The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-15
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trio automobile as No. 36S.
/ The attendance at the city schools
considerably exceeds that of last year
at this time.
| L. E. Myers of Chicago. vice presi-
dent of the Topeka Railway company,
is in Topeka for a few days.
There will be meetings this evening
of both the judiciary and streets and
| walks committees of the city council.
Tomorrow the students of the
Dougherty Shorthand school will hold
| their annual hike. 1t will be to Ell
mont.
| Ell. Shakeshaft, assistant general
] passenger agent of the Santa Fe. has
returned from a business trip to Guth-
RE, Okla.
| The walls on the new. Thompson
Hall building at Fifth and Kansas ave-
nue. have been completed as far as the
| second floor.
There is no doubt but what you will
| have an Independent telephone some
time. Enjoy its advantages and SPLEEN
| did service now.
| A concrete block so feet long. five
| feet deep and several feet thick. is be
| ing put in over the front of the Thomp-
on-HaN building.
| The John Barrett lecture and dinner
which will be held on Wednesday ev-
ening is creating much interest among
the members of the Commercial club
| Charles Veatch, OF Topeka, secured a
marriage license in Kansas City, NO.,
| to enter into the bonds of wedlock with
Miss Julia Anderson of KeyteSville, Mo.
Dodgers have been distributed ad-
vertising the lecture this evening by
Fred c. Trigg at Luken's Opera house
| on the North side on the commission
plan of city government
Assistant County Attorney Atkinson
has returned from his trip to Oklahoma
where he won a case for Topeka eli
ents. He reports that the lawyers
down there apparently all came from
this state.
trail Y. NJ. c. A. at 4 o'clock on Sunday
afternoon by John Dawson, is being
widely advertised. The subject is, THE
Old Testament as an Aid to Scholar
ship
Art Griggs, first baseman of the st.
Louis Browns, who has been visiting
with home folks for ten days, left last
night for San Antonio, Tex, where he
will spend q portion of the winter
hunting bears in company with several
of the members of the Browns.
The reception to the young men of
the city to be held at the Central Y.
NJ c. A. this evening should prove an
enjoyable affair as music and games
have been arranged as a matter of di-
version. Governor Stubs will give an
address of welcome to the young men,
Word has been received in Topeka
of the serious illness of Bug Holli-
day, at one time great ball player
with the Cincinnati Reds. Holiday
isn't remembered by very many To-
peka fans, but he was member of
the famous Goldsby's Golden Giants,
who in 1887 won for Topeka the PEN
nant in the old Western League.
At the Auditorium on Sunday even
ing there will be union meeting of
the churches of the city under the
Luther M Tesh of Syracuse, n. Y,
secretary of the worldwide Baraca
movement, will address the meeting.
Mrs. A. j. Clark will give short pipe
organ recital.
Joseph A Johnson more than go years
blind to mount the steps az the court
house, slowly by the aid of a cane,
finally reached the second floor to ask
advice of W. E. Atchinson, assistant
county attorney. how to proceed to
secure a parole for his son, Fred John
son, sent to the penitentiary for MUIR
der. The old man is very feeble and
penni1ess, having spent his all in the
defense of his boy.
Every play in tomorrow's baseball
game between Pittsburg and Detroit
the decisive game of the worlds cham
pionship series-will be announced from
megaphone. Dick Cooley, manager of
the Topeka Western League team viii |
handle the megaphone, and tell the
fans about every play made as fast
DIS II Can NC 4SSCAfSQ ny LIE 0ldle |
Journal over the Associated Press
wires. Cooley has played on bot.l
teams.
CLOSING his speech before the county |
commissioners in his protest against |
the south side dixie, Mike Heery sized |
the situation up like this: mo, gentle
men, if you are going to build this !
great concrete wall up above all rea-l
scnable height and make US pay the
then I say you had better casteIIate
it so that when the Japs ascend the
Kaw we may hide behind the verita- /
Bile fortress and shoot at them through /
The loop holes" He also intimated |
that in ireland there were no commis-l