The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-14
SEEPSFoTs.

Hollyhocks are beginning to bloom
in all their glory just now.
Friday S1.29 will buy medium weight
3 corduroy pants for men at the Palace.
Topeka is to have week of street
fair and carnival commencing next
Monday.
The city water mains are being ex-
tended on Topeka avenue north Of Sec
ond street
Carr Taylor attorney for the board
of railroad commissioners is in Topeka
this week.
will be given at Turner Hall next Sun
day afternoon.
A free band concert and gymnastic
exhibition will be given Sunday at Tur-
ner hall garden.
The Kansas Democratic Flambeau
club will hold it's annual picnic at Wa
karusa next Sunday.
Today is flag day all over the United
States. The public buildings Of the
city ran up their flags.
There were few flags flying in the
breeze today Notwithstanding the fact
that it is Flag Day"
The cover design on the last issue of
The Club Member was drawn by Miss
Nina Peacock of Topeka.
Friday only you can have a pair of
/ $3.50 OF 81 mems Oxfords for $1.95, all
short lines, at the Palace.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hobson of 613
| Van Buren, street are the parents of
twin boys, born at Stormont hospital
last evening.
Cooley and his band of ball tossers
/ are sanguine that they will take at
/ least three out of four games from the
st. Joe team.
Miss Mildred H. Taliaferro leaves to-
/ day for Dorrance, Kansas, where she
viii spend flew weeks visiting her aunt.
Mrs. a. NJ. Garrett.
The small boys troubles have begun.
The city fathers are turning their pom
! derOus attention TO ways and means for
sane Fourth of July.
Mayor Findlay Ross of Wichita, who
was in Topeka yesterday, has a lot Of
Wichita bonds which he is going to
have the auditor register.
The three principal committees of the
Kansas Semicentennial will hold their
first meeting at the rooms of the Com
mercial club next Saturday.
G. ". Pattison. who was killed last
week While breaking a colt at Mindon,
Neb., was well known in this county as
a Sunday school missionary.
Action on authorizing the repair Of
| the bridges in the city limits at a cost
from the street conn missioner.
There will be another adjourned meet
ing Of the city council this evening. the
same old excuse being given-that Of
considering the paving proposition.
good many of the lawns in town
are in pretty bad shape because of the
| dry spell but none OF them look worse
/ than those around the state house.
Rev. r. S. Smiley, who claims to be
/ the only minister who belongs to the
order of Eagles, delivered an address
before that order last Wednesday even
ms.
In the future the weekly shoots of the
Topeka Gun club will be held on Friday
/ instead of on Tuesday as has been the
custom of the club since its organiza-
ton.
The annual meeting of the directors
of the Topeka & Northwestern railroad
which was to have been held this week
has been postponed until the 9Th Of
July.
A permit for the erection of an 81, 800
1 dwelling was issued to J. A Nichols
yesterday who will Immediately begin
| the construction of a home at ass Clay
street
Elmer Leonard was released from the
city detention hospital yesterday where
he has been confined for some time with
smallpox, leaving but one inmate in
the institution.
One hundred and forty excavating
permits were issued to the gas COM
pany yesterday which means that the
city treasury is $40 richer than it was
the day previous.
An automobilist has just equipped
/ his machine with "siren'' which has
all the other horns and whistles in
town beaten to a fragile in producing
unearthly noises.
S. A. Bauman caught a fourteen
| pound catfish in the Kaw river just be-
low the Rock Island bridge yesterday.
| This is the exact weight of the fish and
| not a nsherman's yarn.
T. f. Davis. state sales agent for the
Columbus Coal company, has moved
from Atchison and will make his home
in Topeka, where he has the advantage
of better railroad facilities.
c. C. Mathews, who has charge of q
| majority of the amusements at Vine
| wood park. is making special rates tic
picnic parties and societies who patron
lie his attractions in a body.
Notwithstanding the fact that there
were two first class ball teams IN the
city yesterday there was no game
which probably accounted for the SAD
look on the countenanees of the fans.
The land lying north Of Potwin and
owned by john D. Knox is being plat
ted and as soon as the city council
passes on the new addition, will be
placed on the market as residence lots.
Shawnee county will be represented
at the graduation exercises at the State
Agricultural college at Manhattan
which are being held today, by five stu
dents who will receive their diplomas
Al meeting of the Topeka Automo
bile club held at the garage on Eas
Eighth avenue last night d committed
was appointed to prepare a map of thu
state for the use of the members of thu
club
The members of the city council have
gone on. record as favoring a SANE
Fourth Of July with plenty of pinl
lemonade and shade. but nothing in thu
noise line larger than a miniature fire
cracker.
Since the State Journal told about thu
, disreputabIe condition of the state hous,
flower beds there has been a tremendoui
burst Of industry on the part Of thos
whose business it is to take care Of tn
capitol grounds.
The resolution committee consisting
Of Councilmen Swendson. Howe ant
: Montgomery which was appointed t.