The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-04
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Grocers' picnic, Vinewood Park, to-
morrow.
The polls remain open tonight until
o'clock. so that if you have not yet
voted there is still a chance.
The Topeka Independent Telephone
company can use or additional OPP
orators during the vacation and fall
season.
Clarence Miller of the Thompson
Hardware company has left for Col
orado to be gone for a couple of
weeks.
f. S. Cowdrick, formerly city hall
reporter of the Herald, is now the fin
ancial editor of the Denver Times, an
evening newspaper.
Pitcher Honska who twirIed for the
Washburn baseball team a few years
ago. Is now a member of the Pueblo
team, in the Western League.
The opening of the city schools has
been delayed a week on account of the
state fair and school will not COM
mence until the 18th of September.
The Topeka and Oklahoma City
teams will play a double header at the
local park tomorrow afternoon. The
first game will be called at O'Clock.
e. B. Murphy left this morning for
Boston where he will attend the fifty
fourth annual convention of the Inter-
national typographical union as del
egate.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. z. B. Stotts,
$40 West Fifth street. a boy, William
Jennings Bryan, usual weight, no I'M
usual incidents and mother and child
doing well.
DR.. Ida c. Barnes read a paper last
night at the monthly meeting of the
Shawnee County Medical society on
High Potential Currents and Low
F'requenties."
Topeka Industrial Council which is
composed of the union workmen of
Topeka will celebrate Labor Day, Sep
TENDER Z. at Vinewood park with an
all day picnic.
The city polls close at s o'clock this
evening while the voters living in pre-
cincts Immediately adjoining the city
are granted two hours more in which to
deposit their ballots.
Mr. Louis E. Strauss and the Nc
Keever boys of Oklahoma City, and
formerly of Topeka, are putting an ad-
dition on to the former city that is
going to be hard to beat.
Councilman Van Ness of the First
ward is recovering from an attack of
what threatened to develop into ty-
phoid fever. He was present at the
council meeting last night.
Plain clothes men were stationed at
nearly every voting precinct today
though they were more of an ornament
than a necessity, and they could not
be considered ornaments at that.
The State Journal will bulletin the
election returns tonight from the
large bulletin window. The returns
will be given to the public as fast as
they are received by the Journal.
George Hayden and Charles Magaw
returned from a short sojourn at Ex-
celsior Springs in time to take a dab
at the end of the campaign, making
speeches in different parts of the city
last night.
Sixty-six dogs were killed last month
by the dog catcher and less than 800
the dog ordinance Is not being as
strictly enforced as the enemies of the
canine tribe would have II.
Ex-Mayor Charles A. Fellows of Los
Angeles, Cal, who had hand in har-
vestinE about all of the political ice
which was cut in this city II or 10
years ago, made a number of political
speeches last night in the interest of
Long and Leland.
There is a dearth of vehicles and
livery rigs in the city today. or at least
a dearth as far as the general public
is concerned. All the rigs have been
utilize them as an inducement to get
their supporters to the polls.
The monthly meeting of the teachers
and officers of the Central Congrega-
tional Sunday school will be held at
the washburn observatory building
this evening at o'clock, where be-
tween discussions they will view the
sky through the big Washburn teles-
cope.
The committee which is trying to