The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-04
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Old mirrors look like new when re-
silvered at Coe Bros, Cut Rate Art
store. S32 Kansas avenue
Bids have been called for the cree
ton OF the new Lane school building
In the First ward by the school
board
The exodus of graduates and stu
dents from Washburn and Bethany
colleges has commenced and will con-
tinue for the remainder of the week.
S: j. Crumbine, secretary of the
state board of health, has started a
fight on chewing gum for no other rea-
son, however, than that it is adultera-
ted.
Home grown strawberries have
made their appearance on the local
market, but they look like counterfeits
when compared with the southern
berries.
Reports from the country indicate
that the few strawberries the late
frosts did not get are ripe, though they
are about as scarce as hens teeth are
said to be.
There will be no more ball games
for eight days as the White Sox left
for Oklahoma City this morning for
four games to be followed by four
game series at Joplin.
Once more William Core, the dog
catcher has given notice that all I'M
muzzled dogs will be taken up regard
less of the fact that their license has
been paid by their owners
Contrary to the usual order of affairs
new potatoes are worth almost double
as much at the present time as when
they first made their appearance on the
Topeka market month or six weeks
ago.
One by one the idols of the bleacher
fans step down and out at the edict of
the captain of the team, and no more
will the form of Cy Landreth be seen
gamboling in the left garden of the
White Sox.
S. S. Ashbaugh. attorney for the
state board of railroad commissioners,
left for Washington Monday, where he
will appear before the interstate com
merce commission in two cases In which
he is interested.
w. P. Hemphin and wife left for
Chicago this morning, where as secre-
tary of the Independent Telephone
companies of Kansas, he will deliver
an address before the National indie
pendent Telephone association.
The lawns about the city are show
the unlucky man who owns a lawn
mower spends much of his time in
propelling it over the fast growing
lawns rather than see the grass seed.
Sometime ago the city fathers auth
orized raise in the salaries of the
linemen OF the city SIS a month by
resolution, but it now develops that
such an action is illegal and that an
ordinance TO lHdl effect DS pass
ed.
Among other things picked off of the
blind baggage by Santa Fe detectives
this week was a young man who prov
ed that he was a bankrupt Kansas uni
yersity student trying to reach home
without the formality of paying his
fare.
The indications are that some dray-
man not approaching his patron, has
overcharged Sam Radges, at any rate
Mr.. Radges has petitioned the city
council to pass an ordinance fixing the
rate to be charged by baggage and
express men.
A meeting of the local poultry breed
ers will be held this evening at the Of
flee of Poultry Culture in the Crawford
building when plans for the annual
meeting of the state association will
be discussed and plans devised for Sc
curing the meeting for Topeka.
Because Mrs. Lillian Parkinson's cat
developed an appetite for young
chickens which it insisted on appeas-
ing at the expense of the chicken yard
of a neighbor w. L. Humbert, the lat
ter was fined SO by Judge Urmy. OF
course he had killed the cat.
Councilman Blakeley may not realize
the fact but he has made a powerful |
bid for popular favor by intr PRODUCING an
ordinance compelling merchants to