The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-05

WAS there AdlSt week
Now that 1t is all over a Topeka man
who was unable to think OF one before
has discovered a dozen brand new ideas
for q carnival costume.
A large number of the country schools
of Shawnee county were closed last
week to allow teachers and pupils to
attend the Fail Festival
The button craze is growing and so
are the buttons A Topeka man ap-
peared with a Bryan button as big as
an ordinary dinner plate.
Police Omced Richard Won zeller,
mounted on his prancing grey horse.
led the Fort Riley troops out of the
city early Sunday morning.
The Twentieth Infantry band. which
was in Topeka with the regular troops
last week, went back to Fort Leaven-
worth yesterday afternoon
The east side kindergarten which has
moved into the Crawford flats on East
Fifth street is in charge Of Misses Net
tie Miller and Alice Evans.
The repertoire company at the Craw-
ford this week plays a Model Hus-
band which John Dillon himself
played at the Grand last week.
Probably the tD-f~st men in the city
at the close of the week were the troll
ley car men. They each worked on an
average of sixteen hours a day.
The Atchiscn ball team which defeat
ed Topeka once this year and is swelled
up about it is talking of having a spe-
cial car TO travel in next year.
The big ship that Galveston built for
the Fall Festival and Reunion at the
fair grounds cost 81, 500 and was paid
for by Galveston elevator owners.
During the parade of Friday night,
Eddie Moore, of PIG Harrison street,
was thrown down and trampled upon.
His side was bruised considerably
The Topeka railway company win
haul freight and packages across the
Kaw river during the moving and cree
ton of the bridges on Kansas avenue.
DR.. Geo. Pritchard has returned from
a racing circuit in which his trotter,
Phillis T, made q record for herself OF
2:281a, the race consisting of six heats.
The loss of life at the sham battle
at Camp Miles was 50 great last Fri
day afternoon it is said that even the
seats in the grand stand We're in tiers.
If there was ever any better weather
in Kansas than that accorded to To-
peka during her Festival week the old
est inhabitant hasn't remembered it
yet.
The National Ex-Slaves' association
which met in Topeka last week issued
a call for a national convention at Biz
mingham, Ala, for November 1927,
next.
One Of the soldiers of troop K, Sixth
cavalry, which was here last week, is
the son of an aristoeratfc Russian fam
lily and left home on account Of a scan
DIAL
MY idea of heaven" said a Topeka
IA hot
Flower parade repeated at night by the
light of red fire and led by Narshall's
band
There will be nothing at the Grand
this week but there viii be three at
fractions there next week-Mansfield,
Darkest Russia and Twelve Temp
tations.'
Every. camera fiend in town worked
himself almost to death last week. The
big ship the Floral parade. the ''regu-
lars" and private decorations suffered
the most.
A careful canvass of Topeka has re
vealed six men so lacking in patriotism
that they have thus far failed to write
any articles on the money question for
publication.
In all the Presbyterian churches of
the city yesterday out of town minis
ings of the Presbyterian synod filed
the pulpits.
Where there have been both Ben
and Harrison telephones the Harrison
instruments have been removed, and
now all the telephoning is done under
one system.
The Synodical Missionary society OF
the Presbyterian church of Kansas
closed their annual meeting at the
Westminster Presbyterian church Sat-
urday evening
Leavenworth has caught the fever
and will have flower parade with her
apple carnival She began to prepare
for it two weeks ago. What do you
think of that?
The Sunnyside, Pauline and Glover
Hill CONGREGATIONAL churches have con-
solfdated and are building a new taber-
nacIe to be dedicated by Rev. L. P.
Broad, October II.
The latest adherent to the silver
cause is Wun Lung of Topeka laun-
dryman, who is in favor of the free and
unlimited coinage of American silver
dollars. sixteen to Wun-
1t is suggested that if the Committee
of Fifteen has any money left it be
spent in having Topeka's Festival il
Illustrated in eastern papers. In Har-
per's Weekly for instance
The asphalt pavement repairers
kept right on with their work during
the week. Jackson street is now being
smoothed over. and it needed it worse
than any street in the city.
If any Topeka visitor didn't get
enough last week he might have stay
ed over till today and seen the NOV
ing of the biggest bridge in Kansas by
electric power in a few hours.
The Ninde Chautauqua circle win
hold the first meeting of the winter to-
night at the parIors Of the First Metho-
dist church Bishop J. II. Vincent viii
be present and make an address.