The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-08

! DR.. s. s. Estey leaves today TO,
Maine. where he will spend his vaca-
tion
Today work began on the frame
work for the fifth floor of the new
Mills building.
DR.. George F. Babb has been ap-
pointed assistant dairy superintendent
of the Kansas State Fair association
DR.. F. H. Lynch, pastor of the First
NJ E. church, occupied the pulpit
Sunday for the first time since his re-
turn from his European trip.
A. R. Strain, of the freight depart
left last night for Georgia where he
will spend a months vacation.
The newly election insurgent school
| board meets tonight to form the an
nual levy for the coming year. This
action of the insurgents will be watch
ed with interest by the people Of the
city.
Police force is dangerous business in
Topeka. You ask man to obey the
! city ordinances by getting off the side
walk with his bicycle and he will get
off his wheel and straightway stab you
| in the back.
It has been decided by the mem
bers of the Kansas Life Underwriters
association to hold monthly meetings
at the Commercial club. Papers will
be read at these gatherings by men,
berS of the association.
River men who have lived along the
| banks of the Kaw for many years and
Who have seen sandbars one day and
raging floods the next. claim the fresh
cts which We're due in June and early
July will appear this month.
Members of the Houston Real Estate
exchange-125 strong = are planning
to make a fall advertising tour, stop
ping two hours in Topeka. The Com
mercial club, if the trip materializes,
will entertain the realty men.
This is August-which probably you
lxnow-and the greatest vacation month
of the year for the hard working Of
| fee men in the city. There isn't an
office in town with the usual complete
smiling force-scmeone is missing.
DIR. George Swatthecow Babb, city
/ milk inspector, is preparing to collect
a license from the milk dealers in the
| city. 1t is thought that this will dc
away with the former one-cow troubles
and pay the expenses of the office.
| The largest number of votes cast
| for any candidate for nomination in
Shawnee county at the primary election
of August was the 6,272 received by
w. F. Schoch without opposition for
denomination for judge of the probate
court.
The new government postal banks
| VIII be in working order by the first Of
/ November. This is the latest edict from,
the government headquarters in Wash
ington. Topeka will have one Of these
banks installed in the general post
| Office.
meeting of the school board will
be held tonight to fix the tax levy and
attend to routine business. 1t is the
first business meeting since the reor-
ganization of the board. Committees
for the new fiscal year will be an
nounced.
Taking advantage of the outdoor
sleeping fever and the usual varieties
of cool goods stored away in the back
| porch refrigeratorS a number of sneak
thieves have been picking up a lot OF
wet and dry goods in the west part
of the city.
/ A special train over the Rock Island
this morning carried the new presses
oe the Denver Times. The Rock Is
land has rushed this train over the
der that the Times may have the press
es for immediate assembling.
Following short illness in his cam
paign and the strenuous labors Of pre-
primary times, Judge E. r. Simon OF
the court of Topeka has gone to Elk
Simon will remain in Excelsior until
he feels able to take UP his work with
cid time vigor in Topeka.
/ G. W. Rourke, superintendent of the
Kansas division Of the Rock Island
(the man who took Speaker Cannon in
| his private car from Harrington to
Marion) is hunting for a. poem. 1t is
entitled Raising More He'll than Corn
| in Kansas Does anybody remember
or have this poem on hand?
Secretary Cook, of the state fair, has
| written to the city commissioners ask
ing that they prohibit stands and other
| junk from collecting around the out
| eli of state fair grounds this fall
The secretary says such things are a
nuisance to the general public-and the
city officials agree with him.
The Shawnee mills, corner Third and
| Kansas avenue, have been closed the
| last three days while undergoing a
thorough fum:gation. Signs and ropes
were placed around the building warn
| irg the pedestrians-the fumigatine
| fluids were so strong that their fumes
are deathly to a human being.
One centerpiece-or possibly it was q
dolly, reporters aren't supposed tc
know about such tllings-was burned
and a lamp ruined when the oil in q
students lamp exploded in the home OF
Mrs Beard. 10 Fillmore street, early
Sunday morning The fire was ex-
| injured.
Despite that Roy L. Bone, city COM
missioner, was fred from the Wichita
Beacon when he was a reporter there
many years ago because he headlined
the death of a fireman as Gone tc
His Last Fire. this same paper comes
out with a beautiful editorial conlpli-
menting Commissioner Bone on his
| present work in the commission form
of government.
1.-The progress of the modern rail.
road prosperity in America today i:
i hindered nightly by the dispositions
and the indispositions of the legisla.
tive bodies Thus spoke George Ieth.
erington, chief clerk to General Su.
perintendent Smalley of the Rock Is
lard. And he meant it, too, because
: he pounded his fist on the desk-Lang
Dust like thaD.
| I'D. Graham has been elected presi-
dent. and Col. J. F. True, secretary, OF
; a temporary committee which viii
work with the idea of forming a far.
mers' institute in this county. Thu