The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-04
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| The game between Topeka and Leav-
| enworth this afternoon will commence
| at $3.50.
The most popular place in Topeka
| these hot days is the Y. M. G. A. swim
ming pool.
MarshaII's band is in Holton today
assisting in the celebration given at
! that place.
Mayor Green is expected to return to
| Topeka either Saturday or Sunday. He
has been in Pennsylvania.
| The Kansas supreme court will hand
down it's last batch of opinions this week
| before the long summer vacation
| Clarence Kellar. office deputy of the
| United States marshaIS force, Will leave
soon for Denver, Colorado. to spend sew
eral days
| There were numerous violations of the
Fourth of July ordinance notwithstand-
4 ing the good intentions and efforts of
the police department.
/ Garfield park, to which there is no
charge, has proven a popular picnic
grounds today, especially to the resi-
dents of North Topeka.
The Washburn college medical school
has decided to occupy the Odd Fellows
building on Quincy street, between
| Fifth and Sixth streets.
A large party of pleasure seekers
went to Silver Lake this morning
where they will spend the day on the
| lake boating and fishing.
A picnic was held on the c. H. Sam
son farm. southwest of the city today.
to which all of the employees of the
Topeka Paper company were invited.
The country is filed with picnic
parties today and the 4th of July
should be one of real celebration az
far as the chigre family is concerned.
A real horticultural paradox may be
seen in the vicinity of Topeka. 1t is
nothing less than some bushes on
which grow some luscious white black
berries.
Prof ]. T. Willard. acting director
of the experimental station at the
Kansas State Agricultural college in
Manhattan was in Topeka yesterday
on business.
With each succeeding performance
at the Air Dome, the Gilmore players
are working their way to a high place
in the esteem of the theatergofng peo-
pie of Topeka.
Governor Hoch left Wednesday for
Carthage, Mo-, where he will speak this
afternoon. On Saturday he will speak
at the Sterling, Kan, chautauqua. Sun
day he returns to Topeka.
Long before the sun began to light
up the horizon this morning, the sound
of fireworks announced the approach of
the Fourth in terms so intense that it
was almost impossible to sleep
Since early morning every car
bound for Vinewood has carried pic
nickers in couples and droves and the
guess is that the crowd today will be
the record breaker of the season.
Early this morning the pleasure seek
ers of the city began vending their way
to Vinewood where many family dinner
parties are spending the day and TAX
ing in the sights al this favorite pleas
ure resort.
IF this has been a sane forth accord
ing to the judgment of Gen. Hughes,
what would the result have been had no
restrictions been made by the city
oouncil?" asked a policeman of a pass
ing pedestrian.
Attorney General Fred S. Jackson
went to Chanute today to deliver the
night that he hadn't decided whether he
would talk about prohibition or the
American Eagle.
Kansas avenue this morning is law
ishly decorated with flags and bunting
as a fitting decoration of the day.
Houses in various portions of the town
are also very prettily ornamented with
the national emblems.
The list of the boys who were ar
rested last night for violating the
Fourth of July ordinance contains the
name of J. E. Snedfcker, aged 80, and
a number of other boys whose ages
range from 20 upward.
1.-The length and size of firecrackers
and torpedoes may have been curtailed
somewhat by the city council" scrib- !
bled a deaf and dumb man, but I no |
tice that they seem to be just a little
noisier than usual this year."
The following building permits have |
been issued: Mrs. NJ. S. Disbrow,
Durant, business building, 1916 West
Fifteenth street, $4,000; R. L. Bone,
dwelling, $500, 800 Woodlawn.
One of the most spectacular produc-
tons which has been at Vinewood this
spring is the act of DoBell and the
grand electrical display as he rides his
wheel over a wire sixty feet high. This
act will start the fireworks at the park
tonight.
Here is one that will hold Topeka for
a while: A nice old lady from Law
renee came to Topeka yesterday to visit
relatives and announced that she pre-
ferred to spend the Fourth in Topeka
because Topeka is so much more quiet
than Lawrence.
The first Fourth of July accident ar
rived six or eight hours in advance of
the long list when 12-year-old Frank
Barnett of 31S Quincy street, picked up
a big cracker which was not lighted but
exploded just the same at an inoppor-
tune moment, severely burning the boy.
Within few minutes after o'clock
this morning a feminine voice in most
appealing tones asked over the State
Journal telephone wire: will you
batteries in today's ball games?" 1t
was a shame to have to tell the sweet
young thing to please call up after
brea kfast.
Evidences were not wanting today
that it will take policemen of a differ
emit caiber from those on the present
force to prevent the small boy from
placing just as many cartridges as he
pleases on the street car tracks. In
fact it is doubtful if a policeman of
proper caliber to pull off this trick has
ever been developed.
A woman living on West Fifth
street has been congratulating herself
over the fact that there were no boys
n the immediate neighborhood as the
It'll of July approached. Yesterday a
amily containing seven children and
off int