The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-07-14

Topeka's dry land bridge is progress
| ing very slowly. a
/ There will be no Marshalrs band con-
cert Saturday night.
4 Work on the Chesney- park grand
stand is still up in the air.
/ Tomorrow is circus day and the
| weather man promises fair weather.
/ Thomas F. Doran is the latest law
yer to become afflicted with autoitis.
! The candidates for office are CIV
ing bill board advertising a thorough
test.
There was enough wind last night
| when the storm came up to frighten
| the timid.
| A Topeka man who has run close
second to Job all his life, is now nurs-
| ing felon.
The Country club golf links is busy
place these days The grounds are like
a beautiful lawn.
Topeka had rolling, crashing,
grumbling thunder storm last night
though little rain fell
Part of the shrubbery along the west
side of Central park has been til ken
out-a greatly appreciated improve
ment.
| Chief Justice Johnston has a wheat
| farm in Ottawa county He says the
size of the crop win determine the ex-
tent of his vacation
The walls of the new brick building
at the fair ground have been COM
I pleted. 1t is the first building on the
| grounds worthy of the name.
"There goes one of Tandy's cars. :"
| said Topeka pedestrian to another
| fortunate one, as they saw a street
| car loaded to the roof go crawling by.
The rain this morning came just in
time to catch the ''bluue bloods" on
| 81 ". f,c q
real worxingmen had been at work for
] almost two hours.
Garfield park is the scene of pic
| mic or so every day in the summer
| The rain today will make it necessary
for many a hard boiled egg to be
placed on the family table.
Sam Zimmerman, Past Consul of
/ sunfIower Camp No $50, Modern Wood
men of America, presided over the
meeting of the camp Tuesday night in
/ the absence of the Consul.
The work of pouring the cancrete
! into the forms at the new dry land
bridge near the Kaw river mas com
| menced. Why not build a foundation
for the bridge and let 1t go at that?
/ Some of the employees in the Santa
/ Fe shops are drawing $50 to $50 as
| bonus in addition to their pay every
| month With man making a regu-
! lar salary of 500 month, this bonus
| is a godsend.
/ Topeka is getting famous for its re-
/ form movements The latest is the
| case of one man who had another ar
| rested because he snored. II TINS
| movement spreads the city and county
/ will have to enlarge their jails-
| The government mail boxes in Tope-
ka are badly in need of paint The re-
| cent paint crusade of. the telephone
| and telegraph companies has spotted
/ the mail boxes with white paint and
they present ragged appearance
Judge E. R. Simon of the court of
! topeka has been compelled to absent
himself from court in several or the re-
| cent sessions on account of persisten.
| attacks of stomach trouble. MI. =
/ Campbell has presided several times IN
his absence
Work has been commenced in the
| remodeling of the southwest corner OF
| the National hotel BUILDING Tor the
/ iobby. When this lobby is completed
| If will become the headquarters for the
| Legislators.
| on account of the construction work
! on Topeka's dry land bridge it will be
| impossible for the city to make any
/ improvements on the city park TINS
year. When the bridge is constructed
i it will be necessary to cut away many
hundred feet of the park
/ Commissioner Bone has scheme
which he claims will save the city
money on the publication of weed no
| tees. 1t has been figured out that
the CITY will save exactly Is cents in
the season by this new scheme-and
the extra work isn't counted
Tom McNeal used a photograph on
his campaign throughout the north
east Now Tom Wagstaff has decided
to use a moving picture machine to
draw the crowds. 1t still looks as
Il though the Kansas farmers were going
to vote the way they pleased.
1t is but a question of a few years
until Topeka has a "Swope Park.
With the deer that Oklahoma City has
I promised and the wild animals that
1 many Topeka hunters have promised
to capture next fell, Gage Park will be
making a noise like Yellowstone Park.
Wistar Williams, an old Washburn
Il football star fell five stories in a
freight elevator at the Seymour Pack
ing plant last night, and stopped his