The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-24

If l only were a farmer
With farmers easy time!
Baltimore News.
T. A. McNeal has gone to Chanute-
Morton Albaugh has returned from a
trip to Indiana.
J. c. Marshall returned from a busl-
ness trip to New York today.
Some of the Thunder Mountain excur-
sionists will be home next week
The annual Grange picnic will be held
in Berryton grove, Thursday, July 80.
Hiram P. Dillon and David w. Null
wane have returned from fishing trip
In Minnesota.
i. Z. Myers, vice president of the city
railway company, viii return from chi
cago this evening.
A meeting of the streets and walks
committee of the council has been called
for this afternoon.
The Ramblers' club will meet Monday
afternoon with Mrs. Frank Conwen at
222 East Eighth street.
Councilman Swendson is another who
has declared opposition to the Weber
license tax upon drug stores.
The T. B. c. baseball team will play
q team from Atchison on the Wash
burn grounds Saturday afternoon.
w w Mills and J. z. Adams. who
have been fishing at Wagon Wheel Gap
for two weeks. will be home next week.
The Kansas Avenue NJ. E. church in
North Topeka will be closed for several
weeks while repairs are being made
upon it,
The frame of the new residence OF
campus, is now UP and the building will
be ready for occupancy by fall. The
house will cost $1,000.
Marshalrs band will give another
free concert tonight at Eighth and
Harrison. Among other things the
hand will NAV the nOnlIlaF Spanish
dance, La Paloma."
The regular Saturday afternoon
games at the Topeka Tennis club VIII
take place tomorrow. Plans are being
made for a tournament among the club
members within a few weeks.
D P. Paxton has bought four lots on
Fillmore street, near Thirteenth and
Immediately south of Albert Reds. He
will build a handsome house thereon.
Victor G. Kropf formerly a Wash
burn college boy, returned today. after
a visit to take the bar examination in
Chicago where he will enter practice.
City Physician Storrs has reduced the
sanitary police force to its usual size,
laying off, the six extra men who
We're put on for duty in North Topeka.
The Topeka Tennis club has pur-
chased all the old seats which were in
the Union Pacific depot during the
flood. The seats have been repaired,
and are well filed by spectators every
eveair-.
Mayor Bergundthal will require all
city prisoners, except on one or two
TRUSTEES, to go to North Topeka and
shovel mud. This rule has been in eff
feet for several weeks but has not been
strictly adhered to-
City Engineer McCabe and Street
Commissioner Frank Snyder will in
vestigate the place where the river cut
its north channel during the flood near
the Updegraff farm west OF town. They
may recommend its being dyked.
The state barber examining board
will make its headquarters at Argen.
tine. J. d. Stevens was elected chair
man yesterday, w. L. Aker secretary
and d. NJ. Mitchell treasurer The
board will examine BARRIERS beginning
August TO-
The farmers living near the J. B.
Wagner farm at ROssviile Will unite
their efforts in dyking the place in the
Kaw river where the current cut across
a strip of bottom land. The work will
be done this fall to prevent a repetition
Of this springs flood.
The Topeka Business college defeated
the Scranton ball players Thursday
with a score of to 4. 1t was fast
game, the nine innings lasting only an
hour and a quarter. The batteries were,
II. 3. c., McCampbel and Stoves; Scraa-
ton, Brydon and Roe
The hay harvest is the latest thing
in T. B. Gerow's line. He has received
a request from w. A. Denny, a Ne
braska ranchman, asking for men to
help harvest hay. Several other re-
quests for hay harvest hands have
been received from southern Nebraska
points.
The Atchison Globe, the nautical au-
thority in Kansas, says: Prank Ash
more and Ike Lucia and son left this
morning for Topeka, where they with
build three big barges for the sand
company there. Their home is in St
Joseph, but they have been in Atchison
the last six weeks, working on the
bridge"
During the three days preceding fair
week, on September u, IS and IA, the