The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-05
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The polls close at o'clock tonight
Cope & Co. have sold a 3-year-old
team Of colts for $3.50.
Next Monday at 10 a. m. the federal
court opens in this city.
Construction of the Fillmore street
bridge begins Wednesday.
The Independent supplement is a
fine one. You can see them grow.
In spite of the rain during the early
morning the polling places were busy
spots.
Chairman G. w. KaaavaL of the state
railroad commission. was in the city
Monday.
David Leahy. secretary to the COVER
ror. has returned from a flying visit
to wichita
MontavilIe Flowers will lecture this
evening on 1.-The Little Minister" at the
First NJ E. church.
Robert Randolph. charged with kid
mapping the incubator baby, has been
taken to Holton for trial.
This afternoon the Washburn college
baseball nine is clasning in Emporia
with the team Of the College of EN-
poria.
Judge A. w. Dana addressed the
members Of the red duck" Y. NJ. c.
A. membership campaign this noon,
preparatory to the final squirt of the
campaign.
Michael Weis of ST. Johns, Md, died
on a Santa FEE train as it was pulling
into Topeka Monday. He was vic
tim Of consumption. The body will be
sent home for burial.
The idea that the women voters
would not go out if there were any
danger of getting hat wet is be-
ing rapidly dispelled by their attend
ance at the polls today.
If you have not already been in
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gagged carriage for attendance at
your voting place, you will have to
borrow your neighbours rig, as those
for public hire have been reserved.
at the Grand Thursday and Friday,
goes merrily on. It is reported that
500 tickets for the first night have al
ready been taken. Tickets at Rowley's.
Prof o. S. Tonks. of Princeton, will
lecture at Washburn, Wednesday night
at o'clock in the college chapel. His
subject will be Growth of Modernism
in italian Art The public is invited.
The epidemic of sleeping starva-
ton" at the county Jail which is re
ported to have been the cause of the
death of Mrs. Evans is gaining ground
having now severely attacked Mat
tie Troy and displayed symptoms in
Mary Vollstedt.
The Washburn athletic board vot-
ed at its meeting last night to insti-
debt of the college. The movement
is branded popular subscription but
students and immediate friends are
especially invited to contribute.
The Washington report of the SUI
preme court reversal of the Kansas
courts decision on the Text Book
case makes good county political dope
in that a certain candidate for county
attorney in a previous campaign made
large stock of the report that he had
won that case through all the courts
in the land.
News was received here today of the
advancement of Mrs. Emma Byers,
formerly of Topeka, in Y. w. G. A.
circles. Mrs. Byers has been appoint |
ed a district secretary Of the associa-
ton. Her headquarters will be at Min
neapolis. She will have authority over
five states. Mrqs. Byers is at present |
stationed at Omaha,
County Attorney ]. ]. Schenck has
new role to play-that of phiIan-
thropist. He is waging a hard fight |
against the father of Wendell Miller, !
who wants his son sent to the reform |
school, has bought the boy a new
let the boy go to his grandmother in
defiance to the parent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles L. Allen and
babies, Ross and Eleanor, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert L. Allen and baby Albert
jr., all of Pittsburg, Pa, have become
taken possession of the new homes at
107 East Eleventh street and 1121 West
Third street Messrs. Allen are special
newspaper advertising men.
Building permits for the month of
April will reach a high figure as a per-
init has been granted for the erection
of the G. A. r. Memorial building at
the corner of Tenth and jackson
streets 1t was for but $685. as the
state appropriation for the building at
the present time does not amount to
more, although the total cost of the
building will probably be upwards of
5000, 900.
DR.. Lee K. Frankel, secretary of the
industrial department of the MetropoIi- |
tan Life Insurance Co., of New York, |
will be at the Commercial club at 12:45
Wednesday to deliver an address before |
representatives of the various churches |
and organizations looking toward the |
establishment of a day camp for tuber- |
culosis patients of Topeka. Ladies and |
gentlemen, whether appointed by or
ganizations or not, who are interested |
are invited to attend.