The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-01
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS.

SN Az SHUTS All HOME NEWS.
Cattle buyers are busy in the country
around Topeka.
Some of the country schools will open
September Z.
c. D. Welch has Joined the summer
widowers' club.
DIR. D. NJ. Fisk will preach at Pau
line Sunday night.
The walls of the addition to Ingleside
are nearly completed.
Woodmen will hold a log rolling at
Usage City August IA.
The Topeka Unions will play the Nine
Bees on August 4 and ;.
The state board of charities is in ses-
sion at Winfield today.
Dover and Auburn have been con-
nected by a telephone line.
AT the Willard brick kiln a new
patent kiln is being tried.
The indications are that coal will be
sold this winter by the peck.
A new rural mail route is being ar
ranged to run through Wanamaker.
The Floto show has left town and
there will now be some dry weather.
The final berry picking in Shawnee
county will be finished in few days.
A man living in Oakland is reported
to have gone to the country to recuper-
ate.
! The Cowperthwait grove near Silver
Lake is now popular for camping par
| ties
The Woodmen of America camp. at
Dover. will have a celebration Au~
gust ..
The site of the vinewood quarries has
/ been changed and a new crusher is be-
ing put in.
The second crop of corn in the Kaw
valley east of Topeka is reported look
ing fine.
Cider Smith on last Tuesday pre-
dicted rain for Friday and Saturday. He
scored again.
Sheriff Lucas has one of the finest
Gamma beds in Topeka in the yard of
the county Jail.
Charles Williams and wife have
moved from their farm in the country
to Topeka to live.
The Silver Lake lodge of the I. o. O.
F. gave $50 to each member who suf-
fered by the food.
The politicians were at the Grange
picnic at Berryton making medicine,
just to keep in practice.
Topeka plumbers deny that anything
like a trust exists among the members
of their craft in Topeka.
George H. Langdon. of Topeka, who
lis operating a hoop mill at Augusta,
Ark, is visiting in TOPEKA.
A concert will be given at Watson's
hall, East Tecumseh, August Z, to raise
money for the flood sufferers.
The seventh annual picnic of the Ohio
association of Kansas will be held at
Waverly, Kan, August 20 and 81.
Ridgley lodge No. As Degree of Honor
at Silver Lake gave each member who
suffered from the recent flood $50.
The sounding shell to be used for the
band concerts at Vinewood may be
completed in time to be used Sunday
evening
A Topeka brick manufacturing COM
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bricks one inch long to use as adver-
tisements.
People who own small tracts of hay
and clover land near Topeka have lost
a good crop by being unable to secure
men to cut the fields.
The city street force now employs 15C
men. 1t is expected to have most of the
streets on the North side cleared for
travel by the end of August.
DIR. P w. Crannell is the speaker
at the tent service Sunday evening; sub
ject, 1.-THE Question of a Focus" Song
service begins at o'clock.
A part of a wall which was being dis
mantled at the old Sheetz building at
$50 North Kansas avenue. fell into the
street Friday. No one was injured.
Captain Pat Coney has put some
money into lead and zinc lands in Ben
ton county, Mo. which he says have
proved to be paying mining property.
Professor Harvey Worral and his
Wnlte umbrella, maze thelr regular
morning trip to Vinewood on one of the
big yellow cars in the rain this morn
ing.
Kerosene is now 20 cents a gallon. 1t
was only few years ago that grocers
sold five gallons for 40 cents in Topeka.
No wonder Rockefeller is giving away
money.
Greenwood valley, near Grover on the
Santa Fe east of Topeka, is now popu-
lar place for those who like to wander
through the woods on Sunday and dodge
snake bites and poison ivy
The Western Union will, within six
months, install new dynamos which will
furnish power for the operation of its
own instruments and those of the rail-
way companies in Topeka
The large Vinewood cars of the To-
1peka railway looked quite metropolitan
this morning in the rain with the motor
lneer and conductor dry and comforta-
Ible in the comfortable vestibules.
The ways and means committee of the
leouncil has authorized the appropTia
ton of the following sums of money to
pay the running expenses of the city:
Street commissioners department So