The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-04-26


There are practically no apples on the
Topeka market or in storage, just d few
winesaps and they are bringing Sc
barrels
The East Side Embroidery club will
meet at the home of Mrs. T. Henele,
1912 Lime street, Friday afternoon at
o'clock.
STRAWBERRIES will be plentiful in the
market soon- The picking of them has
started in the southern Missouri and
Arkansas fields.
The number of warranty deeds
recorded by Register of Deeds John
Marshall this week indicates an UNI
usual activity in the real estate mar
ket.
The Turner's are making preparations
for their grand opening which will oc-
cur on the 9Th day of May. which will
/ consist of picnic and a tournament OF
athletic exhibitions
The lots upon which are located the
Topeka Woollen mill in Oakland have
been transferred from the old com
pany to the one recently organized to
handle the property.
The waterworks commissioners have
issued an edict to the effect that all
their rent by next Monday will find
their water supply cut off.
The Topeka Theosophica1 society will
organize study class Friday evening.
April q, at the home of Mrs. E. B.
Greene, 1881 Monroe street, to which the
| public in general is invited.
DR.. Louis A. Banks. at present pastor
/ of Trinity Methodist church, Denver,
! Colo, will deliver an address on THE
Mission of Christianity to Politics" at
/ the Auditorium Thursday. May TO-
The drillers in the Kansas avenue
/ pavement have struck a strong flow
of gas directly in front of the State
journal office. A leak, however, in
! the gas mains is responsible for the
find.
@. Baker. driver of the chemical
wagon at fire station number ?, has
| quit the service and will go into bust
ness. Baker has been with the depart
ment for four years and was very eff
fcfent.
The Alumni association of Wash
| burn college will hold their banquet
the evening before graduation, June
| 5th. This is an innovation. A pro-
gramme will follow in the college
chapel.
And still the coal dealers have some
| coal. It awakens sour look when
you ask the coal man If he has enough
coal on hand-most OF them loaded up
pretty heavy just before the warm
weather set in.
Electric fans are working every
where excepting at the house where
board" said a portly gentleman who
takes his meals at a fashionable board
| ing house near the center of the bust
ness district of the city.
o. S. Shuts. county commissioner
| from Finney county. who was a dele
gate to the Democratic convention, has
remained in the city and will visit
among old acquaintance for a few
days before returning home.
The sophomore and freshmen
| classes are holding secret practice in
I 4 -
will be pulled OF between the two
classes on May 1st The girls as well
as the boys enter the events.
If the city council wishes to make
/ itself popular with the citizens for all
time to come there is no better way to
accomplish the purpose than to pass
an ordinance suppressing those auto
mobiles with twittering attachments.
Prosperity in Kansas is evidently not
| confined to the Republicans for the
rank and file of the men who attended
| the Democratic convention were about
as prosperous a looking set of men as
has been seen in Topeka in many a day.
IF the parents of those generous
girls of the Owl sorority are at all
game" said a well known lawyer yes
! terday, they will chip in five or ten
| dollars each and give their daughters
/ and their friends the finest party they
ever enjoyed.
1t remained for a delegate from the
short grass country to set the pace for
| spring styles In straw hats, and the
only apology he made for his headgea1
was the statement that 1T has been
summer in my part Of the state for tbs
| last six week
The trial of Oliver Smith. charged
| with the murder of Thomas Bair IN
North Topeka the second of March
which was. postponed yesterday on ac-
| count of the regular panel Of jurynen
being exhausted. was resumed at
O'Clock this morning.
q never thought that there were as
| many Democrats in the state as have
seen on the streets today, remarked
a man who Is holding a position in the
| state house, as he walked down Kansas
avenue just after the Democratic con-
vention had adjourned last evening.
It would be interesting to know how
| many. of the. delegates to the Demo
cratic state convention who voted so en-
Enthusiastically for the platform which
declares against the continuance of the
issuance of free transportation by rail-
roads, journeyed to Topeka on passes
In the list of contributions which
have been published from time to tins
IT has been stated that the donation O.
Mr.. s. Barnum was five dollars. Thi
was a mistake. as Mr. Barnum signed
for twenty-five dollars which has beer
paid to the treasurer of the relief fund
A great deal of trouble has been ex-
perienced In getting jurors to ~ the
case of Oliver Smith charged with the
brutal murder of Thomas Barr The
regular panel has been exhausted anc
new one Of 30 members has been sum