The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-18

A Topeka man knocked another man
down today and then apologized for 1t
as he helped him up. Il had to do it, .
he said; When you talked to me that
way"
The Topeka Railway company has
! taken on extra men for Fall Festival
week. They got some practice yester-
/ day in handling the Modern Woodmen
! crowd.
It will look magnificent when the
Muscovites appear in one of the night
parades dressed In their fancy COS
tunes. A little red fire will heighten
| the effect.
Miss Jennie Kungle, formerly a Shaw
/ nee county school teacher, was married
/ in Kansas City to Benz. Glaper of
! Vienna, Austria, and will live there
| hereafter.
The board of KarnivaI Knights de-
MES that the Carnival button is any
| thing but innocent in its intentions.
The "R. H. they say, simply means
Roll High"
The biennial reports of the different
departments of state are occupying the
! attention of the state printing office.
/ The auditors report of $50 pages is now
in the press.
! AL Hopkins had a dream the other
/ night in which he thought that he and
Detective Zeller were running after
someone, but he awoke much weakened
| by the shock.
Tom Doran, who graduated from the
Kansas State university at Lawrence
in 1888, says that when he entered
school there the boys never INDUCED
in ''kag'' parties.
A Topeka girl who couldn't stay on
saw horse if she was tied on has had
her picture taken in a riding habit, cap,
whip and all to send to her former
! home in the east.
Police Matron Thorpe says that there
is a family at Is State street which is
in great need of clothing and small
funds The mother gave birth to
child five days ago.
The same boys and the same girls
are going up the same streets to school
this winter that they did last but the
girls wear longer dresses and the boys
wear longer trousers.
A barefoot boy whose curiosity got
the best of his judgment tried to cross
a freshly patched piece of pavement
| today. 1t was a case Of ''hotfOot' and
he won't do it again.
Complaint is made that the trolley
line crossing at Twelfth street and To-
peka avenue is in very bad condition
for vehicles and should be leveled be-
fore the Fail Festival.
The Fort Leavenworth band appear
ed in the parade yesterday but nobody
knew what band it was. It didn't even
have it's name on its drum head. 1t
was a mighty good band.
Chief Marshal Fuller and Col J. w.
F. Hughes who will have immediate
charge of the Flower parade, will meet
with the general committee of ladies
next Monday afternoon
Mr.. Jennings said yesterday it would
rain today and it did. Mr.. Jennings is
not so capriciOus as he used to be be-
fore his family moved to town. He
keeps his promises better.
Through some error the float in the
NJ. w. a. parade yesterday was credit
ed to Sunflower camp, No. $50. The
float really belonged to Shawnee camp,
No 1000, and was all right.
A Topeka man complains that he
never goes by a shoe store that every
employee of the store doesn't look at
his feet and if there is one thing he is
sensitive about it is his feet.
1t was decided at the meeting of the
general committee of ladies yesterday
afternoon that the Topeka and Kansas
floats should have the first selection of
flowers for the gatling guns
One electric car is kept in the paint
shop at the electric railway barns all
the time II taxes SIX Weeks 10 paint
one of the cars, and as soon as it is
finished another car is run in.
Gen. J. w. F. Hughes says that mill
tary companies from Manhattan,
LeavenwOrth and Osborne have notified
him that they will be here for the Re
union, and more are expected.
Poor joke by a good Republican:
Judge Hindman, who is running for
judge of the appellate court on the
Populist ticket, will find after election
that his is no case of misnomer."
Pick Smith has returned from his
summer outing. He did not fish much
this time. He says: wait till some
one gets one as large as mine and then
I will turn in and see what I can do
Paddy PurteH of Kansas City, the
young man who has gathered some
fame as a prize fighter, will be in To-
peka Festival week and give fstic ex-
hibitions in a tent at the fair grounds.
The Mckinley club of first voters
have the best uniform yet. They will
wear gold coIored hats, gold coIored
busters and carry Mckinley canes.
They will look like minstrel parade.
Major Anderson says that he has
fixed every weather prophet in this
part of the country in reference to Fail
Festival weather except ri. R. Hicks |
He is now corresponding with MI
Hicks.
An unsuspecting man named White |
gave Peter Watson a $50 bill yesterday
to buy a pint of whisky with, but Peter |
never returned, and the unsuspecting |
man appealed to the police department |
for help.
Three styles of badges for Fall Fes- |
tival week were adopted by the Com |
mittee of Fifteen last night. One is for |
the members of the committee, one for |
the executive committee of the G. A. R., |
and one for the press.