The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-25

The Grand opera house will be
ready for the preliminary opening
Sunday night. The new seats ordered
for the first floor last May have not
arrived yet on account of the fact that
the factory has not been able to fill
orders, but the old chairs have been
placed in position and cleaned up, for
use pending the arrival of the new
chairs. The new seats will probably
reach Topeka in time to be put in for
the formal opening of the house about
the middle of September.
There was just enough of yesterdays
rain to lay the dust on the diamond at
the ball park and make the handling Of
balls in the field uncertain.
Most OF the time of the conductors on
the VinewoOd Park line was occupied
yesterday in explaining to the patrons
of the road that the company had not
advertised q. five cent fare and that they
would be compelled to pay two fares or
else walk part way, which a number Of
them did.
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The ball game today was called at
$50 o'clock as all week day games viii
be in the future and there were a num-
Der Of fans who missed the first portion
Of the game.
J. E. Poston left for Portland, Ore,
LOudy 10 Close q UE6Ll lOL Il tract
Of timber land in which he and Jesse
r. Lasswell of Mayetta, are interested.
AS soon as the deal is completed a
company will be Incorporated for the
purpose Of placing the lumber which
is a high grade of FIR on the market.
y x
The police have picked up a desert
er and arrested one plain drunk dur
ing the past sixty hours which indi-
Gates that Topeka is a mighty orderly
city at the present time.
X
A number of Topeka people left for
Fort Riley this morning to witness
the maneuvers which will close there
this evening.
James A. Underwood of Topeka
has leased the Sutherland hotel at
Holton.
The EXECUTIVE komitee Of the re-
form spelling bord shud be abel to do
well finanshuly in publishing a new
reform diokshunary.
The August golf tournament for the
Hall medal is being played on the
I course of the Golf and Country club
this afternoon. The play is IS holes.
y X
If you have any hay fever friends.
give them the heart of the watermel-
on and the breast of the chicken, for
their life is torment, and viii be for
weeks to come.
Miss Alice. Henrietta Layat Of St.
Louis will play a violin solo at the
First M. E. church tomorrow.
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There will be a double header at the
ball park tomorrow. Hutchinson will
be the opposing team. The game Will
be called at 2.S0.
Gold Dust Maid, the little trotting
mare who took the Ponkapoag stake at
Kansas product and was raised at Car
den City by J. E. Biggs and has ap-
peared on the Topeka track.
Who do you think was to blame for
the error when Catcher Jack Henry
threw the bail to second base yesterday
and there was no one covering the bag,
Henry or Ragan?
A woman at the ball game yesterday
sat for four innings evidently in great
anguish and then she did the sensible
thing. took on her shoe and enjoyed the
remainder Of the game.
The Standard Oil company has re-
duced the price Of gasoline to dealers
in eastern Kansas from cents to Z
cents. A year ago it was 95k cents
The cut is introduced in ali cities east
q Wichita West Of that it IS the
There IS this consolation about the hot
weather of summer, the gas bill is liwht-
er by half than It win three or four
months from now.