The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-07
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Good Carnations 35c per dozen at
Rodman's, 105 West Eighth.
The Sunday school convention ad-
journs tonight. after the best meet
ing in the history of the state.
w. II. Davis will not erect his new
wholesale house by contract j. B.
Belts will superintend the construc-
ton.
Plans are under ways to construct a
new athletic field for Washburn col
lsge. This is a badly needed feature
al the local college, 1--ss,
The new Kaw, the Washburn an
nual, is out. It is filled with half tones
and nearly all the photographs were
made by F. c.. Willard.
Edward Payson Weston. the cham
pion walker of the United States, ex-
poets to reach Topeka before nightfall
on his way to san Francisco.
The old buildings at the southwest
corner of Fifth and Kansas avenue
are being RACED to make room for
the big building which will soon be
erected
Less than half dozen Sunday
game on Thursday. Does this indicate
that there is no interest in the nation
al sport outside of Topeka?
+. b. Kellam has an automobile
four years old with which he thinks
nothing of taking $50 mile jaunt in
a Gay. 1t Is apparently DIS SOOQ DIS
new and it is a Topeka made car, too.
The Topeka lodge of the B. P. o.
T.. have deemed it advisable to hold
an old fashioned social session Satur
day night at nine o'clock in the lodge
room. Lunch will be served at 10
o'clock
The Omaha team will open a series
of three games at the Topeka park
tomorrow afternoon. This will be the
Sunday attraction. The Omaha team
IS the only one yet able to defeat
Wichita.
John Strickrott has two or three
now tangled cameras with which he
can make an exposure of one thous-
andth part of a second. He has been
experimenting on the bali players with
gratifying results.
G. e. Denton, secretary of state,
whose loyalty to the Wichita baseball
team has been unwavering in years
the showing being made by Wichita is
too good to be true.
The faculty OF Washburn college
has prohibited the habit of the stu
from the old bell. This is a move in
the right direction. Now for a plan
TO erect a tower for the bell.
Half of the buildings have been
RACED to the ground at the corner of
Fifth and Kansas avenue and the
wrecRers are working on the corner
building today. The new seven story
structure will soon be looming up
The street car motormen are COM
planning again. They say that the
automobile headlights make twice as
much glare as their spoilers. The mo-
tormen may have one consolation
the auto lights never last very long.
The first batch of new Topeka paw
ing Will be commenced Monday morn
ing when the contractors will move
their apparatus, teams and men to
bower Kansas avenue. First street be-
tween Kansas avenue and Quincy will
be paved.
This is the last day of the big Sun
day school convention. The delegates
have all enjoyed themselves to the
fullest extent and a majority of them
want to come back again. Kansas
City, Kan. will entertain the conven-
ton next year.
Slow but sure the people of Topeka
manding the commission form of gov
eminent Every day a hundred new
believers are being added to the
cause. This sounds like bloody edi-
toriaI' but 1t is true.
This is pension time at the fedora
building and the Topeka branch O
the United States pension department
is sending out millions of dollars Il
old soldiers. widows and children al
over this part of the country. Fifteer
hundred pensioners were paid off tht