The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-06
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

It is hoped that Kansas will have at
least a two days drouth.
Topeka dirt streets are again in al
most an impossible condition.
The Elite ten pin bowling tournament
will be resumed Tuesday evening
The Topeka sewer contractors are the
greatest sufferers from the wet weather
There are few cellars in Topeka that
have not been flooded during the past
week
At the present rate things are going it
won't be long until Kansas farming Will
have to be done in boats.
The annual meeting of the Topeka
Athletic association win be held tonight.
The board of directors will be elected.
Not a topeka football team lost a
game Saturday. Reason: No games
played on account of extreme damp-
ness.
The Dr. Meffert injunction case is set
for trial in the district court for Tues
day morning at 9 o'clock Come early
and avoid the rush.
The Topeka railway is lowering its
tracks to the pavement grade at Polk
street. 1t neoessitates a gradual cut for
half a block on each side Of Polk street.
w. J. Ratcliff, manager of the c. P.
Dewey ranches at Atwood and Manhat-
tan, has applied to the Topeka free en-
ployment agency for 20 men for rancn
work
A number of Topeka people are
planning to attend the annual conVen-
ton of the Baptist churches of the state
to be held in Wichita next week. There
are to be several speakers OF national
, repute on the programme.
Members of the Topeka Whist clun
viii meet tonight at the old club rooms
on West Sixth street to make arrange
ments for the annual meeting which viii
be held one week from tonight A game
will also be played this evening.
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nue. were flushed this morning. So
many of the cutters are filed with
building material that the pavement can
not be properly cleaned. This is a good
sign. and the people can stand it.
President Baer, of the Reading rail-
road, who figured in the White House
coal strike conference. IS the same man
who was used as authority on labor III =
ions by George r. Henderson. suptrin-
tendent of machinery of the Santa Ee
Miss Irene Horner, preparatory to
teaching, took a thorough course in the
Sbriglia method of voice culture and
has opened a studio at her home So
Tyler street. She will be pleased to talk
with any one contemplating the study
of voice.
The Santa Fe railway has applied II
the free employment agency for l,
teamsters to work on the EmDoria-
Kansas City cutoff, at S1.75 per day
The men will work for John Van Vech-
ten, who is carrying out a grading con
tract for the Santa Fe.
Merrill Lindsay of this city, chief
trumpeter for the artillery of the Kansas
National Guards. has been at Fort Ri
ley during the maneuvers of the regu-
lars. He will be in town this evening
and possibly tomorrow on his way Il
Bonneville Mo, where he is a student il
the Kemper military institute.
There was a sad calamity at a Tyler
street home Sunday afternoon. The
housekeeper and hired girl had just fin
ished dinner and had placed the steam
ing viands on the table Everything wa:
ready for the family to sit down, wher
h suddenly all the plastering on the cell
J ing, loosened by the rain, fell with
crash. You can imagine what was don,
with that big Sunday dinner
The Salina Journal of Saturday says
"Some miscreant threw two stone.
through the windows of the Union Pa
cific plug last night while the train wa:
near Topeka One of the stones wai