The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-06-18
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always use the Independent phone,
and get my party
w. S. Anderson has sold the Oakland
Blade to F. E. Brown and ]. N. Graft.
The Shawnee County Alfalfa club
will meet next Saturday at the Com
merciaI club rooms
One week from today you will be
tagged for the benefit of the Topeka
PIovident Association.
The Gage park railway extension
meeting will be held Monday evening at
the city hall instead of in the morn
ing.
The usual weekly meeting IF the
Shawnee County Bar association was
held in the Commercial club rooms
this noon.
Felix Trevine, aged 80. and Addie
Gonzales, aged &c, both of Topeka. Sc
cured q marriage license in Kansas
City, Kan, Friday.
A daughter of H. L. Cook, secretary
of the Kansas State Fair association,
was operated upon for appendicitis at
Lincoln, Neb., Friday.
Next Wednesday the Ohio club of
Topeka will hold its annual picnic in
Garfield park. Supper will be served in
the park at $50 The ladies will gather
at 4 =. m.
This IS the season when the Help
w anLeQ' Columns OIL the Wdill pages lel
outdistance the situations Wanted
columns. Every body is busy who
wants to be.
Mr.. Jennings. the weather shark,
claims that Topeka Is due to have
nice long spell of very warm weather.
Mr. Jennings claims, however, that he
refuses to take the blame.
Thursday of next week is the famous
Stahl picnic in Stahrs grove few
miles out of Topeka. A large number
of Topeka people and all of the poll
ticians are preparing to go.
Lincoln circle No. 1. Ladies of the
G.. A r., will meet Tuesday afternoon
at 2:3O O'Clock at Lincoln Post hall.
The department president is expected
to be present at the meeting.
A large number of neighborhood
picnic parties are being held on the
beautiful Washburn campus these
days The campus is an ideal place
for everything from love to education.
The swans and cygnets IN Central
park still refuse TIC make any COM
ments or give out any interviews on
the subject of Commissioner Holman.
And Mr.. Holman will have nothing to
say about the swans.
How would you like to be the Ice
Man? An East Eleventh street negro
took after an ice man yesterday with
a revolver. thought he had been firt-
jng with his wife. Tony Williams the
Colored person, was adjudged insane
later in the day.
There was a debate on woman suf-
frage the other night. A man debated
against a woman and they discussed
freely the domestic relations and the
great Importance of families. The
man was an old bachelor and the
woman was unmarried.
A few merchants are still advertis-
ing the fact in their windows that
Il -s.,4s.- I,
think of it, there are still large num-
Der of "Welcome Endeavorers'' posters
up in the windows. The Topeka G.
Els may feel f1attered.
The people living in the vicinity of
Chesney park have petitioned the city
commissioners for a bandstand in this
park and free open air band concerts
this summer. The commissioners will
take UP the proposition at their weekly
meeting Monday norning
Topekas famous "dry land bridge"
over Kansas avenue just south of the
kaw river, is progressing slowly. The
contractors are excavating for the
first abutment. Wouldn't it be a bet
ter scheme to quit the excavation bust
ness and build the bridge fiat on the
ground?
From Topeka to Reno, Nevada, is
1.706 miles. And the difference in tenn
perature corresponds closely with the
difference in longitude, west. And still
come people are seriously talking about
going out there to see the prize fight
which has been chased away from San
Francisco.
If a wave of prosperity hits the
Santa Fe suddenly and the freight
rates are adjusted to the satisfaction
of the railroad it is possible that the
Santa Fe office building will be four
teen stories tall after all But there
is never any fear of the Santa Fe fail
ing to do things.
College Hill is not as lonesome this
summer as in previous years. The
summer school this year has drawn a
large number of students from over
the state and they are reciting under
the college pines. The campus is one
of the prettiest places in Topeka this
summer. Ask any "lover."
The new dials on the postoffice
clock are now displaying the time of
night to the weary stranger and the
very weary fellow townsman" in
bright, CHEEKY figures. The lighted
dial is a great imDrovement-and a
welcome sign to those who realize that
they have missed their last car.
The city of Topeka is approaching
the time when q new city prison build
ing must be built. The old one has been
in service for 30 years. 1t is old, ugly
and unsanitary. Prisoners are huddled
together in violation of all ordinary
laws of hygiene and even the health of
the Jail officials is impaired by contin-
ued work in the building.
After standing the heat as long as
he could, George Badders, secretary of
the Commercial club. anE ounced this
noon during lunch hour that all who
wished had the privilege of removing
their coats during lunch hours. Every
coat in the room was removed but one
and that unfortunate man claimed
that his wife had forgotten to mend
his shirt
George S. Badders, secretary of the
Commercial club. is receiving a large
number of letters from people all over
the country who are anxious to help
the Kansas farmers harvest their
bumper wheat crop. Kansas will en-
ploy hundreds of men from eastern
colleges this summer COLLEGE men