The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-04

The balloon ASCENSION will be re-
peated at Vinewood at 4 p. m. Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Real of Garden
City are spending the Fourth in To-
peka visiting friends and relatives.
There were enough extra policemen
on duty today to have enforced the
sane fourth ordinance: but they did
MT.
County Commissioner Frank b.
Simms will leave this evening over the
Union Pacific for Denver to attend
the national Democratic convention.
The weather for today is all that
could be desired for the Fourth, and
Weatherman Jennings has done a
great deal towards -wiping .out past
sins.
The Kress stock company which has
been we'll patronized during the stay
| in Topeka will again present For
Honor's Sake" at the Air Dome to-
night.
The baseball game this afternoon
between Topeka ana Springfield will
be called at O'Clock. Tomorrow the
| double header will commence at
O'Clock.
| If the instructions which Mayor
Green has issued to the police depart
| ment are carried out, there will be no
shows at the Topeka theaterS on Sun
days hereafter.
Several extra police officers will be
sworn in for duty today by Chief Eat
on, who asserts that the safe and sane
ordinance for the Fourth will be OBJ
served to the letter.
Furman Baker, a Democrat, who
has been in the frequent service of the
city. has been appointed by Mayor
VIM. Green as chief sewer inspector
on a per diem salary.
County Attorney John Schenck and
a body guard of the faithful expect
to leave this evening for Denver, Col.
to attend the National Democratic
convention which meets Monday.
| This is moving day for the Elks and
by night time nearly all of the fur
nishings will have been moved from
the old building to the new quarters
| on the corner of Seventh and Jackson
street.
The latest bulletin issued by the
waterworks department of the city
indicates that the same brand of wat
err now in use will be furnished for the
remainder of the week and perhaps
| longer.
The county offices and most all 9TH
err offices for that matter, as well as
the leading business houses of the
/ city have been closed since early
morning. but at that the day has been
anything but quiet.
| DR.. Francis l.. Hayes, pastor of the
First Congregational church. has been
engaged to deliver eight lectures upon
the book of John at the Topeka Chau-
ltauqua which will be held at Vine
| wood park, July 21-30.
Henry L. Call, who practiced law in
Topeka many years ago has secured a
top head over two column article in
a Girard newspaper because he has
built an airship which he has convinc-
ed the capitalists of that city will fly.
Mayor William Green yet retains
some traces of his early training, I
notice." remarked a Kentuckian, Gin
as much as he has seen fit to appoint
a Democrat to city office, even
though 1t is only sewer inspectors
place."
There was but one deli- cry of mail
today, the postofflce closing at 10
o'clock for the day. At from to 6
o'clock the general delivery window
l remained open to accommodate the
lpeople who called for their mail in the
4 evening.
| George Clark has not been fishing
Iyet this spring. This is certainly a
lrecord that is hard to equal for Clark
is the premier fisherman of Topeka
and to go without fishing for that
length of time to the true fisherman is
equivalent to starvation. ct have been