The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-30
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i The members of the colored churches
OF the city will hold a public barbecu'
at Garfield park on August 1, free L
all churches.
! William Schick will add a second
story to his mattress factory located
Kansas avenue.
DR.. John Outland. who is a full
grown man and boasts of 225 pounds
of avoirdupois is confined to his home
/ with the earache.
/ Yesterdays temperature was the
most enjoyable which has visited To-
peka in many moons Today, how
ever, is much warmer.
| Work in tearing down the old Bank
of Topeka building has progressed to
the point that nearly all of the third
| floor has been demolished.
Despite the fact that the fruit crop
has been killed in different sections
of the state, an abundance of black
| berries has been reported.
Representative ]. J. Miller of Has
kel county is at Bethesda hospital.
where he underwent an operation for
| a cancerous growth on his face under
the right eye.
Topeka has won but two out of the
last II ball games played, which would
Indicate that the team has struck a well
fabricated place on the toboggan slide
of baseballdom.
AS an additional drawing card for
the band concert tonight Judge Chap
ellie f. Foote will deliver an address
on civic improvement for tho benefit
of the East SiderS.
In another column will be found an
advertisement of the property and ma
terials of the Herald Publishing COM
pany which will be sold by direction of
the referee in bankruptcy.
Marshalps band will give a concert
at the corner of Eighth avenue and
street in
to an invitation extended by the East
Side Improvement association.
Chief of Police Winfield Eaton an
nounces that he would like to be sher-
if of Shawnee county, but he is not
alone in his aspirations for this par
tlcular piece of political preferment.
The reports indicate a fair black
berry crop in the state. but this does
not seem to affect the price of about
the only fruit to be found on the mar
a box.
Emmett Dalton, who was operated on
at Bethesda hospital two weeks ago
for an injured arm, has left the institu-
ton and taken up quarters at the Cope
land hotel where he expects to remain
while in the city.
There was some complaint recently
when the mercury registered 100 in the
shade, in Topeka. but dispatches re-
ceived yesterday indicate that the tenn
perature in Texas about the same time
was as high as 179.
William H. Barnes, who was for
merly secretary of the State Horticul-
tural society. is contemplating moving
on a fruit farm in Shawnee county.
His farm is located a short distance
south of Highland park.
The firm of George NJ. Noble & Co.,
which has been in business in this city
for twenty-five years has been dis
solved. A. D. Washburn will retire
10 Ia h1I as ho
continued by George M. Noble.
Sheriff Hesser of Fort Scott landed
in Topeka yesterday with Eli Wilker-
son and Vanderbilt Kavel two colored
youths, who will spend some time at
the reform schoo! north of the. city
on account of their incorrigibility.
w. L. A. Johnson, state labor COM
missioner, has recently been re-
elected as secretary and treasurer of
the national association of officials of
has held for the past eight years.
The Negro Business league will
meet in Topeka August 18th, and it is
estimated that about a thousand visi
tors will be in Topeka at that time:
Booker T. Washington of national
fame, is the president of the organiza-
ton.
1. Rothchild. who owns the property
at the corner of Third and Jackson
streets, has offered to establish a mar
will grant him the privilege of charg-
ing ten cents a load for all hay mar
keted.
Every one who is 1T all familiar with
the happenings of the police court and
the class Of criminals with which it
deals, will agree with Police Judge
TTrmy in his statement that a whipping
post should be installed at the city
prison.
The concert by Marshalrs band to-
night will be given at the corner of
Eighth and Lake streets. Those who
street car to the corner of Sixth and
Lake streets and then walk a couple |
Of blocks.
The Woodmen of the World and
circle evening picnic, to be
held at Vinewood park tonight, will be
attended by over 200 members of the
order. The basket supper and ice cream
feast will be followed by dancing at
the park pavilion.
James Chappelle, proprietor of the
Copeland hotel, as we'll as the peach Or
chard king of Shawnee county, has an
that he would like to succeed
w. E. Sterne as county commissioner
and that he will make his campaign on
the good roads platform.
The contract for D. w. Mulvanes |
residence at the corner of Eleventh |
and Van Buren, streets was awarded to |
NJ. Council yesterday The plans con- |
template one of the handsOmest resi- |
iences in the city which is to be COM |
pleted early in the spring.
Today is ladies day at the local ball |
game between Oklahoma City and To-
Deka, AS this will be the first occa-
sion the fair fans have had in a cou-
pie of weeks to witness a ball game |
through the courtesy of the manage
nent a large crowd will doubtless re-
suit.
G. w. Cannon. who was appointed |
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