The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-30
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS
Cherries are turning red.
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Cherries are turning red.
The jury in the district court will
be busy until the last of June.
Corn, including the roasting ear
varieties, is somewhat backward.
The Shawnee County Pomona Grange
viii meet June at 216 West Sixth ave-
nue..
A good many flags decorated Kansas
avenue today, but there should have
been moro.
The high school commencement exer-
cises will be held in the Auditorium
Friday night.
Rossvil1e people refer to the last
heavy rain and swollen creeks as 1.-The
third annual flood"
The United States naval recruiting
Office in this city viii be kept open until
Friday of this week.
Mrs. L. NJ. Crawford, now Of st. Louis,
recently visited her brother, Richard
Wright, at Granville.
1t is rainy today. Does anybody have
a clear recollection Of any Decoration
day that was not rainy?
Major and Mrs. William Sims have
been sojourning at their farm Rest-a-
While, in Mission township.
+ The picnickers who left town this
morning equipped with hammOcks
needed a few blankets also.
The Western Association teams play
ed two games today, one in the morn
| ing and one in the afternoon.
A large number of Knights and La
dies of Security from Topeka went to
Leavenworth on an excursion today.
The Topeka Baseball association has
rented the baseball park to the City
League for Is per cent of the gate re-
ceipts.
The closing exercises of Lane school,
in North Topeka, will be held at the
Asbury A. M. E. church Thursday
evening.
James L. King, state librarian. wrote
! the article on Kansas for the new En-
| cyclopedia Americana, which has just
been published.
Some people who started out on
fishing trips early this morning Won
dered if they would need an axe with
which to chop a hole in the ice.
/ Charles York of Rossville claims the
| prize strawberry for Shawnee county
! The largest one he raised measured five
and a half inches in circumference
/ A year ago the daisy fields south of
1 town didn't furnish many flowers for
use on Decoration day, but this year
the supply of daisies was abundant.
Thursday the county commissioners
will make a tour of the southwest part
/ of the county to examined bridges
damaged by the recent heavy rains.
! New Hope Baptist church is holding
/ q series of meetings in big tent at
| Fourteenth and Monroe for the purpose
/ of raising money to build a new church.
The farmers are buying wagons and
farming implements in goodly num-
| bers, according to the chattel mort
deeds.
After the celebration of Home Festi-
val week the next big event for To-
| pela people will be the Stahl picnic
June %. All the politicians will
attend.
One of the big stores on Kansas ave-
/ nue. was decorated with flags this
morning. Decoration day does not
mean much to the business part OF
\ town.
Congressman Phil Campbell has been
in Washington comforting with Com
| missioner Garfield about the Standard
/ Oil report. He has just returned to
| Kansas.
J. r. Burrow, T. T. Kelly, L L. Day
hoff and a number of newspaper men,
together with their wives, will leave
Wednesday for a three weeks trip to
] the Pacific coast.
1 The state board of railroad commits
sioners will meet on "Wednesday in
stead Of today. The members Of the
board wanted to stay al their homes on
Decoration day
Grass grows fast nowadays. The
4 state house lawn mowers are kept so
/ busy that the state officers do not have
| much opportunity to borrow them for
their personal use.
There was an error in the statement
| printed Monday that the Topeka ball
| team would play at home Decoration
/ day and July 4. It should have been
Labor day and July l.
At Quinton Heights school house on
next Sunday night. A. J. Pearson, as
/ sistant state secretary of the 7. NJ. G.
| A. will deliver an address. Mrs. w S.
Axteu will MAY violin solo.
The Kansas City Bradbury and the
| Topeka Unions did not play at Assoeia-
| ton park this morning as scheduled.
| The Clippers had the park engaged for
| all day, and objected to the other teams
using it this morning.
An Auburn correspondent says: Frank
Stahl has commenced rehearsing for his
picnic play Under the Spell" This play
was given at the picnic 10 years ago.
Major A. NJ. Harvey was young
'ideestriek'' school teacher here at that
time and took the leading part.
Warden Jewett called upon Governor
| E5och Yesterday and submitted to him
| a draft of the civil service rules OF the
prison. Governor Hoch wanted only