The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-20
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Miss Nina Thomas will sing a solo at
the morning service at Grace Catnedral
next Sunday.
The street cars received a much need
ed washing yesterday as result OF the
heavy rain which fell.
It was a good deal. hotter last night
than it has been on any evening Tor
several weeks passed.
w R. Stubs, who was in Topeka
Thursday, now owns the famous WIND
mill farm at Lawrence
Cyrus Leland. one of the Devlin
trustees, spent yesterday in Kansas
City in the interests of the estate
The rains yesterday just at dinner
time made it very unpleasant for the
people on their way home 10 dinner.
Although last night was the night
for the dance at Vinewood a very small
number went out owing to the threat
ening weather
A five cent rate has been announced
by the Street Railway company to
Vinewood park and return for today
and this evening.
The former residents of Jewell county
who now live in Topeka held a picnic
at Ninewcod Wednesday,. About one
hundred guests were present
Tie White Sox did not play yesterday
owing to the rains which left the
grounds in a muddy condition. A dou-
blehea6er will be played Saturday.
The cutters on number of the
paved streets over the city are badly
in need of a cleaning out. The water
is damned up and becomes stationary.
Today is ladies' day at the ball game.
AS this is the first ladies' day in some
time a large number of the fair sex
took advantage of the free admission.
County Attorney Hungate is plan
ming 10 take a trip to the Wisconsin
lakes He says he has never yet been
able to catch as many bass as he would
like
It is now thought that the new baud
stand will be erected in time for the
band to give their first concert August
>, which will be week from next
Thursday.
T. ]. Coughlin left for Milwaukee to-
day where he will join his wife who
has been visiting in the east for the
past two months. They will take
lake tr!S.
Johnson's Giants keep on winning
games. They recently beat the Pawnee,
Neb., team 8 to :; the Beatrice, Neb,
team to ?, and the Table Rock, Neb.,
team to O.
It's been some time since the tenders
of the streets cars have caught any
body up but it would simply be fate to
ne6Q Inem DaQiy LIlE minute dAtSL AHCy
were discarded.
F. c. Dreaming, city attorney, is
spending most of his vacation at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, where he spent sew
eral years While attending the Univer-
sity of Michigan.
The horses which traverse Kansas
avenue frequently have been forced to
do so much fancy stepping to avoid the
holes that they have all developed into
high school horses.
There is nothing particularly slow
about the business men in the north
end Of the town They Clipped in five
hundred dollars for a bandstand in the
city park in a jiffy.
All the grocery stores and meat
markets in the city will be closed next
Wednesday to allow the employees to
attend the grocers' and butchers pic
mic at Vinewood on that day.
The downpour of rain just at the noon
hour yesterday has resulted in more
we'll developed colds than have afflicted
the citizens of Topeka since the break
came between summer and winter.
Workmen have commenced the work
of destroying the brick building which
occupies the lots upon which the indie
pendent Telephone company will erect
their new building on Jackson street
The crematory has managed to keep
the doors at the plant so we'll disguised
since the city supervised the manage
ment that no one has made complaint
Of the conditions as they now exist
The White Sox play six games on
the home grounds and then leave for a
series of three games al Hutchinson.
They then open series of three games
on their home grounds with Leaven-
worth
The Topeka Elks. who have been at
tending the national convention in Den
yer during the week, are beginning to
arrive home and their appearances indi-
cate that the week was one continual
round of doings.
The Foster Humane society has let
the contract for the erection of a bust
ness building on the lots owned by the
association between Ninth and Tenth.
streets on Kansas avenue, the estima-
ted cost being $1,000
Frank Loud who lives at 31S Klein
street, is confined to his home by a bad
ly fractured leg caused by a horse re
senting a beating which il was receiv-
ing and retaliating by kicking its driver
at the first opportunity.
Let the matter be recorded on a tab
let other than that of ice that there IS
at lesst one lady in Potwin who is in
favor of the ice man and who wants
his hours Of labor shortened and Sun
day made a day Of rest for him.
The rain yesterday flooded many in
tersections where the sewers were
elogged up on account of the many
excavations that are now being made.
At Twelfth and Western avenue the
water in many places ran over thu
sidewalks.
There is still no intimation from the
Parker Washington paving company
when the paving plant viii arrive in
the city. The asphalt has not been re-
ceived yet The paving will commence