The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-05
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The Scottish Rite bodies viii meet
Friday night
The board of county commissioners
met today as a board OF equalization.
Before it is too late it might be as
well to ask What is so rare as a
day in June p
Topeka council No. 2 Fraternal Aid
Association, will hold their election of
officers Tuesday evening
Weatherman Jennings seemed to be
trying Sunday to show off few of
the gaits and PAGES of the wind.
The Little Red Rock ball team was
defeated by the Seventh Street Slug
gers this morning by a score of to Z.
The final examinations for the sec
ond term commence at Washburn
Tuesday and continue for the greater
part of the week.
The school buildings over the city
are deserted today. The fairgrounds
will now be given d chance to grow
a crop of weeds and grass.
The reception for Captain P H. Co
ney at the Auditorium Saturday night
was a pleasing success. A large num-
Der of his old friends were present.
The FL Dorado Republican SAYS:
Percy Ambrose will soon resign his
place as night central in the telephone
Office and go to Topeka to work in a
Santa Fe supply house.
On Saturday the Shawnee Fruit
NTiOWETS dSSOCAdLAOAt AACi4 d meeting
which it was decided that the short
crop OF cherries ought to bring at least
$500 per crate wholesale.
Mayor w. H. Davis will leave Fri
day for Arkansas City, Kan. enroute
for Bliss. Okla, where he will attend
the barbecue arranged for the Edi-
toriaI association by the Miller boys
on the 101 ranch.
For this week only Sam Hindman,
| 735 Kansas avenue. will sell Freeman
] "a On
crate. Next week they will be S2.25.
Better get your order in soon, as there
| is a short crop of early cherries.
The Lawrence Gazette says: J. F.
| Daniels a deputy of the Degree of
Honor, came down from Topeka yes
to spend a couple of weeks working
for the order.
c. C. Gillian. a former member of the
Topeka street force, is now in the
strawberry business four miles north.
eas1 of North Topeka. He brought in
a sample of his product today; a box
containing 20 berries. And the box was
full.
Rufus Frazier, the dog tax collector,
will not be discharged. Frazier was
allowed to escape a charge of cruelty
to animals in killing A. Newman's dog
and in addition has rustIed 500 in
taxes for the month of May. The
combination win permit him to hold
his job.
The Iola. Record says: DR.. Mrs. Maude
Gadd, recently graduated from Wash
burn college is here visiting her moth
er, Mrs. Z. E Pingree, at the Pennsyl-
vania hotel. DR.. Gadd is almost re-
covered from the nervous collapse,
which she sustained shortly after grad
uation, due to Overstudy. She arrived
Monday and will remain indefinitely
The Juniors and the Intermediates of
the Y NJ. c. A, will begin their sum
mer amusements by picnic at Vine
wood park Tuesday. They will meet
at the association rooms at 8 o'clock in
the morning and walk in body to the
park. They will take their lunches and
during the afternoon a number of ath-
Ietic contests will be held. The boys
Will return on the street cars.
Charles Samson has. been reading in
the leading horse papers that Lady
Direction the fast=Iitt1e mare in train
ing with the Foote string at Dallas
Texas, is a wonder and has developed
remarkable speed. AS Mr.. Samson
owns Lady Direction the horse paper
articles have aroused his interest and
he and Mrs. Samson left Saturday for
Dallas to see the wonderful horse.
The ways and means committee of
the city council examined the en-
closed arc light of the Fort Wayne
Electric company at the city electric
| light plant Saturday evening. The
! Tight seemed to give satisfaction. A
representative of the company was
present to explain technical advan-
tages of the light but the members of
the committee did not entirely under
stand. The Warner Electric company
is The other company making a bid
for the city's contemplated purchase
of new lamps. A second meeting will
be held Tuesday, June 10.
Captain P. H. Coney, the new de-
partment commander of the G. A. R.,
has appointed a committee to ask the
Kansas railroads to give G. A. R.
members half fare tickets as requested
! by a resolution of the legislature last
winter. The committee includes Cen
eraI J. K. Hudson. Topeka; Rev. Ber-
nard Kelly, Ottawa: A. w. Smith. Nc
Pherson; A. NJ. Fuller, Topeka; H. H.
Carr, Wichita; J. H. Richards. Fort
Scott. Commander Coney was made
chairman of the committee by resolu-
ton of the executive council. Captain
Coney thinks the railroads will give
the old soldiers half fare.
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