The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-01

| Don't forget the skating rink.
The fire department gave fire engine
No. a thorough test this morning.
The city force is now grading for
sidewalks in the Lowman Hill district.
Now that park propositions have be-
come a fad new one is about to be
sprung.
Petitions are being signed asking
| for the creation of the Shunganunga
drainage district
The children of the city schools
have now settled down to hard work
Circus time is over.
w. E. Hazen. cashier of the Wat
kins National bank of Lawrence, has
been in Topeka on business.
y. G.. Sheer. chief of the traffic
bureau of the Santa Fe. was in To-
| peka yesterday on business.
The next meeting of the city coun-
cil-the regular monthly affair-will
be held on Monday evening.
The public is invited to inspect the
weekly exhibits of local manufa ctured
products at the Commercial club.
! Washburn and Campbell colleges
will contest for supremacy on the
Washburn gridiron tomorrow after
noon.
The new pay-as-you-enter street
cars will be ready for use on the To-
cal tracks about the fifteenth of the
month.
The building permits for Septem-
] Der almost reached the $4,000 mark
| "a good showing for this season of
the year.
The business mems Bible class of
the Central Y. M. c. A. met today at
noon under the leadership of DR..
stephen S. Estey.
It cost $3.50 during September to
feed the city prisoners. The city has
saved over 800 month in food bills
since the lid went on.
Christopher c. Daniel and Fannie
H Smith, both of Topeka, secured
marriage license and were married in
Kansas City "Wednesday.
The contractors. of the city are max
ing a desperate effort to catch up with
their work and in some cases are re-
fusing to bid on new propositions.
The public improvements committee
of the city council met this afternoon
to talk over matters pertaining to the
river improvements and extension of
the Melan arch bridge.
The Christian Endeavor of the First
Congregational church will be enter
tanned at the home of Councilman H.
B. Howard this evening. The affair
will be penny social.
Street Commissioner Snyder warned
dirt hauler who was scattering his
load along the streets that if he did
not exercise more care he would have
to give his reasons in the police court.
Cement sidewalks are being rapidly
put in by Contractor w. w. Gilmore in
the Quinton Heights district. Owing
to a delay in the shipment of brick
work has not commenced on the brick
walks.
Custodian ]. S. Weir of the city hall
has fox terrier named Don. The dog
is death on rodents and it is now sell
dom that a mouse dares to invade the
territory covered by the sharp nose
of the terrier.
Along the line of interstate COM
merce legislation the State Temper
ence union which convenes session
here next week will endeavor to stop
the practice of shipping liquor into
dry" territory.
The city attorney was redrafting.
this morning, the proposed new motor
cycle and bicycle ordinance so that all
items of Importance would be en-
bodied therein in order that the old
ordinances can be repealed.
It is reported tht the preachers and
lawyers will again clash next week on
the baseball park for the sake of
sweet charity, and incidentally so that
up for their previous defeat
District Manager F. C. Freeman
returned today from Niagara Falls
and Canadian points, where he has
been spending his vacation. after at
tending the national convention of
the National Protective Legion which
met in Wilkesbarre. Pa.
The Central Park and Country
club tennis tournament will COM
mence tomorrow afternoon at $3.50
on the courts of the former club
There will be two teams on both
sides. Fink and Sheldon and Mont
gomery and Stoddard will represent
the Central Park club.
Dick Kaufman. the popular To-
peka pitcher of the season just closed,
has gone to Lawrence where he will
enter Kansas university to take a
postgraduate course in psychology,
with which he hopes to be able to
read the minds of opposing batters,
and make his pitching more effective
next season.
Mayor Green is in receipt of a let
ter from the Edison company ex-
pressing a willingness to point its
poles throughout the city in case that
other concerns would do likewise.
The advertising commission of the
Commercial club has been interested
in the matter of Graduating UNI
slightly poles, and the mayor has also
taken the matter up
Superintendent Jesse Shaw and
Commissioner Jewell complained to
the mayor that the price charged the
waterworks department for repairing
paving was too high. They asserted
that their department is charged at
the same rate as individuals and they
were of the opinion that one depart
ment should not try to make profit
off of another. The matter will prob
ably be adjusted Immediately
petition was discovered which
has been in the files of the ways and
means committee of the city council
for fifteen years and during that time
no action has been taken upon it.
1t was signed by 81 persons. more