The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-11

vl W WIN 60A1E Nev$ II
Justice Silas Porter is easily one of |
the best story tellers in Kansas.
The total precipitation in Topeka |
during the past week amounted to 3.O8 |
inches.
John E.. Frost has gone to wash
ington to attend the conference of i
governors.
topeka is becoming civilized. It has
not been necessary to arrest any bows
for stoning the swans in Central park.
Washburn college will play the
Kansas Wesleyan baseball team at
Washburn park Wednesday after
noon.
State Farmers Educational CO.
Operative union, has returned from a
visit to Riley county.
A. s. Thomas has recovered his mo-
week ago. After the engine is over
hauled it will be ready for business
The local baseball team left last
night for Webb City. Four games
will be played at Webb City, Spring
field and Joplin in the order indicated
Twelve hundred new names have
been placed in the jury box by County
Clerk Zimmerman for which the juries
for the next term Of court will be
drawn.
J. r. Burrow has built a small
waiting room on the Vinewood line
near his home in Highland park,
which is very acceptable on occasions
like yesterday.
The PAYERS on Lincoln street be-
tween Sixth and Eighth avenues have
been put out of business by the rains.
The curbing has been put in place and
the sand hauled.
The rains of the past week mean tina.
business wi n
the lawn mower, weeds and grass alike
showing a remarkable growth during
the past few days.
| No one could blame the fans for
preferring to attend the games on
| Sunday as two of the noisiest fans in
| town always absent themselves from
| the park on that date.
Mrs. Mary Jennings Rehkopf of 401
| Shawnee avenue carried off the first
honors at the bread baking contest
| conducted at the w. A. L. Thompson
hardware store last week.
| Rev. j. H. Jones of the Unitarian
| church of Topeka, preached Sunday in
| the First Unitarian church at Milwau.
| kee. He is a candidate for the vacant
pastorate of that church.
Work was commenced Saturday on
the new Is inch feed main from the
waterworks pumping station to the
city. The work will start at the plant
| and come towards the city.
There are still 16 cases of smallpox
| in the city-a new one reported on
Saturday afternoon was that of H. M.
| Croker, 500 East Eighth, whose son is
in quarantine with the disease.
Another sign of spring: George
| Washington Jackson appeared at the
head of his band Sunday and marched
the entire length of Kansas avenue fol-
| lowed by a parade of Odd Fellows.
Mr.. Matthew Chiffon and daughter
Co1 yicif limo he "a -
lily of City Plumbing Inspector John
Shehan. Mr.. Chiffon will ship several
carloads of horses and mules to Cali
| fornia.
picture of Nick Chiles' house
across from Governors square in To-
peka appears in the current number
of the Century illustrating Booker L.
Washington's article NEGRO Homes IN
America"
The weather conditions Sunday were
not exactly what was wanted by the
management of Vinewood Park or the
Air Dome theater as neither Of the
places is covered with roof which will
exclude rain.
In the annual field events of Vas
sar college which were held al
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. last Saturday
Miss Amelia H. Ware, formerly OF
Topeka, won first place in the 70 yard
dash, running the distance in Az
| seconds.
| The commission men of Topeka com
7 pleted the organization Of the Topeka
Fruit and Product Brokerage compan.
Saturday which they claim will lesser
the expense of handling shipments ant
: consequently reduce the price of th'
: products sold in this city.
r John Strickrott has received a new
f. rifle as his score indicates in the shoe
.. last week where he captured ,. secoh M
place and missed the first position %!
: but one point; though for some tim
past he has bothered none but tn
: aspirants for the BOBBY prize
: A rumor which reached Kansa
! CITY yesterday that a disastrous clou'
= burst had visited Topeka. was tn
! source of much uneasiness to the resi-
: dents of that city who have relative
q in Topeka and several telephon
$ queries to Topeka was the result
d One of the street cars on the Vine
:. | wood line, bringing in some OF TN
: members Of Marshalfs nano VINO play
;. ed at the park in the afternoon, jump
d ed the track and caused long tedlou
e wait on the part of those who wer
|. anxious to get home before 1t ralnee
t Although the White Sox will b
= away from nome TOT tw We .s stl1 rit1
t the fans can be in attendance just tn
e same. Every play will be reproduce
n by wire at the Aurora theater. tn
games will start each day on the WeD
City field and at the aurora at S'o
p. m
l. One citizen says that the excavation
in the street pavements are left /
worse shape by the city waterworks de
partment than any other company 9
| individual whose business calls the1
to make excavations. The city eng
!, neer ought to get his hands on tn
- city itself. But then it always made
difference whose OK was gored, say
this man.
Yesterday was not a very aus