The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-07-18
SNAPSHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

Two thousand people were at Vine
wood park Sunday.
DR.. L. A. Ryder has moved his Of
flee to SPA Kansas ave. Tel. asa.
Cages lake is a popular summer re-
sort among those who know how to
swim.
Dick Hayden was at Wamego Sunday
to organize chapter of the knights OF
Columbus.
During the summer the college
Office at Washburn will be located in
the Boswell library.
Work is progressing on the driving OF
the piles for the new street railway
bridge across the Kaw.
Prof. o. 3. Towne, of Washburn,
is spending part of his summer vaca-
ton out rustling students for the col
lege.
T. Roope, superintendent of motive
power of the Rock Island, with head
quarters here, went to Kansas City
Sunday.
e. F. A Clark secured the contract
for building the Taylor mill in North
Topeka. and not H. S. Douglass as
reported.
Corr. the new catcher of the Topeka
baseball team was a member OF
Roosevelt's Rough Riders and was at
San Juan hill.
There is a new banker in Topeka.
President William Macferran, of the
Savings bank is the father of a son
born last Friday.
The street railway should replace the
curves at Sixth and Kansas avenue
with new steel to match the roadbed on
Kansas avenue.
in the flood this year like they were
last year. 1t is estimated that the to-
tai loss in Kansas will not exceed $780,
600.
Pearl Hughes and Miss Edith Root of
Topeka have gone to Yankton, s. D,
where they will register in Uncle Sans
land drawing.
All four walls of the baseball park on
the Vinewood line are completed. The
grandstand and bleachers were begun
today and they will be ready for use
next Sunday.
The Topeka Gun club will hold its
regular weekly shoot at the shootinga
park on East sixth avenue Tuesday,
afternoon. Live birds and targets for
all. Shooting commences p. m.
Charles Smith. formerly a Topeka
newspaper reporter, but recently en-
gagged in the real estate business mere,
has purchased the Lincoln Republican
al his old home at Lincoln, kas.
The Mems league will meet tonight
at the Baptist tabernacle at the corner
of Tenth and Jackson streets at .
gramme will be given. All members
and their friends are cordially invited.
Within hall, at Washburn, is being
moved to it's new location to make
room for the Carnegie library. Within
hall will be renovated throughout,
fitted with steam heat, and used as
dorrnitory for young women.
. The Washburn trustees will open
bids for the construction of the new
Carnegie library Tuesday morning.
Patton & Miller, the Chicago archi-
tects. will be here. The building will
cost $4,000. 1t is expected that work
on the new building will begin imme-
diately after the contracts are let
Atchison Globe: The City Fedora
ton of Women's clubs of Topeka has
undertaken the discussion of this
question, rs the Moral Atmosphere of
St. Louis Pure During the Worlds
Fair?" incidentally, the club mem
bers recommend strongly against
short hours and easy work for servant
girls; too little work, they say, leads
many girls to his majesty, the Old
Scratch.
The company formed by Kelly &
Dennis to develop some oil leases in
southern Kansas have struck oil on
the StamDer land in the Transneosho
field. The second we'll will be shot as
soon as the water subsidies so that the
lease may be reached without the aid