The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-22
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The Novelty closes tonight and the
Air Dome opens.
| Use the new Independent copper
i toll lines to Holton and Horton. Just
| opened up.
An enjoyable concert was given
last night by the young people of the
| First Baptist church.
| Topeka is not the only one to have
a slogan. Carry Nations initials are
c. A. N. and she says she Will.
DR.. A. L. Lemon has bought the prac-
tice of DR.. Taylor of Greeley. and Will
make Greeley his, home in the near
future.
! Rev. Mr.. Albert t. Fits of Des
Moines, Iowa, will preach at the Cen
trail Park Christian church this even
Ing.
Justice Silas Porter will deliver an
address on Some Popular Misconcep-
tons before the Saturday Night club
tonight.
The Topeka City league after sew
| eral attempts to get started opened
| the season at the Western league
park this afternoon.
The Topeka W. c. T. u presented a
life-sized portrait of Frances Willard
to the high school at chapel exercises
Friday.
Another football hero reaps his re-
tward-David Mumford. OF Washburn
fame, has flown clear to Pennsylvania
land secured a mate.
The Rev. Mr.. Thos S. Young will
deliver stereoptfcon lecture on the
crisis in Turkey at the First Baptist
church on Sunday evening.
w. w. Mills, president of the Com
mercial club, was able to be out of
doors Friday afternoon for the first
time since his operation of two
| weeks ago.
Mr.. John F. Stanton, of this city, was
in Garden City this week looking into
the matter of securing the contract for
the erection of a new high school
building.
The North Brothers Stock COM
pany which has been playing at the
Novelty for seven weeks will leave
tomorrow for st. Joseph where the
company will play all summer.
Final examinations begin at Wash
burn next week and then the annual
packing commences. This is the time
that the students make search of the
roommate's dresser drawers in search
Of lost clothes and handkerchiefs.
The change in time in the new
Union Pacific's st. Louis-Colorado
limited goes into effect tomorrow
night. The new train will leave
Kansas City at 10:25 p. M, and will
reach Topeka at 1915 a. M, instead
of 1:05 a. m.
West Eighth avenue will soon be re-
paved from Kansas avenue TO Harri-
son street.-The block between Kansas
avenue and Jackson is half finished at
the presetn time. Then the jokes pull
ed from the old holy asphalt will
have to cease.
The people of the city who kicked
on sand filler and asked for asphalt
between their brick paving will now
rejoice. At the recent spillway flood
on the east side the sand was washed
from between the bricks and piled up
lin the cutters.
Topeka will have no Sunday base
ball. that is as far as the game with
in the city limits is concerned. The
Western league park is outside the
city limits and on this account will
undoubtedly be a rendezvous for the
Sunday sport.
Mr.. W. B. Jones who is walking
from Dallas, Tex, to Nome, Alaska,
reached Topeka yesterday wearing
Topeka Kan-Topeka WIFI Button
which he picked up in Guthrie. Okla
This goes to show that the city is be-
ing advertised.
A post card has been received at
the Y NJ. c. A. addressed to Will
liam Shellsmith, the boy who mys-
teriously disappeared on May 10.
The card was evidently from his sis
ter in Iowa but the post mark is so
indistinct that the name of the town
can not be deciphered.
See J. THOMAS LUMBER co. for
lumber and DEWEY PORTLAND CE-
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