The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-17
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| A gas machine at Crane & Co.'S
| esta blishment refused to behave prop
| erly early this morning and at 4:55
| o'clock a fire alarm was turned in.
| There was practically no damage
done.
/ Yesterday afternoon If one had
| driven over the city he would have
| noticed that the people were all "hit-
ting the cool spots on the lawns, the
houses having become almost entire
| ~ deserted.
| With good crops there should be
record attendances at the educational
institutions of the state; Both at
Washburn college and K. U. the early
| inquiry in regard to courses has been
| greater than usual
| DR.. c. H. Shattuck, formerly OF
Washburn college, recently of CIemfo7
| college, South Carolina, is in the city on
| his way to the state university of
Idaho, where he is at the head of the
department of forestry and botany.
! The members of the local union of the
Topeka C. E. societies enjoyed last
Baptist church. The next meeting of
the union will be held in two months
at the United Brethren church,
Twelfth and Quincy streets.
The Oakland cars commenced going
around the new loop this morning. The
Sixth and Seventh and Kansas avenue
and Quincy. Much time is saved by
not having to turn around on the Sixth
avenue wye, and much of the former
congestion is avoided.
The lawns this summer have pre-
scented an unusually fresh appearance
but the recent hot weather is begin
ming to tell. A number of people who
have heretofore neglected to cut their
grass have just done so only to find
that the sun has baked the stubble to
rich brown hue.
More scare" stories are coming in
from the southwestern portion of the
state in regard to hot winds and dam
ports should be taken with a grain
of salt, but the fact remains that a
drenching rain would be much appre-
ciated by the farm rs.
The work on Kansas avenue from
Seventeenth street to the Shunganunga
bridge In raising the grade and beyond
the bridge to Twenty-first street in cut
ting down the grade preparatory to
paving is progressing apace. South
Kansas avenue should prove a popular
drive in the near future.
The meeting of the board of auto
mobile examiners which was to have
been held yesterday was postponed.
The members of the board evidently
They had the task of keeping cool on
their hands. The next meeting of the
board will be held on August %.
The paving contractors are now
rushing work. The curb is being set
on Polk street between Sixth and
Eighth and the work of paving will
soon commence. On Morris avenue
between Sixth and Twelfth streets
brick laying has started, and likewise
on Eleventh street between Quincy
and Monroe.
The use of Skene's Park for Sunday
baseball games was forbidden by the
city administration last spring through
the influence of one of the councilmen.
Now games are tolerated there by the
same administration. This condition of
affairs led one prominent citizen to
remark that the city administration
was two faced.
The new motor car on the Santa Fe
between here and Emporia was de-
cidedly popular among the out-of-
town shoppers on the return trip late
yesterday afternoon. Tn car was
crowded and standing room was at a