The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-09
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Dancing tonight at. Vinewood.
There VIII be band concert at
Garfield park tonight. No admission
is charged to the park.
Major T. J. Anderson, government
statistician, has gone to Washington
as guest of the government.
Edward Bass has donated number
OF flowers and plants to the members
of fire station No. which will be used
to beautify the adjacent lawns.
The postal business of the Topeka
office for the fiscal year which ended
June ~ SHOWS an increase Of 10 per
cent over that of the preceding year.
Emil Barbour. one of the jointists
released from the county Jail yester-
day, will be missed by the prisoners.
as he Is an interesting entertainer, in
Jail or out.
L. 7. Price, the druggist, will leave
Friday afternoon for his old home,
Galesburg. ILL.,. where he will visit for
Few days with relatives and ac-
quaintances.
The services of Marshall's band have
been engaged by B. p. Waggoner of
Atchison for July 18th, when he will
celebrate his birthday with a picnic at
Forest park, Atchison.
The scores made by the members of
the Topeka Gun club at the shoot
which was held yesterday afternoon.
were the highest made this season.,
Paul Mulvane heading the list Of %
out of possible 20 blue rocks.
Councilman c. H. Kutz has been
invited to make an address at ses-.
sion of the United Brethren church
which is to be held at Lecompton
during the forepart of August. He
will speak on The Young Christian
in Politics.
I Though he was appointed as one of
the assistant sergeants at arms of the
Democratic nafi0na1
was presented with badge and all
the other essential credentials, Coun-
Gilman Peter Miller was forced to re-.
main at home on account of business.
Hard luck.
A few voters are registering from
day to day at the commissioner of
elections but the number is SO small
that by the time the books close dur
ing the latter part of July the list
of voters who are eligible to vote at
the party primaries August will
not be materially increased.
T. M. Forbes. owner of the Forbes
elevator. who has been in business in
Topeka for twenty years or more Of
fered rs cents a -bushel for corn yes
terday, which is said to be the high
est price paid for corn in Topeka
since the ''grasshopper year." when
corn sold for one dollar bushel.
Seventy-eig placards bearing the
will have to be put up by c.. B. Burge,
city clerk, in the 26 voting pre-
cincts of the city. No provision has
been made for this expense of post
ing and it looks as if Burge will have
to get busy with the hammer and
tacks himself.
The patrons of school district No.
p are demanding that County Super
intendent Carter furnish them with a
teacher who does, not believe in ruling
her pupils with love: zone who has
been disappointed In love two or three
times and who believes that sparing
the rod will not. assist in saving the
child" is the Way the application
reads.
At least one aman swallowed Sam
Zimmerman's. county clerk. cam
paign medicine" which consists of a
capsule with a. small piece of paper
folded up on the inside announcing
Zimmerman's candidacy. The cap
sules are displayed on the counters
of the drug stores and in this par
ticular instance the man walked over
picked up a capsule and then called
for drink from the soda fountain,
gulping down the drink and capsule
together before the clerk could stop
him,