The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-07-03
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Celebrate the Fourth of July at
Vinewood tomorrow.
Big fireworks and aerial display at
Vinewood tomorrow evening at $3.50.
Grand balloon ascension and para
chute leap at Vinewood tomorrow at
4 p. m.
All union barber shops will be open
tonight until l / D. m. Close tomorrow
at II noon.
Band concerts at Vinewood tomor-
row afternoon and evening led by
John Marshall.
Moving pictures at vinewood to-
Gray" and 1000 feet of other pic
lures.
Topeka's mad dog scare is the real
thing, that is the scare portion of the
affair is and the dogs must suffer
again.
The Springfield team and Umpire
Shuster are attracting the attention of
this afternoon.
Encouraging news has been given
out by the officials of the waterworks
that Topeka will have clean water by
5 o'clock tonight.
The weather today does not bespeak
very suspicious day for the Fourth
but it will be much cooler and per-
maps dpOot do 6DJOy dDit.
Gene Green, the Billy Baxter of
Kansas, who made Waconda water ia
nous in this part of the country is
visiting friends in Topeka today.
There will be a baseball game be-
tween Topeka and Springfield tomor-
row morning at 10 o'clock and another
game in the afternoon at O'Clock.
Ex-Councilman Joseph Griley and
family left for GAINESVILLE, Ohio, last
night whore thew will cnnnd tho
mainder of the summer visiting rela-
| tives.
The Atchison Globe says that w. G..
Lyle, who has been a jeweler in
Atchison for one hundred years, has
accepted employment with a Topeka
firm.
The members of the Topeka Gun
club will hold shoot at the grounds
near Oakland tomorrow afternoon to
which all Topeka marksmen are in
vited.
This is always a sad day for me"
remarked a sympathetic man, II cam
not help thinking of the fingers grow
ing today that will not be on duty to-
morrow"
to hold a meeting tonight at the No.
1 fire station for the purpose of dis
cussing effective means for flood relief
in the future.
Captain William Peterson. an old
soldier, has been elected president OF
the Taft-Stubbs club which was re-
Gently organized to promote the cam
paign of Roscoe w. Stubs.
DR.. s. A Boam who has been at
Stormont hospital for nearly a month
following an operation, is slowly i'm
proving and expects to be able to
leave the hospital next week.
Terrence Ewart, who with Q. Gill
film established a branch house Of
the Hall Lithogra phing company in
Denver one night not long ago, is
spending a few days in Topeka.
DIR. C. F. Menninger read a paper
at the meeting of the Shawnee Coun-
ty Horticultural ksociety which was
held at the state house Thursday af-
ternoon on 1.-The Food Value of Fruit"
In order to prohibit the sale of the
giant firecrackers it is probable that
the city council will forbid them to
be stored in the city which will force
all dealers to do away with their
sale.
Miss Mary r. Lee. who was secre-
tary of the indianapolis Y. w. c. A.
for five years, has been appointed
house secretary of the Central Y. M.
c. A. and will have direct supervision
of the lunch room.
| With a special program at Vine
wood park tomorrow, a picnic at Gar
field park and bicycle and motor cycle
ra ces at the fair grounds, the Fourth
| of July offers a varied assortment of
lamusements to the residents of To-
peka. -
| Professor Kelly, who will make a
| balloon ascension and parachute leap
| at Vinewood park on the Fourth of
July has promised to repeat the per-
| Torrance Sunday, the day following,
providing that he alights all right
following the first ascent.
Judge John c. Pollock of the United
States district court, arrived in To-
peka late Thursday evening and will
remain here for the day. Judge Pol
lock will leave Kansas City either
Monday or Tuesday for his summer
| home up on the Great Lakes.
! The dredging of sand near the city
| mark on the Kansas river bank and
I the use of the park driveways by
drivers of sand wagons is not APP
| proved by the board of park COM
| mfssioners who will take the matter
IN with the council and mayor. The
dredging results in the current of the
river setting in to the south bank.
| An explosion of a lamp set fire tC
/ the two room house of Mrs. Lizzie
Price. Fifteenth and Washington
streets at 1920 last evening. The fire
spread so rapidly that the house was
| burned TO the grouIfu peioie TIE III
| department could render much as
sistance. The firemen confined theil
attention to saving the adjoining
| houses.
| c. H. Titus, commissioner of cleo
| tions. estimates that it will cost $5,63s
to maintain his office for the year end
| ing with April LIST, 1909. One reason
| assigned for this increased estimate Is
/ the primary election to be held this
/ year and the presidential election fol-
| lowing. the total cost of which viii
! be $3.50 and then the city election
| next April will cost SOS preceded by
| the city primary which will cost the