The Topeka state journal., 1906-06-25
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The streets and walks committee Of
the city council will hold a meeting |
this evening.
]. s. McKibben will erect a $1,000 |
residence at 720 Lake street, the work |
to commence at once.
The Star Lumber company OF st. |
Marys has opened a branch yard at
Third and Jackson streets.
Beulah chapter No. "a 0. E. S. will
hold their annual picnic at VineWoOd
park next Wednesday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. f. Petrik. jr., of High
land Park, are parents of a baby girl
who has been named Gloria Quayle.
Think of a bulldog that catches rab-
bits and plays with them. One of the
girls in town declares she has such an
animal out on the farm
Col. T. W. Scott, who has charge of
the Salvation army work in i've states,
spoke at the Y. NJ. c. A. Sunday on
"A Young Mans Folly"
A Washington correspondent sends
out dispatch saying that President
summer but who expected him ?
Roy Daniels of Topeka. who went to
Trinidad to open a theater at Elk park,
has left the city, leaving behind him
string Of unpaid performers and bills.
The city electric light plant, which
the result of Friday evenings storm,
will be in running shape by this even
ing.
Now that the White sox have taken
a slump there are plenty of Il told you
So fans who know exactly what is the
matter, and have numerous remedies
for the trouble.
The nine from the Rock Island gen
eral superintendent's office was defeated
on Saturday by q nine from the general
managers office by the rather decisive
score of 81 to TO-
It sonetimesappears as though there
is little to be thankful for and yet II
must be remembered that the street
fair which afflicted the city last week
is thing of the past.
Tom 1IcNeal, the state printer. spends
hours each evening watering some rare
vine which he has planted around his
porch. The vine looks good deal as
though it has been drowned.
The last case of contagious disease
in the city has been released from
quarantine by the city sanitary depart
ment and there is no longer a case OF
contagious disease in the city.
There is less than a week left of the
present month and with its close the
June bride about whom so much has
been written becomes a thing of the
past for another year at any rate
It looks bad to be compelled to drop
from the leaders of the association to
third place Just because they lost one
game, but nevertheless that is just
what happened to the White Sox-
The famine ofslong black silk gloves
still continues and the women who
failed to get theirs early in the season
are now wandering around in vain
effort to purchase them at reasonable
price.
The Tay1or's Perfection ball team
defeated the Eagle team Sunday by a
score of six to nothing, the feature of
the game being the work of Fink of
the Perfections, who struck out seven
teen men.
The new bank known as the Topeka
State Bank which was organized prin-
cipally by c. W. Snyder opened its doors
for business this morning at nine
O'Clock The bank IS located at 735
Kansas avenue
Fishing in the lagoon at Vinewood
Park is becoming an exceedingly excft-
ing sport. The fish caught are from
two and one-half to five inches in length
and as many as two or three of them
are caught each week.
Two of the fire horses at number
two station are out of service for the
time being on account of accidents
which have happened to them when
making runs over the wretched pave
ment on Kansas avenue
The Maunseu electric light franchise
will not come before the streets and
walks committee tonight The con-
sideration has been postponed until
Wednesday because of the absence OF
David Overmyer..
Engineer Hastings brought the Santa
Fe excursionists home from Kansas
City in almost record breaking time
Sunday evening. Though he had
heavy train of nine coaches he made
the run in one hour and forty minutes
While the White Sox are away the
crowds that watch the State Journals
bulletins of the game have been aug
mented by several of the old fans who
never miss a game. The crowds extend
out into the street nearly to the car
track.
Said a stranger in town, who had just
finished a trip on a street car: Say, |
YOU people ought to get your councilmen !
to pass an ordinance prohibiting the
street car company from operating Their
cars with square Wheels but happily |
the fiat wheel cars are not numerous.
Colonel James Chappelle of the
Copeland hotel left Saturday afternoon |
for Billings, Montana, where he will /
attempt to secure a quarter section of
land, the same being land which the
government is taking away from the
Indians and giving to the white man.
The Sons of Veterans Drum Corps of
Topeka has accepted an invitation to be
the guests of the city OF Minneapolis al
the national eneampment of the G. A.
r. in August The week following the
corps will attend the national encamp-
ment of the SSns of Veterans at Peoria.
Charles Kellogg of the governors
Office is the only one of the Office force
who is a real ball player He used to
be q member of the Leland Stanford
university team. But he seldom at
tends the league games now-probably
because some one in the office has to
work.