The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-25
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


The pavements have received another
washing
Last nights rain was the first to
save the corn crop.
The lightning played havoc with
the telephone wires last night.
The hail which fell a short time last
night did a good deal of damage to
flowers.
The cross on the Church Of the As
sumption was knocked on by light
ming last evening.
County Attorney Hungate was Ash
ing at Lake View yesterday. He left
few fish in the Lake.
The cinder walks in Central park are
being extended from the north end
I through to the south entrances.
West Sixth avenue was ornamented
with many small lakes this morning
They were however not deep enough
to drown a man.
Jimmie Dixon wants another boxing
match with Billy Murphy, with whom
he was given a draw on Monday night
at the Topeka Athletic club.
The Saturday Night club reading
chart which made such a hit at the an
nual banquet of the club will probably
be given to the Kansas State Historical
society.
shipped out all the park seats to Vine
wood and placed them in position. The
seats have all been overhauled and
painted a very vivid green.
Jim" johnson. of Greenwood county.
one of the well known politicians of the
state, and a boss buster of long stand
ing. was in Topeka yesterday with
William Martindale of Emporia
Have you seen him? The Lawrence
Gazette says: A Boicourt started for
/ Topeka this afternoon on his motor
cycle. He expects to make the twenty
eight miles in three hours or less.
DR.. w. C. Evans viii give a recep-
ton on Friday night at the parsonage
of the First Methodist church for the
men who have been taken into the
church since he has assumed the pas
torate.
Governor Hoch has had drafted for
NAL notice to the jewelry dealers and
silversmiths of the state that they are
invited to submit propositions for sup
plying the state with the $4,000 silver
service for the battleship Kansas.
c. 3. Kirkland, member of the house
/ Of representatives from Saline county,
was in Topeka Wednesday. He says
that wheat in his county is looking fine.
1 Mr.. Kirkland owns a flour mill and is
| getting it in shape for the handling of
the wheat crop.
Mayor W. H. Davis states that the
one luxury which he permits himself to
| indulge in is the purchase of mining
/ stocks He says that he has bought
,
has never made anything in the nature
| of a strike.
A meeting of the board of directors
of the Council Grove railroad was set
/ for June s, but will probably be held
about June IS because the first date
would come at the same time of the
/ Home festival. At that time the route
is to be settled upon.
/ The Municipal Journal and Engineer,
I for which the city subscribed several
I years ago upon contract, viii be dis
continued Mayor Davis states that the
| city officials who desire the journal
/ will have to pay for the subscriptions
| out OF their own pocket.
". E. Archer, representative in the
| legislature from Brown county, was IN
the few men who made speech
against the state oil refinery. He says:
/ I have not changed my position con-
/, corning the oil refinery. I stand pat
/ A directory of. the Kansas grand cir
| cult has been issued. It shows that
there will be ten weeks of racing in the
| state this summer and fall. The towns
which viii have the ponies are Eureka,
/ Fredonia, Chanute, Ottawa, Topeka.
/ Hutchinson, Newton, Winfield, Newkirk,
/ Ok, and Blackwell, Ok.
The paper hangers who secured the
! contract for papering the corridors and
/ Offices of the city building, failed to fig
4 ure wisely and as result stand to
1 lose on their contract In papering the
! corridor upon the third floor they failed
i to figure on enough border to match
and as they ran out Of the pattern ana
4 are una bic to match the walls, they
/ must repaper the entire corridor with a
different pattern.
| It is up to the city physician to prod
/ the members Of his profession in the
| city with regard to reporting births to
| the city health department. At the first
| of the year the attention of the ply
sicians in the city was called to this or
/ dinance and they in a half way OBJ
/ served it. Since that time the ordinance
has been forgotten and sighted and
reports of births have come in few and
/ far between.
Captain Abbott of the White Sex
viii not be in the game for several
days. While in Guthrie just after the
season opened Catcher Quisser spiked
/ him in the left foot. He thought he
had the trouble corrected, but sew
/ eral days ago the wound commenced
swelling and Wednesday it became so
painful that a doctor lanced it Crum
/ will play first at Joplin and Carter
right field.
Laura F. Swift and W. E. Lewis. the
wife and brother-in-law, respectively
of Thos NJ. Swift Of Montgomery coun-
| ty. who died some time ago, are trying
| to recover $4,000 from the Sons and
/ Daughters of Justice, an insurance or
der of which Thos F. Swift was a
member. The company claims that
/ Swift was in the last stages of con-
sumption when he applied for member
/ shin. and that he misrepresented his
/ condition. The lower court decided for
| the plaintiffs, and the company appeal
| ed the case yesterday TO the supreme
court
OI,ituarv.