The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-26
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Until today the country roads have
been uncomfortably dusty.
A ride on Kansas avenue will prepare
one for a wagon trip over the Rockies.
You would better get your hunters
license-rabbits are unusually numer-
Gus.
The summer house at Gage park has
a matched roof-the only one in To-
peka.
A lot of old fashioned white phlox
is blooming on the state house
grounds.
There are no fish in the ponds in
the West Sixth avenue cedar block
pavement.
Mayor Davis says he has no bosom
friends when it comes to the admins
tration of his office.
r. B. WEIGH left today for Jewell
county where he delivers an address at
an old settlers meeting.
H. P. Dillon has a new automobile. He
is not member of the $4,000 club but
he bought his machine in Topeka.
the streets were in need of a washing
but there is no water commissioner to
care for the lakes in the pavement.
Did you get fooled when you went to
the meat shop or the grocery store
this morning and found them closed?
The butchers and the grocers don't
like the rain; but then be thankful,
and remember the corn is saved again.
T. F. Doran is success as a farmer
he has had one mess of roasting ears
and two of tomatoes from his suburban
farm
Custodian Collins is keeping janitors
busy at the state house cleaning out
some of the vacant store rooms in the
basement.
Tom McNeal, state printer, is as
Stunning the airs of a plutocrat. He
does not get down to his office until
after o'clock.
Prices for Highland Park property are
booming. Lots which usually sold for
so and SIS are bringing two and three
times that amount now.
John F. Switzer keeps away from
his fruit farm on the North side for
fear the sight of SO much promised
wealth will make him proud.
Noble Prentiss' "Kansan Abroad" is
one of the rare Kansas books but a
Topeka collector found one yesterday
and paid only Is cents for it.
The grocers' and butchers picnic
seems equal to the big tented shows
as an Involvement for rainy weather.
Last year rain came down in torrents,
and today is no exception.
Do you know who is game warden for
Shawnee county? 1t is the Only Lee
Jones, but he has been trying to keep
the fact secret so that he might swoop
down on the unsuspecting.
Inc DOCKS are D6lLR removed HUH
the old library building at Washburn to
the new Carnegie library. The college
has some 5000 books outside of the vol
umns in the department libraries.
The summer session at Washburn
college comes to an end this week. At
college buildings will be deserted until
the beginning of the fall term in Sep
TENDER.
Adjutant General Hughes will leave
this week for Camden, n. J., to make
arrangements for the governor and his
party who will attend the launching
of the battleship Kansas, which will
take place August H.
The city railway has decided that it
won't build its Third street extension
now. Evidently the company is
afraid that the people who walk now
will get into the habit of riding If they
complete this line.
On next Sunday Topeka Aerie No.
So and Kansas City Aerie No. 81, Fra
ternal Order of Eagles, will settle their
difficulties in a baseball game at As
ISOLATION park. A big excursion is to
be run from Kansas City.
The Topeka White Sox seem deter
mined to have a prominent position in
the Western association and it will
take but one or two more bad days
10 secure them a place of prominence
at the bottom of the list.
George Hackney has filed deeds con-
veying the Hackney property on the
west side of Monroe between Ninth
street and Tenth avenue and two lots
on Kansas avenue to Mrs, Clarence
Skinner. his daughter. The deeds are
dated last August.
It is almost unnecessary to say this
is from the Atchison Globe: At con-
fessional held in a parlor in Atchison
recently, one girl confessed that she had
never married because her one chance
would have compelled her to make her
home in Topeka.
Woodward returned last evening from
Topeka with Will Allen who was ar
rested for fighting with his mother-in-
law Allen made his getaway soon af-
ter the fight and his trial Will probably
be heard tomorrow.
Since his late unpieasantness with
Treasurer Kelly, Governor Hoch has
discovered that he is in demand as a
lecturer, and trusts that in case he is
compelled to resign by Tom Kelly that
he may be able in this way to keep
the wolf from his door.
"Gyrator Bill'' Taylor, president of
the Curator Milling company returned
from New York yesterday where he
has been negotiating bonds and looking
after other milling interests. He says
that the demand for western and par
ticularIy Kansas flour far exceeds the
supply.
City Engineer McCabe thinks that the
council might use a little more discre-
ton in ordering estimates and specifica-
TONS great many are ordered made
and never used, though the cost of the
material used in making up the plans
and the labor employed upon them rep
resent sometimes as high as $40 and $50.
The time and money are wasted.
City Engineer McCabe will present at
the August meeting of the council es-
fi,,oafeS for the having of Kansas ave-
nue. with brick. asphalt and bitulithic
as materials. This is in accordance with
instructions from the city council made
some time ago. The levels taken on
Kansas avenue are being plated now
on section paper.
A folder advertising Topeka will be
published soon. Secretary I. J. Ander-
son of the Commercial club is securing
data for the booklet. The facts to be
contained in the pamphlet will be those