The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-10
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C. G. Carlson will erect a dwelling
at SIS Garfield to cost $4,000.
Fair secretaries from various parts
OF Kansas are the guests of the Com
mercial club today.
Your friends think you have moved
out of the city if they fail to find your
name and number in the Independent
telephone directory.
The $4,000 horse pavilion at the
fa1r grounds, which is one of the finest
structures of the kind in the country,
has been completed.
The weather man says a cold wave
is coming. One more cause for worry
by the man who owns a cherry tree
ana three sweet peas in his back yard.
A. T. Elliott is suffering from a frac-
tured ankle he received when a scat
FOLDING broke at the new w. E. Dick
ei-aon residence, 1906 West Sixth ave
nue..
The social committee of the Y. w.
c: A will meet Friday evening to com
plete the program for the week of
| festivities which will take place at the
new building in June.
NO matter what the temperature,
the wind still blows-and is most OBJ
noxious at the ball park where the
sHghtest gust tears up a bushel of dirt
and sweeps it through the stands.
The music for the membership din
ner which will be given at the Central
| nished by the Misses Lucille McAfee,
Beulah Wentworth, Florence Gravens
and Maude Mary Kline.
Black Diamond came to the local
room OF the State Journal today to
| make the announcement that he had
| finished painting the flag stats on the
MulVane building and was ''soused." A
part of the information was unneces-
sary.
For the last two weeks BOYS and
young men have been fishing in Central
park. Commissioner Stotts has found
II out and he has assigned special
policemen to watch the lakes at night
and has had signs painted to warn am
bilious fishermen.
Any time Dick Cooley was called a
poor manager somebody made a mis-
take. He didn't even have to pay for
ms liquors. Judge Dana ruled that
the booze from Danciger Brothers was
sold in Kansas illegally and therefore
the bill was not collectable.
1t IS believed now that the dove of
peace has roasted in the city hail. Not
a peep from the ''Triumvirate'' or the
Tiny Two" today. The street COM
missioner is still on the job and all is
Well This will be welcomed by the
citizens and taxpayers of Topeka.
One Frank Green writes in to state
with frisking the pockets of a dixie
worker This Frank Green works in
the Santa Fee store house and is not
the one viewed by the police. There
probably are other Frank Greens who
are also not the one
That the old Spanish prisoner
euneo- game is not yet extinct is veri-
ned IN letter received by A, p. Ros-
ser. The prisoner has some doom
ments IN a portmanteau which if Mr..
Rosser VIII pay to examine will lead
nun to several million roubles. But
Rosser is an unsympathetic fellow.
A small boy stole wrench from the
headquarters fire station the other day
When dozen firemen were STANDING
near him. Then he walked up to one 81
the fire boys and sold the wrench tc
MN for a dime. After receiving hi,
dime he made for the nearest allen
ana hasn't been seen since. This i,
''frenzied finance Is
About 100 workers in the recent
aeroplane" Y. NJ. c. A. membership
contest will enjoy a Z O'Clock banouet
at the Central building tonight. Gnv
v. Aidrich, international secretarv ot
the student volunteer movement who
halis from New York city, will be fine
| speaker of the evening Secretary n
| Z. BroWnell will give a report show
ing the progress which has been nade
by the association in the last wear.