The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-14
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


this week Wednesday. This is the regu-
lar midsummer edition
The White Sox won one game out of
| their series of six while away. 1t
might have been worse.
the W. A. l. Thompson Hardware
company is laying new stone walk in
front of their store building.
Councilman Swendson of the Sixth
ward has returned from a four weeks
trip to California and coast points,.
The delightful rain of early this morn
ing freshened the water in the little
lakes and ponds on Kansas avenue.
| Typhoid fever cases are becoming
painfully common of late. Each of
the hospitals has number of cases.
| DR.. J. c. McClintock has traded his
automobile for farm and lis having a
new machine built by the Smith COM
pany.
Rev. Mats S. Hughes of Kansas City
occupied the pulpit of the First Method
lst church Sunday, both morning and
George A. Clark, the champion fisher
man of Kansas. is back from Estes
Park. Did he catch any fish-well, just
ask him.
The condition of City Physician H. B.
expects to be down town by the last of
| the week
| The jam at the Air-Dome theater
last night was terrific. While the
crowds continue so large there should
/ be side exits.
| three games with Oklahoma City here
on Tuesday, to be followed with three
more by Guthrie.
! There were just exactly $4,000 lakes
| in Kansas avenue this morning after
the rain was over A few of them
were deep enough to drown in.
| L. R. Taylor and Sons, the. nursery
men have the largest apple tree nursery
| in the world Three and one-half tons
| of apple seed were planted this year.
The city council meets this evening at
| 1880 to hear the report of the assessors
| in opening up a number of streets and
alleys and the creation of benefit dis
| trict therefor.
Henry Staples who was thought to
have been fatally injured by a hay
| stacker falling on him last week is much
| improved and is expected to be about
| in a week or two
The Plamondon brothers of Topeka
are with the Sells-Forepaugh's shows
this season. They are giving their lad
der act. The shows are due here for the
4th of September.
Manager Bragg is again on duty at
the Air Dome. His announcements
are gems and he would make the ay-
| erage concert announcerS with the big
circuses ashamed of themselves.
City Attorney Dreaming announces
that he intends to purchase an auto
mobile as soon as he returns from his
vacation Chief of Police Goodwin
and Mayor Davis already drive ma
| chimes.
State Senator James F. Getty was in
| town Saturday. He would neither af-
firm or deny the report that he is a
candidate for United States senator,
which is of course taken to mean the
| usual thing.
| Senator S. NJ. Porter of Caney thinks
that it is Charley Curtis against the
field in the senatorial contest. And
| this in spite of the fact that Phil
| Campbell of the Third district is after
the nomination
| County Clerk Newman says he is in
| receipt of information stating that Sec
rotary Coburn has prepared another in
| terview for the newspapers informing
them of Newman's shortcomings as a
county official.
Kansas again did the unexpected
when she launched the battleship
Kansas and christened it with water.
| It's a cold day when Kansas is not in
the head lines as an advertising pro-
position, and Saturday was far from q
| cold day
The picture of Miss Anna Hoch, who
christened the battleship Kansas on
Saturday, appeared in about every
| Sunday newspa per in the United States
yesterday. And there were just about
as many different kinds of pictures as
newspapers.
Suit has been filed in the supreme
court by c. L. Samson. administrator
| of the estate of Johanna Zimmerman,
against William Zimmerman. 1t is an
| appeal from Shawnee county, the title
| to some Topeka real estate being in
! litigation.
| Between $40 and 1890 this even
| ing there will be a partial eclipse of
| the moon. visible in Topeka. On Au-
gust 30 about sunrise, there is, an
eclipse of the sun scheduled to take
place, also visible in this region-third
and last call.
| e. D. Osborn, c. B. Merriam, A. Fass-
Ter and H. T. Chase tried to make the
| trip to Kansas City Saturday afternoon
| in Mr.. Osborn's automobile, but broke
down Is miles from Topeka The ear
was hauled to Lawrence by farmer
and the rest of the trip was made by
rail-
Eli G. Foster, principal of Harrison
| school, on Saturday received word
| from the superior jury of the st. Louis
exposition that he had been awarded
medal for his historical maps and
| charts which he had on display in the
Kansas educational exhibit.
badly bruised man, load of hay
| turned upside down, a runaway team,
/ the street car line blocked for half
| hour and other incidentals were the
results of an attempt on the part of
| Mr.. Frank Otto to drive across Kansas
avenue Saturday afternoon, without a
| pilot
| E. F. A. Clark of Topeka has Sc
| cured the contract for building the
new gymnasium and auditorium for
| the Hays City Normal. His bid was
| $13,535. The other bidders were: H.
Hedeman, $13, 1928; Morse Construction
company, $4,000; Cuthbert & Sar-
gent. s16,7e5..
Tuesday being the feast of the AS
sumption, solemn services viii be held in
the Church of the Assumption this
being the titular of that church. We'd
nesday evening the Parochial Library
| association of the Assumption parish
will give an ice cream social in
the school yard for the benefit of the
parish library.
| Otis Hungate denies the story that he
| ,1,;IJ he q candidate tn S,Iccoed Charlie