The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-26

Where the game is entrance to the e mani;
With a finish none is nearing
She's uniquely all the Gearing
A perfect dear-this Florence Gear.
The commencement exercises of To.
peka high school will be held in the
at Washburn college commene tornor.
night.
The one hundredth anniversary Of
! the birth Of Abraham Lincoln will be
| ruary.
| Mr.. o. Williams of Oakland is right.
| fully indignant because some one who
! was arrested in a raid Saturday night
| gave his name
| Ten old soldiers are candidates TO,
city offices at the spring election and
| several times as many others who have
records of this kind.
The new Lincoln postage stamps
Will make their appearance simultane-
| ously in all parts of the United States
| on the 18th of next month.
The bill at the Midwinter this week
IS better than the one of last week.
In fact it is one of the best ever seen
at Midw1nter exposition.
A bill has been introduced in the leg
lslature providing for the licensing OF
automobiles, the $5 annual fee to go to
fund for providing better roads.
Examinations for the first semester
at Washburn coleleg commence tomor-
row. Consequently there will be a
liberal use of midnight oil tonight
The Singer Sewing Machine company
announces that it is in no way re-
sponsible for the solicitors who are
making a house to house canvass in
Topeka.
A force of clerks working under the
directions of F. E. Grimes, the receiver,
Is invoicing the Zanditon stock and will
complete their work the latter part of
the week.
The city election has dwfndled down
to such few contests that it is now
a question of good looks to see who
will be the lucky man. Practically ev-
cry candidate is using his photograph
as an attraction.
A delegation representing cities of
the first class is in Topeka and will
appear before a legislative committee
and ask for a number of amendments
to the law governing the commission
plan of city government.
The street railway company is run
ming extra cars on all of its lines dur
ing the heavy hours. much to the satis-
faction of its patrons. The theaters and
places of attraction over the city are
also receiving extra service.
The Copeland hotel walls have nearly
all been razed and it will be but week
or so until the debris is removed and
the excavations will be all that will
remain to remind the politicians of the
location of the famous old hotel.
The stand which County Attorney
John Schenck and Probate Judge
Schoch have taken relative to granting
permits, indicates that there will be
fewer drug stores in Topeka during the
next IL months than during the past
year.
a number of Wichita citizens arrived
in Topeka Monday evening for the pur-
pose attempting to secure legislation
and an appropriation for the purpose of
= fr,cr Toe 10 ,faI, &c n
vastating orchards in that section of
the state.
The Provident association booths at
the Midwinter exposition have been
literally patronized but they deserve
all that they have received and more
as the proceeds go to a worthy cause
and will be distributed among the
poor of Topeka.
A force under the direction of the To-
peka Street Railway company is laying
a pavement of treated blocks across the
Sixth avenue viaduct. The company
is also relaying the plankS between the
rails on the Sixth avenue bridge across
the Shunganunga-
The Bell Telephone company has
moved its Oakland cables to the Bran
ner street viaduct which increases the
width of the roadway under the via
duct and at the same time provides a
safe carrier for the company wires into
the Oakland district.
FRANK Johnson, VINO Is employed IN
the sales department of the Cudahy
Packing company, desires that the pub
lie should know that he is not the per-
son of that name who was arrested by
the police Saturday during a raid on a
lower Kansas avenue house.
Probably every owner of a camera
or a kodak has secured a picture of
the Copeland ruins by this time. At
any time Sunday or Monday it was
hard not to find some one in the
of the ruins taking a picture.
In the custom being observed in the
chapel exercises this winter at Wash
burn college, that of celebrating the
anniversaries of the 0Oets, Prof Aiken
head gave a reading of some of the
poems of Robert Burns Monday in the
pure old Scotch to the delight of the
student body.
Myra McIenry 1ectured a Topeka
newspaper man, who had made some
sighting reference to her, in the SEN
ate last evening, but she didn't make
an evidence of stalwart courage that
the friends of the reporter didn't sus-
pect he possessed
The regular monthly meeting of the
Shawnee County Alfalfa club will be
held at the Commercial club rooms at
2 o'clock Saturday. At this meeting
number of copies of United States gov
ernment bulletin, No 3S9, one of the
most comprehensive bulletins ever pre-
pared by the government on Alfalfa
will be distributed.
There is considerable commotion out
at Washburn because a member of the
faculty told his classes that certain
fraternity in the college was "a bunch
of sap-heads" and that girl would be
''giddy-headed" if she ever set foot
in the chapter house 1t was all caused
by the terrible report that the frater-
nifty gave a dance in their own house