The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-22

| This is a Colorado day in Kansas.
"a Woman's Wit at the Vinewood
park theater.
The Ringing circus has SIS double
| length railroad cars.
Tonight is amateur night. at the
VfnewoOd park theater.
The infant son of Mr.. and Mrs. w. A.
Harshbarger is seriously ill.
Tomorrow all straw hats at exactly
half price. Come quick. The Palace.
This is good weather to catch cold in
the head. The writer speaks by exper-
fence.
The wind yesterday blew over a por-
park.
Tomorrow at O'Clock begins sale of
Sc. S. 81 best shoes at 1895 at The
Palace.
The heavy rain in Topeka Thursday
was local. Not a drop fell ten miles
west of the city.
Roy Ranney. formerly of Topeka
but now of Arkansas City, is sick
with appendicitis.
When the baseball game clashes with
Ringling'S circus, the chances are that
the ball game will be deraied.
The United States census bureau has
its agent here making the regular an
nual report on municipal affairs.
Beginning next Sunday night and
every night next week the Lorraine
Ringling's circus comes from Falls
City. Neb., to Leavenworth and then
to Topeka, and shows here Saturday.
John Price and Lee s. Price, who
came to Topeka on account of the
serious illness of their mother, re-
turned to Chicago today.
If you have friends from the east
visiting you tell them this is the gen
uine bracing Kansas weather, and it
seldom gets any hotter.
Col
offered at immense reductions None
reserved. S14 suits at $3.50: 500 suits at
$3.50 Tomorrow at The Palace.
John Dadisman, captain of the Wash
burn football team, who has been earn
ing 50. a day as an expert stacker in
the wheat fields, has returned to To-
peka.
Sells & Downs circus has been
touring the south, and the advance
men of Ringling's say that the To-
peka circus men have made a "bar-
rel of money"
Ralph Bollard. q former Washburn
student VINO vert to Harvard and has
distinguished himself in various lines,
has got his name into the eastern pa
pers again. He has decided to go into
the work of foreign missions, and will
be sent to Asia as the representative of
the Harvard Y. M. c. A.
The national commissioners now
complain that the st. Louis fair has
not been properly advertised. That
may be true, but Dave Francis has |
been exploited and has posed in every
group photographed from the head !
hunters to the president of the Unit |
ed States and the royalty of Europe !
"Rowdy." the Pomeranian Spitz
dog belonging to Roy d. Johnson of
the Santa Fe. was run over and killed
by a street car at Tenth and Topeka |
avenue Wednesday. The animal was
a clown dog in the Floto dog and pony |
show and was trained to do all kinds |
of tricks. 1t was worth at least $100, |
but was present to Mr.. johnson
The Topeka Baseball association is
trying to get a game here with Joplin |
on Sunday, August 81. On that date !
the Santa Fe railroad will run popu- |
lar priced excursions to Topeka from |
that 5000 people will be brought here |
on the various trains. The Kansas |
National Guard will also be encamp- |
ed at Vinewood.
So far in the present month only 16 !
births have been reported to the city |
health department. The health Off |
GERS believe that the city physicians are |
neglecting to make the reports required |
by law. If the health department has |
this belief nard enough, why does it |
not cause the arrest of some of the doc |
tors who are violating the law?
Seven or eight years ago Pick
Smith caught a big fish up north in |
the lakes and had it mounted and |
hung in the Elks' club rooms. Ever
since then local fishermen have been
trying to beat that record, and We'd |
nesday County Attorney Hungate |
pulled several large bass out of Lake
View. One of them weighed six
pounds, but he didn't mount it and |
hang it up in the club rooms. He
ate it.
An order was received by the post
office here yesterday that all rural
route boxes must be provided with /
signals which the carrier can so ar
range as to indicate to the owner
whether or not there is mail in the
box for him. The approved boxes now
sent out by the government are pro-
vfdad with a flag signal which works