The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


The government thermometer got up
to Sc Thursday.
The decorators are at work on the in
terror of the Grand.
A ping pong tournament will be the
next thing in Topeka
The recent rains have put many To-
peka cellars out of use.
The June batch of supreme court de-
cisiOns is due tomorrow.
The Topeka man who predicted a dry
summer is keeping out of sight.
The old Clancy & Morton hardware
stock is to be moved to Nebraska
Topeka gets one candidate for COVER
nor anyway-on the Prohibition ticket.
A good thing about the rains is that
through them the pavements are kept
clean.
Gill pitched for Fort Scott Thursday
against Joplin and won the game by the
score of 4 to 2
The daisy field on the n. F. Houston
farm four miles south of Topeka is al
its zenith.
Governor Stanley has eclipsed J.
Willis Gleed's reputation as a con-
mencement orator
A Topeka. plumber says that in spite
of the heavy rains the ground is not
wet over a foot in depth.
The protest of the farmers about too
much rain" promises to become general
in central and southern Kansas.
Arthur L. Beard left Wednesday for
Chicago and Terre Haute. Indiana, on 4
business trip with a. little vacation be-
tween.
The Topeka water company has no
cause to complain because people are
using too much water to sprinkle their
lawns.
Walter Vrooman ought to feel at
home when he comes to Topeka. He
spent the larger portion of his early life
here.
The Topeka business college and Wa
mego baseball teams will play on the
Washburn grounds Saturday afternoon
If it doesn't rain.
City Clerk Squires is registering SIS. =
600 in city improvement bonds. This is
of the first issue to pay for the 20
blocks ordered early in the season.
The Topeka Choral society has the
satisfaction of knowing that the only
feature in which the musical festival
was a failure was in the attendance.
The great responsibility of deciding
for themselves what they will do this
summer now rests witt the members of
the High school class who graduated
last night
Topeka has an ordinance forbidding
/ hypnotic exhibitions but that didn't
| prevent a hypnotist from applying for
/ the Auditorium in which to give a
weeks exhibition.
The Kaw is on the rise. The creeks
/ IN Central Kansas were flooded Tues
day night, and the advance wave of the
rise in the Kaw passed Manhattan We'd
nedsay afternoon.
Quite a number Of appIica lions have
/ been received at the free employment
agency for cooks. There are also a good
many men on the waiting list for Jobs
in the harvest fields.
The annual stag banquet Of the
/ Washburn College Literary society Is
/ to be held Monday evening at the Ma
tienal hotel. This is the twentieth an
nual banquet of the society
The seniors at Washburn viii give a
play this evening. The admission is free.
The play is a Decentralization of John
Kendrick Bangs book, THE House
boat on the Styx." The play viii be at
the Washburn chapel.
City Attorney Spencer returned today
| from LeavenwOrth, where he attended
/ the opening session of the federal court
The Summerfield case, which involve;
the question of hydrantz rentals. was or
the docket, but was postponed.
John T. Clancy, brother of Council
man ". s. Clancy, confirms the report
that Councilman Clancy viii not return
to Topeka to live The thing that Is
now agitating the politicians is Wl1er
Mr.. Chaney's resignati ton win come il
Many Topeka teachers are planning t.
attend the annual convention Of. the
National Educational association, which
viii be held in Minneapolis, MINI. july
s to II. The Kansas headquarters q