The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-22

eA-AADIAc-AACG - LGoIIy TO make q QUICK run
to the grounds on the first call.
Kansas university at Lawrence will
probably give next week as a holiday,
for there viii be a vacation of nearly
all the students from the town.
Dr. BrownfeId is in town again and
is looking better and more prosperous
than ever. He gave the Committee of
Fifteen SO for the Fall Festival.
The singing of the Topeka Turn
Verein at the Hamilton hall concert
last night under the direction of Prof
Won Dahlen, was loudly applauded.
1t is said that several Atchison men
will bring a big crowd and an excur-
sion train with the big Atehison band to
the Fall Festival on Carnival night
Doniphan, a little town of 800 people
in the northwest part of Kansas is try
ing to send bigger band to the Atchi-
son carnival Thursday than MarshalTs.
Chief Gardiner receives many letters
from persons in Kansas towns asking
his permission to exhibit various and
variegated freaks during the Fall Fes-
tivaL
Mrs. c. S. Sutton, who is managing
the Flower parade might be called tie
Mrs. Potter Palmer of the Fall Festi-
val. Mrs. Sutton has great executive
ability.
Two of the firemen of No drove out
north of the city yesterday and cut
wagon load of asparagus which will be
used by them for decorating the fire
apparatus.
A covered wagon passed through
town eastward bound this morning
labeled Mckinley and Sound Money
It was the only gold standard man left
in Colorado.
Israel Lindblad, whom Dick Ward
shot while the former was in Wards
orchard, has got we'll and is building an
addition to his home at 401 Buchanan
street to cost $3.50.
The Committee of Fifteen should
make no mistake about seeing that the
Topeka Fall Festival and Reunion is
thoroughly advertised at the Atchison
Carnival Thursday.
A girl of IA begs on Topeka streets all
the year round for money to have her
mothers eyes treated. Mrs. Thorpe says
| the mothers eyes are never treated.
| They are beyond repair.
The badges of distinction to be worn
| by the women of the Fail Festival
! Floral committee will be white silk
| ribbons with the words Floral Com
mittee' printed on them in gold.
People have been worrying about
having 100 arc lights on Kansas avenue
during the Fall Festival. What's the
matter with having 100 steam radiators
in case these chilly evenings continue?
( The Edison Electric Lighting COM
pany now says that unless it can sell
| 20 more lights for use during the Fab
| Festival for street illumination it win
declare the bargain off and won't put
up any.
The Ladies' Floral Committee of the
! Fall Festival urgently requests that all
(
| longing to the committee will be sure
and leave it at the court house Wed
| nesday afternoon.
It has not been announced but at
least two or three of the carriages that
will enter the Fall Festival Flower pa
rade will be decorated with real flow
ers. One will be decorated with roses
at So per dozen.
A proposition has been received by
the Committee of Fifteen from the
Horton Flambeau club to appear in To-
peka during the Fall Festival 1t will
probably not be entertained.
John Dillon, who is to appear at the
Grand four nights of Festival week will
open Monday night with Wanted the
Earth and will repeat it Wednesday
night. Tuesday and Thursday nights
he will play "A Model Husband
people want our Dragon of Ages for
their parade. Topeka will be done with
it by that time. A member of the Kan
sas City committee asked Will Haskell
to see the Topeka committee about it.
Jas. A. Winters, who lives near Sill
yer Lake, gave a dance at his residence
Saturday night and Byron Palmer with
two companions broke it up. Yester-
day Winters and Palmer were arrest
ed, and Justice Furry will hear the
case.
The ladies of the ways and means
committee of the Fall Festival Floral
parade will give a vitascope entertain
ment to raise more money and will wait
to give it one night during the Fall
Festival when there are plenty of peo-
pie in the city to see it.
PatroIman Long has not been sus-
pended from duty pending his investi-
cation. The police board will investi-
gate the matter and if the case war
rants it, will discipline the officer. 1t
is thought, however, that it is simply
a neighborhOod quarrel.
1t is believed that if MarshaITs band
should attempt to play a concert when
John Sargent, the contractor was not
! in the audience the instruments would
refuse to work. If you see Marshalls
band anywhere you can look close
around and find John Sargent.
Patrolman Longs number is 10. He
| says that since he was given that num-
Der he has lost a fine revolver, shot a
man and now a neighbor has preferred
/ charges against him to the police
| board. There ought to be no No 10.
| A force of men was put to work this
morning decorating the inside of the
! postoffice building for the Fall Festival.
| The outside will be decorated later. The
windows are being draped and the pill