The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-06-29
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Rev. w. R. Cross, of Atchison. is Wis
iting Bishop sAfillspaugh-
The Woodnen of the World will give
free ice cream social Monday even
ing, July l.
lean Central left today in his private
car for the City of Mexico.
A defective fue called the fire de-
partment to 1857 Buchanan street yes
terday afternoon. There was no dam
age.
One gardener in Topeka has a soft
snap. He can lie in the shade and
nap while holding the hose that waters
the lawn.
Industrial school opens Monday. July
! at Clay school. Sessions from 8 to II
a. m. Anna NJ. Davis. Nellie Lercher.
teachers.
The Topeka Athletic association and
the Topeka z. NJ. c. A. baseball teams
will play baseball today at Washburn
athletic park.
Potwin people want watering
trough for horses at Greenwood and
Willow avenues. They may petition the
council to put one there.
Twenty men are at work digging
trenches for the new water mains
which the Topeka Water company is
laying to Washburn college.
Marshall's band played Poet and
Pheasant" ''Wier. Bleibt Wien" and
"Manana," CHILEAN dance among the
numbers at last nights concert.
The fire department was called at 9:27
last night to ITO North Kansas ave-
nue. where a lamp explosion did SIS
worth of damage in the dwelling of T.
M. Allen.
Mrs. Maud Wilcox, of 1913 Clay street,
was overcome by the heat Friday af
ternoon while she was getting supper.
She did not regain consciousness for
several hours.
The Hotel Throop people are having
the elevator changed from water power
to electricm otor lift. Electric lights
are being placed all through the rooms
in place of gas, also.
J. e. Larimer viii probably begin his
duties as deputy commissioner of cleo
tons on Monday. He has been too busy
with other matters recently to take
charge of his new Office.
The first of the new iron curbing. in
vented by former city engineer. p. L.
Wise, is being put in place on North
street in front of the fire department.
The city engineer is hard at work
figuring out the amount or paVen emit
bond which viii be required from the
successful bidders on the twenty -ntne
blocks awarded at the last meeting OF
the council.
Marshalrs band will give an all day
basket PICNIC aL NTdIuS1Q park july T.
There will be a band concert in the
morning, another in the afternoon and
one in the evening besides balloon as
cension and fireworks.
At a mixed meeting at the railroad
7. NJ. G. A. Sunday afternoon, Secre-
tary T. E. Prout will give an echo"
from the recent jubilee convention CT
the Y. NJ. c. A held at Boston. Special
music has been arranged for
Jurors are hard to get in libel cases.
It appears that people do not like to
mix up in such things. In the Rufus
Frazier libel case a dozen men dis
qualified themselves for serving by
swearing that they had strong opinions
on the question at issue.
The concert given last evening by
MarshaITs band at Garfield park was
well attended. A programme of nine
numbers was given. 1t is suggested by
some that the band include in its pro-
grammes an occasional patriotic num-
Der.
The heating plant at Lincoln school
will be replaced with a new one. IT
has been found that the old plant can
not last through another winter. The
board of education has had a great
deal of trouble with the Lincoln school
plant.
The block of pavement on Jefferson
street was completed Friday. This is
the first piece of paving to be finished
under this years contracts. The work
on the College avenue pavement is pro-
crossing rapidly. Half of it will prob
ably be opened for travel by Monday
night
T. S. Williams. who is the employ
ment agent for Topeka, says that too
much bookkeeping is required of the
employment agents in the handling of
the harvest labor situation. The en-
ployment agent is required to write out
the complete history Of every man sent
to the wheat fields.
The sanitary officers are still having
trouble with the Herrold family, which
lives at 1419 Tyler street. The family
is supposed to be guaranteed for
smallpox. Last week the son, who is
a grown man and ought to know bet
ter, lodged the guards and went to
work on the Rock Island railway. He
was caught and brought back. Yester-
day the father, William Herro1d per-
sisted in working in his garden. in
spite of the protests of the sanitary
officers. City Physician Judd had to
interfere to make Mr.. Herrold be good.