The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-23
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

The Commercial club meets tonight.
Colonel w. P Hackney of Winfield,
was in Topeka yesterday.
The Modoc club viii sing at the OF
eawa Chautauqua- assembly.
Free Employment Agent Anderson
on Thursday.
Oklahoma City opened a series of
three games with the White Sox at
Association Park this afternoon.
The enrolment Of the Shawnee
county normal institute is 1877, which
ls sixteen more than last years enroll
ment
The household canning establish
ments are not overwOrked this year.
Fruit and sugar are both too high
priced.
Congressman Charles Curtis has re-
turned from Washington. He will be
IN Topeka until June 26, and then leave
Tor the Pacific coast
The ladies' of the Methodist and
Christian churches served meals for
Ghe Christian EndeavOrers while they
were in Topeka the last three days.
The Topeka bridge company are
working on the Park avenue bridge
across Wards creek. This is one of
the smaller bridges, and viii cost, when
completed, $3.50.
ing company. has left for a European
trip accompanied by his wife. They
viii be gone great portion of the
summer at Carlsbad, Germany.
Three or four experienced shoe sales
men are wanted by The FitWeu Shoe
Co. to take care Of their immense trade
on Saturdays. Good wages paid. Apply
at once at SOC Kansas avenue.
Election Commissioner Titus has
had his Office cleaned out, papered and
the interior rearranged. The change
has been a needed one as the election
commissioner Office was getting de-
cidedly murky.
The lola Record says: Bishop Mills
paugh of the Kansas district of the
Episcopal church will be here July 2 to
confirm a class. An effort viii be made
to have ministers from several sur
rounding cities here
NJ. d. NcCOmas, a humorous man liv-
ing at WestmOTeland has written a let
ter to r. a. McNeal about the new
game law. He says the law is so strict
that he feels that it is not safe to shoot
any clay pigeons until he finds out
when the open season is on such birds.
Department Commander p. H. COney
of the G.. A. r. has received from r.
j. Myers the captain of his old COM
pany i'm the 111th New York, a letter
congra tulating him on his election to
his present office. Capt. Coney may at
tend the reunion of his regiment at
Weedsp0rt next September.
A summer course of astronomy is
being given at Washburn college by
Instructor G. b. Blair. The course
commences next Monday and the study
win be confined largely to the moon,
Mars and Saturn. Arrange mentS have
been made for early morning study Of
Mercury, Venus and others.
An attempt is being made to get Gov
ernor Hoch to promise to attend the
Ottawa Chautauqua He may promise
TO attend but as he promised to attend
the Stahl picnic, in the same county
where the state house is located and
failed to attend, it will take the state
accountant to figure out what chance
Franklin county has of having the prom
Use kept, if given.
The government "inmedfate" crop
report. just out, telling of last weeks
conditions, says: Kansas-TOpeka:
Wheat harvest becoming general, thrash
ing begun, fair yield. good berry; corn
clean and growing rapidly, tasseling. in
south; oats heading in north, ripening
south straw short; potatoes generally
fine; grass and pastures good; second
crop of alfalfa ready to cut apples do
ing we'll; early apples ripening; web
worms injuring some corn, sweet pota-
toes and alfalfa some damage by hail.
The state Journal sells only two
things, news and advertising space,
and it demands merely fair price
for either In view of the gift en-
ferprises engaged in by various news
papers by way of giving away 90
cook books shrubbery, encyclopedias,
musical instruments, etc, in the effort
to force their publications on the pub
lie, the following from the Smith
County Messenger, which seems to
have a level head, is timely and peril
nent. Strictly as a state newspaper
the state Journal at Topeka pursues
the only proper course for a straight
legitimate circulation They sell the
paper on its merits for so much a. year,
no gift enterprise goes; no clubbing
with other and cheaper papers-just
the State Journal for so much, because
they believe they give you value re-
ceived in the matter Of news Of in
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