The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-05-18
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Dancing tonight at vinewood.

Dancing tonight at VinewoOd.
Capt P H Coney will deliver the
| Memorial Day address at Belleville.
Special Sale-Large carnation plants,
usual price 25c, Wednesday 1oc each
Rodmans greenhouse. 18th and Monroe.
| A number of the Washburn students
are preparing to spend at least a por-
| ton of the summer in the harvest
fields.
| A Topeka lawyer who Is in a hospital
| convalescing is devoting his time to the
preparation Of his Memorial Day
| speech.
The police department has decided
| that it knew nothing and could learn
nothing about the origin of the Stamey
fire of Sunday night.
The Mothers c. E. of the First Pres
| byterian church will meet tomorrow
afternoon at the home of Mrs. ]. A.
| McGiffin, 700 Horn street.
Mrs. Nellie Gatlin. the divorced wife
| of A B. Gathn, q Topeka druggist was
married at Trinidad today to J. w.
Rockingham who is in business there.
The work on the rebuilding Of the
Parkhurst- building Is expected
| to commence soon. The lumber and
other building material is being hauled
to the site.
TIE annual encampment of the boys
of the Y. M. G: A. will be held at Ma.
40 boys each will probably indulge in
the pleasures of camp life.
A marriage license was secured in
Kansas City by Harry E. Colin, who
claims Topeka as his home, to wed
Minnie A Bowden of Roadhouse, Ill.
He is "a years old and she is 81.
There will be about a half crop Of
apples" says D. Debacker, who has
one of the big orchards north of town.
land some early cherries The late
cherries were killed by the frost"
President Sanders of Washburn-"I
am in favor of mounting the old bell
and believe it will be a fitting eulogy
| to the traditions of the college" And
still the bell lies in the mud and water.
Shelton Wilson who has been treas
urer of the Grand for the past season,
has Joined the North Brothers Stock
company and will go to st. Joseph to
play with the company during the sum-
mer engagement at that place.
The first fish story of the season has
reached the State Journal office. A. ].
Carruth, Jr., who returned from Her
ington this morning, says he caught
% in an hours time Monday morning.
And he insists that it is no fish story
either.
The congregation of the Presbyterian
church has decided to make improve
ments on the church amounting to
$4,000 The improvements will include
a rernodeling of the basement, an addi-
ton to the church on the south and
many other minor details.
Chief Wilmarth asks that the fire de-
partment be augmented by twelve fire.
men, many thousand feet of hose
combination hose and chemical wagon
and a new first size steamer. This to-
gether with thirteen new fire alarm
boxes would give Topeka the finest
fire department in the state.
Thinking that they were in the Santa
F'e yards three hobos built a little bon
fire on jackson street facing the state
house grounds last night and spent the
whole night near the string of freight
cars standing at this place. At nine
o'clock this morning they were roost-
ing on the bumpers waiting for the
train to depart Not until a motor car
from the street railway bumped the
cars did they realize their mistake.
Topeka Y. NJ. C. A. people are great
ly interested in the big three story R.
r. Y. NJ. C. A. building which has
been completed at Fort Scott, thanks
to the generosity of the Missouri Pa
Icific and Frisco railway systems. the