The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-21
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The first real evidence in Topeka
that a national campaign is in prog
reSS is the Bryan electric sign stretch
ed across Kansas avenue at Eighth.
Arrangements have been completed
for w. r. Stubs, the Republican can
didate for governor, to speak at Vine
wood park. Labor day, September Sth.
81 notice. remarked an old time
Democrat, that practically all of the
good Jobs to be given out by the next
governor have been selected by Re-
publicans.'
Councilman H. B. Howard is pre-
pairing to spend $500 in erecting a
cottage at 1884 Pork street which is
to be ready for occupancy by the 18th
of October.
Mrs. Henri Beetle of 1247 Clay street
has scored. A half tone of her beauti-
full Persian cat Blue Eyes has appeared
in the September issue of Country Life
in America
while you are enjoying the cool
days and cooler nights just pause a
minute and think of the relief that the
change will bring to the invalids or the
CITY," suggested a big fat doctor.
H. ]. Bone, United States district at
torney. is expected to return from Dem
yer on Saturday where he has been
looking after the Lost Bullions mine
fraud case which the government is
prosecuting.
Attorney Shukers, who is looking
after the liquor prosecutions started
by the State Temperance union is in
Atchison today where a number of
contempt cases will be heard in the
district court.
DR.. A. L. Brown of Garden City, who
was on his way home from Fort Riley,
witnessed the ball game between the
White Sox and Hutchinson Thursday
and selected the Topeka aggregation as
the pennant winners.
J. w. Priddy, an ex-president of the
board of education, and j. Y. Niles, as
sistant adjutant general. have Won
prizes for their suggestions on how to
beautify the home. The former was
given SO prize and the latter 81. They
were awarded by st. Louis magazine.
Military affairs may be expected to
quiet down as far as Topeka is con-
cerned for a few days at least. The
maneuvers at Fort Riley are a thing
of the past and Adjutant General j.
w. F. Hughes is in Ohio attending the
national shoot.
A meeting Of the Democratic coun-
tty central committee will be held at
the parlors of the Throop hotel at 2
o'clock Monday, August "a, when a
number of committees will be ap
pointed and considerable other i'm
portant business transacted.
Sheriff ]. r. Ashcroft of Graham
arrived Topeka last night
with Lottie Griffey of Hill City
who was recently adjudged insane by
an insanity commission. Sheriff Ash
croft enjoys the distinction of being a
Democratic official in a strong Repub-
lican county.
A few more bricks were unloaded on
West Sixth avenue this morning which
indicates that the repaving of this
avenue will commence some time be-
tween now and Christmas Nothing
yet doing on Tenth or Eighth streets.
north or south of the beautiful Capitol
grounds, bounded on three sides by
buffalo wallows.
Dairymen, physicians and clubwomen
are invited to attend the lecture on
milk which DR.. George M. Whitaker of
the United States department of agri-
culture will give at the council cham
Der this evening. DR.. Whitaker is
spending a month in Kansas investi-
eating the diaries and has been in To-
peka for the past week on this same
mission. The lecture will be illustrated
and is free to the public. Several 9TH
err diaries were inspected Thursday and
the same conditions practically pre-
vailed as were noted Wednesday. A
visit was made to Oak Grange hall in
the evening