The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-26

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Bohemian for July.
The members Of the Queen Esther
chorus and cast will meet at the audi
forum Sunday evening.
Dear Old Dad is the bill at the
Air Dome theater for the remainder
| OF the week.
The Western Wooden mills in North
Topeka, which have been closed since
the flood. have reopened.
Manager Miller. of the. Lyric theater.
| Lincoln, Neb., has been visiting s. r.
! Wells of the Novelty for couple 81
| days.
Owing to the increase in business. at
| the local postoffice three additional
| clerks have been added to the present
force. -,5..s - ~4--...-
| Union Pacific eastbound train No.
| 104 which now leaves Topeka at BIO p
| M, will leave at 2:35 p. m. beginning
Sunday. June %, : rcxHa. az ~
The Blanchard Constipation company
| has been awarded the contract to erect
a $1,000 residence for NJ. B. Smith at
| 1910 Monroe street.
| Armin Eassler. who recently pur-
! chased large auto. is planning an
| overland trip to Colorado this summer
with q party of friends. 81 @fs.4 81,
The knights of Columbus are plan
ming to go to St. Marys Sunday for
| tho purpose of assisting in the con
ferring of degrees in the council at that
place. .s 3 t.l 90. az .s.,ti,
C. A. Bailey, an attorney of Topeka.
is now playing BALL with the Frank
fort team in Marshall county. Bailey
helped the Whiten Sox sarlier@in the
season. @IsTusf3 .oL- S1sr-zl
There will be no Sunday evening SER
vice at the Second United Brethren
church on account of the Queen Esther
program which will be given at the
auditorium
Yesterday was the hottest day of the
year though the early morning tenn
peratures indicate another record
breaker with maximum temperature
somewhere in the nineties- - sf-
Prof. A McTen Eyck Of the State
Shawnee County Alfalfa club at the
Commercial club tomorrow. Any one
interested will be welcome.
The preachers of the city will not
oppose the reproduction of the can
tata Queen Esther at the Auditorium
next Sunday night as the men in
charge have promised to have no scene
shifting.
The city railway is planning to give
its employees a big picnic at Vinewood
Park Wednesday, July Is. This will.
it is planned, be as big an event for
the employees as the Christmas feed
every year.
A party OF motor boat enthusiasts
chaperoned by A. s. Thomas in the
Iowa, went to Garfield park in their
motor boats to attend the band con-
cert last night. ~
The manufacturers committee of
the Commercial club will meet at the
Hotel Throop Monday evening for
lunch which will be followed by a dis
cussion relative to the proposed trades
extension trip.
The Topeka team moves over to
Springfield today for series of three
games. The Midgets have won but
one game from the locals this season
and should take at least two out of
three of the contests.
The council committee on water
works Thursday evening went over the
and recommended that the reductions
suggested by the board of water
works trustees be made.
Otto Miller, the Kansas representa-
tive of the American Type founders, is
enjoying his vacation at his home on
Governors Square instead of Coney
Island where he went last summer.
This speaks we'll for Topeka as a sum-
mer resort.
Armin Fassler, manager of the Inter
Ocean mills in North Topeka, has been
elected director of the National
| Millers' Fire Insurance company of
Chicago one of the strong companies
ance business.
| G. G. Atkins of 206 Berwick street
has been quarantined for smallpox
This Is the first case of this character
| to be reported in two weeks Small
| pox at this time of the year is some
| thing unusual but it has been persist
| ing in Topeka for about six months
now. st.s e .,s. -,..-..4 .--
Herbert S. Roger, George H. Stadel
and John P. Towner will go to work
| on July LIST as clerks at the postoffice.
The force was increased because of
the constantly growing volume of
business that must be handled here.
| They will receive $500 a year to begin
| with.
A satisfactory arrangement has been
reached by the force In the attorney
generals office regarding Fourth OF
July dates. Fred S. Jackson will re-
lease the eagle at Belleville on that date
and his assistant, John 8. Dawson,
viii perform a like ceremony in the
presence of the citizens of Winfield.
The Shawnee county woman who two
weeks ago refused to accept one dollar
each for the scalps of a litter of coy
otes on the theory that they would
| grow to be wolves returned to the
| county clerks office yesterday con-
WINGED that her guess was wrong and
accepted the proffered one dollar per
scalp.
/ A Kansas City morning paper con-
/ tained an extended writeup Thursday
j of q drainage meeting at which .Iudga