The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-07-05
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AT HOME NEWS.

The Eagle Rose Tint baseball team
was defeated by the Dover ball club
Thursday afternoon. the Rose Tints
making errors which lost the game.
The score was and 4.
Never before in the history of our
service have we delivered so much beer
in Topeka as we did the day before
the Fourth of July" said a Topeka
express mopany official today.
A good many booster baseball tick
cts were sold in the grandstand at the
double-header victory scene yesterday.
If the Kaws were losing, it would have
been impossible to have sold a red tag.
The small son of w. o. Anderson, a
Topeka wholesale commission man, was
badly burned in the face by an ex-
plosion of a firecracker the Fourth of
July. The boys eye was severely in
Jured.
The admission at the baseball game
Saturday, Booster day. will be the
regular price. No advance will be
charged at the gate though the ad-
81 each.
? Mayor Billiard is in southeastern Kan
Sas in the interests of his campaign for
governor. From reports received in To-
peka the mayor is receiving fiattering
encouragement in his visits in that part
of the state.
City Engineer Young is working out
the plans for the repair, remodeiing
and rebuilding Of all of the bridges in
Topeka. It is planned to submit the
proposition to the voters for a bond
issue at the August primaries.
Four young men of Manhattan spent
Is hours in the Kaw river padding in
canoes to Topeka Wednesday night and
Thursday morning. The men were:
J. B. Gingery, William SCHUYLER, Els
mere Walters and N. Neiman.
There is one man who should be
1T y 30 TaI1
er who hauls coal. Many Topekans are
stocking up on their winter supply
while the coal is cheap-and coal
wagons are lining the residence streets.
If the state officers or those in auth
ority would ride on the street cars that
pass the new Memorial building they
would hear a variety of interesting
comments on what the average person
thinks of terra Gotta placed on marble
and granite.
If the safe and sane Fourth con-
tinues, the children of the future can
never realize the real enjoyment de-
rived from a noisy celebration; only
boys and girls having seen the old
fashioned Fourth of July can know of
its pleasures.
Colored boys from Kansas avenue to
Quincy street along East Eighth ave-
nue., ranging in ages from to 20, sold
State Journals to the incoming base
ball crowds Thursday. 1t was a great
day for the colored lads-Jack Johnson
won his tusSle.
DIR. George r. Babb, city milk in
spector, will make an ice cream report
soon. This report viii cover the con-
dition of the cream sold in Topeka.
It will give the purchasers a chance
to see if their dealers are obeying the
ice cream laws.
A newspaper from Roswell, N. NJ,
reports that DR.. H. H. Keith, formerly
of Topeka, has purchased a fine coun-
try home near that city. It is said that
the purchase price was 100000. He owns
several hundred acres of valuable land
in that section of New Mexico.
The only Fourth of July fire occurred
last evening at 9 o'clock when a blaze
from unknown cause started in small
closet in the home occupied by Lewis
Smith of 1874 Kansas avenue. The fam
lily was away from home at the time.
The loss is estimated at SIS.
The recent golf tournament held in |
Topeka seems to have stimulated in
terest in the game. Some golf bacilli, |
which have evidently been lying DOR |
1mant have multiplied rapidly OF late, |
and more golfers are daily batting the |
Dill about on the Country club links.
Nothing makes a man more peeved |
tba1 10 go into a clothing store one |
dav and pay $25 for a suit of clothes |
onIy to look through his evening pa |
,,e,. that night and find that the store |
riu start a sale the next day placing |
This same suit on the shelves for $3.50 |
The Edison concrete stack is rising |
slowly and in a few days can be seen |
from every part of the city. 1t Will |
10 an ideal place for sign painters to |
IA bbIe their art and for the gentle !
,san cow to stand behind the fence
and gaze over the capital city of Kan /
sas-
Colonel H. D. Booge said today that
he would have his new dirigibIe arr
~bin completed some time in the near
f,1ti1re The first flight will be made
aorIv in the fall. President L. d I
RInixer of the Topeka Anger club will
conduct the first flight made by the
Booge airship.
No Won feel different today? Do you
,ooI at everything in a brighter way?
r. hasn't seemed one-half as hot. has /
80 And your troubles ell seem to be
letting away? Do you know why?
Tho answer is easy-Topeka is for one
80 ~ least out of the Western League
~, ~. sesnent. Now for the first floor!
1T lam American born and American
,,-a6 and when 1 am gone there VIII
t - American Dead said Mr.. Din
3e- an his patriotic Grafton, The
Guaen of Nations" given at the First '