The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-04
Regular Meeting of the Council
Tonight.
Street Nsming Proposition Will
Again Be Up.
NOW GROWING BITTER
People ON West Street Object to
Change.
Topeka Starts the New Year
With Money ON Hand.

The regular council meeting tonight
the first meeting of the new year and
1t is the hope of all the aldermen that
1t will be the best meeting of the year,
and then they will strive to do better.
OF course it is natural to think that the
5 street naming proposition will come up
again. This matter will have to be set
tied some time or other and since
Mayor Green has appointed another
committee on the work they will have
a chance to show renewed vigor. And
the longer the matter is postponed the
more troublesome the residents of the
streets in question are getting. For in
stance, tonight there will be big
crowd in the council chamber from
Westlawn, the recent addition to the
city plated and sOlds@by G. c. Lytle-
These people strenuously object to the
name "Westlawn'' being given to what
is now called West street" This new
change was suggested by a lobby
from West street at the last meeting
of the city council. Tonight there
promises to be a battle in the galleries
because the West street people have
heard of the signed Electromagnetic
from the Westlawn ''plutocrats" and
thex are going to be there with an
other objection just as big and just as
long and juicy And the controversy is
going to be- more than just common
. street naming trouble. Some of the
WeStlawn people gave it out that their
houses and lots were much. better both
as to appearance and value than those
of the residents of West street. Thfy
said that the West streeters dld not
have any taste for architecture and
they built their houses according to
their own individual tastes Which fol-
lowed too closely the meager repre-
sentation of their pocket BOOKS Inc
West street residents have taken this
md a
royal tonight All of those trouples
and experiences are the cause of thas
general tune which is floating through
the corridors of the city nal! TO-DAY
eft Looks To Me Like a Big Night To-
night
The only New Years birth that was
reported to the city board of health
was that of a daughter born to Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Burren. 916 North
Polk street. Warning NO. rev
Million will be sent out to the doctors |
over the city in a few days |
The city depository. the Capital Ma
tionaI bank renewed their $20'UVU
bond today and it has been filed Win |
the city clerk 1t will be set away
among the records in the archives OF |
the CITY hall and kept until another |
wear rolls around Such is the routine |
life of a city official na
The city of Topeka started out the
new year in a blaze of glory-as far as
the city treasury is concerned me
first business day of the year Witness
ed $40 sos in the city treasury. And
this is being added to every day by the |
profits from the different De
partments of the city money making
Police Judge $ ) |
TJrn1yt turned in 81, 085. 20 today to help |
nav the expenses of the police court.
The weight and measures department
gave their $3.50 mite to the city treas |
urer. Phe city weigh01aster sent $50 ~
to Mr.. Hale and the plumbers were glad
to turn over S115 for the help OF the
good cause If this keeps up until the
bonds fall due Topeka will surprise the
by taking the troublesome !
articles out of their hands
CITY Clerk Burge received the pave
ment bonds from the printers today
and they will be recorded, booked and
fused over until they can be sold Inc
city clerk reports that he has received
numerous letters from eastern bond
dealers asking for information concern
Ing the issuing of the electric light I
bonds and any other bonds that the
CITY desires to make public. The pave
ment bonds will probably be sold to To-
peka people as several have asked for
them. The electric light bonds were
advertised and even at a Az per cent
interest rate the bond buyers seem anx-
Ious to handle them for Topeka To-
peka has never had any trouble in ind
ing a market for her bond issues. IL is |
inst as easy to issue them and sell them
as it is to give the job of printing them
to the printer-both jobs come per SOL
The ways and means committee of
fhe city council is holding a final meet
ing for the month at the city hall this
evening 1t will adjourn in time to
make their. monthly report to the city
council. The pay roll this month will
not be a s heavy as formerly on account
of the Christmas present-payment
made Just before the holidays. Since
then there have been few extra fire.
men and men in the street and water
force who will have their pay allowed
at the council meeting tonight.
Two new automobile tags issued
lately One to w. o. Swanson. a con-
ira ctor who has the roadster habit. He
has one of those powerful little white
flyers and it is flying under the 216
signal A L. Hocket, 627 Madison
is in favor of the Maxwell runabout
and he has purchased No. 215. Still
the weather is not seriously affected
The Mutual Ice company decided to ma
asked permission from Street Commits
sioner Frank Snyder who gladly gave it
and promised to do the grading and
maintaining. But the ice company wanted
the work done at once. The street COM
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