The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-16
SNAPSHOTS At HOME NEWS.

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Three blocks of macadam have been
laid on the Burlingame road.
Senator Dolley was in Topeka Monday |
and called on Governor Hoch.
Washburn seems to be able to win I
games away from home. anyhow.
Yesterdays rain was what the farm /
ers call a clod breaker and gully washer. /
n. H. LOOMS, Union Pacific attorney
/ Of Kansas, has returned from a trip to /
Chicago.
R. ". Blair of the Union Pacific law
/ department, was in Kansas City yes
/ terday.
Washington GLADDEN. and Charles NJ. !
Sheldon paid a visit to Governor Hoch
Monday.
Rev. John Bright went to Cedarvale
/ today where he will give a lecture to-
morrow.
/ Strawberries have been rather scarce /
/ for few days owing to the wet
weather.
Those who went fishing yesterday
probably know whether or not fish bite
/ in the rain.
Does the Taxa Hash club meet in a
/ restaurant? If it does the members
probably viii.
Oklahoma City today began a series
of four games with the White Sox at
Association park.
Ed Johnson, Of the Santa Fe car re-
/ pair shop, leaves today for a three
/ months trip to Sweden.
Arthur Capper has ordered a new au-
! tomobile a real automobile, not like the
go-cart he used to own.
/ F. c. Maegley. assistant general
/ freight agent of the Santa F'e at Chi
! cagO, is in Topeka for a few days.
J. W. GIeed will deliver the com
mencement address to the graduating
! class of the Hiawatha academy.
/ A. A. Hurd, solicitor for the Santa
Fe in Kansas, is returning to Topeka
/ from a trip to Old Mexico for his
health.
The two old cannon in the state house
grounds have been mounted on fagstone
foundations to keep them from the wet
ground.
If you hear a revolver popping don't
/ get alarmed. It is the official dog
catcher using the streets as a slaught-
1 ering pen.
Mrs. NJ c. Hamaker. of 1881 Clay
! street who underwent a serious surgi-
cal operation at Christ hospital last
! Friday for tumOr, is recovering rapidly.
/ r. r. Sutherland, formerly division
! superintendent of the Ell Paso division
1 of the Rock Island, who was in Topeka
4 on d visit last week. has returned to his
| home.
/ The heavy rain and hail yesterday
put a quietus on most of the yellow
roses for this spring. People with
i gardens in their back yards were also
sufferers.
/ Harold Newman's little dog, which
was killed by Dog Catcher Ruff. Frazier,
rode on a cart, to which was hitched
another dog, in the flower parade dur
ing the seni-centennlal.
The interior of the new library at
i Washburn is nearly completed. The
cork carpet has been put in. The books
will not be moved from the old library
until the summer vacation
on next Monday night a meeting
will be held at the Commercial club
rooms of all male ex-students of
/ Washburn college for the purpose of
organizing a Washburn club.
NJ A. Low, general attorney of the
/ Rock Island, has returned from St
! Louis where he has been in attendance
| at a conference of railroad attorneys in
| terested in the Texas situation.
The Topeka Township Sunday School
| convention will be held at Highland
Park June 4. The Sunday schools tax
/ ing part will be: Oakland Presbyterian,
Linn Greek, Oakland M. E. Seabrook
! and Glover Hill.
A special meeting of the council will
be held Monday evening, June 5, at-7:30
I to hear the report of the appraisers for
the opening of the alley between Madi-
son and Jefferson streets and Tenth and
/ Eleventh streets.
Since J. NJ. Mcfarland has box
at the baseball park, T. z. Sheard says
that he will also build himself one.
The owners of the park are discussing
q
along the front of the grand stand
! Question: If a suit over an unpaid
dreSsmaker bill, and the decision of the
case, brings so much sleeplessness and
worry to the judge making the decision,
what would be the result if a suit was
brought over a whole wedding rousseau?
Edward Wilder, treasurer of the San
Ia Fe, who has been at Tucson, Arizona
for several months is expected to re-
turn to Topeka before the first of the
fe- 4 To Il.
greatly benefited in health by his trip
to the southern climate.
A BerrytoFr correspondent comment
/ ing on the Missouri Pacific's intention
of putting motor cars in service between
Topeka and Fort Scott says: What is
needed is a train service that will take
a man into Topeka or Fort Scott in the
forenoon and then take him home in
time for late chores"
A reception and a camp fire for the
benefit of the visiting G. A. r. mem
bers of the United Brethren conference
will be held in the auditorium of the
high school Thursday evening. There
are about so old soldiers attending the
! conference The visitors will make a
/ number of addresses
DR.. L. L. Goodwin, brother of Chief of
! Police Goodwin, partially wrecked his
| automobile last evening ct 1880 while
| crossing the street railway car tracks
/ on West Sixth avenue in front Of the
| Columbian building. The front axle
/ broke off close to the hub of a wheel.
The break in the axle showed that it
was defective.
Some night prowler has been making
persistent attempts to break into the
home of J. H Coe at 304 Monroe street
for the past two weeks. One night last
week the would be robber secured an
entrance into the residence but was
frightened away by Mr.. Coe who hear
ing the noise awakened. Lass Sunday
evening one of the screens to a window
was torn off and an attempt was made
to secure an entrance in that manner.
/ As in other instances the man was
4 anything. Mr. Coe has no idea as to
who the robber is and has no direct