The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-21
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The city is unusually free of contag-
ious diseases. The city board of health
mas not had case to report for three
weeks.
Duels with cups of ice water at
twenty PAGES are now the fad, but are
not so prevalent since the cold wealth
er set in.
MarshalPs band will give a concert at
the Topeka Country club on Friday
evening, August %. at z O'Clock, for the
members and their friends.
There was slight falling off in the
attendance at the band concert last
night on account of the cool weather
but it was pretty slight decrease.
The temperature Yesterday was low
enough to entitle the day to the honor
of being the coolest since last May.
Today, however, is about the same.
Wichita Beacon: Judge ]. G. Sion
ecker, referee in bankruptcy of Topeka,
Kan, is in the city on business connect
ed with Judge c. V. Ferguson's bank
ruptcy court
The Topeka and Springfield teams
will play double header at the local
park tomorrow. 1t will be the last
appearance of the Midgets on the To-
cal grounds.
Now that a change has been made
in the captaincy of the White Sox and
Spencer Arthur Abbott is again at the
helm interest in the local team may
again be revived.
One little boy out at Tenth and Tyler
has new way of saving money. He
swallowed a nickel several days ago and
has not yet attempted to spend it for
pop or ice cream.
Jokes about shoveling snow off of the
sidewalk and other very brilliant sim
liar remarks are being made by the
weather pest who usually hands out the
staple remark, well, is it hot enough
for you?"
H. L. Heinzman, who for the past year
has been director of the boys work at
the Central Y. NJ. c. A, has resigned
to accept the secretaryship of the Y. M.
c. A. at the Iowa State university. AL
bert Reitz will fill the vacancy created
by the departure of Mr.. Heinzman.
A champion has come forward to
ask that the street car conductors be
permitted to discard their heavy coats
during the hot days. He had best
take up the matter with the officials,
ing their heated brows to notice
whether the street car conductors
were wearing coats or not.
Frank D. Hahn has been appointed
as the delegate to represent the Com
mercial club at the fifteenth annual
meeting of the National Irrigation
Congress at Sacramento September
End to 7th This will be the largest
meeting of the congress ever held and
projects which mean the expediture
of millions of dollars will be discussed
with a view to definite action.
Mayor VIM. Green has the neces-
sary authority to appoint five dele
gates to the Transmississippi Com
mercial Congress at Muskogee, 1. T.,
from November 1922 of this year.
Residents of Topeka who contemplate
making a trip to Musko gee at that
time can make application to the
mayor for the appointment as repre-
sentatives to the congress. Charles
Fellows is the third vice president.
Three thousand dollars is what the
CITY board of health wants for a new
detention hospital on the hospital
grounds southeast of the city. DR..
Mitchell, city physician, will ask the
council for such an appropriation on
the basis that it will be necessary to
rebuild entirely the barn like building |
which now serves the purpose. A |
three thousand dollar building will |
give accommodations for from ten to
fifteen patients and will provide all |
modern improvements.
Small boys from all parts of town |
seem to take the announcement of |
band concert at the City park as a sig |
nal that there has been an entertain |
ment provided for their especial benefit. |
Pom pom, pull away" and other games |
by band music, go off with |
a loud huzzah while they insist on |
shouting all popular tunes at the top |
Of their voices. These small boy noises |
mingled with melodious strains of |
soda pop" by the street vendors force |
the person who went to the concert with |
the intention of hearing the music, to |
use an ear trumpet.