The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-05
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Rev. A. r. SHREDDER of Kansas City
filled the pulpit Sunday at the First
Lutheran church
The city has granted permit to itself
for the erection of an addition to the
city hall building.
Swearingen's band will be atVinewood
park all week and will give one concert
daily at nine o'clock
James A Ramsey, the new member Of
the board of education, will be sworn in
at the meeting this evening.
Sheldon Evans will leave this evening
for the Pacific coast where he will V1slr
with friends and relatives for a month-
The heavy rains which fell about
the present rainy period as the sun
came up this morning without a cloud
in the sky.
E. F. A. Clark, 1O7 Tyler street, has
Maiden Blush apple tree in his yard
which is blooming the fourth time There
are dozen apples on the tree from the
third blooming.
Former City Jailer Edward WoodruH
left today for Kinsley where he will
visit with his brother for month II ne
does not make up his mind to locate IN
western Kansas.
John Whitlow of 1917 Quincy street
has a lot of sunfiowers that are Wen
worthy of being the emblem of a great
state like Kansas. They are double,
with black centers.
Rev. DR.. Culbertson of Emporia,
president of Emporia college occupied
the pulpit at the First Presbyterian
church Sunday and will also serve in
the same capacity next Sunday.
The curb stone farmers have decided
that another rain about the 10th or the
month will insure the banner corn crop
of years in the face of the tact that the
early planting was caught by freeze
Councilman c. E. Jordan, who will
leave with Mrs. Jordan for California
Tuesday, has been appointed as del
egate to represent Topeka at the hf-
teenth annual irrigation congress at
Sacramento, Cal eb
While the old Crawford building is
being repaired it is necessary for ped
estrians to walk away out into the
street to pass the. building, but they
can stand it as the buff brick front be-
ing put in the building Will be an
ornament to Kansas avenue.
mot Because Your Hair Was Cur
ly," 'Iola,'' and several of the prom
inent ragtime melodies of the day
which have been played for the bene-
fit of the patrons of the carousal at
classic airs of I'll Trovature" and 9TH
ers of that class.
Despite the fact that appearances in
Dictated a rain at any moment Sunday
evening VinewoOd Park had one of the
largest crowds of the season. The free
attraction this week is of the double
header variety and consists of Swear
engen's band of Is pieces and two full
sets of moving pictures
The board of park commissioners
have been planning to fill the lakes in
Willow park by, tapping what they
think is a spring and leading the wat
er short distance into the lakes. The
street commissioner claims that no
spring exists and that the water sim
ply seeps out of the sewer which runs
through Potwin
A local fan watching the returns of
yesterdays games in the window Of
the State Journal office made the
team was losing the games on the trip
as they would probably get all the de-
feats out of them before they return
home and then he will be spared the
agony of seeing them lose on their
home grounds.
Norman Ramsey. first lieutenant, in
the ordnance department United
States army is home on a furlough of
ten days. He is enroute from Ma
nilla to Indian Head, near New York.
Indian Head is the proving out
grounds for the coast defense guns.
Ramsey arrived last night for a brief
visit with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
James A. Ramsey, 925 Morris avenue.
Lieutenant Ramsey was originally
with the infantry but just successfully
passed an examination for promotion
and is now a first lieutenant in the
ordnance department, most envi-
able branch of the service.