The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-17

committee appointed at the meeting
Thursday night
Mayor Fellows, A. K. Rodgers and
Tom Doran are opposed to a carnival
night with next years festival What
did somebody do to them last carnival
night? Kansas City has abolished her
carnival; Topeka can be decent and
catch the crowd.
A Topeka real estate agent says that
good houses are becoming scarce in the
city proper. This he attributes to the
fact that many persons rent houses in
the suburbs during the summer, but
move in nearer to the business portion
of town in the winter
The cigarette habit seems to be on
the increase among Topeka tops. Dur
ing the evening at parties the youths
sneak up to the dressing room and
smoke a coffin nail;' then come down
smelling bad A cigarette smell is
just as bad as an onion
A Topeka man who has Travelled be-
tween Topeka and Kansas City on the
Santa Fe plug for years, says that the
Kansas river fogs this fall are far more
dense than those of any previous years
Curfew must not ring-Ha1loween. At
least not until midnight.
Two of the supreme officers of the
Knights of Columbia viii be in Topeka
hereafter. They We're elected at the
national meeting at Wichita yesterday
and are DR.. J. c. NcClintock, supreme
medical director, and George W Reed,
chairman of the board of control.
Joe Waters once went out on the
street and had fight with a man in
which they both threw rocks and were
arrested and in ten minutes he was
back in his office writing the words for
a Memorial Sunday song that was to
be sung in the Congregational church
the next day.
Miss Caroline Lockhart of the Boston
Post, formerly of Topeka, viii be in To-
peka over Sunday She is on her way
to Boston after a visit with her parents
at Eskridge. Miss Lockhart is a spe-
cia1 writer of considerable reputation
and has even been sent to Europe in
the interest Of her paper.
Dr. Mitchell believes that he has at
last discovered perpetual motion. On
Monday of Festival week he secured
a large tumble weed and hung it by a
cord from the center of the ceiling of
his office. Since that time the weed
has been in a constant state of circular
motion, and the doctor proposes to see
just how long it viii continue so.
The family of NJ Temple, colored.
who died yesterday, wish to have a cor
rection made as to the time and place
of funeral The funeral viii be held
tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock instead
of this afternoon, at the Thirteenth
Presbyterian church instead of the
Fourteenth Methodist church. It is al
so stated that he died of heart trouble
and not consumption
Topeka viii see what the east has
been spending money on lately, Mon
day night-a vaudeville performance
Vanity Fair" which viii be at the
Grand at that time, opens with a bur
letta which is followed by an oliO and
is almost one string of specialties of
all kinds, from dancing to acrobatic
and eccentric to say nothing of song
The press agents advance notices
name 10 speciality people as with the
company
This months Metropolitan has an
elaborate four page interview with
Mrs. Lease of Kansas and with it are
five good pictures in different poses. It
says of Mrs. Leases face: 1T is pale,
pensive and what the French call, dis
trait; the heavy white lids drOOp over
a pair of sleepy blue eyes; the mouth
is tender with something of a quizzi-
cal turn at the corners; the high, broad
forehead appears almost too weighty
for the delicate white face What do
you think of that?