The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-18
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The Stadium Trio which is perform
! ing at Vfnewood this week, appeared
| at the Novelty last winter. Their act
| is a good one.
The attendance at Vinewood park
| this week is not so good which is prob
ably due to the counter attractions at
| the ChautauQua.
The cutters are not kept as clean
from standing water as the residents
and merchants on paved streets think
they should be kept.
The strain of winning eight straight
games was evidently too much for the
White Sox, so they had to drop one to
Webb City yesterday.
The street commissioner is removing
some large trees on the east side which
stand in line with new sidewalks
about to be constructed.
All of the grocery stores and meat
markets were closed today for the
grocers' picnic, and even the banks
granted their employees a half holiday.
The Kaw river is again on a ram
page but there is no reason for alarm
in this statement as the rise will be a
mild one compared with previous rises.
Burdge of this city, and himself a for
mer resident of Topeka, died recently
in California from complication Of
troubles.
s..
lott today where she will join her hus-
band who is on the programme at the
Chautauqua assembly a reader and
impersonator.
couple of young hoodlums who in
sisted that they had a right to smoke
cigarettes in the auditorium at Gar
field park, were elected from the
grounds yesterday.
H. M. Doddy has been granted a
building permit for the erection of
$500 residence at 1888 Buchanan
street and work on the property will
commence Immediately.
To complete the humiliation of the
Wichita ball team after defeating 1t
four straight games, the White Sox
dropped the game following to Webb
City, tail-ender, by a score of to 2.
Somewhere Bennett r. Wheeler read
an advertisement extoling the virtues
of something new in summer under
wear and ordered a suit or so and the
result is that he is on the verge Of
nervous prostration.
Some idea of the pace that Rev. Chas.
M Sheldon has been going since he has
been in England, may be CLEANED from
the fact that ne has held rs meetings
and met on an average a thousand peo-
pie at every meeting.
According to the divorce records of
the district clerks office, q per cent
of the marriages in Shawnee county in
the past 20 years have proven failures,
to one that the contracting parties will
get along happily.
Today is the annual picnic day for
the grocers and butchers of the city.
but like many previous occasions of
this sort the weather today is not as
favorable as it might be for those who
dispense groceries and meats over the
counters all the year long.
Merrick K. Edwards of Adrian. Mich,
and ]. Edward Heidenreich,o of Mahanoy
Do 1rrs, toe o. ~, ArI11 lou
department, We're in the city yesterday
looking for a location for a law office.
They are crossing the continent and
paying the expenses of the trip by
selling a patent door stop.
George Hackney accompanied by
B. Smith and David Overmyer, jr., re-
turned last evening from Cottonwood
Falls in the Hackney automobile. AS
a fishing trip the excursion was fall
ure, but as an auto ride it was a de-
cided success. The round trip was
made on IL gallons of gasoline.
1t has been a standing joke that
there are two commodities that a mer-
chant cannot disguise by wrapping, one
of them is coal oil can and the other
is a corset box, but the difficulty has
been overcome in the latter by remov-
ing the commodity from the box and
wrapping it like any other package of
dry goods.
Shines is ten cents today" announc-
ed a little Ethiopian this morning to
one of his regular five cent customers
How is that?' asked the customer.
Well" replied the youthful financier
today is de grocers' picnic an da
street car company charges ten cents to
ride to de park and when da charges
ten cents so do l..
1t is said that sixteen dudes" are
lost in a snow storm in Yellowstone
Park in charge of TEX" Holm of the
Yellowstone Camping company. 1t is
feared that F. G. Dreaming, city attor-
ney, who is making a tour of the Vel
lowstone is one of the party of
dudes" Dudes is the generic ap
Piled to eastern tourists in the park.
According to the decision made by
Judge Urmy of the police court yes
terday in the case of Peter Lang, who
was charged with vagrancy, if a man
works on eight days in three months
he can not be convicted on this charge.
The question which is the all impor-
to live at that rate, was not passed
upon.
Through a peculiar policy of econ
omy the city refuses to provide window
screens for the windows on the second
floor of the city hall opening into the
sleeping rooms of the firemen al the
central station and for the windows
on the third floor which open into the
council chamber. Flies and bugs
swarm in by the hundreds at night and
sleep and decidedly uncomfortabl for
those who have to work under the
chandeliers in the council chamber.