The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-07
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Friday, women's So winter weight
SHOES at s1-s5- Come early to the
Several of the local stores closed
OF the gas supply
The surface of the lakes at Central
park We're covered with youthful skat-
ers as carry as O'Clock this morning
Mike Murray who has been con-
fined TO his home for a week past by
an attack of tonsilitis is again. fire.
quentiug his old haunts.
The basketball season will be OIL
claIIy opened in Topeka tonight when
t tne Nashnarn college team Will play
the nrst or number of games
The first of a series of dances which
Will be given by the members of the
Elk lodge viii be held at the lodge
room of the order Friday evening
As medium for transmitting joy.
weather Observer Jennings has no
equal said q man whose gas supply
has been insufficient to heat his home
for the past three or four days
There are more Topekans who go
to bed earlier now, than ever before
IN the history of the city. The reason
Is eyident-the scarcity in the gas
supply and the consequent inability to
keep warm in any other way
One of the busiest places in Topeka
during the past three or four days has
been the poor commissioner Office in
the court house. Fifteen tons of coal
We're distributed in little dribs among
the poor OF the city Wednesday.
During the past year the Topeka Re
DaIe association has paid out of town
customers S3,S58 to be applied on their
raiIw ay fares This sum of money rep
resents $77,165 in cash left with Topeka
merchants by out of town shoppers
7 belong to the Cedar Block Burners.
and as far as I am concerned the gas
company can go out of business, said
q thrifty man who assisted in moving
the cedar blocks from West Sixth ave
nue. prior to the repaving of that thor
oughfare this winter
The Topeka Sunday School Teachers
union VIII meet tomorrow afternoon at
half after at the Y. W. C. A rooms
Mrs w H Holmes will conduct the
lesson A normal class of Bible study
and teachers training will be organized.
Those wishing to join are asked to be
present or send their names. All sun
day school teachers are urged to be
present
The 1903 edition of the Topeka city
directory, which is being compiled by
the PoIk-Radges Directory company,
is in the hands of the printers and all
advertising copy and corrections
should be inferred now to be properly
inserted. The canvasserS are engaged
in looking up any alterations and
changes that have occurred since they
made their rounds. Notices of
changes. alterations, additions, re-
movaIs, etc. should be sent to the
publishers at 10 East Eighth avenue,
Ind phone 1853
Manager Roy Crawford announces
that the Grand will be warm tonight
And it is we'll that it will be as the
SaIome dance will be pro-
duced. Last night the audience
shivered- The gas supply went lower
than the management thought it
would. As soon as last nights show
had been given. Manager Crawford |
ordered a supply of coal and detailed |
two men to watch the furnace through /
the night This morning at S-.oscIock !
the Thermometer registered IS degrees
above zero in the center of the par
quet- BY tonight it will be much 4
warmer and the patrons will exper- |
fence no Inconvenience.
Talk about hard time, how would !
you like to be the manager of the gas
company L. G. .Treleayen, who holds I
that honor, an uIfenvied one at the |
present time, had to sit yesterday and |
listen to the shivering complaints OF 1
the public While he was powerless to I
10 them any service. He received the I
assurance of the Kansas Natural Gas /
company, the company which furnishes 4
The supply from the gas fields that 4
plenty of gas would be furnished for 1
any emergency and when the supply is /
short. he receives the blame. instead Of
he Kansas Natural officials Up to
noon today however, although this is
zero weather no complaint had been
-eceived at the gas office