The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Take a silver one II you will is
Put it away when you go to bed
Next day it's a dollar still
But a paper dollar increases you'll
find,
For put it away untroubled;
You can look for it in your purse next
morn
And be sure you'll find it doubled"
This is the kind of weather.
Judge Hazen has returned from Colo
RADIO.
Last night was a typical October
night.
Dan Wyatt is organizing Mckinley
Glee club.
A young lady out driving last night
wore fur cape
Mrs. G. G. Gage is convalescing from
a severe illness.
The politicians will own the state for
the rest of the season.
Governor Morrill, will return from
Colorado this afternoon.
DR.. Minney is unable to be at his
office on account of illness.
Nilt Stoker has sold his team of
blacks to a Valley Falls man.
Topeka made only one error in the
game with Independence Saturday.
than a race course for the bicyclists
It is just possible that MarshaIPs
band will not give any more concerts.
Walter N. Allen is to address the
Bryan club at Shorey tomorrow even
ing.
The central committees are now en-
gagged in a poll of the city, county and
state.
Charley Blakesley, sporting editor Of
the Kansas City Times, is in Topeka
today.
By consulting an almanac some one
has discovered that Fall Festival week
will be moonlight.
Mr.. Won DahIen, the tenor, sang a
solo at the Church of the Assumption
yesterday morning.
A. NJ. Harvey, who spoke at Council
Grove Saturday evening, reports an
enthusiastic meeting.
Tomorrow the First Presbyterian
church and Sunday school will have a
picnic at Garfield park.
A remarkable thing about this sum-
mer is that the Sundays have been the
coolest days of the weeks.
Foreman F. L. Gaines, who will have
charge of the work on the bridge for
the contractors has arrived.
Miss Hattie Bssett, one of Shawnee
cOunty's well known teachers, has been
elected superintendent of the Clifton
schools.
The people living in the vicinity of
Wshburn college are agitating the
question of trying to secure a later car
at night.
Each patrolman on the Topeka po-
lice force has to serve eight months of
the year on night duty, and four on
day duty.
Dan Case, who left today for Homo
lulu, was presented with a gold badge
by his lodges No. IL, A. o. U. W., be-
fore he left.
Willie Craig. a 14-year-old boy resid-
ing at 504 East Fourth street, had his
head severely injured by falling from
a horse last week.
Dick Lindsey. formerly of Topeka,
is now managing editor of the Kan
sas City Times with a three years con
tract at a good salary.
a local firm forgot to take their rack
of Mckinley canes in the other night.
They stood out on the sidewalk all
night and were not touched.
All the telegraph and telephone wires
have been removed from the Kansas
avenue bridge and fastened temporar-
lily on the trolley car bridge.
Weather Observer Jennings has pur-
chased a residence in Potwin and will
move his family from his farm in COT
fey county to-this city about Septem-
Der l.
Will Curtis, a Topeka young man
who has been editing a paper at Sc
verance, Kan, is now assisting at the
Republican state central committee
headquarters in this city.
Rev. J. R. J. MilHgan of Allegheny,
Pa, preached at the First Presbyter-
ian church yesterday. Rev. S. B. AL
derson's resignation as pastor of the
church is to take effect next week.
Johnny Outland, the Kansas univer>
sity halfback, and J. c. McCracken, the
Cooper college haIfback, will play foot
ball on the University of Pennsylvania
team this fall. Both are large, power
full men, and speedy.
Mayor Fellows has received a letter
from o. r. Jenkins, an uncle of George
T. Garfield, one of the men who was
killed under a Rock Island car last
week. Jenkins lives in Beulah, Ill, and
will come to Topeka for the remains.
Prof. Frank H. Holder of the chair
Of American history at the Kansas
state university, was in Topeka Satur-
day to confer with the county educa-
tional board with a view to getting his
constitutional history into the county
schools.
Jimmie Brown of Texas, known as
the Galveston Fighter" is here try
ing to arrange for a "go'' up to 100
pounds for any sum in reason. The
tighter" claims the lightweight cham
piOnship of Texas, Arkansas and Okla
homa. He also wrestles.
There was a fight outside the ball
park Saturday afternoon in which PIP
Jordan, a coIored character, and a man
who herds cattle near there. were the