The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-09
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| Edward Cowdrick. a former reporter
on the Herald. is now employed on the
Denver Times. an evening paper.
| Marshalls band will give their reg
ular semiweekly concert in City
will be large crowd there as usual.
One of the heaviest dews of the
year gathered on the grass this morn
| ing and the tin roofs in the city looked
as if a heavy rain has been precipf-
tated
With the motor boat craze coming
on it might not be a bad policy for
the management of Vinewood park to
| fix up the old motor boat and allow 1t
to be used on the lagoon.
Veterans of the Spanish war and
| former members of the Twentieth
Kansas will go to the reunion of the
Philippine veterans to be held on
August IA at Kansas City.
A pair of garters and a hat might
not be considered a stylish get-up but
it would be hard to find a jury just
now which would convict a person of
incurable insanity for appearing in
such a garb.
Next week is a gala week for the
negroes of Topeka and the immediate
vicinity. The Colored Mems Business
league meets in national session and
the Western Negro Press association
holds a session.
Although the watermelon season is
almost a thing of the past, the price
has not been diminished to any great
extent and local restaurants still
charge the regulation price of ten
cents for small slice.
The paved streets down town are due
for another flushing with water by
the street department force The city
pays a hydrant rental and one OF the
main objects of that tax is to use water
for flushing purposes during the sum-
mer season.
The detective who was sent out last
night to spend the nice warm hours
man from the wrath of her husband
should be invested with the rank of
Lord Chamberlain to the Queen or
the Bottoms
Baseball which is a subject which
is generally good for an extended con-
barber shop has now become so I'M
popular in Topeka that the subject is
as carefully avoided almost as the
dead or the hereafter.
G. Max CIaudy, a we'll known To-
peka printer. has not left Topeka for
IA years. He started today for Hot
Springs to attend the meeting of the
International Typographical union L.
A. Ernich of the State Journal COM
posing room is the other delegate.
Well, the Topeka team finally won
game and some of the fans are re-
joicing. With Springfield, webb City
and Leavenworth, the three tail end
teams to play during the remainder
of their trip, winning game oughtsto
become more frequent than weekly
event.
Several of the transfer companies
have been encountering considerable
trouble in finding horses to replace
the company animals which are
knocked out with the heat. Even the
straw bonnet with a wet sponge in
top can not save poor Dobbin this
weather.
With the days and nights both too
hot for comfort and for sleep, many
Topekane are seen with wearied looks
on their faces. One man was heard to
remark that it is hard work to live
this kind Of weather and the only in
ducement offered to continued exis-
lance is the saving of funeral ex-
penses-
The colored man who entertafns the
audiences at the corner of Sixth and
Kansas avenues every night by his
weird and eloquent speaking upon
divine subjects was reinforced last
night by the services or a small color
ed waif who played few plantation
strains on a WORKOUT and dliapidated
looking guitar.
The combination of moving pic
lures and band concerts which the
management of Vinewood park is pro-
viding for the free entertainment Of