The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-09


The Topeka fans wear a Disguised
/ look today and who can blame them :?
The Independent Telephone COM
pany is rushing the work on its con-
duits.
The English Lutheran Sunday
school will picnic on the Washburn
college grounds tomorrow afternoon.
Apricots are ripe. If you haven't a
| tree of this luscious fruit in your yard
you don't know what you are missing
The quarterly meeting of the Swed-
ish American National league will be
held at the Swedish Baptist church to-
night.
Jackson street which has been in a
sad need of a cleaning was swept by
the street commissioners force this
morning.
the council meets this afternoon at 2
o'clock in the committee room at Inc
city hall.
A Topeka woman who took a trip
/ to the historical village of Leeom pton
yesterday says that she would like to
live there
Another large crowd was at Vine
wood park yesterday and during the
| afternoon and evening the attractions
were well patronized.
A marriage license was granted Sat
urday in Kansas City to George H.
ana MARY - WSlS, DUH u
whom are from Topeka.
There is one satisfaction in driving
| twenty-five miles on fishing expedi-
ton. You have a fine drive even if
you do not get any fish.
One of the prettiest spots in town is
the parking around the Offices and
4 barns of the Topeka Railway company
at Twelfth and Jackson.
Fishing in the streams about Topeka
is poor. the only place which still hclds
it's own is Lake View where some fine
bass have been caught lately.
The vacant lots at the corner of
Eighth and Jackson are almost entire
" covered with weeds which are at
tanning a pretty rank growth.
Wild blackberries are beginning to
ripen and there are any quantity Of
bushes laden with the luscious fruit
along the roads south and east Of the
city.
The brick pavement in the alley be-
tween Van Buren, and Harrison streets
is being torn up again. This time 1t is
for the planting of some telephone
lines.
From the crowds Of people who
thronged the country roads yesterday,
It is safe to say that the attendance at
church services in town was not quite
normal
c. E. Jewell will erect another story
on the building at lis West Eighth ave
nue., making it full two stories in height
The first story VIII be reconstructed II
addition.
From the hordes of baby Dummies
that are scampering across the country
roads just now 1t is evident that the
rabbit crop viii be abundant this fall
and winter.
This is going to be a. great year for
Walnuts. Every tree OF this variety is
simply loaded down with the nuts and
az tea n he Cf SfZa h
the time they are ripe.
That ball game at Oklahoma City
yesterday Is one of those things that
everyone feels like forgetting all about
but the chances are 1t Will live long in
the memory of the fans.
Piano boxes seem to be in great
favor with contractors as receptaeles
for tools. Dozens of them are being
used along the streets where digging
is going on for this purpose.
All of the players among Johnson
Giants with the exception of two, have
a paper batting average of over three
hundred. The best the whole team
could do in yesterdays game with the
stick was to make five hits.
Workmen are now engaged in tear
ing up the pavement on East Eighth
avenue, preparatory to laying the con
duits of the Independent Telephone
company. Along the first half block
of Kansas avenue the condults will be
laid beneath the sidewalk.
Employees of the street railway COM
pany who have been with the company
| for more than ten years will get each
year two new suits free from the com
pany, while those who have been with
the company for five years will get one
new suit. This arrangement becomes
effective beginning July l.
IF you want to catch some fish go
out to the Wakarusa," is the sugges-
ton of the fishermen in town. It must
be that ninety-nine per cent Of the
men who give this advice have not
been there this year. for days hard
fishing in that picturesque rivulet re-
suited in nothing but few mosquito
bites
Haskins & Ramsey, the large paving
firm of Topeka, have secured a con-
tract for paving and curbing in En-
poria which amounts to $50, 900. They
have filed bonds to that amount which
provide for six different pieces OF
work. The bonds have been approved
and are now on file in the office of the
district clerk of Lyon county.
There must be a mad COW around
here some place" said a tenderfoot
who was on fishing excursion recent
", as he called attention to a series of
bellows that were unusually loud and
harsh. He kept his ideas about other
things to himself during the rest Of the
day when he was informed that this
noise was being made by bullfrog.
state League in Bad Shape.
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