The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-08
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| Mr.. F. NJ. Spencer has been grant
eo automobile license number 1884,
The streets and walks committee OF
the council held meeting Friday eve
| ming at the city hall
| A force of men are at work about the
| new Elk building preparing to lay new
cement walk in the place of the old
| brick one.
The Kansas Authors club will meet
al the home of DIR. H. w. ROby, Tween
! ternoon.
S. G. Phillips has taken out a
building permit for the construction of
| a dwelling on lots 531-535 Lincoln
street to cost $1,700.
John F. Eby will leave on Monday
to attend "a series of teachers insti-
| tutes held in different counties
throughout the state.
Father F. n. Hayden, who was ov-
| ercome by the heat the early part of
the week. is better today, although
still confined to his home.
| The Sherman Stock company at the
Air Dome will close its Topeka en-.
gagement with the presentation OF
Kathleen Mavourneen tonight.
The employees of the various rail-
roads who are stationed at the depotS
complain that there is an Overabund-
ance of tourists of the hobo variety.
Robert Pierce acting president of the
Commercial club, returned from Estes
Park, Col, Friday. where he has been
for the past three weeks on vacation.
The Twentieth Kansas regiment
Will hold its annual reunion in Topeka
| in connection with the state fair. One
of the features will be the reproduc-
ton of the battle of Marilao.
Mrs. William H., Mackey, ST.. the
aged mother of United States Marshal
William Mackey. is seriously i'll at her
home in Junction City and fears are
entertained for her recovery.
The seventeenth annual assembly of
the Young Peoples Alliance and Wo-
mans Missionary society, will be held
at Garfield park commencing August
II and lasting until the nth.
Mayor VIM. Green will not leave on
his vacation this month, but will stay
in the city until sometime in Septem-
ber Business interests intervene and
compel him to remain here.
The Enid game with the locals to-
morrow will be the last one on the
present home series. The local team
will go to Oklahoma City and Enid be-
fore again performing on the local
ground.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to hold
winter Immediately following the Kan
sas City show. in anticipation of a
number of choice exhibits from the
show in that city.
Many of the state house employees
who visited their homes in different
parts of the state for the primary Tues
day, have returned to Topeka but in a
number of instances the vacations VIII
be prolonged until Monday.
T. ]. Coughlin has returned from
the national convention of the
Knights of Columbus. Mr.. Coughlin
elected. The next national convention
will be held at Mobile, Ala.
Owing to the fact that the interior
of the building is in the hands of
contractor who is remodeling 1T there
will be no Sunday delivery of mails by
the carriers at the postoffice windows
as has been the custom in the past.
Mosquitoes seem thicker than ever
in the low districts about the city
since the heavy rain. They are hungry
and vicious and are more of nu1-
sance than ordinarily on account of.
their numbers and apparent starved
condition.
3 Some idea of the excellent condition
of the ball field at Athletic park may
be gained from the fact that though
Az inches of water fell during the pre-
ceding "a hours, yesterdays game was
played according to schedule and it
was not a mud horse" game at that.
The heavy rains of the past 4S hours
have had splendid effect on the small
lakes about the city. The lagoon at
Vinewood- park is filed with fresh wa
ter as in Gage lake which was fast
becoming stagnant and unfit for bath
ing purposes.
E. H. johnson, formerly clothing
merchant of this city, was nominated
at the recent primary as the Republi-
can candidate for the legislature for
the Atchison city district over c. d.
Walker. The latter was a well known
and popular party worker in Atchison
county.
The Topeka Chautauqua association
has increased the number on it's
board of directors from seven to elev-
en- by the election of the following new
members: w w. Mills, Mayor William
Green, r. S. Brigham and c. c. Mich
olson.
Because the tile floors tire out the
feet of the clerks at the postoffice who
are compelled to stand all day long
in the discharge of their duties, wood
tile floors torn up where the remodel
ing of the first floor provides for adj
ditional room for the Clicks.
The six Cinnamon who were cap
tured in an ore car at Harrington about
three weeks, ago. will be brought to To-
peka as soon as they have completed
a 80 day sentence in the county Jail at
that place and tried for being found
within the boundaries of the United
States without proper certificates.
The following reports of births were
made by the city board of health: Mr..
and Mrs. Robert Chaplin, ZIG Harrison