The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-11
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The East Sixth street ball team de-
| feated Berryton Sunday by score OF
10 to 7.
Topeka has another prophet who i
making a bid for the mantle left by
cider Smith
The members of the W. r. c.. Blue
lodge No. 8, will give a picnic at Car
field park on the 14th of the present
month.
The grass in the pastures about the
! city is burned to crisp Another week
will make it impossible for the cattle
to get any forage.
Councilman Simms and wife have re-
turned from an extensive visit IN the
/ east during which they visited with
their parents in Illinois
J. B. Sanders. of. Cottonwood Falls,
brought e. c. Childs TO Stormont hos
pital Sunday, where he Will undergo
an operation this week.
An unusually large audience greet
ed Miss Lorraine Buchanan. who
opened the Vinewood theater yester-
day with a production of Leah, the
Jewess''
A number of the officers of the head
camp of the Knights and Ladies of Sc
curity left for Denver Saturday to par
ticipate in the national meeting of the
association.
n. H. Wolff will leave for Omaha this
week to confer with the head officers
securing the locatio of their general
offices in Topeka.
The cherry harvest is in full blast
in this section of the state and will
continue during the week, and during
this time the early crop of cherries
will be marketed
Judge Dana. of the district court, is
taking short vacation at Excelsior
Springs where his family have been for
Some time in the hopes Of benehting
the health of Mrs. Dana
Chief WiImarth of the fire depart
ment with the assistance of veteri-
nary doctor are inspecting horses with
a view of purchasing a team for the
new Fifth ward fire station
r. T. Kreipe, secretary of the State
Fair association. is planning for
racing matinee at the fair grounds on
the Fourth of July, when most of the
local horses will be given a tryout.
Second Baseman Downs picked up
something more than twenty dollars
Saturday afternoon when he knocked
a home run with. two men on bases
and won the game for the Cooley
crows.
At last the moving pictures of the
Cooleycrows has been taken, and the
bunch. which is in action, are as life
like as though viewed from the grand
stand. The films were made by c. H.
Strawn.
The COOleycrOWS, VINO are breaking
about even on the home grounds, are
having a hard run of luck, but at that
they manage to retain their place at
the head Of the association by lead
of a game or so.
The coIored Masonic Building associ-
alton of Topeka having secured the
deed to their property at 404 Kansas
avenue, viii hold a jollifcation on Fri
day evening. June Is. All members and
friends invited. Refreshments free.
Twenty-three blocks Of sidewalks
have been staked cut by Assistant City
Engineer. King and the list turned over
to street Commissioner Ramsey
Where some grading has got to be done
the street commissioners force is en-
ployed.
About two hundred short grass peo-
pie took advantage Of the excursion
trains from Dodge City and Wichita
SUNDAY and visited Topeka, and most
of them saw the ball game in the af-
ternoon between the Cooleycrows and
the Jobbers-
A big automobile owned by one of
the attorneys of the city in which him
self and family were driving. broke
down Sunday afternoon at the corner
of Seventh and Buchanan streets. and
all the automobile doctors in the city
we're unable to locate the trouble and