The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-24

night about o'clock. A small fire was
| discovered in the kitchen and the fire
! department called. No damage was
done.
Mrs. Vim. Hall Jenkins, who for 20
years has been superintendent of the
and Mrs. Henry Reisner is taking her
place.
Chef Crawford has rented the vacant
| lots opposite the Copeland hotel and
viii put up circus seats there to sell to
visitors to watch the Fall Festival pa
rade from.
DR.. Hamilton has donated the use of
| his hall free for the musical and phon-
| ographical entertainment for the bene-
fit of the Floral fund next Monday
| evening.
"NGuskogee" Redmond, the tramp
printer, came to Topeka to attend the
! Fall Festival but has fallen by the
! wayside and will have a five days SEN
| tence to serve.
No toughs or roughs will be allowed
to annoy masquers or injure their cos
| tunes Carnival night without being ar
| rested. The Carnival is to be noisy but
gOod-natured.
The old chemical engine at the North
| Topeka fire station is being decorated
with chrysanthemums, morning glories,
roses and peoples for the Floral parade
next Wednesday.
The big arch at the east entrance of
the state house grounds will cost 1852
instead of S1O2, as announced. If that's
all one costs why can't we have one on
Kansas avenue?
A Topeka woman has a new worry.
ooh, dear" she said today, what if
fire should break out in the little towns
While all their fire companies are in To
pelza next week.
VIM. Taylor, the bicycle man, esti-
mates that there are over 1000 bicy-
cles in use in the city. About 700 are
expected to take part in the bicycle
parade Tuesday night.
in the Firemen's parade Tuesday
morning MarshalI's band will lead, and
there will be three other bands in the
parade, Manifold's, Kansas City First
Regiment and Abilene.
The ways and means committee of
the flower part of the Fall Festival
viii give a musical and photographic
entertainment at Hamilton hall for the
decorative fund Monday night.
The flower committee ladies, and all
other ladies who are willing to, will
spend all day Friday at the court house
making flowers for the parade and dec
orations This is imperative.
At the sham battle at the fair
grounds Friday afternoon an admission
of 25 cents will be charged every one
excepting old soldiers. This is the only
charge during the Fall Festival.
A Topeka man is wondering where
the thousands of people will place
themselves so that all can see the pa
rades next week. Ten thousand can
get good places in State House square.
A P. Riddle, superintendent of insur-
ance, will deliver an address to the A.
O. U. w. members at their hall at 725
Kansas avenue Friday night on the ac-
ton of the recent fraterna1 congress
and its effect on fraternal insurance
Sidney Matheny died Monday at his
home, 40 East Third street. He had
been sick for more than a year, and
prior to that time had been employed in
Kansas City. He was % years of age.
The old steam roller Jumbo" which
has been used in the state house
grounds, was yesterday run into the
city Jail yard for the winter. 1t takes
100 pounds of steam before it can be
moved.
The photographer who photographed
the rival teams of the Fall Festival
ball game struck a bonanza. On an
average each player has ordered ten
pictures to send to his out-of-town
friends.
A telephone pole has been decorated
twelve feet high with asparagus on
Kansas avenue and looks very nice.
Every pole on Kansas avenue should
De treated the same way-or some other
way.
A number of merchants along Kansas
avenue will decorate the telegraph and
telephone poles in front of their stores
with ac0a1,a ey11s farm for Festival week
All should put something decorative on
these ugly poles.
A large number of white horses will
be wanted for the FAN Festival Flower
and other parades. A good many have
been secured but more are needed. Mrs.
". Milliken, who is chairman of the
Flower committee, should be notified OF
any that may be put to use.
The free dispensary operated in con-
nection with the Kansas Medical col
Iege, where the poor of the city can re-
ceive treatment and medicine free, open
ed for the winter this morning. The
hours are from $50 to 10 o'clock in the
morning.
The tough element of Topeka must
be made to remember that Carnival
night is not to be a night of Iawlessness
and that if anything criminal or rude is
done on that night arrest and imprisOn-
ment Will follow just as surely as on
any other night.
At 2 o'clock this morning a still alarm
called the hose company No. 2 ana
Chemical company No. 2 to the base
ment of Jno. F. McManus, at $40 Kan
sas avenue where some boxes had
| caught on fire in some mysterious man
ner. Little damage was done.
Hotel ThroOp, Copeland hotel, Fifth
| Avenue hotel, Parkhurst & Davis, Cul-
yer & Bailey, Prescott & Co., J. W.
Hardt and c. S. Eagle, are the prin-
| cipal contributors to the cash prize OF