The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-22
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEws
The carver at meals and policemen
Certainly have common points.
For with both It IS quite a problem,
How they may locate the joints
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How they may locate the joints
Town Topics.
The stahI picnic will be held Thurs
day.
The Topeka Daily Legal News is now
vol. No. S. old
The rush to pay taxes continued
through yesterday in the county treas
urer's Office.
The Y. NJ. c. A. building fund com
mittee is using the poster system to
raise money
The first game of the Topeka ANA
teur Baseball league will be played on
next Saturday
No record is kept by the tax asses
sors of the number of automobiles in
Shawnee county.
There will be a picnic of all the local
union Christian EndeaForers at Vine
wood this evening
The offices Of County superintendent
Wright, in the court house have been
painted and decorated
Big "Trespassing Forbidden" signs
decorate the Washburn college cam
pus. This is the first time that the
boards have been put up
NJ. Heery has filed a protest against
the proposed paving on West Sixth
avenue to connect the brick pave
ment with the macadam-
A marriage license was issued at
Kansas Cfty Yesterday for c. Richard
Q
Sophia Dickmans Of Topeka, aged "a.
The board of county commissioners
went to PeTryton Tuesday to look at
the stone arch bridge over the Waka-
rusa which is cracking and weakening.
President D. NJ. Shiveley of the Mis-
souri, Valley league will be in Topeka
Thursday TO witness the last game in
the present series between lola and
/ Topeka
/ Pittsburg and Topeka play a double
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] The contests ought to be good ones,
for the two teams are about evenly
matched.
Atchison Globe: About all the con-
ISOLATION Leavenworth and Topeka
have in the Missouri Valley league
race is that they can beat Fort scott
out of last place.
DR.. CIaudius B. Spencer. editor of the
/ Central Christian Advocate, published
at Kansas City, No, will preach at the
| ing and evening.
Cherries are cheaper this year than
/ they have been for a long time, and
all the women are canning as fast as
| possible. The price of cherries is now
/ rs cents for a half bushel basketful.
The Shawnee County w. c. T. u
( meeting at the Parkda1e NJ. E. church
/ closed Tuesday night with an address
by Mrs. Lila Carlin Moore on "Wo-
| mans Mirror The attendance was
large.
Ice cream thieves got in their work
last night at the home of Miss Mat
tie Kahr, 1912 Tyler street. a freezer
of cream was stolen from the back
porch. BY and by people will learn
not to leave their ice cream outside of
the burglar-pOor safe
Richland will celebrate Fourth of
July at HooDer's grove. People who
/ go will take their dinners and stay all
| day. The CarbondaIe band will fur
nish the music. Rev. Roby, A. ".
Dana and Bert Lucas viii make pat
riotic speeches
Mayor Bergundthal and Street
4 Commissioner Snyder visited the Van
Buren, street. bridge across the Shun-
ganunga yesterday, and decided that
the necessary repairs could not be
made for 500. which was the amount
appropriated by the council.
The men who are making borings
for the Fifth ward sewer have found
rock on Euclid avenue between Harr1-
son and Topeka avenue It is expect
ed that considerable rock will be en-
countered in building the sewer
which will add materially to the eX-
pense of the job.
J. W. Smith, who was Charles X
Holidays right-hand man when he
owned the Topeka Democrat, is here
Mr.. Smith is vice president of the
Old Rock Bakery company in st
| Louis, the largest institution Of this
kind in that city. He is visiting his
T. =
street. and will return to st. Louis to-
morrow.
The Y. NJ. c. A. fund campaign
committee Will meet tonight with tbs
special = Commercial club committed
appointed to aid in raising the money
for a new Y. NJ. c. A. building, at the
Y. NJ. C. A. rooms. The plan of get
ting more money will be discussed anc
further awys and means of working
devised. The fund now amounts to {
sum slightly in excess of $25, 600.
Umpire Lowery has been released
I by President Shiveley. He did fair
/ ~ well on balls and strikes and base
decisions but he could not run tbs
game On the contrary the player:
ran him. A man by the name OF
Moore was put in his place, and is saiC
to be Volney H Moore who was dis
carded by the Saints early in the sea
son. Moore left Topeka for yelling
storehouse, but was on the list o
| ShiveIey's ''probabIes" for Vmpirinl
jobs.
A meeting of the baseball associa
ton viii be held tonight at the Elks
> / club after the conclusion of the regu
lar meeting of the local herd, at which
? time further subscriptions to the To
peka Baseball Park association vii
be solicited. At the present time tn
fund amounts to $500. Just as sOOl
as it runs I'D to $1,000 the contrac
for the new ball park on the Dude.
tract viii be let and the building
operations started All of the share
holders viii be made recipients of i
per cent of each days gate receipts.