The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-26

| Strengthens his gear.
He's a rough sort O cuss'
If you're easy to shock
But there's many that's wuss
Than OF Doc.
Soda water men say that this wealth
er is too hot even for cold drink trade
One grocer sells cantaloupes about
| the size of buckshot for Is cents apiece.
The demoralized street car service
may serve to stimulate the trade in au-
tomobiles.
Otto E. Hungate. county attorney,
says that ne bagged % prairie chickens
on his recent trip.
| Winfield S Smith was overcome by
the heat while working on the city
railway Tuesday.
Sheriff Lucas and wife and prisoner
are expected back from San Francisco
| the latter part of this week
Potatoes have dropped in price from
IS cents to so cents a bushel. Many
potatoes are being shipped in.
John H. Baird of Topeka and Miss
| Nettie M. Austin of Kansas City were
married at Kansas City yesterday.
Topeka must be a good show town.
The opera house was almost crowded
last night despite the hot weather.
The Topeka small boy has good
grounds for complaint-the fair and
the schools open on the same day.
Albert Watkins may be appointed to
the place on the school board made va
cant by the resignation of A. A. Rod
gers.
The Ohio association will picnic at
Vinewood park today. T A. McNeal
and G. H. Edgeworth of Ottawa will
speak.
Councilman Luther NJ. Nellis has pro-
posed fifty per cent increase upon the
bucket shop license which is now 500
per year.
Tuesday was one of those days the
weather forecaster said would be cool
er. 1t didn't seem very cool along
about 4 and O'Clock.
General Wilder S. Metcalf is attending
the reunion of the Twentieth Kansas at
lola. The reunion will continue during
the remainder of the week.
The report that George A. Clark has
gone fishing again is denied. He was
not reported present at any of the fish
ing grounds Tuesday.
One of the colored school teachers in
the city schools is working during va
cation as a laborer on the city railway
force relaying the tracks.
Invitations have been issued for the
Phi Lambda Epsilon dance which will
be held here on September during the
tenth annual conclave of the fraternity.
The Volunteer company which comes
to Topeka next Sunday has tablished
by distributing uninflated toy bal
looms.
An increase of five cents per one
hundred pounds has been put upon the
price of bananas by the Fruit Dispatch
company which controls the banana
crop.
The children. of the Social Settlement
Industrial school will picnic at Vine
wood park Supplies for a large pic
mic dinner are being solicited by Police
Matron Thorpe.
Charles H. Samson, secretary of the
FaS,- se ,.-s,,- L.
mobile trip to advertise the fair. He
will start in few days. Watch for
Samson and the auto
A number of Topeka tennis players
have gone to Atchison to take part in
the tennis tournament that is in prog
ress there, beginning today and lasting
until Friday evening.
A Topeka man who decided to start
in the chicken industry in small way
in his back yard lost three broods of
young chickens in a week. He has re-
tired from the business.
Lewis Sells has made Frank King
aman, his brother-in-law agent for his
property in Topeka. The late w. w.
Phillips handled Mr.. Sells business in
Topeka for many years before his
death.
At last accounts none of the mem
bers of Zabud council who took part
in the watermelon feast last night at
the Masonic temple had been taken to
the hospital with cholera mOrbuS or
cholera infantum.
John Strickrott, who is in Colorado
photographic the mountains, is stop
ping at hotel and paying SIS a day for
his accommodations. He says that he
will get even by obtaining some espe-
cially fine views.
Last years joint at the Crawford
opera house has given way to a soft
drink emporium conducted by 1.-The
anagement-" 1t is an improvement
and does away with the unsavory odor
that use to cling round the entrance.
If you intend to build this season, or
next summer, and haven't the money
with which to complete your house,
The Shawnee Building and Loan As
ISOLATION will loan it to you and you
may repay it in small monthly pay
ments Office at lis West Sixth street.
Judge Hayden. of the probate court,
has granted S. E. LUX a temporary in
junction against w. o. Anderson re-
straining him from using his name in
the commission business. Lux bought
Anderson out and claims the transfer
included the good will, which carried
with it the firm name. Judge Hazen
will hear the case on its merits when
the trial for a permanent injunction
comes I'D.
The following women are the officers
of an auxiliary to the r. r. Y. M. G. A.