The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-24
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West Sixth street feed store as winter
quarters.
L. c. Boyle, fusion candidate for at
torney general, is in Topeka giving his
voice a rest.
The fence at the fair grounds should
be at least whitewashed before the Re
union begins.
Mrs S. A. Thurston is in Kansas City
today to attend the state meeting OF
the W. c. T. U.
Mayor Fellows and the city council
went to Atchison today to attend the
Corn Carnival.
All the fireworks will be fired during
the big parade next Thursday night on
Kansas avenue.
People who have things to steal
should begin to dodge strange men
with tough looks.
There is just now a dearth of hired
girls. Even Police Matron Thorpe's
list is exhausted.
A Topeka merchant has received a
consignment of 5000 japanese lanterns
for Festival week.
No tin horns must be blown until
Friday night. Then Sergeant Ellison
will lead the brigade.
Work on the state house arch is now
being rapidly pushed. 1t will be COM
pIeted in a day or two.
Now if the weather clerk is as good
to Topeka next week as he is to Atchi-
son today we will be all right.
A broken water pipe at the watering
trough at Second and Kansas avenue
yesterday caused a small lake.
The band contests will take place on
Wednesday and Friday mornings from
9 to u a. m. at the fair grounds.
The government building is the first
in the city to be decorated. The inter-
ior is hung with flags and bunting
Capital council No. 1 of the knights
and Ladies of Security will have a float
in the FAN Festival Flower parade.
With fair weather there is no doubt
that the whole of Kansas avenue win
be in excellent repair for next week.
VIII Charlie Holiday wear his Romeo
and Juliet" ballet costume on Friday,
KarnivaI night? Chorus: oh, Charlie,
dol"
Harper's Weekly will publish pic
lures of the Dragon parade. The
Flower parade will be fully as deserv-
ing.
Judge Hazen sent Thomas o. Condor,
the young man who stole J. r. Film
woods diamond ring, to the reforma-
tory.
Mayor Fellows will issue q, proclama-
ton that all vehicles be kept off Kan
sas avenue during the parades next
week.
The citizens residing in the vicinity
Of Tenth and Topeka avenues have en-
gagged a special policeman for Festival
week.
p. / Bonebrake and T. A. Osborn are
he IN oil of
ing of the American Bankers assoeia-
ton.
The Sam T. Jack shows advance
notices are written in red ink. That's
the kind of a show Sam T. Jack car
rias.
Some good games of base ball will be
seen in Topeka every day next week
at Athletic park. Atchison and Topeka
will play.
The police department has been noti-
fed that a set of single harness was
stolen from 627 Chestnut street Tues
day night.
Over at Leavenworth when the po-
lice board meets and there are no
changes made in the force the papers
speak of it.
Gormly's and Jackson's bands have
been hired by the Committee of Fiji
teen for Labor day of the Fall Festi-
val-Monday.
Every electrician in the city is just
as busy as he can be getting up ilIumi-
nations and light decorations for the
Fall Festival
The Top Notchers,' the young men
employed in the top floor of the Santa
Fe offices, will have a float in the Car
nival parade.
Tom Doran, secretary of the Commit
tee of Fifteen receives on an average Of
200 letters each day. Some of them are
quite ridiculous.
Santa Fe High Rollers is the name
of the club organized in the auditor of
freight receipts office of the Santa F'e
for Karnival night.
w. T. Randolph, late of the Kansas
Christian Advocate will go to Axtel.
where he has a call to fill a Methodist
Episcopal pulpit.
DR.. Nunk of Los Angeles. Cal, who
formerly practiced in Topeka, is visit
ing in this city and will remain until
after the Fall Festival.
viii Haskell goes from Topeka to St.
Joseph, where the society people viii
put on the ladies' minstrel again. st.
Joe is very old fashioned.
The Topeka free silver women will
appear at the Bryan meeting at Ham
ilton hall Friday night and present the
Bryan club with a banner.
Umpire c. NJ. Foulks and Pitcher W.
]. Black are still fussing over the de-
cisions rendered in the Fall Festival
ball game Tuesday afternoon.
The bills advertising the state con-
vention Of ex-slaves held in Topeka this
week advertised among the speakers
Mr.. Mckinley and Mr.. Bryan.
I'm feeling pretty stiff today" said
Jerry Black, but there is one consola-
ton about it, and that is that there are
eighteen more in the same fix"
MarshalFs band of sixty men, the