The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17

blcycAS oNSE q freshly lald Seet1on OF
asphalt today and melted his tires.
The asphalt was stin hot.
The business men all over town are
busy just now cleaning up and plan
ming window displays and decorations
for the Fall Festival week.
DR.. G. J. Mulvane returned today
from Faribault, Mimi, where he &C
companied his son Paul, who will en-
ter the Shattuck military school.
DR.. Menninger is in charge OF the Of
fee of the secretary of the state board
of health while DR.. kirkpatrick is
spending a vacation in Colorado
Will Haskell has been in Kansas City
two days getting new ideas for the
Karnival knights. He already has a
whole lot of ideas always on tap.
A Topeka young man whose girl
wrote him that his answer could be
spelled with three letters was over
joyed until he found out it was nit"
Even the cigar store Indians are
dressing up for the Fall Festival
Three newly painted ones have appear
ed on Kansas avenue in the past week
The Girls brigade will hold a prac-
tice drill at Representative hall to-
morrow afternoon at 4:3O. All mem
bers are urgently requested to be pres
ent.
George F. Patillo, whose wife resides
in Topeka, died in the Arkansas pen
itentiary yesterday of malarial fever.
He was serving a sentence for for
gerry.
The vitascope will be here during Fall
Festival week. This instrument throws
life size kenetoscOpe pictures on a thir-
ty foot screen. 1t is an advertising
novelty.
Tonight the F'irstPresb yterian church
will hold a congregational meeting to
elect a committee for the selection of
candidate for the pastorate of the
church.
The Taylor street switch on the West
Twelfth street line of the City railway,
which caused the derailmsnt of twelve
cars during the past two days, is being
repaired.
Accident insurance agents who were
trying to sell Chief Gardiner a policy
offered it to him at So thousand. The
policemen were offered it for so
thousand.
The laying of the corner stone of the
Asbury chapel. colored, will take place
Sunday, September 81, at o'clock p.
m. Jackson's band will play. The pub
lie is invited.
Lew Smith, of the passenger depart
ment, lost a 50 buggy whip the other
evening. and with the aid of Detective
ZelIer the thief was captured and the
whip returned
The leaves are beginning to turn
brown and fall in spite of the fact
there has been no frost. 1t is said this
always happens whenever there have
been hot winds.
c. w Caswel1, the new physical di
rector of the Y. M. c. A., is training his
class of leaders. The regular gymna-
sium work will not begin until the FAN
Festival is over
At the funny baseball game to be
played at Athletic park next Wednes-
day will be strictly a revenue venture.
No change will be returned at the gate,
says Tom DOran.
1T won't do to let the electric cars
run on Kansas avenue during the big
parade of Fall Festival week." says
Capt. A. N. Fuller. ''All teams ought
to be kept off, too"
Cards are out announcing the thir-
tieth annual meeting of the Kansas
State Horticultural sociey which will
meet in Topeka at the state house De-
cember 8, 10 and II.
D. G. Kline of MarshalPs band, who
has been in Kansas City finishing his
education as a piano tuner, has re-
turned to Topeka to stay and resumed
his position in the band.
Roy Krebs, who played with Topeka
last year, is playing with his home
team, Atchison, this year. Krebs'
father has been county clerk of Atch-
tson county for p years.
THE Situation; and Work for Young
Men in Topeka" will be discussed at
the o'clock meeting of the Y NJ. c. A.
Sunday. Bruno Hobbs, the Kansas City
10 ryx1aT will address the Yoaafi0or
It is reported that the Keith tract
of 80 acres, adjoining the city of Pot
win on the east, is to be laid out in lots
next spring. 1t will be one of the best
locations for residences in the city.
The Santa Fe general offices will not
close at o'clock on the afternoon of
the Fall Festival ball game as was ex-
pected, but all employees who wish to
attend the game will be allowed to go.
CounciImen Stephenson and Burgess,
who have looked up the water COM
pany ordinance, say that the city will
be compelled to pay for moving the wa
ter mains off the Kansas avenue bridge.
The list in the hands of the Floral
committee shows that $4,000 paper
flowers have been made for the FAN
Festival flower parade. Thousands
have been made by ladies for their own
use.
Little Anna Troutman, daughter of
Lieutenant Governor Troutman, has
entirely recovered from a severe attack
of diphtheria and the residence in
Potwin was fumigated yesterday after
noon.
Two Topeka girls, one of whom draws
$40 per month and the other $50, re-
Gently quarreled over q man who is
drawing a salary of SIS And now the
man in question has shaken them
both.
Rev. G. B. Dalton, of the
Walnut Grove NJ. z. church,
is spending the week in Bald
win. He is a graduate of Baker