The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-15
snap SHOTS
AT HOME NEWS.

| The South Side Civic Improvement club
meets tonight at the home of w. J. Rick
enbacher, 1889 Clay street
The Palace Clothing Co. will remain
| open tonight until ten o'clock on account
! or Santa Fe picnic tomorrow.
Hardly suspicion of rain fell on Thurs
DAY IN the vicinity of the end of the
Asylum car line, according to reports
The average attendance at the CONNER
! clal club in the noon hour is seventy as
against more than one hundred in the
| spring.
The engineering department of the San
ia Fe in Topeka has been given authority
| to spend So, 600 on the extension of tracks
| in the shop district.
, The Western Lumber company at SO
East Eighth street, are making a special
OF S475 per thousand white pine lath.
1hese are an extra fine Quality.-Adv.
FROM the amount of parcel post stamps
IN use at the present time it is evident
that Uncle Sam is having a hard time
trying to get rid of the surplus stock of
these mail stickers.
A burning railroad tie at the north end
OF the street car bridge over the Kansas
river occasloned an alarm this morning
There was no damage.
me only other city. in the United States
hours ending at o'clock this morning as
did Topeka was Chicago. At that city
the precipitation was rs of an inch
Santa Fe in Topeka, has been elected to
honorary membership of the Train Dis
patchers Association of America The
honor was bestowed at the last convention
OF the association held in Los Angeles
An operation undergone at St Francis
hospital 10 dt -i this morning by Mrs. W. G.
entirely satisfactory, it was reported
afterward. and she is said to be doing
nicely Her condition is likely to be crit
lcal for several days, however.
The current number of the Santa Fe
! Employees magazine contains an illus
trated article by NJ. H. Haig. mechanical
a n nolf
new locomotive equipment recently pur-
chased by the Santa Fe and explained at
| length in the State Journal some time
ago.
Names which were identical caused
some confusion the court house thus
morning. Joe Holman, white, was want
deputT sheriff, was detailed to serve the
necessary papers. But really there should
as much difference in the two men as
there is between black and white.
Henry b. Lautz, assistant to the general
manager of the Santa Fee who estimated
that it would take many billion gallons
to give kansas a three-inch rain, is in
trouble on account of his estimate in the
State Journal last evening. Since the
article appeared he has been a storm CEN
! ter information bureau on all weather and
rain subjects A man called up on the
telephone this morning and asked him in
all seriousness how much rain it would
take to cover the state house grounds
with a quarter of an inch of water.
A hundred gallons of flies, approx
imately, at a cost of about SIS, has
been gathered by the city sanitary de-
partment from traps in the city. No
computation has been made of the
number of flies represented in the
i mass of insects, but it is likely they
run up into the millions Early in
the season Mayor Coffran offered So
for a peck of flies. He received the
peck post haste. Then he "ducked,"
and the sanitary department took the
matter up and offered IS cents a peck
for them. Several pecks came in, but
the gathering was slow. Then Porter
added another quarter a peck to the
purchase price, and has been receiv-
ing them pretty regularly since. The
collection means a big cut in the num-
Der of flies in the city, and Porter
considers the experiment has been
worth the price at least.