The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-31
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The Independent" reaches every
body.
The county offices were closed all day
today.
Shellabarger & Son, undertakers,
have purchased pure white ARABIAN
was purchased at Garden City
Albert K Wilson, grand secretary
of the A. F. & A. M. has returned
from trip to Potter, Kan, where he
was attending to a number of lodge
matters.
Since the st. Louis Cardinals of the
National league made eleven scores in
the first inning of game the other
day the back lot baseball games do
not look so bad after ALL
Miss Mary Drew, the new dean of
women at Washburn, is expected in a
quainted with her new work She
comes from Worchester, Mass.
Washburn is getting to be New
England school. Most of the new in
structors for the coming year and
number of the old ones are from
Massachusetts. The college should
adopt the accent.
Howard E. Everett, the sporting
writer of the State Journal has been
spending few days in Smith Center
where he has been in charge of the
| Smith Center White Caps, an amateur
Dali team OIL. some note.
| Mr.. Gus Nash, religious work director
or Cleveland, O., spent Sunday with
friends in the city on his way to the
Y. NJ. C. A. convention at Omaha. In
cidentally he is looking over the relig-
ious work department of the Topeka
Y. M. c. A association.
At the First Congregational church
on Sunday evening next. Frank L. Snow
| will give a stereopticon lecture on
conditions in Rhodesia, South Africa
Mr.. Snow spent six years in Great
Britain's frontier colony in Africa an6
gets his information at first hand.
| What it is claimed is the biggest
feature in moving pictures ever shown
in Topeka will be given at the Novelty
theater tonight. Ellis Carroll in the
roping contest of catching and tying
/ a steer in II seconds, breaking the
worlds record, at his ranch at Wood
ward, Okla
United States Attorney Harry j.
Bone and Marshal w. H. Mackey, jr
are in Washington comforting with
Attorney General Wickersham con-
corning two libel cases which may be
brought against Eugene V. Debs as a
result of the socialists attack upon
Mr.. Mackey.
Dr. S. E. Sayre and Prof. E. H. Bale,
of the state university. are in the cit!
with the object of comforting with
committee of the state board of healtl
in regard to a revision of the standards
for purity of foods and drugs to con
form to the revised statutes of the stat
and federal laws.
Battery "B" experienced some diff
Guilty this morning in getting the ar
ltillery harness on some horses secure,
for the occasion. The soldier boy
found it no easy task to fasten pill
of chains and other hardware ont
one horse in particular. which tried t
do a Salome dance.
The chapel at Washburn was file
to overlooking on the occasion of tn
. annual address to the Y. w. C.
/ and Y M c. A. associations of tn
college. Mr.. Geo. Lerrigo gave tn
: address. The members of the facult
and graduating classes attended the ex
ercises in full force. A number of ex
! cellent musical members were render
ed.
E. H. Hemus. chief claim adjuste1
of the A. T. & S. F. railway company
with headquarters at Topeka, was re
elected secretary and treasurer of tn
association of railway claim agents
| for the ensuing year, at their annua
meeting held at Detroit, Mich, Ma.
26-2Sth last. This makes the secon,
wear Mr.. Hemus has been honored b,
= being elected secretary and treasure
| of this organization.