The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-01
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Twenty-Five more days 10 register.
Manufacturers on Gage park
track work. Apply to foreman on
job. Topeka Rcilway Co.-Adv
The recent rains have affected the
underflow of the river and helped NIL
the wells at the city waterworks.
E. H. Bunnell. auditor of disburse-
ments of the Santa Fe, has left for
Excelsior Springs to attend a rate
case meeting.
Until the city tax roll Is completed
Miss Mary Anderson, $40 Jefferson
street, will act as assistant in the Of
flee of the city clerk.
The Shawnee county branch Of the
Kansas State Poultry Federation Will
hold a meeting at the Commercial club
quarters Friday evening.
The fire companys oxygen tanks.
exhausted last we :, have been re-
filed in Kansas City and the pulmo-
tor is ready for emergency.
All offices in the city building will
close July 4. Friday will be pay day.
A commission meeting will be held in
the morning at 1880 to approve the
roll.
A West side resident maintains a
fish pond, usually filled with stagnant
water, and the mosquitoes are making
life one long slap and scratch for the
neighbors.
%. jackson of Wichita is report
ed to be recovering from a serious ILL
ness. Mr.. Jackson is president of the
Jackson-Walker Coal company and
has an Office in Topeka.
The fiscal year of the Union Pa
cific, Rock Island, Missouri Pacific
and Santa Fe railroads closed Tues
day. The official reports of the roads
will not be out until fal
Howard Blevins, called the Kansas
Caruso, is singing at the Orpheum this
week. Blevins won the Majestic anna
teur contest last spring and Is well
known in Kansas as baritone.
Carl Carig, an employee OF the
Santa Fee shops, suffered crushed
finger Tuesday afternoon when q
heavy steel pipe on which he was
working fell on his hand. Carig lives
at 1921 East Crane street
The Lowman branch of the w. c. T.
U. will meet at 2:3O o'clock Thursday
afternoon with Mrs. U. q. Irwin. S1s
MIS-. Laura Thorpe will speak on the
need of a detention home in Topeka
Mrs. Marie L. Goran of Los Angeles.
Cal, will be visitor at the meeting
of Topeka lodge No. 81, Fraternal
Brotherhood, this evening. The meet
ing will be held at 112 East Seventh
street. Refreshments will be served
and shor. program given.
On the school property at Second
and Buchanan streets is dense
growth of weeds. Recently the city
officials issued orders that the lawns
in Topeka be kept clean. The time
taken up by this probably caused them
to overlook the city property.
Local Rock Island officials report
that the vacation travel this year is
heavier than usual Extra equipment
has been added to many of the west
bound trains. On some of the trains
as many as three or four coaches are
added to accommodate the vacation
lists.
The new blue auto tags.for 1914 are
in use today. Applications should be
made for new tags at the office OF the
county treasurer in the court house.
where the IS license is paid The
tags will be delivered from the office
Of secretary of state at the state house
where registrations are kept
An inquest over the remains Of Bill
Bryan. who committed suicide by
hanging in the county Jail Sunday, was
held Tuesday afternoon by J. II. Rine-
hart. county coroner. 1t developed no
new facts Of importance but establish
were in no way responsible for the
mans death.
Tho Sunday school Of the Swedish
Bethel church, Polk and Sixth streets,
will hold its annual picnic next Sat-
urday on the Washburn college
grounds A brief service win be held
after dinner, and in the afternoon
various kinds of games and raaoe