The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-09
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Considering what this week was, next
week ought to be clear.
In the telephone directory 1t is Ed.
w. Hoch, governors Office. Do you
know Ed?
A permit to erect 500 residence
was issued to A. c. Tregar. of 128
Tyler street, yesterday.
Mr.. Geo. w. Crane placed an order
yesterday with the Smith Auto Co. for
one of their handsomest cars.
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons
have been set aside by Mayor w. H.
Davis as holidays in observation of
fair week.
Under Sheriff John Lucas returned
last evening from Hutchinson, where
he placed Patrick O'Reilly in the state
reformatory.
Down in southern Kansas in the
natural gas belt the hotel stationery
has this advertisement upon it, Nat
ural gas heat
Mrs. George w. Parkhurst will be
connected with the new school of
porate shortly in Topeka.
Clarence Scott went to Valley Falls
this morning to see the Sells and Downs
show. It has been nearly week since
there was a show in Topeka.
The executive committee of the state
fair held their last meeting before the
fair opens at the office of Secretary
The executive committee of the state
fair decided that the stockholders COM
plimentary tickets will admit their own
ers to all the privileges of the fair.
r. B. WEIGH, who is talked of in
connection with the appointment of
an assistant attorney general, says that
the place should pay not less than $3,-
600 a year.
You may now turn your pet dog
loose with safety, as the band of
Igorrotes that has infested Vinewood
park for the past two weeks have
taken their departure.
The city engineers force spent Fri
day out at the up river pumping plant
of the waterworks taking measure
ments needed in erecting a new addi-
ton to the boiler house.
The White Sox lost their hold on
the cellar championship for a single
day. They managed to lose a double
header yesterday and were restored to
their place as champions.
Mayor Davis has asked the mer-
chants of the city to close their places
of business on the afternoons of We'd
those are to be the big days at the
fair.
The twenty-first annual session of the
Kansas knights of Honor will convene
in the knights of Pythias hall at 122
East Sixth avenue, at 8 o'clock a. m. on
Wednesday, September 81. A large at
tendance is looked for.
Nearly every one you meet has the
location of a joint that Councilman
Green has omitted from his directory
of joints. Can it be possible that dis
elimination is being shown in the adj
vertising of these places of business?
The best information which Receiver
Bradley will give out with reference to
when a dividend is to be declared from
the First National bank, is that it will
come within the year. He will make
his regular report to the comptroller on
October 8.
Rounding tile and sewer pipe can be
manufactured in Topeka if the natural
gas is piped west of the city to the clay
| pits. A. L. Rodgers, who manufactures
brick, claims that the clay is of goo6
! quality and all that is needed is the
natural gas for fuel.
| Since the bearings of the members OF
/ the council have become overheated or
account of friction, it has been decided
/ that there will be no more meetings OF
! ing in next month This will allow
things to cool down little.
The first regular meeting of the Shaw
| nee County Teachers association fol
the year 1905 and 1906 is being held this
| afternoon in the grade room at the
| court house. Besides the regular pro
| gram of the teachers association a lee
| ture was delivered by H. G. Larimer.
Dr. w. S. Lindsay of the Kansas
4 Medical college, the medical depart
ment of Washburn college, states tina
! trustees of the college hope to have
a new modern college building will
/ hospital attached erected ready for oc
lcupancy in a year and half to tive
years from now.
/ L. M. Penwell returned on Friday
1 from Denver, where he attended meet
ing of the Western Funeral Directors
association. II never was in such {
lam in my life he said in talking abou
j it. st couldn't get my ticket validated
and had to buy a new one to come OF