The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-15

1tOn hall Friday evening.
Dick Cooley says Topeka is a pretty
good town to live in but it is no good as
a sporting center, They haven't got
the money" says Cooley.
A Topeka man with front office has
whitewashed his stove instead Of black
ing it. sWhitewash seems to be the
order Of the day" he says.
The annual meeting of the First Uni
versalist parish win be held on the
evening Of October % at the home Of G.
J II White, 1717 Buchanan street.
A Topeka young man who is very
I careful in his appearance as he sits
near a window keeps continually on his
! desk a mirror, a brush and a comb.
Charlotte Crane. Miss Lottie Bowes
4 of Topeka, has left the Texas Steer
] company and joined one of the Daniel
7 Frohman companies in New York City
VIII Allen. the horseman, has just
bought a fine bred PAGER, 8 years old,
of Fred Young Of Kansas City He viii
keep him to drive. His name is WINS
l1ers.
Police Latron Thorpe says she is
very careful about giving out things to
poor people and only puts them where
they viii do the most good, not at ran
dom.
Since tight trousers are looming up
in the fashionable distance a good
many Topeka men have taken to rid
ing a bicycle as d means of develop
ment
Farmers are bringing apples into
town by the wagonload. The commits
sion merchants are shipping more APP
pies this fall than they have for several
years
Dr. Brownfeld puts on another com
[ of f0 medicine
today.H . .. Bradley of Topeka. viii
manage them and they open at Car
bondale.
Tenth and Taylor streets has a ghost
Tt appears at the windows late at night
and frightens the women. A special
policeman has been employed to arrest
it on sight.
General Bradford's Fall Festival Zou-
ayes have decided that they viii be-
come a permanent organization. Good.
The boys are a fine looking body Of
young men.
When the song book man began to
announce his wares last night at the
I opera house an attempt was made to
4 shout him down but he persisted and
/ was successful.
General Paul Vandervoort, president
/ Of the National Reform Press associa-
ton, Will address, the Tom Watson
meeting at the Grand Opera House
I Friday morning
The Kansas Avenue Methodist church
4 observes next Sunday, October 18. as
4 cold Folks Day" An interesting pro
gramme and appropriate decorations
are being arranged
When a crowd of chorus girls strike
town they Immediately Took at all
the dry goods stores but they never buy
I anything, the clerks say. Poor things,
i they can't afford to-
Elma NJ Thomas has commenced suit
for divorce from her husband. j.
Thomas, to whom she was married in
1894. She charges that he abused and
then abandoned her.
The Devils Auction" was as good as
usual last night and had many new
features but not many people saw it,
THE Devils Auction" has ceased to
/ pack Topeka houses.
] This may settle an often discussed
/ question. The Grand Opera House viii
seat comfortably 1000 people The
/ Crawford viii seat LOO. Now, remem-
( Der this in the future.
1t is surprising how many poor peo-
pie, movers and the like. happened to
be just coming by Topeka in time for
/ the FAN Festival and are now unable
to get out of town again
/ 1t is often suggested that Police Mat
ron Thorpe who does charity work.
should have an Office, but the city cant
furnish her one as the charity work is
not one of her official duties.
Weather Observer Jennings says that
the business portion of town is always
on an average four degrees warmer
than the residence part This is due to
the pavement and buildings
rr+1+o,, -.F +1,ss, nm
tend the state irrigation congress at
Great Bend, viii bring back a quantity
of soil from that part of the state with
which to make irrigation experiments.
"a Topeka girl who did good work for
the Fall Festival Flower parade is to
marry a Carbonate young man sun
day. The Topeka boys are not doing
the right thing to let her get away like
that
A Santa Fe switehman, who entered
the Santa Fe hospital yesterday on ac-
count of illness. left for his home as
soon as he found that he would have to
remain in the same ward with a col
cred boy.
Topeka didn't bow down in wonder
and JOY to Wade Watts, the returned
prize fighter. last night. Not more
than half a dozen were at his entertain
ment at Hamilton hall, and it was
called off.
Two of the star attractions Of the
high school lecture course this season
are Win Carleton and the Sherwood
Concert company 1t IS possible that
Miss Celeste Nellis may appear with
the latter company.
Inspector Farnsworth has examined
the scales Of all the coal dealers in To-
peka. q Of them, and found them all
very close to actual weight. Last year
some were very short and got a lesson
they will remember.