The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-06-28
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of a boy, born Wednesday.
/ Garfield Park is being improved in
| preparation for the Chautauqua which
will be held there during the latter
part of July.
/ w. C. Ralston, assistant city attor.
ney, has returned from Parkvil1, Mo.
! where he attended the commencement
of Park college.
The room at SIS Kansas avenue has
| been rented by Charles McClintock,
who will move his store to the new
| location at once.
| factory which has just been completed
il Oakland, announce that it will open
in about ten days.
Mrs. Hampton L. Shirer and family
left yesterday for the east. They will
| be gone for few weeks on a general
outing and vacation.
| A marriage license was issued by the
| probate judge of Lyon county yester-
| DAY to George F. Ault of Detroit. Mich,
and Miss Ena L. Ingalls, of Topeka.
The work of placing a woven wire
fence on the south and west line of
| Garfield park has been completed I'M
der the directions of the street depart
ment.
The Christian Endeavorers of the
First Lutheran church will give an ice
cream and lawn social this evening at
the home of Mr.. Call, 1901 Clay
street.
The city library building will be
closed commencing Monday while ex-
tensive repairs are being made to the
roof which leaks and to other parts of
the building.
John F. Strickrott and Col. F. s..
Savage have returned from trip to
Garden City. 1t is rumored that Col.
Savage broke the Finney county auto
mobile record.
The recently appointed division ac-
countants of the Santa Fe are holding
a kindergarten session in Topeka this
week preparatory to assuming their
new positions July 1.
The Topeka Rife club are preparing
for an ali day shoot on the Fourth of
July at Skeen's park, where an out
door range with a maximum of 200
yards has been prepared.
A special meeting of the North To-
peka Civic club will be held at num-
Der one fire station this evening when
business of especial Importance will
come up for consideration.
Next month will be one of an I'M
usual amount of sunshine for the
small boys of Topeka. Two big cir
cuses and the Fourth of July will add
to their usual amount of joy.
j. K. Codding. attorney for the State
Temperance union. has returned to
Topeka from a trip to Crawford coun-
ty, where he has been assisting in fit
ting a lid on the saloon proposition.
pairing for a picnic on the Fourth of
July which will be held at Tecumseh
near the old log cabin in which the
first lodge in this county was organized
almost half a century ago.
1t is said that Umpire Eckman,
who started in the one round bout at
the ball park Wednesday afternoon,
was al one time physical instructor
in one of the leading physical culture
clubs in Chicago.
Word has been received that Bishop
John w. Hamilton of the Methodist
Episcopal church, who is we'll known
in Topeka, is rapidly recovering from
a severe surgical operation which he
underwent at ASbury Park, N. j.
The directors of the Kansas Poultry
association will hold a meeting Satur-
day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Fifth
Avenue hotel. when they will decide
upon the next meeting place and the
time when the next show will be held.
Anthony Brown was arrested yes
terday for harboring a vicious dog.
He pleaded that he did not know that
the dog was loaded with bites and
was released after he had promised to
execute the family pet before sun
down.
A party of Topekans who are sum-
mer residents in the City of Mexico
have informed their friends in this
city that their equipment includes a
roof garden, which same remark
sounds mighty good in this dry and
hot city.
Mrs. Lucinda Howard, a negro, was
knocked down between Ninth and
Tenth streets on Kansas avenue last
night about 8 80 by a hrose driven by
c. Erickson and slightly injured. The
injured woman was taken to Keith s
hospital.
To be or not to be: Tomorrow is the
last day which the committee So
Letting for the Washburn college
fund has to complete the $4,000
which it must raise in order to secure
an endowment fund amounting to
100000.
Sister Martina. superior of the AS
sumption school in Topeka. and num-
Der of the Sisters of Charity who teach
in the school, will leave in few days
for Leavenworth where they will spend
several weeks in the training institute
for this district.
Rev. John A. Bright has been offer
ed and has accepted the pastorate of
the English Lutheran church at Cam
pus, in Cove county, which he dedi-
Gated several months ago, and will
leave Topeka in short time to assume
charge of the church.
A crowd of young people. all Wash
burn students, were at the Union Pa
cific train yesterday afternoon to meet
Marjorie Anderson Carr, as they pass
ed through the city on their way east
for their wedding trip.
The examinations for the county GER
tificates began this morning at the
high school building. The county in
stitute closes tomorrow. The examina-
lions are under the direction of the
county examining board assisted by
the instructors in the institute.
Taft will be in Topeka Monday, |
rain or shine, is the announcement
made by the management of the John |
Robinson circus, but he has no presi- |
Dental aspirations as he is only a baby |
lion named in honor of the secretary |
of war and born only a few days ago.
For man of his size S. C. Crum- |