The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-06

spent scary moments lodging the
rain drops. showing up home with rain
bedraggled cothes.
The shower which stopped the ball
game in the last half Of the seventh in
ming yesterday dampened a territory but
little larger than the ball park and not
a drop fell in Topeka proper.
Topeka might have made more scores
off of the Hutchinson bunch Sunday if
the game had not been stopped in the
seventh inning by a thunder shower. AS
it was the game stood ten to four.
Topeka is just one lone single point
from the pennant winners place and at
the pace that Joplin has been going for
the past few days Topeka will be in first
place after the next game is played.
The Hutchinson ball team is a nice
clean looking bunch or rather they were
when they landed in Topeka with their
white uniforms fresh from the laundry,
but Sundays play in mud has changed
it all.
The congregation of the Swedish
Lutheran church gave a surprise party
at the parlors of the church Friday for
their pastor, David Nordling, who will
leave this week for his summer vaca-
ton.
At the meeting of the Shawnee
Medical society which will be held at
the National hotel this evening DR.
Biddle. superintendent of the state
hospital, will read a paper on
''paresis."
No long lost relative of Russell Sage
has turned up in Topeka yet. Som cone
must be a tribe backward in disclosing
his or her identity for Topeka seldom
if ever fails to furnish an heir to every
big estate.
The heavyy rains of the past three or
four days have caused many of the
smaller streams adjacent to the city to
1na1ra f6air hanks and J1nnRCnS-
sary uneasiness to the people living
close to lem.
Dutch" Lewis. a North Topeka one
armed youth, is the latest enrolment in
Topeka's kindergarten for umpires
though he is not nearly as bad as the
average umpire who gets his try out on
the local diamond.
The wholesale grOcer's association
has rented the second story ofthe Mar
shall Brothers store building on low
er Kansas avenue and viii move their
headquarters to the new location with
in the next few days.
c. J. Evans says the report that he
as attorney brought the suit against
the Aetna Building and Loan company
for the guaranty shareholders is mis-
take. He represents number of these
stockholders, however
IN meet you at Interlaken this
evening" said one of the wits of the
town to a friend. He meant the south
east corner of Kansas and Eighth
avenues. where there surely is a most
wonderful chain of lakes
Workmen for the gas company have
pumped the water out of the excava-
tions on Kansas avenue Two times,
once after each Of two of the recent
rains The rain last night makes it
necessary to pump it out again.
The streets Of the city are pretty
we'll disfgured with trenches which
have been dug by the waterworks,
telephone and gas companies and
nearly all of them have caved in as a
result of the recent heavy rains.
Hutchinson did not play the game of
ball scheduled for Saturday with the
Cooleycrows on account of rain and
didn't do much better Sunday, though
a thunder shower prevented the score
from being larger than the record
shows it to be.
Paul A Lovewell has returned from
a trip to the lakes in northern Mime
sofa The biggest fish he caught weigh
ed about four pounds but then he
caught several hundred of this size. so
that his aggregate fish tale is Of con-
sidera Bile proportions.
A challenge has been received by the
state Journal from Tommy Leroy a
prize fighter Of Kansas City, challeng-
ing any lightweight fighter IN Topeka
He prefers to meet Jesse James or
bobby Walker any way that may suit
them The bout is to take place at
place to be agreed upon as soon as pos
sible. Leroy weighs in at 126 pounds.
During the rain storm, or cloud burst,
or whatever it was yesterday evening
three men and two women fell fat in
the lakes at Kansas and Eighth ave
nues. in their mad dash from the Vine
wood cars for the transfer station. One
woman was completely submerged and
only prompt work by a half dozen men
saved her from drowning