The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-21
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Worse than being overheated-a sum-
The board of county commissioners
met today.
Hay fever season is approaching.
Golden rod is in bloom.
Judge Dana of the district court went
to Kansas City last night.
The White Sox began a series of three
games al Leavenworth today.
The cornet soloist with the Innes
band looks like Topeka girl.
lines and his band leave Sunday
morning, before sun up, for Cleveland
Several Topeka people went to Law
renee today to see the Barnum & Bailey
circus.
Has the joint at 10 West Sixth
avenue been fumigated yet? Who
knows?
Bernard Kelly of independence was in
town yesterday and visited state house
friends.
The council committees on ways and
means and streets and walks meet
this evening,
C. w Snyder has purchased a new
touring automobile. 1t is expected to
arrive in a few days.
There are three bald men in the
1nnes band who wear wigs or toupees.
Can you pick them out?
Adjutant General Hughes is fixing up
his rooms al the state house with Unit
ed States and regimental flags.
r. B. WEIGH will go to Oldsburg,
Clay county, to address an old soldiers
and settlers meeting on July 81.
Before the city railway brings any
more big attractions to Vinewood it
ought to buy some more equipment.
J. w. Newell, of the firm of Rossing-
ton, Smith & West, will leave Saturday
on a two weeks trip in northern states.
move They move in and out of bread
boxes, sugar bins and everything else
they can find.
Since Tom McNeal assumed the du-
ties of state printer he has formed a
bad habit. He now comes down town
smoking a cigar.
At the August meeting of the board
of education Luther Bailey retires as
member from the Sixth ward and Sam
uel Zimmerman takes his place.
William Parkhurst, travelling sales
man for Parkhurst-Davis Mercantile
company, is sick at his home with kid
ney trouble. He is much improved.
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the State
Society of Agriculture, says that he
would not take the Wilson place in
Roosevelt's cabinet even if it should be
offered to him.
L. NJ. Penwell, of Topeka, president
of the National UndertakerS' associa-
tiou. has been attending the meeting
of The Michigan undertakers at Grand
Rapids.
John Hulett, who is manufacturing his
patent telegraph office alarm bell in
Topeka, has received an order from the
Southern Pacific railway for a number
of his machines
Senator ]. N. Dolly, who is one of the
sub-eontractors on the double tracking
of the Union Pacific between Kansas
City and Topeka, says the work will be
finished in about one month.
Archie Kellam of 40 West Fourth
paralysis Wednesday. His right side
was affected but the attending physi-
clan reports that he is improving.
Former City Attorney Spencer says
the only legal way to pave Kansas
avenue is by petition. If that's true
since no signers to a petition can be
secured.
H. D. Lee of the Lee Mercantile
company of Salina, accompanied by
DR.. Rash of the National Body Brace
company of the same place, arrived in
Topeka overland last night in an auto
mobile.
T. B. Gerow, state free employment
agent, has had several calls for men in
harvesting apples. w. H. Underwood
of Hutchinson says that about 400 men
will be needed in the Hutchinson neigh
borhood.
1t was rumored last spring that dur
ing the summer vacation a new floor
would be laid in the district court room.
At present the only surface more dilap-
dated than the court room floor is tine
Kansas avenue pavement
The brick building, in the yard of
the county JAIL used as shelter for the
prisoners who break rock is deserted
The recent weather has been too hot
for county Jail prisoners to indulge in
such violent exercise.
Old Abe Camp No. 16, Sons of Vet
Grams, is organizing a drum corps to at
tend the G. A. r. encampment at Den
YER A committee composed of the fol-
lowing has been selected to have charge