The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-14
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The Topeka Equal Suffrage associa-
ton will meet at the Throop next
Thursday afternoon to elect officers for
| next year. The association now num-
| Der three members of which Mrs. s A
ThurstOn is believed to be one and Mrs.
L. Q. Case the two Others
I'VE have a large number of inquiries
daily" said Assistant Postmaster Eu-
gene Wolfe, from people in Kansas
| and adjoining states wanting to Know
the dates of the Fall Festival" The
dates. are Monday, September %, to
Saturday, October 3, inclusive.
Capt. John Seaton's theatrical judg-
ment is better than people had expect
ed. ssTennessee's Pardner'' was fully
as good as the average attraction of its
kind. Charles B. Hawkins as "Gewil-
lil1er Hay a very lazy man OF remem-
brances, was particularly good.
Chaplain John A. Bright returned to
Topeka yesterday. He has been absent
a. week doing campaign work in COM
pany with Roswell G. Horn, now OF the
New York Tribune. He went to Bald
win this afternoon to join John J. In
gals in a meeting there.
A Topeka man who has been married
IOT 11NG years anu WHOSE W44C has OC~AA
away for two weeks is fixing up the
house and making as much fuss about
her home coming as though she was
just coming to marry him, and there
is loud applause from the women.
Three second hand dealers, Dan
Cohen, w. T. jerks and A. H. Prussle
were hauled up before Police Judge
Ferry Saturday evening and severely
reprimanded for violating the ordi-
nance requiring them to keep a record
of all their transactions. They prom
ised to do better.
Miss Cecil England, Louis He'll, Hor-
ace Swayze, Frank Curry, Clarke
Swayze and Tom .Corwin, high school
classmates of the January class of '95,
will attend the university this year.
This class sends six out of fourteen
members and claims the record for uni
versity attendance.
Those pretty band calls that Mar
shalPs has developed lately were
sprung here by Taylor, the new cor
netist. One of them was encored yes
terday, which is probably the first case
on record of a band call being encored.
The Gounod overture which was one of
the first things played this season,
didn't get a hand"
Major Henry StillweII of the Saliva
with headquarters at Kansas City, will
visit Topeka post next Thursday. A
special meeting will be held that even
ing at one of the churches, at which
two little children will be dedicated to
the army. They are the boy and girl
of Private Rushon of Topeka.
Ophie Wheeler, one of the colored
women of Smoky Row, was stricken
with heart disease as she was leaving
the police court Saturday evening. 1t
was twenty minutes before she recov-
cred sufficiently to be taken home. She
had just been discharged for fighting
Mrs. Tod Johnson, one of her coIored
friends.
The matter of wires on the streets is
seriously agitating the Fail Festival
parade committees. Most of the floats
now being built are too high to pass
under the lower wires and it will cost
several hundred dollars to raise them
Men with poles can lift these wires sew
eral feet during the parades, but this
will not be enough for some of the
floats.