The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-17
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

In another month 1t will be football
The Topeka Elks ate watermelons
last night and enjoyed themselves.
Permit or no permit. Lee Jones has
been bereft of the title of THE Only
Lee
We usually have a week or ten days
of cool weather in August. When will
it begin?
The executive committee of the fair
will meet Friday night at Charles H
Samson's Office.
H. G.. Larimer has quit going to the
ball games. This indicates that they
are pretty bad.
Charles Ramsey, who has contract
for brick paving in Emporia, is using
Lawrence brick.
County Treasurer F. c. Bowen and
wife will leave Sunday for a short va
cation in the mountains of Colorado.
Sweetheart watermelons are on the
market. If you are a melon expert
you know that this style is one of the
best.
The members of the w. C. T. U. viii
meet at Mrs. M. e. Perine's. 1913 East
Eighth avenue. at $3.50 D. m. Friday,
August IS.
A daughter born to Mr.. and Mrs. A.
V. Armstrong, 1116 West Tenth street,
has peen reported to the city health
department.
The Eagle pharmacy at 404 Kansas
avenue, which has been closed for
some time. was purchased by Frank
Keith yesterday afternoon.
John F. Switzer used to be fond of
children but the things he says about
the ones that rife his pear trees
wouldn't look well in print.
There is only one hotter Office build
| ing in Topeka than the city building
and that is-(each person will say that
| it is the building where he work.
The Washer brothers, the boxing
| midgets at the Air Dome theater are
attracting a great deal of attention on
the street. They are less than three
| feet tall.
Probate Judge Dick Hayden came
down town this morning with dab of
| face powder on the right shoulder of
his coat! Perhaps he uses face pow
der after shaving.
DR.. H. B. Hogeboom was at his
Office for short time yesterday. This
is his first appearance down town for
several weeks. He has entirely re-
covered from his severe illness.
Several Thermometers registered
over 100 in the shade Wednesday af-
ternoon, and one on a doorway on
Kansas avenue registered 105, and
that did not seem to be one degree too
high.
A. B. Weber, who lives six miles
southwest of Topeka, brought in a
stalk of corn that measures 14z feet
in height, while it is eight feet from
the bottom of the stalk to the first
ear of corn.
City Attorney Dreaming wrote from
Detroit to Assistant City Attorney
Ralston on the letter head of a $3.50
automobile company. He did not say
in so many words that he thought OF
buying a twenty-five fifty auto.
A lady at the ball game yesterday
was heard to remark: THAT man bat
ting is the pitcher for the Topeka
team. See. he wears a pitchers boot
1t was Murray, the center fielder, who
is wearing a brace on his weak ankle
Guthrie will be here on Friday to
| open series of three games with the
White Sox. Alderman came in or
Wednesday. Three days were not
enough for him to make all the calls
which he had on his calendar. Alder
man got pretty popular in Topeka this
spring.
The Projections, an amateur team
of Topeka ball players, played game
with the home team, at Holton yester-
day. The score was to 2 In favor
of the Holton team. 1t is too bad thai
Manager Sheard cannot get team
like the Projections.
How John Macdonald must have
been surprised. Writing from the Ma
tional Educational meeting at Ocean
Grove he says: THE Asbury Park and
Ocean Grove hackmen wear frock
|
and their vehicles look like fashion
able carriages"
! Atchison Globe: They do not know
much about astronomy in Topeka and
Leavenworth. Topeka thought the
eclipse made the woman in the moor
look as if she had a dirty apron on
Leavenworth astronomers said she had
a dirty rag around her throat, but the
real facts are that she looked as if she
had her feet in the mud.
Have you taken hold of the brin OF
some mans straw hat while it is on his
head and gently drawing it dowr
scratched your finger nails over the
straw, making a sound as if you were
ripping it into shreds? 1t is a funny
trick if you manage to keep from get.
ting licked before the victim realize:
that his nat is still sound and whole.
John Macdonald takes poke at the
''ah-er-er" speakers in his School Jour
nal as follows: Ladies and Gentle
men: The subject-ah-er- er-which
has ali been hereby
DR.. Glashton this morning, is-ah-er-
one of all great importance. The
ah-er-er-survival of the all fittest ir
the er-ah school room ah is ali a topi<
Ier-ah which may we'll ah-er occupy at
our most earnest ali attention ah.'
The Marsh Bridge company is
/ co-defendant with the city of Topeka
in the suit brought by William Schicl
for $247 damages for the injuries tt
a team of horses and a wagon dam
aged in a runaway caused by thu
noise of the engine used in the con
sas avenue bridge. The suit wa
brought against the city, but to max,
sure Schick's attorneys filed a. motion
making the bridge contracting com
pany defendants also.
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