The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-06
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! DR.. S. e. Martin is quite sick at his
| home as the result of being Frustrated
| by the heat.
| The Y. W. c. A. educational, BibIe
| study and physical training classes are
| meeting this week and next to arrange
for the fall schedule.
| Miss Daisy June Trout, the new Y
| w c. A. secretary, has rented and now
! occupies a house on the corner OF
| Seventh and Polk streets.
| The petitions for commission form
! of city administration are being re
called and will probably be presented
to the mayor within a few days.
! J. F. McKie. chief clerk to F. c.
| Fox, general superintendent of the
Santa Fe. left last night for La eJunta,
! where he will join his wife. and to-
! gether they will spend their vacation
| in Old Mexico.
The brick building which was for
years occupied by the Mount Carmel
| Coal company of which the late c. j.
Devlin was president, is being RACED
to make room for the new Mills dry
goods store building.
The Santa Fe passenger officials
have received word that the annual
snake dance of the Moki Indians in
New Mexico will take place about
August 20. this year. Some of the
officials are planning to attend.
The next ball game to be played on
the home grounds by the Topeka
team will be played next Thursday
with the Wichita team as the oppos-
ing club. A long series of home
games lasting for twenty days will be
played.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs Ben whistler,
141O Lane street on July 80. girl; to
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Matthews. 1884
Madison street, on August 3, boy;
to Mr. and Mrs. Albert A. Koepke,
100 Topeka avenue, on August 4,
girl
The board of plumbing examiners
will hold their first session on Tues
day next. According to the new Ordf-
nance all plumbers both master and
journeymen must secure license GER
tihcates from the board if they wish
to continue in business in Topeka.
Speaking of substitutes for intoxicants
in a small town the supply of booze be-
came exhausted and a certain individ-
ual who was already under the IN
fuence of the "firewater'' got hold of
several bottles of castor oil and actual
w imagined that he was indulging in
the real thing. And this was in Kan
sas. too.
The Provident association has been
giving Is poor boys a rare treat in
the form of an outing at Wakarusa-
The youngsters had a great time dur
ing the four days of their camping ex-
perience, and were sorry to have the
affair come to an end yesterday 1t
is hoped to be able to give them
longer outing next year.
Prof. G. C. Wheeler of the K. S A. c.
was in Topeka yesterday. He was
formerly assistant in animal hus-
bandry, but has recently been appoint
ed to represent the college extension
department in connection with farm
management. His field is the eastern
half of Kansas. and his work consists
of answering calls from the farmers
and organizing institutes, etc
Mayor Green is in receipt of a clip
ping from a Philadelphia newspaper
which describes in detail the jackson
cocktails The clipping was sent by
a friend of the mayor who is a decided
nti-prohibitionist. He makes this
comment in regard to the clipping:
This is a mild concoction in com
parison to what we have been informed
Kansas prohibitionists were drinking.
This is an admixture of 1-3 kerosene
oil. Id tabasco, and 1-3 dynamite?'
A few minutes before s o'clock
this morning a street car ran off the
track at the end of the Quinton
Heights line. A second car went