The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-01
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Berryton is to have an Independent
telephone directory.
State Auditor Seth Wells went to his
home in Erie yesterday.
County Attorney j. U. Brown of Reno
county was in Topeka Friday.
The examinations at the Shawnee
1county normal institute began yester-
day.
Some Shawnee county farmers are
claiming 40 bushels of wheat to the
acre.
Tame hay is on it's way to market.
The wild variety has not yet been cap
tured.
There was a good sized crowd out at
Vinewood park last night to attend the
theater and dance.
J. F. Custenborder, foreman in charge
of the Bell telephone Improvements in
Atchison, has been transferred to To-
peka.
Kansas avenue is decorated with a
frieze of red, yellow, blue, green, white,
black, pink, maroon, purple and owe
trash boxes.
Umpire Chic is taking care of the
present home games of the White Sox.
It is reported that he is almost as bad
as Werner.
S. c. Brown of Coffeyville will share
with Tom McNeaI in the honor of
speaking at the Fourth of July celebra-
ton at Thayer.
The picnic scheduled for July 4 by To-
peka post No. II, has been indefinitely
postponed on account OF illness IN faIll-
lies of members.
Governor Hoch has piece in the last
Epworth League Herald. He says that
the world is growing better, and cites
some facts to prove it.
Mrs. John R. Carter wife of the coun-
ty superintendent, who has been quite
sick with an attack of infiammatory
rheumatism. is improving.
A doubleheader is the bill for As
ISOLATION park on Sunday afternoon be-
tween Sedalia and the White Sox. The
first game will be called at 1880
Miss Kathleen Stanford, the stenog-
rapher in the office of Adjutant Gen
eral j.. w. F. Hughes, has gone to
Wichita to visit friends for a week.
The next out of town event of inn
porta nee, following in regular order up
on the Stahl picnic, will be the green
corn dance Of the Pottawatomie In
dams.
Company A of the Kansas National
Guard is moving its headquarters to
Metropolitan hall, where they were be-
fore. the company moved over to the old
armory.
Rev. Joseph McKitrick, a former
Washburn student who is now preach
ing at San Jose, California, has arrived
in Topeka to visit his parents at 1887
Clay street.
A general soil survey of the state is
being made by the farm department of
the Agricultural college at Manhattan.
A party has been taking samples of the
soil in Shawnee county.
Fourth of July will be celebrated at
Berryton by a brass band, foot races,
oratory from Judge Richard Fireworks
Hayden, picnickers, lunch baskets and
a speech by D. C. Tillotson.
Judge c. A. Magaw has kindly con-
sented, after much urging, to deliver
a sis-boom-bah grafton at Valencia on
July fourth. Valencia will have been
UP to next Tuesday, quiet and peace
able village.
The doubleheader between the White
Sox and Wichita Jobbers, billed for this
city on July has been split, and one
game will be played in the morning at
10 o'clock and the other in the after
noon at o'clock.
Department Commander P. H. Coney
is sending out to the various posts of
the state an order for slight change
in the burial ritual of the G. A r. In
stead of placing flowers on the casket,
the members will place flags.
The steam launch which was to have
been placed on the lagoon at Vinewood
hpark this week was not delivered by