The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-02-07

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Do not place limit on the num-
Der of people who can telephone you.
The Independent Telephone.
w. F. Cochran. manager of the dry
goods department. left today for New
| York where he will spend a week or
ten days purchasing new spring mer-
chandise for Paxton & Paxton
The Horton Commercial answers a
suffragette letter of Lila Day Monroe
by saying that they can't do a thing
for her because she uses her own name
instead of the name of her husband
There are not many lawyers in Kan
saS in favor of the bulk sales bill be-
fore the legislature. If this bill passed
/ it would settle too many would-be
lawsuits before the lawyers could get
hold of them.
sity in charge of state tuberculosis ex-
hibit tells of germs at Baptist church,
is the headline in a morning paper. If
there are germs at the Baptist church
the brethren had better investi-
gate.
Not long ago a wichita man came
to Topeka to run restaurant. DR..
Babb. the city milk inspector, finds
that he is running this restaurant on
| the wichita PLAN and he has warned
| judge.
DR., Vanderpool, sanitary sergeant of
the city, is rs years old today. He
| was given box of candy by his pretty
young secretary. In thanking her he
| said: when You are rs years old
will send this box back to you filled
| with the same kind of candy
| When there isn't a good show in
the theaters, when no prize fights or
| big fires are scheduled and the town
seems dry Monday nights, visitors to
| the city or even restless citizens should
put on their hats and overcoats and
| go to the school board meetings.
Potwin was terrorized by an alleged
enraged bull last evening and the
young heroes of this section of the
city have made history for themselves.
Beautiful young ladies who sat on the
topmost limbs of trees will never for
get the heroic actions of Carl Bolmar
and others.
Gage park is popular place this
| bright weather. People from all over
| the city go out to the park to see the
Bone buffalo. The buffalo are so tame
now that a young boy jumped in the
pen and took a kodak picture of the
| entire herd-and they paid no atten-
| ton to him.
The school board meetings are be-
coming as enthusiastic as the meet
| ings of the old council when ''enraged
| tax payers came before the mayor
and councilmen and demanded JUS
tice." The commission form should
| be applied to the schools as we'll as
the city government.
| The Rock Island is receiving their
new orders of all-steel cars and they
| are being installed on all through trains
| in this part of the system. Two solid
| all-steel trains passed through Topeka
| this morning. The new cars are cleo
| trio lighted, cement f1oored and abso-
lutely fire and wreck proof.
H. p. Miller, city commissioner OBJ
| jects to the leasing of Garfield park
| to an amusement firm for the COM
| ing summer months. Commissioner
Miller believes that the park belongs
| to the city at large and he is not in IA
vor of closing it to their interests sim
ply for a certain percentage of the
proceeds.
When Dr. ~Babb, city milk Inspector,
used to make his regular inspection
| tours among the farmers, they would
| telephone to each other and give forth
| the warning. Now DIR. Babb has
motor cycle and the dairymen say he
goes so fast that he beats the tele-
phone by at least country block-and
you know how far that is.
The city commissioners have auth
orized Mayor Billiard to sign a con-
tract giving the Knights & Ladies of
Security band $3.50 for five free open
| air concerts next summer. Last month
| the city commissioners authorized
Marshalls band to give fifteen con-
certs in public parks. Topeka will
have plenty of band music next sum-
mer.
| There is a good story going the
rounds of the Washburn college
campus. 1t is said that one o. the
women who has been connected with
the college for many years is wear
| ing a diamond ring. If the Wash
burn grads had only known that this
person was marriag eably inclined she
would have had hundreds of propo-
sails before this time.
| G. w. Rourke, superintendent of the
| Kansas division of the Rock Island.
was in Topeka today. Superintendent
| Rourke is the man who took Speaker
| Cannon over the Rock Island lines in
/ took up the action as a proof that the
| railroads and Uncle Joe were working
| together. But Mr.. Rourke insists that
Cannon paid his fare.
The most talked of man in the edi-
/ torial columns of tire Kansas press this
| week is Frank farrell, publicity agent
| of the Santa Fe and next is ]. r.
| Koontz, general freight agent. Mr..
| farrell and Mr.. Koontz were instrument
Fe party at the editorial meeting.
General Manager Kouns is also receiy-
| ing the plaudits of the editors.
In his annual winter trip to Califor-
| MIA City Clerk Burge spent a beauti-
| full morning ION the beach, today
swimming, padding in the water and
| digging holes in the sand with his toes.
| Mr.. Burge takes many trips every year
with his feet propped on his city hall
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