The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-07-03
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AT HOME NEWS.

Marriage license was issued. this
morning to Smil st. Louis, aged 81,
Children are able to get a penny's
worth of ice cream from the peddler
wagons.
Several lively tennis sets are played
every evening on the courts of the
Cathedral Boys club.
The city and county offices. the
banks and the Commercial club will
be closed on Friday.
E. S. Fisher. with the Harter Mer-
camille Co., has been called to Norton
Vile on account of the death of his
mother.
Jack Hummanson was arrested this
morning charged with assault and D.
Beasly is in the city jail on the charge
of vagrancy.
Miss Jessie Curtis, stenographer in
the Office of the clerk of the district
court, leaves today for Portland, Ore,
where she will spend a month.
The case of Fish Allen, accused of
stealing gold watch valued at SO,
from Harry Jennings, will be heard
late this afternoon in the court of To-
peka.
1t is said that neither the state
sregation is satisfied with the phony
game for the baby camp. A game for
blood is threatened.
The people of Highland Park will
hold an all day picnic at Mofitt's
grove in the park on the Fourth. Quite
program of athletic events has been
arranged and a big time is expected.
The tailors are getting in their pic
lures showing winter overcoats that
reach almost to the ShoetopS. The
new overcoats also will be roomy, the
kind you throw on; not the kind you
pull on.
William Sence, city clerk of Wichita
Kan, was a visitor in Topeka today.
He came for the purpose of registering
about $4,000 worth of paving bonds for
the city of Wichita.
Colonel Roosevelt testified in the
recent libel suit that he took a little
brandy and milk before retiring. A
Topeka admirer of the colonel, who
has tried the mixture, says it is some
drink.
The demand for ice cream has ex-
ceeded the supply in Topeka on re-
cent hot days. The demand is enor-
nous, for Topeka produces 100000
gallons of ice cream in the course of
year.
A hint to the notwithstanding is
more peevish to the average husband
than to wake up the morning of the
Fourth of July and learn that you had
forgotten to buy your groceries the day
before.
The Christian Science Monitor, pub
I1shed in Boston, has asked w. D. Nc
d,
pictures of some of the big buildings.
Mr.. McKinistry will comply with the
request.
W. D. Kuhn of Holton, who owns
string of grain elevators in northern
Kansas, and Sam Osterhold, editor of
the Holton Signal, are in Topeka to-
day. Mr.. Osterho1d is candidate for
the Holton postOffice.
A certain curious Topekan is inquir-
ing why gasoline retails at Kansas City
g.. -
at Manhattan for Is cents, but costs
is cents wholesale and 20 cents retail in
the capital city.
Country club tennis fans will en-
terrain tennis players from the Kansas
City Athletic club on the Fourth.
yer cup, for which the two teams play
every year. The Country club has
the cup now.
Charles Kaiser. a defendant. along
with his wife, on the charge of keeping
and maintaining a nuisance, died last
has been dismissed on motion of the
city attorney.
Railroads with local trains leaving
Topeka early tomorrow morning are
hereby warned to be prepared for the
rush of Topekans to the shady spots
in the country and to districts where
the sane Fourth is not known
The 2-cent fare goes into effect in
Oklahoma and Missouri tomorrow and
in Arkansas later. This reduction has
caused additional work in the offices
of the general passenger agents of the
Santa Fe and Rock Island in Topeka
Another baby was brought to the
baby hospital of the U and 1 club at
the Provident association building this
morning. This infant is but two
months old and weighs Il pounds, but
is suffering from summer complaint.
If the Kaws lose the series to wich-
ita, the race at the bottom of the
league between the Kansas tailenders
will be worth travelling miles to see.
The attendance records should jump
unless the Kaw tribe drop too far be-
low the cellar level.
AS predicted in the State Journal
three weeks ago. it is admitted by Off
Gals of the Atchison, Topeka& Santa
Fe railway that earnings for the last
fiscal year will go over the SIZE, 000, 900
mark. This will be the biggest gross
earnings in the history of the road.
T. G. Hopkins has bought the side
of a mountain at Woodlawn Park,
Colorado, and will build "a log cabin
this summer. Jesse Leach of Bartles-
vile, formerly of Topeka, owns the
side of a neighboring mountain on
which he built a cabin last summer.
The police think that they arrested
the wrong man in the Hayden murder
trouble. There are five Williams broth
ers, and one resisted an officer. They
arrested him, but later found out that
it was his brother who was the one
wanted. The five brothers look alike.
Mrs Cora Wellhouse Billiard, a
member of the state textbook commits
Sion has been asked to make sew
eral addresses this summer on the
woman's side of farm life. She will
accept only a few invitations, as her
textbook commission work keeps her
busy.
The two police women have sent
their pictures to a large magazine in
GermanY unOn request. NeMSpaDerS