The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-27
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Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon delivered a
temperance lecture yesterday in Bos-
ton. Mass.
The City League season opened at
Skene's park Sunday with three five
inning games.
The Bank of Topeka opened for
banking home in the state.
Saturday was a light day for s. j.
Hodgins, register of deeds, but three
transfers being recorded during the en-
tire day.
The SNOWFALL bushes will soon take
the place now assumed by the lilac
busheS-the snowballs are gradually
turning into a snowy white.
Dennis D. Doty of Garden City is in
Topeka today. having accompanied his
mother who is receiving treatment at
Stormont hos pital to the city.
The Cooleysox should now be re-
garded as the name of the local base
ball team. Why they should be called
Cooleycrows any longer is hard to see.
Hartley Green, who has been employ
ed in the office of the city engineer.
will leave the employment of the city
and accept a position in Kansas City.
With the local weatherman predict
ing frost for tonight. the opening of
the Western Association season in To-
peka Thursday seems a little prema
ture.
The real estate men of the city report
many sales this month and the market
active and firm They are expecting
a fine business and good times all
summer.
The local weather man could make
big hit by forecasting warm weather
for next Thursday when the opening
of the Western association season
takes place.
Bids will be opened on May 1 for the
reconstruction of the lower floors of
the postoffice. The estimated cost of
the improvements is in the neighbor-
hood of SIS, 900.
Col. Richard Boyd who was de-
throned as sultan of the city rockpile
to make room for a political appointee,
has been reinstated after an absence
of several months.
A baseball league representing six of
the churches of the city and two Y.
M c. A. associations has been organ
lied and will play ball every Saturday
throughout the season.
The management of the Topeka In
dustrial Institute has decided to hold
stitution commencing on the I'D of
May and concluding on the 9th.
George Beard of No. hose company
at headquarters fire station is grad
ually recovering from prolonged ILL
ness following exposure at the Rock
Island depot fire of last winter.
The dealers in ice cream did not have
such a demand for their product Sun
day as they did the same day week
ago. A difference of about 40 degrees
in the temperature was to blame.
Judging from the reports which en-
anate from the county commissioners
Office, the board has employed a press
agent for the poor farm as a repre-
sentative of the custodian Paddy"
Belts.
The trial of H. H. Tucker for using
the mails to defraud has developed the
fact that the president of the Uncle
Sam Oil company was not over paid for
his services, his salary being fixed at
$15 per week.
IT would rather have member of
my congregation backslide than sit
about like bump on log" was the
rather startling expression used sun
day morning in a sermon by DR.. Frank
Lynch of the First Methodist church.
The board of county commissioners
has decided to donate the refrigerators
now stored in the basement of the
court house to the charitable institu-
tions of the city. though they have not
been able to find law to justify such
action.
The confirmation of a class of over
100 persons at the Church of the As
sumption Sunday afternoon brought
out a crowd that filled the large build
ing to overlooking. Bishop Lillis of
Kansas City was here to officiate a the
services.
Sherman Shoupe. a student in the
musical department at Washburn col
lege, has written an opera which will
be presented by a number of the pu-
pills on the 14th and 18th of next month
He calls his effort the college
Cnaperones."
The opening of the Western associa-
| ton will take place Thursday after
noon Appropriate exercises to COM
| memorate this event are being ar
| ranged. A tally-ho parade will be one
| of the features. Webb City will be the
! opening attraction.
| The First Methodist church has
made a hit with suffering public
| Yesterday morning in the printed or
| der OF services there was a request to
| the ladies to remove their headgear
| and with but one exception this request
was complied with.
Sunday was an of day from the tenn