The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-19


cause dtphtheria.
The Grand Opera House chart this
year will be at Rowley's drug store in
stead Of at Sims.
Mrs. T. Dwight Thatcher, who is SER
iously i'll with nervous prostration, is
at Christ hospital.
The doctors Of the city are laying in
a supply of bandages and arnica for
FAN Festival week.
Charles Adams of the press commit
tee, has just sent out the last notices
Of the Fail Festival.
Miss Lizzie Young of Washburn col
1ege is convalescing from a severe at
tack of typhoid fever.
The Topeka voters have but little
more than half registered. There are
still thirty days left.
The Sons of Hermann will give a ball
at their hall on Kansas avenue near
Third street tonight.
o. A. Pier, now chief dispatcher of
the Rock Island at Harrington, visited
in the city yesterday.
A woman by the name of Bright who
lives in North Topeka, is the mother
of seventeen children.
Will Haskell pronounces it "ca'ni-
val,'' which is probably correct, though
Webster doesn't say so.
There are already twenty students
entered in the graduating class of the
Kansas Medical college.
It is said that there is a large number
of counterfeit quarters and half dollars
in circulation in this city.
Billy Sterne is in Sedalia, Mo, tax
ing care of his father-in-law, D. c.
Metsker, who is seriously i'll.
The city electric lighting is run on
the superstition that these nights are
moonlight, but they are not.
It is popularity supposed that ''Lor-
ina is really Tony Brown. That ref
erence to Jake Smith is a joke.
1t is to be hoped that persons owning
baby buggies will keep them off the
sidewalks Fall Festival week
Ex-Councilman Fulton, who was hurt
a year ago in a runaway accident, has
lost 40 pounds in weight since.
Mrs. Lucille Baker is to lecture at sew
eral places in Kansas this winter on
Woman in Newspaper Work.
Miss Esther Fee, who made hit in
Chicago as a violinist and has gone to
Paris. is a Fort Scott, Kan, girl.
The city force will be put at work
cleaning up streets and allies next
week for the Festival and Reunion
Topeka young ladies are talking up a
swell leap year party. That's so; it
is leap year; getting late, though.
The ladies of the First Christian
church had a peaches and cream So
ciaI last evening in the Keith block.
This is the thirteenth consecutive
summer that A. L. Williams and fam
lily have spent at Colorado Springs.
This is the anniversary of President
Garfield's death and Lincoln post G. A.
R., will hold a memorial this evening.
Young Fred Waters, son of Capt. J.
G. Waters, is one of the most radical
gold standard Republicans in Topeka
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon will com
mence the reading of his sermon story
October 4. 1t is entitled In His Steps,
David Sewers, who has just returned
from a summering in Denver and Col
orado says Colorado is for silver all
over.
The Leavenworth papers are the only
ones in the state saying mean things
about the Topeka Festival and Reun-
ion.
The Washburn Reporter, published
by the Washburn News company, will
make it's first appearance next Wednes-
day.
Miss Louise Mills, who is known in
Topeka, was married this week at
Leavenworth to c. c. List of Kansas
City.
Railroad employees in this city have
been thoroughly supplied with gold
standard literature by the Railway
Age
The registration books will close Oc-
tober "a. There are yet about 5000
voters in the city who have not regis
tered.
John Flynn, an insane man who es-
capped from BedwelFs asylum two
weeks ago, has been captured at
Dover.
Jesse Elliott and Geo. NJ. Seward are
now in the mountains of Colorado on
hunting trip. They are IS miles from a
railroad.
The decorative craze has struck
everybody. A Topeka man who has
wooden leg will decorate it for the Fall
Festival.
The special Karnival song the Mo
does sung last night was written by A.
A. ROwley, between supper time and
the meeting.
A colored orator who holds forth on
the street occasionally insists that he
has made at least six ''convicts'' for the
gold cause.
Rev. S. B. Anderson left Topeka yes
terday. He will preach in Indianapo-
lis next Sunday and will remain there
three weeks.
A Topeka young man who falls asleep
easily has several times narrowly es-
capped being thrown Oft street cars at
sharp curves.
Some of the young ladies who expect
to appear in the Fall Festival eques-
TRAN parade are riding evenings to get
UP in their art.
Some time ago a Topeka man bought
a STRENGTHENING horse of a, mover for
81. The horse has been fed well and is
now worth $40.