The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-16

The Potwin schools are taking care
Of a destitute family in Auburndale,
consisting of a mother and seven
small children.
The most up-to-date man in Topeka
is said to be a chorister in one Of the
first churches because he is always
beating time"
Thick soles on the shoes are becoming
fashionable. This is probably the first
time on record that fashion and sense
ever got together.
The case against Frank AIileham for
embezzling money from the Topeka
postohice was continued at the Leaven-
worth term this week.
Charlie Worran. son Of the artist,
says that he was married a short time
ago but his friends think he is spring
ing huge joke on them.
w. H. Culp, d. c. Naylor and Ernest
Meuller went to Hutchinson yesterday
to attend the annual meeting Of the
Legion Of Select Knights.
Ex-Chief Justice A. H. Horton win
preside at the jubilee of anasthesia at
Library hall tonight Chief Justice
Martin is out Of the city.
Bill Culp of Topeka, is in Hutchinson
this week attending the national meet
ing of the Select Knights. A. o. q. W.
He is a Kansas delegate.
The rush line of the Washburn col
1ege foot ball team is cOnsiderabl
weakened by the accident in which A
J. Newton's leg was broken.
Arrests by the police are few and far
between. The Fail Festival was too
much for the bad people. They haven't
any money now to be bad on.
There was another small disturbance
terday when two colored politicians en-
gagged in a political argument.
Secretary CottreI went to Leaven-
worth to the Y M g. A. convention
this morning. and half a dozen or more
railroad delegates viii follow later.
A Topeka real estate firm has just
sold a house to an old soldier from Blue
Lick, No, who came to Topeka to at
tend the Reunion and Fall Festival
Professor Harshbarger and a delega-
ton from Washburn college left this
afternoon for the Pottawatomie Indian
reservation to attend the Indian dance.
Secretary Coburn Of the State Agri-
cultural society reads more papers and
makes more addresses probably in the
course of a year than any other Kansas
man.
Topeka shoe merchants say that their
heaviest sale this fail has been on
shoes with a wide extension sole.
Some cork soIed shoes are being sold
also.
The Dragon of the Ages has been
skinned. His hide is drying on Prof
Worran's back cellar door and his
bones are bleaching in the autumn
sun.
Vanity Fair" which is to be at the
Grand Monday night is one of the three
attractions owned by Gus Hill, the
champion Indian club swinger Of the
world
Fred AIcGif1n has given up his posi-
ton as clerk in Payne's shoe store and
has been put in charge of the shoe de-
partment recently established at Cros-
by Brothers
In Mrs. N. l. Laubach's room at Polk
school the pupils have brought pictures
Of Mckinley and Hobart, and Bryan
and sewam, and they have been hung
on the wall
At a recent society wedding a lot OF
society girls who had not been invited
resolved themselves into a peeping So
ciety and standing outside peeped in at
the windows.
Rudolph Blankenburg, who spoke at
Hamilton hall last night has just
enough of the German accent to make
his speech attractive. He is witty and
entertaining
a new kind of candy has appeared on
the local market which looks like a
mixture of taffy and other sugar can
dies mixed UP together and broken into
irregular pieces.
simon Greenspan today has the num-
Der Of o. M b. members in Shawnee
county greater than the entire number
,7-,1fo the country Simon
is great Simon.
The Pottawatomie Indians on the
government reservation near HOyt are
now engaged in their annual ring
dance and many Indians from other
tribes are present.
Charles a. EIagaw, who has been
studying law in the office of Ferry &
Doran. will leave for Lawrence Mon
day. where he will enter the state uni
versity law school
A Santa Fe office young man who has
not been doing society the past year
has been paying old hack and florists
bills. He says he will never get into
debt again-maybe.
Talk about luck; a Topeka young
man with a laundry bill to pay and no
way to pay it ran over a IS gold piece
with his bicycle yesterday afternoon.
He went back and got it.
A Topeka boy who was following the
hose truck No 2 to the fire in Park
dale yesterday picked up a nozzle
which dropped off the apparatus and
carried it to the fire on his bicycle
The Santa Fe officials have finally de-
cided that the explosion of engine 85S
at Peterton, kan, was due to steam
Nothing was found in the investiga-
ton to warrant the dynamite theory.
Charles Cohen, who used to play with
Marshalls band, is now playing in an
orchestra at Cleveland, o., and has
written a march, pride of the West"
which he has dedicated to OIarshalfs-
The Fall Festival Flower parade