The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-18

II i quite out OF reach could fight.
Afioat in a balloon.
I'd like to camp out in the fields
with All the men Of might
If I could eat at hotel
And sleep at home at night.
Judge.
Vinewood park opens Sunday.
The Y. NJ. c. A. building fund now
amounts to SPA,
Fourth of July orators are getting
letters and offers just now.
The W. G. T. u. will meet at the
First NJ. E. church at 8 D. m. Monday.
Sheriff Lucas has bought a house on
Clay street between Sixth and Seventh.
The board of equalization completed
the work Of viewing city property Fri
day.
Dr. S. A. Boam, who has been confn-
ed to his bed for seven weeks, is inn
proving.
The first shipment of Texas water
melons was received on the local mar
kets today.
The Democratic Flambeau club is
backing an excursion Sunday to st.
JoJseph and Lake Contrary.
The new horse purchased Friday
for the fire department is one of the
biggest the city has ever owned.
The state house lawn has been cut
by a lawn mower since the Parker
show and looks better than ever.
Inc ROCK lSlanQ mas OIIeTeQ sou 6dCn
for the recovery of the bodies of the
two men who were drowned from their
bridge Friday.
DR. Harry Lyman has a new auto
mobile. But they are getting so nu-
merous in town now that people have
stopped keeping tab.
Judge Pollock of the United States
court will spend his summer vacation
at his summer home on the northern
shore of Lake Ontario.
w. W. Silver, principal of Wash
burn academy, will leave Monday for
trip in the interest of the academy.
He will visit Kansas points.
Fishing parties which have been
going to Silver Lake within the past
week bring back big stories about the
sport at that place this summer
Work preliminary to the erection of
the Carnegie library at Washburn col
lege has been commenced. The coll
lege hopes to have the building ready
for use by fall.
A lawn social for the benefit of the
Free kindergarten association will be
given on next Wednesday evening, June
p at the home of Mrs. E l. Hopkins,
509 Lincoln street.
Postmaster Guthrie will make an
address in Kansas City on June u, at
the meeting of the Kansas Postmast-
ers' association, on Requirements for
the Betterment of the Service
The Syndicate Oil & Gas company
which has just shot in it's we'll No. 10
at Chanute is one of the Kelly Dennis
companies. A number of Topeka peo-
pie are interested in the property.
Senator H. L. Pestana will speak be-
fore the Ohio club Monday evening.
The club has received from John Nc
maple sugar which viii be served.
A social entertainment will be given
by the local union of painters and
paper hangers No. SO, at the hall, 420
Kansas avenue, Monday evening,
June 20. All members are invited.
N. H Loomis will address the Y. NJ.
c. A, III East Eighth avenue Sunday
afternoon at 4 o'clock on the subject
of True Ideals" Miss Catherine
Graves will sing. All young men in
vited.
The State Journal has received a note
from Mrs. Ed Harris. one of the par
ties to the Pike wedding, announcing
that the report that they were married
twice before is a mistake. 1t was their
second marriage.
George Clark would better look to his
| laurels as the following from a Law
renee paper indicates: DIR. G. A.
Esterly caught a four pound bass at
Lake View yesterday afternoon, and
is one of the happiest men in town to-
day as a result"
The work of paving on Tyler street
| is tied up by lack of curbing. John
Richie, the curbing contractor, failed
] to order quite enough Colorado red
sandstone for the block, and a strip
of pavement about 100 feet long will
have to wait until the missing curbing
arrives.
The directors of the Lake View club
have decided to establish a deputy
sheriff patrol of the lake to prevent
poaching. The club has suffered con-
siderably from outsiders who venture
! inside of the club enclosure for the
purpose of yanking out a few big bass
while no one is watching. The officer
who will be placed in charge of the
pond will make it his business to stop
such trespass.
These Topeka people registered at
the Kansas building at the st. Louis
fair this week: Miss Belle Thompson,
J. NJ Wallace. John Sauer, Mr. and
Mrs NJ F. Southwick and Harry
| Southwick. Ed ShellabarSer, Mrs. G.
o. Smith, Miss Emma Smith, z. G.
Miner, u. H. Miner, G. w. Kouns
Miss sara Kouns, NJ. c. Krungle, A.
A. GODDARD, Miss Guenn GODDARD, G. H.
Harda, H. L. Hemingway, Miss Ethel
Davis Miss Ella Davis. J. P. Davidson,
N E. Ensign. Mrs. Abram Bergen,
Mrs J. B. Belts, Miss Myrtle Belts,
Miss Freda Belts, DR.. H. L. Alkire, r.
| B. Wallace.