The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-19
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

| Gdptdln ii. M. Philips is now located
at Rossville as cashier of the Rossville
| State bank.
tension Commissioner Metcalf re-
turned on Tuesday from a weeks fish
ing trip in the north
Most of the equipment of the Collier
restaurant has been sold by the re-
celver TO the Savoy hotel.
Two Topeka marches will be PLAYED
py Times Thursday night: "Ironquill'
and = America My Own
Mrs. Elliott an employee at the in
sane asylum. has been taken to Christ
/ hospital for an operation
A new front is being put in the
Bales building at the southwest corner
of Sixth and Kansas avenue
Another Kansas avenue store has
| caught the new front habit Charles
>. Eagle is the fortunate victim.
The concessions are not complaining
| from lack of trade at Vinewood park
this week. That much is certain.
President Sheard, of the Topeka base
ball team, returned from a business
| trip to Winfield on Tuesday evening.
The school fund commissioners will
probably hold a meeting the last of
this week and buy some more bonds.
Charles H. Samson, secretary of the
state fair, was in Kansas City yester-
day on business connected with the
fair.
Did you shovel that snow off your
sidewalk this morning Maybe you
have forgotten that the city council
passed that ordinance.
Chas. p. Harmon has located in To-
| peka to handle the celebrated Oliver
| Visible Typewriter Elaborate quarters
will be established within a short while.
Governor Hoch has appointed T. A.
Lyon of Fort Scott member of the
board of managers of the Dodge City
Soldiers home. He succeeds James
Dutro of Yates Center whose term has
expired.
James r. Wick has the tennis fever.
| He built a court on his place some
| time ago, but found the allotted space
| not quite long enough. So now he is
| planning to move his barn to make
more room.
numbers put on their vehicles yet?
The automobile ordinance is now in
effect and you are required to register
your machine. The number is part of
the game.
Sheriff Lucas has the basement of
the court house SO completely filled
with bars captured in joint raids that
| if any more raids are made he will
have to find new storage quarters for
captured bars.
| Considering the number of Innes'
band men with girls on their arms af-
| ter the concert on Tuesday night, it
would not seem that they have not
! found much difficulty in breaking into
| Topeka society.
| Highly ornamental piles of old dead
grass and weeds are being collected at
various slightly points around the state
/ house drives and walks. Never mind;
they will all be covered up when it
SHOWS next winter.
Malt tonics are a popular beverage
| nowadays. The manufacturers seem to
| have realized this also, for new names
and new brands are springing up daily.
Almost every drug store in town has
its own special brand.
Conductor Innes and Mr.. Bohimur
Kyrl, the cornetist, had ride on the
figure eight after the band concert yes
| terday. Innes didn't get enough excite
nent from it and asked the manager to
let the car bump into something.
| Building activity in Highland Park
has awakened. A number of people
who formerly lived in the city are
building or contemplating building
homes out at the park. The Vinewood
Park car line has induced the change.
After Bohimur KryI. the cornetist
with lines, had given an exhibition of
how long he could hold single note
on his cornet Maj A. M. Harvey re-
marked: ''PH bet he was spanked for
holding his breath when he was a
kid
Department Commander P. H. Coney
has issued an order to the members of
the Kansas department eulogizing the
late ommander-in-chief, w. w.
Blackmar, and asking that the halls be
draped in black for a period of sixty
days.
The warm weather of the past two
weeks is inducing a great many peo-
pie who thought they would stay in
the city for the summer to change
their minds and figure on spending the
coming month in cooler summer re-
sorts.
''They will firt just awful, now you
just watch" said one Topeka woman
in speaking of Innes' band and who
has observed the failings of several of
| the members of other prominent con-
| cert bands. But they haven't and the
| change is refreshing.
Although" writes a Topeka woman
| who is spending the summer in Europe,
| tor and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney kept
humping into US all the time at the
| hotel hop last night, We managed to
have pretty good time
Chairman Taylor, of the trade extern
| sion committee of the Topeka CONNER
| cial club, says that he is getting quite
| list of business men who will go
| along on the Topeka trade train, but
| that for the present he does not want
| to make an announcement.
DR.. H. v. Dresbach, mayor of lola.
was in Topeka yesterday and called
on Governor Hoch and Attorney Gen
| eral Coleman. He protested against
| the appointment of an assistant attor-
ney general for Allen county, on the
ground that such appointment is I'M
necessary.
Under Sheriff John Lucas returned
from Tulsa I. T., yesterday with Will
| liam George, who is to be tried on a
charge of technical horse stealing.
George was campaigning a running
horse for a Silver Lake horse owner
and on account of some litigation and
the fact that George and the horse left
Kansas and went to the Indian Terri
tory it complicated the legal matters
pertaining to the partnership
s"The strangest thing about this town
to me-" says a man who has recently
come to Topeka to live, "is the way the
carriages and other vehicles are allow