The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-14
SNAP SHOTS ATHoHE NEWS


Several thousand persons visited the |
city park Sunday.
Don't roast for i've doIIarzget fam
mel suit for 1t at the Palace.
It is to be hoped that the evidence IN
threshed over again.
IudgeF- NJ Grover OF Topeka who has
been sick at Wabash. Ind, Is reported
as being couvalescent-
The Topeka Efks baseball team viii
go to Emperfa tomorrow for 4 game
with the Emporfa EIks.
Lincoln j. Carter should have a tank
drama on the road next season with The
kaw river as a feature.
The street car company did 3 good
business Sunday taking people down to
the river but not across
Prof and Mrs L D. Whittemore and
family VIII leave this week for Colorado
to spend the summer
Mr.. and Mrs N. L. Goshofn Of SIG
Van Buren, street are the parents Of .
baby girl, born Sunday.
The records OF seven tons Of fish re-
ported as John Frfts' catch at Rossvi11e
has not been beaten yet
The Auburndale baseball team defeat
ed the Poverty Hollow team Sunday
afternoon. Score, Is to 2.
The Roehdale co-operatfve store VIII
row. A B. Hawk is manager
The Oakland Blues baseball team was
defeated Saturday Afternoon by the Y.
NJ. c. A. team Score, s to g.
Lillian Wood has fled suit for di-
voree from her husband, Edward Wood,
on the ground of abandonn emit
j. p Wahle has purchased the resi-
dence at 125S Clay street for 81 SEQ It
formerly belonged to Senator Plumb.
In the list OF new teachers elected in
Topeka the name Laura e. Brezettam
should have been Lima E. Bresette.
Topeka is almost in the same position
as if 1t were on a small island It's rail-
road connections have been cut of.
It is a mystery to most people where
all the water in the kaw came from and
why it takes SO long for it to get past
There seems to be a very brisk de-
mand for Topeka city bonds City Clerk
Squires has received about 80 letters of
inquiry from eastern investors
General Manager H u Nudge, of the
Santa Fe, is an enthusiastic horseback
rider. and owns a very good horse, but
his youngest soR is = better rider.
Remember IS and IS Sehawb's best
mems shoes $3.50 at the Palace
The degree team of the A. o. U W. Of
Topeka is at Ottawa today to contest
for the prizes offered for the best drilled
team in the FraternaI day contests.
Some Topeka butchers are not getting
their usual assortment of meat now
Wolff packing house is experiencing.
The county commissioners are now
wondering il they will wake up some
morning and find that the county has
four or five bridges to build across the
river
Harry E. Gavitt- manager Of the W.
W Gavitt Medical company. left SUN
day for an extended business trip
through the east He will be away
month or more.
W.
Saturday afternoon and walked across
the wagon bridge to the Union Pacific
depot carrying his valfse was not so
foolish after all
Problem for the mathematician: If
the kaw had been turned into the Chey-
enne bottoms instead Of the Afkansaw,
how much water would there be in the
artificial Leon lake?
There was no band concert at Gar
field park Sunday owing to the inability
street cars across the KaW river on the
street railway bridge
81 cents day Is not much. but II
amounts to $500 in ten years il deposited
with the Shawnee Building & Loan as
ISOLATION. lis West Sixth street. Office
open tornorrow evening.
Unless it is dirty collar which has
been cleaned with rubber eraser. there
is nothing which looks quite 50 bad as
a pair of soiled canvas shoes covered
Services in front of the city Y NJ C.
A. Sunday evening were attended by
larger crowd than has yet gathered for
any of the open air meetings. Charles
N Critteuton of New York spoke
The contract for Sam Hindman's new
cottage to be ereetsd at sos. West Sew
enth street has been awarded to W. NJ
Randall The cottage Will have seven
rooms with all modern appurtenances,
and will cost s., 500.
There was deficit in the state grain
department of over $685. for the month
! of June. but it is expected that this win
| be made up when the new wheat begins
| to move to market more rapidly.
| VIM LawlesS has lately purchased a
| three-seated taflyho, the only one of the
kind in Topeka 1t cost several hun
! dred dollars and is very stylish In APP
/ pearance- Nine people can ride in the
| vehicle at one time without being
/ crowded
I No little amusement was afforded
| those who went to the city park yes
! terday to witness the daring of several
! young men who swan the river from
| the Rock Island bridge to the Kansas
| avenue bridge
| Bert Hartman and Oscar Jungemeyer
hold the record for swimming from the
Rock Island bridge to the Santa Fe
| bridge Saturday afternoon The current
| was too swift for the ordinary swimmer
but they went through the center arch
| OF the Kansas avenue bridge and
| thought it great sport
s. T. Harding, who lives in the west
part of town, sent to the State Journal
| office this morning a scarlet radish. one
| Of the largest ever grown in town; ii
was u inches long and Il inches in cir
| conference 1t grew from seed furnish
ed by firm at Sabetha and when pull
| ed, half Of 1t was above ground
To place drain under the pavement
at Thirteenth and Clay. and relay e
small amount OF pavement. two of the
| biggest contracting firms in Topeka
| have kept a block barricaded for over Z
| week Isn't there some city offieia
whose business it is to hasten such re
pairs along. and prevent such annoying
blockades on important paved streets,
The Rock Island railroad has secured
Offices for the general freight agent OF
| the southeast corner of Ninth and Main
streets at Kansas City and Mr. H H
Embry will move his office and clerks te