The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-03
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l commencing
| Swearingen'S band will be at Vine
| wood park all Of next week
| Four cases of smallpox are report
! ed from Silver Lake, the patients be-
F! ing a father and his three children.
The name of s. Freidberg, jeweler,
was Internationally omitted from the
/ list of members of the Topeka rebate
association.
Peter Smith. formerly president OF
| the Citizens State bank, has sold all
his stock in the institution to the new
/ organization.
Topeka water users paid the city
| over $1,000 for water during the
month of July which is in excess OF
all previous records
The Topeka Rebate association,
which is formed for the purpose of
| drawing trade into Topeka from out
| side sources, will be in operation with
/ in ten days.
| Owing to the fact that out of town
| bidders have asked for an extension
of time bids for the erection of the
new Elks club house will not be open
ed until next Wednesday.
! A. H. Marshall and wife left today
for a six weeks trip through Canada
and the northwest and along the Pa
| cif1c coast. Much of the time will be
put in at hunting and fishing.
Miss Beatrice Oils and Miss Angie
Tichner of AL Reno avenue left for
| will spend a few days with Mrs. Alice
| Taylor, who is a sister of Miss ITCH
ner.
The colored population of the city
enjoyed themselves yesterday at the
! local baseball park where they cele-
brated their emancipation day by
series of athletic events and a barbe-
cue.
A contract was closed yesterday by
Manager Wells Of the New Novelty
theater for the music for next season
which will consist of an orchestra of
five pieces under the direction of
Harry Steinberg
The largest drug store in Topeka
reported by "a liquor sales in July,
the smallest number recorded: while
one of the smallest drug stores re-
ported 1,77S sales, or the largest
number reported.
The liquor sales reported to the pro-
bate court for the month of July by
six leading druggists in this particular
line shows that their sales amounted
to S,42S or an average of over 400
sales for each druggist.
A large number of people attended
the band concert in City Park last
night although the weather was some
what uncomfortable. The seating ca
pacity of the park is hardly adequate
to the demands of wet night.
A ball game yesterday between
Crosby Brothers juniors and Lowman
hill resulted in a victory for the for
COMMUNICATION and Stewart; Cros-
by Bros. Juniors-Donahue and Fish
er.
The past "a hours has had every
thing necessary for a summer resort
as far as the weather conditions are
concerned. The maximum for yester-
day was 10 and the minimum 81, while
blankets were almost necessity last
night.
BY the time the total score of the
baseball game at Oklahoma City yes
terday was marked up there were
about twenty-five fans watching for 1t
at the window of the State Journal
office. Usually there are a couple of
hundred.
In a three inning sQuabble yester-
day afternoon the druggists beat the
Topeka doctors by a score of 4 to 3.
satile playing of DR.. Robert B. Stew
art, who chaperoned the medical ag-
gregation. y
A man who said he was a son of
President Diaz of Mexico passed
through Topeka Friday. He stepped
off a train and confded the fact that
he was a son of the president to a
newsboy but cautioned him to say
nothing about it as he was travelling
incog.
A long vision is not a bad thing to
have in a time of trouble, as is at
tested by paper read at the Shawnee
County horticultural society yester-
day which assures the fruit growers
of the fact that the late freezes killed
all of the cooling moths and that |
there will be no canker worms.
Once more a Topeka record is brok- |
en- and this time it is not one kept by |
the weather department, but the rec
ord of liquor sales which are filed |
with the probate judge the first of
each month. The sales for the month /
of July amounted to 21,837 or an ex-
cess of about 500 over any previous
month.