The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-28


Even the sleeping porch fans have
little to say these hot nights.
City market specials Saturday,
Booth 1S.-Adv
A Topeka man moved into a new
addition seven years ago and there
wasn't kid in the block. Now, there
are seventeen ranging in age from to
years.
The Women's Benefit Association of
the Maccabees. Topeka Review No. IA.
will hold an ice cream social at the
home of Mrs. Stokes, 625 Tyler. this
evening, July %. Everybody invited.
ADV. rs ~
From the number of candidates evil
dent on the Shawnee county primary
tickets it is believed there is a chance
that the judges and clerks will have
the ballots counted in time for the
general election in November.
Mocking the burning Kansas sun,
in the midst of dead grass and other
vegetation. a pretty, red rose, on the
| south side of Memorial Hall continues
/ to bloom. The remainder of the vege-
tation on Memorial Hall lawn is dead.
1t was rumored in Topeka today
that r. W. Blair, Topeka attorney.
| had broken an ankle during his Eaca-
ton soiourn at Dove Lake, Wyoming.
Mr.. Blair in Topeka. said that he had
heard the rumor but placed little Gre
dence in it.
The employees of the Capper Pub
locations, their families and friends
WEI e the guests of Governor Capper
| this afternoon and evening. Garfield
park was leased for the occasion. Rep
resentatives of the Capper Publica-
tons branch offices In the eastern
cities were present for the picnic.
James Pat" Mulligan. the Oakland
youth, injured in an automobile acct
dent at the Sardou avenue bridge
Thursday morning, is continuing to
improve at Christ's hospital. At the
hospital this morning it was reported
that Muligan has never been in a
| serious condition and that he rested
well during the night.
The Western Union requires its boys
to wear heavy blue jackets that but
ton up around the neck this hot
weather but there is no order cover
ing what the boys may wear while
! asleep at home during the night Sure
ly the great and kind w. u has over
looked a chance to make life more I'M
eomforta bic for the faithful little lads
W. r. Smith, state printer, describes
the best window display he every saw
A clothing merchant in his home town
Columbus. put canopy around the
center. Then he put up a sign. Eff 81
Men Only" There wasn't a man
woman and child who didn't take q
look at the display of mems hosiery
and shoes in the window.
| Most Kansans find 1t hard to re-
press smile when Kansas City is re-
ferred to as "a hotbed of politics" A
| Topeka man remarked the other day
and it has not been disputed. that
there is more politics made and played
in Topeka in one afternoon than there
is in Kansas City in a year. But then
of course, Kansas City has factories
and other business enterprises to be
nursed along.-K. c. Star
The house which was the scene OF
Topeka's most revolving crime IS being
torn down and the house where Edna
Dinsmore was murdered will 40 lcng-
er be pointed out to sightseers w
Thompson, a negro, is tearing down
the building and will use the material
to build himself a house in Highland
Park. Mrs. w C. Glenn of Los An
geles, the owner of the property, is
now in Topeka trying to sell the prop
erty