The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-28

And Jennings could but forecast drought
While Cider" told of rain; -.
And now they'll try again.
| Marshalls band finished their concert
| in the Casino Sunday.
The Topeka club has not accepted the
! challenge of the Elks for a ping-pong
match.
Some of the larger potato growers in
this vicinity are beginning to harvest
| the crop.
Thomas Hiskey, of the Wakeeney gov
| eminent land office, was in Topeka to-
day on business.
| Dick Cooley, the Topeka ball player
with Boston, is sliding down the to-
| boggan in his batting.
| John MacVicar is attending the Re
publican state convention at Des
| Moines. Iowa, this week.
The Indian green corn dance COM
menceS on the reservation GROUNDS
Tuesday and continues until July 81
!! This week the list of real estate on
| be advertised by the county treasurer.
| Concert parties from nearby towns
| are being arranged to come to Topeka
| Saturday for the Banda Rosa con-
| certs.
| Many people who boarded the cars
l at Garfield park yesterday during the
hard rain left them at the Union Pa
I cific depot.
| E. W. Thompson, assistant general
| passenger agent of the Rock Island,
| is back from Chicago. where he spent
| last week
The Fort Riley soldiers and the To-
/ peka Business college baseball teams
| did not play Saturday afternoon on
account of rain.
/ Miss Mabel Lands, who underwent
| an operation at Christ hospital last
week, is reported to be making Sat1Sfac-
fOrV Improvement
Mrs. ]. S. Mcdonald has returned to
her home in Green Valley, ILL.,, after a
| brief visit with her sister, Mrs. John
Jurrens of Auburndale
East Fourth and East Tenth avenues
| are becoming popular with the people
| who drive carriages since the pave
| ments have been put in.
| There will be a meeting of the Low
man Hill Emerson club this evening at
| the home of G. NJ. Blair. second house
south of the Lowman Hill school house.
1t looks like Rfngling's and the Wild
| West shows will be in Topeka in the
| near future. They are both scheduled
for Denver within the next two weeks
The four year-old daughter of Mrs.
| Edward Clarke of AtchiSon, who has
| been ill with an acute attack of cholera
| infantum at the home of Mrs. A. Metz
ger, sos East Sixth street, is now out OF
danger.
DR.. w. L. Borst. graduate of the
recently located at Republic City, went
to Meriden today. He has purchased
the practice of DR.. Wilson, who is ser
iously ill.
j. w Borst, who came here over a
year ago and has invested in several
town and country properties. left for
| White, South Dakota, today for two
months stay. Business will be COM
bined with pleasure on the trip.
j. c. Gregory, a farmer living four
<,FT to- <6o D,1,s 1iv,rr
game road, brought to this office this
morning a potato weighing 2 pounds 1t
is an irregular tuber showing the effects
| of the recent rains in causing the growth
of the smaller potatoes on either side OF
it.
The farmers who have to use the Sar-
dou avenue bridge are objecting to il
being used as a dumping ground. They
claim that every day wagons loaded
with refuse are driven from Topeka onto
the bridge and the refuse thrown into
the river but in such careless manner
that much of the refuse clings to the
bridge.
The Shawnee County News published
| at Rossvi1le says: IF you want to see
'somethin' doin'' go down to D. M
Towards place and see Flesher thresh-
ing 1000 bushels of wheat a day; G. C
Mcpherson stacking alfalfa hay at the
rate of 80 to 40 tons day; and in an
| other section others stacking wheat at 8
rapid rate. 1t was also lively in the
. wheat field on his ranch yesterday
Frank Allen killed a 10-year-old rattle
snake.
Rev J. D. Countermine, pastor of the
, | First Presbyterian church will leave
| Friday for Troy, N. Y, where he will
spend part of his summer vacation
Rev J.. w. Countermine. pastor OF
!. Morningside Presbyterian church, Siou1
City, Ia. will arrive in Topeka Tues
, day morning and supply the pulpit
portion of the time during his absence
Others who will preach will be Rev. Mr.
5 Bess of Independence and Rev.Dr.E. b
: Newcomb of the First Presbyterian
t | church. Keokuk, Ia. Rev. Mr.. Counter
t mine will also be at Asbury Park,N. ].
before returning to his pastoral dutie.
l here