The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-08

The walls of the manual training
school are up to the second floor.
Sloan lodge No. 225 of the AIasons
will hold a special meeting Thursday
night.
Fraser Brothers have bought the Davis
meat market at Sixth and Jackson
streets.
o. II. Coulter has returned from Cal
ifornia and no bridges were burned be-
hind him.
Ned Osborn has ordered a new
$2.700 automobile 1t is the biggest
machine in Topeka
The new Episcopal cathedral to cost
800, 900 has been built again on paper
this time a Kansas City paper
David Overmyer Will speak before
the Jefferson club, at III West Sixth
avenue, next Thursday night
Such is fate. Flowers used in the
flower parade are now doing service
on gas jets and chandeliers and pic
ture cords
Topeka lodge No. II of Nasons has
invited the other lodges to join in
celebrating St Johns day, June a, at
the Masonic temple
There is little business on in the fed
eral court this week due to the fact
that practically the entire force is at
Leavenworth holding court
The mudhoIe on Twelfth street be
tween Jackson and Van Buren, streets
ruts are only a foot or two deep.
It is about time for the Semi Cen
tennial committee to take in its wash
ing off Kansas avenue Diagram: the
decorations of bunting and flags.
T. E. Dewey will give the st. Johns
day address, Friday evening, June "A,
to the Masonic fraternity here under
the auspices of Topeka lodge No. IL
People who live on the East Sixth
avenue line of the city railway are
oh he V~ff-sa
They say that they have a slow sched-
ule and poor cars.
According to the Beau Brummels
this is the day when every man who
is somebody must blossom out in
new straw hat or be in the second
class for the rest of the year.
The only vegetation to suffer great
ly in the state house grounds on ac-
count of the shows were the sun
flowers and gOldenrod. The lions
seem to have mixed up with them.
A big crowd of the boys depart
ment of the Topeka Y NJ. c A went
on a picnic to Vinewood park today.
They took along baseball material
and equipment for field day sports.
Time great changes makes'-Pana-
ma hats of last years vintage which
cost fabulous sums last season were
stacked and cured during the winter
and are now going for & up.
NJ. E. YOunkin, city dog officer
!
Santa Fe freight sale For d few dol
lars he bought a box containing two
sets of new double harness and ten
new bicycle tires
While the state house grounds were
little damaged by the Parker SHOWS
somebody would better get out a
sprinhing can and turn on the water.
In that way the damage can be kept
down to q minimum
The Washburn law school students
Will give a banquet Saturday night at
the National for the members Of the
faculty The after-dinner speeches
viii be given by three of the faculty
and three students.
Fred Webster, who has been there.
/ says that the best thing on the Pike
at St Louis is the Tyrolean Alps,
where they take visitors 5000 feet up
/ in the air to the top of a mountain I 2
feet high Understand how it's done
4 The experiment of beginning the
/ baseball games at 4 o'clock is proving
I a good one financially for the associa-
ton. Botn Monday and Tuesday, the
light days of the week, the crowds were
very good
/ The outfeld at Washburn park is
/ getting to be something fearful. It is
practically impossible for the 6elders
to work with any accuracy Of judg-
ment. The sod has been taken UP in
patches, making the ground rough and
/ uneven
] Since the dancing girls and the per-
! forming monkeys have left the attrac-
ton for the gazers is at Ninth and
jackson streets watching the masons
/ set the red flint boulders in the walls of
the new Baptist church.
! Lawrence Gazette: The strawber-
ries this year show what kind of
weather it was when they grew. 1t
/ is said there is so much water 10
them that the barkeeps of Topeka
I and LeavenwOrth refuse to put them
4 in the bottom of the glass
/ Emporia Gazette: Harry Donald
1 son. a passenger agent of the Santa Fc,
was in town today, and o. NJ. White
made arrangements with him to ia ke
] the hand on the Elks, excursion 70