The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-11

mornings. but won't admit that it is.
| is a barefoot boy.
The playful attempt Of some women
under 80 to appear afraid of the curfew
is really pathetic
Five dollars worth of stamps were
used by the board of education during
the month of August.
The Flower Committee women clear
ed s7375 on their Kansas and To
peka'' voting contest.
Judge George W. Clark his gone to
Wichita to be present at the dedication
of the Masonic home
A stranger passing the county jail
might conclude that it was a school for
youths instead of a bastiIe.
The season is over at Garfield park.
The electric lights. Of which there were
eight, have been removed.
There are almost fifty different COM
mittees and subcommittee at work on
the FAN Festival and Reunion.
The Street Railway company has
moved its Office TO a room in the Y. NJ.
c. a building on East Eighth street
Mrs. T. E. Bowman delivered an en-
Pertaining lecture on kindergarten work
at the Y. W. c. T. L. meeting yester-
day.
The prelude to the Fall Festival and
Reunion souvenir IS being written by
Eugene Ware and is described by Tom
Anderson as a 10 dandy"
Jailer John Jones' brother, George
Jones, lives at OskaIoosa and is known
as the richest colored man in the state.
He is a free silver advocate.
A Topeka man got up from a BARRIERS
chair half shaved last evening and
rushed out on the street in order to not
miss a dog fight that was going on.
Robert Stanley, the chicken thief who
was shot by farmers south Of town has
been released from jail. His place as
trusty has been given to Logan Justice.
The janitors at the city schools will
be allowed a weeks salary for their
work of cleaning up the buildings for
the beginning of the city schools next
Monday.
After considerable urging to do some
thing the county commissioners decided
to offer the Fall Festival committee S25
in cash. 1t was refused with becoming
hauteur
So many sidewalks are being built in
different parts of town that the women
folks are compelled to stand guard with
brooms to keep their carpets clean since
the rain.
An important church meeting was
called for O'Clock a. m. recently and
the men were late and came in rubbing
their eyes.
The town 1oafers have dropped the
money question for a short time while
they superintend the work being done
on the Kansas avenue pavement near
Ninth street.
A supply of Te1ler's speech, entitled
Revenue Not the Remedy" has been
received by the silver Repu blican COM
r1iftaa and will E1a AfS+rib11fa5
paign literature
Major Anderson, who made a special
trip to st. Joseph for the purpose, says
he has arranged with Professor Foster
for good weather during the Fall Fes-
tival and Reunion.
THE Columbian building may be a
healthy place said q smart man today.
but as long as Observer Jennings re-
mains in the top story its occupants
viii be under the weather"
We've done something what viii
send US to the reform school," said one
Of the colored boy thieves as they were
taken from Justice Growers court. They
guessed pretty nearly right
Seventeen cents worth of gas was
used in the high school building during
the month of August. So. you see the
Topeka Gas company is not like those
IN other cities. It's honest.
A Topeka woman who dreamed re-
Gently that she and Queen Victoria
were chums has since refused to asso-
ciate with any other neighbors, some of
whom are even Santa Fe Office people.
Afarshall's band objects to the insinua-
ton that it is practicing waltzes and
two steps for the ball tonight It
doesn't have to practice anything It
plays Wagner at sight, also out of
sight.
Miss Eva NJ. Hoadley. who was a To-