The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-24

opened this fall every building will be
fumigated by the health department.
A heavy rain visited the locality
about Lake View yesterday and raised
the water in the lake fifteen inches.
The Santa Fe will run another Of its
popular dollar excursions from Atchison
to Topeka for the ball game Sunday.
Rev. J. F. Sloan viii preach at the
First Christian church at IL o'clock
Sunday. Subject, why I Am a, Chris
tian.''
D. W. Little has resigned the princi-
palship of the Highland Park schools
and viii travel for an eastern publishing
house.
R. McKeever has sold his furniture
business and has formed a partnership
with Guthrie & Guthrie, 11S West Fifth
street.
Kansas avenue was somewhat desert
ed this afternoon, it being the usual
half holiday in the three large dry
goods stores.
The Country. club tennis courts are
being put in shape for the match
which viii be played between Wichita
and Topeka.
Every speeding day is being looked on
with apprehension by the small boy VINO
figures that 1t viii only be three weeks
more before school opens up.
The first fall meeting of the Shawnee
County Teachers association Will be
held in the class room at the court
house on the Sth of September.
The people on the east side are very
anxious that the viaduct be opened for
traffic and will petition the council to
that effect at the next meeting
There will be an excursion to To-
peka Sunday from Atchison on the
/ Santa Fe; another from Kansas City
and another from Hutchinson
Those three to two bets that the
White Sox will not win the pennant
have been wiped off the betting states.
Evidently it was just in fun.
Even with all the notoriety that has
been given and their really deserved
! patronage the boy band at Vinewood is
not getting the crowds it should
Topeka has a good lead of forty-one
points If the events of many more
/ days occur as they did yesterday. it will
soon be all over but the shouting
Hutchinson opens a series of three
games in this city Saturday with the
+ White SOX, which should mean three
straight games for the home team.
A boxing match will be
pulled off before the members Of the
+ Eagle lodge next week between Willie
Wolf and Vim Bhtz, two 14-year-old
boys.
Thousands of bushels of peaches are
rotting on the ground in the orchards
in the vicinity of Topeka and the best
/ of them can be purchased at fifteen
cents a bushel
It is expected that Topeka will have
H peaches on sale before long at fifteen
cents a bushel. At this rate it will be
no compliment to tell a man or lady
that they are peaches.
In their efforts to beat each other to
the switches on West Tenth avenue the
motormen of the Lowman Hill and
West Tenth cars are apt to have col
Hsion some of these nights.
The rom him finn bosa and chenafpa
wagon for the new fire station is con-
structed almost entirely Of steel. Wood
in the tongue and wheels is practically
the only material of that character.
Half bushel baskets of tomatoe.
bring but twenty cents a basket or
the local market, while three slices
from one Of them retafls at hfteeT
cents at the restaurants in the city.
Miss Jessie Hoover, who has been {
teacher in Grant school. has accepted E
position as instructor in domestic sci
ence at Idaho Springs, Idaho and vii
Those storm clouds which gathered
last evening and the wind which came
up about ten o'clock were only bluffs
The wind died down in few minutes
and the succeeding hours seemed doubls
warm.
The Whitaker Brothers Commits
sion company has shipped rs carload.
Of peaches this summer and are bus
loading cars as fast as they can ge
them and shipping to the northern
market.
John Ostrand who is acting a.
manager for the court house bal
team, complains that the teams abou
the city are afraid of his aggregation
and that after matching a game they
refuse to play.
Officers have been elected for the new
7 Baptist church at the corner of Penn.