The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-06-14
SNAP SHOTS
It almost failed to rain last night.
AT HOME NEWS.

Dr. E. S; Pettyjohn will be the prin-
cipal speaker at the Methodist ban
quet at Atchison Tuesday night.
Rev. John a. Bright of Topeka de-
! livered a memorial address at the l.
Q. o. F. convention at saltwater Sun
! day.
The cherry supply is nearly ex-
hausted. 1t has been a bad spring
for this favorite fruit in eastern
| Kansas.
The most unpopular man in Topeka
Sunday afternoon was Old Bill Rapps.
| He struck out three times-and men
on bases, tool
The city street department is still
behind in it's work of cleaning streets
and making repairs of damage done
by flood water.
The bank clearings of Topeka last
week amounted to $1,702,0O0, an in
crease of 10.5 per cent over the cor
responding week last year.
The interdenominational camp
meeting closed Sunday night. Rev. A.
S. Clark was in charge of the camp,
which was held at the fair grounds
DR.. w. c. McDonough has moved
his office to rooms 427-S New Eng
land building. Special attention to
stomach and intestinal eases.-Adv.
The dozen silver loving cups which
have been won in Central Y NJ c. A.
contests have been placed in at
tractive new trophy case in the lobby
of the Central building.
The story of d Kansas country mail
carrier is being told all over again
The public a whole is tired and
should be relieved of the details of
the Hornbaker case of Louisburg.
Swarms of mosquitoes have followed
| in the wake of the recent rains.
Water is standing in every low va
cant lot. The bitches near the rural
roads are filled. and it looks like
| more
An everymember canvass was
made Sunday by forty members of the
Third Christian church divided into
teams of two. The idea was to pro-
cure cooperation in the work for the
ensuing year.
DR.. Harry Lyman. driving on East
Tenth street Saturday evening, struck
Euclid avenue. According to bystand-
ers he was driving slowly and could
not see the buggy for a house that is
being moved No one was injured.
Home grown cherries appeared in
local markets last week and were
plentiful for just one day. Rains in
terfered with cherry picking and the
fruit is spelling on the trees. Even
before there was damage from wet
weather, fruit-growers reported less
than half an average crop.
Along scores of pretty streets in
town, Topeka motorists Sunday, saw
| vacant lots and parking bedded with
high weeds. Mulvane street in Elm
full boulevard, is sadly disfigured
through carelessness of property own
ers who live in other parts of the
city.
Following high water, fishing in
around Topeka is reported to be good.
Saturday evening 200 pounds of the
finny tribe were taken from a small
Soldied creek receded. The catch was
made a few miles northwest of the
city.
DR.. Charles NJ. Sheldon, pastor of
the Central Congregational church,
will spend the summer in northern
Michigan, where he will devote his
time in writing new book. He will
take up his work with the church in
sistant Rev. Willis Goldsmith, will act
as pastor.
Many Topekans have discovered
that their roses, both the bush and
the blossom. are infested with mildew.
1.-The cool damp weather is to blame"
said E. F. A. Reinisch. city superin-
tendent of parks. Flour of sulphur
is the remedy. The sulphur dust
should be puffed on the roses with an
air blower
If the wells in East and South To
| peka are thoroughly cleaned, there
will be no danger of n epidemic. &C
cording to DR.. S. J. Crum bine, secre
| tary of the state board of health. The
recent high water of the Shunganunga
possibly polluted the water to some
extent, it is said, but the danger is
minimum.
H. G.. Black, employee of the
Santa Fe. will represent the Third
Presbyterian church c. E. society at
the Worlds Christian End con-
vention at Chicago, July us. He will
| leave this week for Virginia and other
points where he will speak on the big
convention and the work being done
in Topeka by the C. E. societies.
The attendance at the summer
and Quincy buildings where review
work is being done is 266, and there
are 1877 pupils enrolled at the Har-
rison school who expect to complete
| one semester of advance work in eight
weeks This makes total enrolment
! in the summer schools maintained by
! the board of education of ABB. The
| school were opened the week before
| last. The work in all the gra des from
| the fourth A to the eighth a is being
undertaken at the Harrison building,
where five teachers are employed.
! There are nine teachers at the four
! buildings where review work is being
done.
Word was received this morning in
| Topeka of the death yesterday in
| Kansas City of l. D. Flory, manager
of the Kansas. Oklahoma ard Nebras-
ka district for the Court of Honor
lodge. Mr.. Flory has visited Topeka
many times during his long service as
district manager and was well known
among the members of the lodge here.
He was in Topeka last week for con-
ference with local officers and was ap-
| parently in the best of health. The
/ cause of his death was not given in the
message The telegram announcing
Mr.. F'lory's death was received by
John S. linn, chancellor Of the local