The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-24

Three bids for refooring the Kansas
avenue bridge have been filed with the
city clerk.
A little daughter of R B. Gathers on
Lake street has serious attack of scar
let fever.
The Auburn baseball team is to meet
the L. A. A. team this afternoon at Alh-
letic park.
The Rock Island will furnish bag
gage car free 10 carry Kansas exhibits TO
Louisville.
Chief Wilmarth has been at the head
of the Topeka ire department twenty
five years.
Rally" day for the First Presbyterian
church will occur the second Sunday in
September
street, are parents of a daughter born
last evening.
Motorneer Abbott of the Rapid Transit
is Jealous collector of historic and
ancient coins.
A Topeka politician says, "The Peck
boom Tor president is a scheme to pull
some ones leg"
Rev. E S. Fsrrand of the Westminster
Presbyterian church has returned from
his western trip.
After every rain the sidewalk at the
northeast corner of the state house is
covered with mud
w. II. Eastman has gone to Colorado
Springs and will bring Mrs Eastman
home with him next week.
Rev. D. E. Hubbard of Lyndon will
occupy the pulpit of the First Presby-
terrain church on Sunday.
Three different vacant buildings on
lower Kansas avenue display the sign
"Iunch and short order house"
Those who haven't time to look it up
may be pleased 10 know that the word
"creche" is pronounced ''kresh."
Eugene F. Ware and family will re-
turn next Monday from Cascade, Col,
where they have spent the summer.
Mr.. q. Soaring owner of the Rlchland
ArgOsy will move the plant to TINS city
September l and start a job Office.
A Topeka man who bought a $40 acre
farm in the spring for $l2,O0O; has just
been offered $4,000 for naIf OF it.
The officers OF the state reading circle
have completed the programme tOr the
reading circles for the coming year.
The county commissioners will meet
| Tuesday to consider propositions for
putting elevators in the new court house.
A Topeka Irishman said today in de-
| sCElDluR lawn SOCldlS A0 Lawns WSL0
beautifully decorated with magic Ian
terms"
Peaches are so plentiful about five
miles from town that two Topeka boys
| got all they could haul away in a buggy
Tor nothing.
Captain Wintrode says constable's fees
are not like they once were. He says ne
has not made expenses during the last
| four months.
II. c. Wright, formerly of Texas man,
| is here and proposes to start a prohibl-
ton paper to be known as the Kansas
! ProhI bItionist.
The city park is to be filed level with
| Kansas avenue. The work OF filling 1t
has commenced. 1t will take a small
world to do it.
The editor of class paper in Topeka
writes the questions from 'oubscrIber
and Constant Reader" and then sits
down and answers them.
Miss Lucy Lemert, of the Christian
board of Missions has gone to Cincin-
natl. where she has secured similar but
| better paying position.
Fourteen years ago there were twenty
papers in Topeka. Major Hudson and
|. w. Pack are the only editors conduct
ing papers that were then.
A Topeka boy bought a present for
his girls birthday which is a month off.
She got the present before time and now
he will have to buy her another.
A new brick sidewalk will be laid in
front of the Stormont and Collins build
ings on West Sixth street The old
asphalt walks are being removed
DR.. E. Fl. Brumbaugh will preach both
morning and evening at the First NJ. E
church tomorrow aud DR.. Embree will
lead the Epworth League meeting.
c. F. McMillen, the Republican poll
tician of the Fifth ward, has returned
from a two days fishing excursion al
Wakarusa. He succeeded in catching
three nine pound catfish.
1t has just come to light that Under
taker Nike Hogan jumped clear through
his front screen door when the runaway
horse passed his store on lower Kansas
avenue the other evening.
Jailor Disbrow has enough medicines
in his cabinet at the city prison to start
small drug store. When the prisoners
are sick he can furnish them anything
from hot drops to Croton oil.
The electric cars did a hourishine
business last evening during the rain
The plant was shut down for about five
minutes by a lightning fash at $50
The lightning burned out fuse at the
plant
When Sergeant Tim Donovan read the
notice of the fstic bout to be pulled of
at the conclusion of the Modoc MINISTRIES
he left orders that the chief be informed
of the affair. He thought it was to be
sure enough fight
The full crew of the Rock IslanC
Knights Templar train, left Kansas Cit,
last evening wearing the full Knight
Templar uniform, engineer, fireman