The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-11-10

qua circle last evening Mrs. Arthur led
! the lesson in French Traits and F. Y.
/ Worden conducted the lesson in French
History.
The membership of the 7. NJ. c. A was
4 increased saturday by the admission OF
4 ten employees OF the Wolff Packing com
pany- Charles Wolff is a director of the
I association
TIaare were twenty-eight cases OF scar
/ let FEVER and tWenty-six cases of diph-
/ liberia in this city during the month OF
/ October. only five of these cases termi-
/ mated fatally
Ex-Polieeman John Wiley now says that
/ he viii surely get up an ex-policeman' $
ball He will announce his committees
/ in a few days A K. Rodgers will lead
/ the grand march.
The date for the SchilIing minstrels at
4 the Crawford Opera House at popular
\ prices has been set for next Monday and
4 Tuesday nights These minstrels former
/ ~ charged a dollar
Topeka people whose consciences tell
! them they are wasting good time playing
/ eastern female colleges whist is taught a 5
| a memory strengthener-
Two Of the uncles of Lieutenant Gov
] efnor-elect Harvey, while brothers and
/ the best of friends. served during the war
/ on opposite sides and were GOOD friends
again after it was all over.
Mrs. M. E Stillson. of 800 North Topeka
\ avenue, who was brought home sick
/ Improving. There is nothing like Kansas
/ climate for Colorado people
Police DIatron Thorpe has been engaged
/ in charity work for over three years and
] yesterday was the first time she ever re-
! EeIVeC q
/ ored person to give to the poor.
Two new cases of scarlet fever have
! been reported to the sanitary officers One
is in the family of Frank Lagerstrom, 40S
! Lincoln, and the other in the family of
( Mr.. Hooper, III West Sixth street
The latest medical and surgical register
4 places the number of doctors in this city
! than o0e-foIlrfh of this humber are maxi
t tie '0''-0' '@''S '''''S y '-'sl -
A Topeka man who heard something
! creeping about his hay NOV hurriedly ran
/ to the house ana procuring nus revolver,
! charged up into the loft to find that the
/ creeping noise had been made by lonely
/ hen
Martin O'Donnel. who is in charge of
! the Santa F'e dispensary in this city, has
returned from Las Vegas. N M where
\ he superintendent the stocking of the dis
pensary in the company hospital at that
/ point
A Jackson street woman covered her
bed of choice plants with an old blanket
| last night to keep them from freezing.
she doesn't care whether the plants freeze
or not.
Miss Brandt, instructor in French and
| German at Bethany left yesterday for
! Alvin Tex, where she viii reside on her
/ large trulU farm Miss Brandt mas Deen
compelled to abandon teaching on account
! of i'll health.
The Committee of Fifteen viii hold its
last meeting on the evening of the 18th.
| There are SIN a good many Vouchers that
have not been called for and # the peo-
pie they are for do not get them they
viii be cancelled
The large Mckinley and Hobart banner
which was stretched across the avenue
in front of the Republican FlambeaD
clubs headquarters, has been taken in
1t VIII be used in the campaign four years
from nOW-maybe-
Mr. A A Hurd's office boy now finds
1 leisure moments each day in which to rest.
During the campaign ne was worked hard
carrying pass applications and passes 70
and from the general managers office
for travelling politicians
One of the very best bicycle riders in
I j. (Ou26I1D.
/ leg. He has an artificial leg but lately
/ he hasn't been wearing it while on his
wheel. He carries a crutch always with
him however, to avoid accidents
Orville Taylor, who has been substi-
| tute fireman at fire station No /, has
/ quit the service. He says that he has
something better in view. TWenty-four
/ hours every ninth day IS the schedule tor
hremen-
Rev. D. D. Boyle. pastor of the First
Christian church in this city, viii attend
/ the convention of the Christian church of
\ feyville today. Rev. Boyle was at one
| time pastor Of the Christian church in
/ Coffeyville.
Chas Newly has been appointed to
/ Wedding appointed member OF hose
/ company No 2 to take the places of the
/ two men, Russell and Miller, recently dis
/ charged. Both new men served as sub
stitute fremen.
At 800 Kansas avenue is a family Of
/ with diphtheria. They are destitute of
]
S. J. Griggs has allowed herself to be
! quarantined there to care for them. That's
/ Christianity for you.
A demented girl named Maggie Nc
Davit of North Topeka, whose father
seems unable to give her the proper
care viii be cared for hereafter by
! North side family at the expense of the
state The charity ladies will have her
adjudged in the probate court.
A woman appeared at the agricultural
museum at the state house yesterday ana
asked to be directed to the place where
! the crazy work was kept The attend-
of an enemy of his upstairs when she eN-
planned that she meant crazy patch
work" The state does not keep a dis
play of crazy patch work
A meeting of the executive board of the
State Historical society VIII be held here
next Tuesday to pass upon the tenth BIZ
/ ennial report as presented for publlea-
ments will also be made about the annual
meeting in January. The committee num-
4 bers 100 but seldom more than twenty at
/ tend these meetings.
A good many Topeka people have never
heard it perhaps but the City library
I viii not allow a book to go into a home
that is afflicted with contagious dis
fumigated before they are returned At
! I.eavenWOrth when a book is caught out
! that way it never gets back. 1t is de-
stroyed and the borrower pays for new
one
Police Sergeant Frank Ellison will
/ probably be a candidate for sheriff next
( fall. But if they can't find a good man
/ for postmaster" he says, I'll take it. %
/ He was assistant postmaster four years
! and in the service thirteen He estab-
/ lished the free delivery system in Topeka
lock UP a drunken woman Saturday night
/ and when he came to question her found
/ that he had served in the war with her
/ father and was one of his best friends