this afternoon.
| Although the bakers as yet have an
| nounced no advance in the price of
| small size biscuit cutter about the OIL
| mansions of an apple corer-
| John Foster of the Washburn base
! ball team succeeds John Robb as cap
! tain of the college team and will be IN
charge of the team which plays the
Topeka Western leaguers tomorrow.
The police department is polishing up
| its stars. and Furnishing it's clubs IN
anticipation of the brewing rebellion on
| College Hill. having in mind the ac-
cepted version Of a student uprising.
| Dave August is trying out his new
| Pope-Toledo 70-horse power auto. OW-
| ing to the manner in which the speed
ordinance is enforced. the possibilities
| of the machine may never be known in
Topeka. Nt
A long line of wheeled scrapers and
| camping equipment, having finished
their duties on the North side dixie,
| moved south across the Melan bridge
early this morning, forming a pic
| turesque sight to the river front
| The city officers were greatly sur
prised" by the raise of salaries given
| them by the ways and means commit
tee of the city council. Does this mean
| that there is such a thing as a sur
PRISE in political circles?
If Councilman Miller has his way the
| street car company Will have to issue
| transfers over every line in the city III
| the people over the city have their way,
! Councilman Miller will also have his
| way-and the street car company viii
| have new way.
| The Commercial club will make efforts
to secure the 1910 convention of the
grand lodge of the Knights Pyth1as.
The Kansas grand lodge has a member
ship of 400 while the Pythian Sisters
have a membership of 200 more. which
would mean about 500 guests for Tope-
ka at that time.
The Washburn faculty is having
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| team has rebelled the Dramatic club
has taken up the fight and in today's
| Review the club blames the lack OF
| support on the faculty. The clubs says
| that the faculty members knocked on
the play and hurt the student attend
4 ance.
| Fred p Robbins better known as
Peggy is critically i'll in Bethesda
| hospital with pneumonia, ana the
| chances this noon were SAID 10 pe
against his recovery. He mas peen III
| for some time but it was not until last
| night that his condition was considered
| serious. He was taken to the hospital
! then. and has grown steadily worse.
Anropos grammar: One of the adver-
easements of an educational institution
shown on Kansas avenue, is composer
of a. monkey in cage. Above the cage
lis a sign which reads thus: He don
lneed an education-you do, however
Can you beat it? 1t might be paralleleu
! by placing two monkeys IN the case oiu
announcing: They doesn't need an ed.
Iucation-you do by whatever means.
For the man who stated in the morn
ling paper that the North Topeka d1kes
were twice as strong as the bikes on
the Mississippi. The Mississippi levees
lin Louisiana are 80 feet high and sod
Ided. 1t is a jailable offense to break
this sod. and parish watchmen called
! .'svndics" patrol the levee with shot-
i guns for the purpose of killing loose
/ hogs on sight. on the theory that the
/ bops might root I'D the sacred sod.