The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-23
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| a stove today
J. K Jones is moving his store to sos
| Kansas avenue
Judge Hazen Is hearing minor motions
| in the district court
A B. Whiting is painting his residence
at Fillmore and Eleventh streets.
| Tom King will matricuIate at the kan
sas City Dental college in the fail
| The new Fail Festival window hangers
| are expected today. They are beauties
| Marc Robbins will leave in about two
| weeks to begin rehearsaIs for next season
| At the present rate of work the sewer
| in district IS Will be completed in few
| days
ness connected with the waterworks case
| there.
Bethany college is having house clean
ing and getting ready for the opening or
| school.
Edward Wilder has given Edward
Stephens a scholarship in the Industrial
institute
Mr.. and Mrs. F. J. Lynch Of 1906 FIJI
more street. are the parents of a boy,
born yesterday.
The grocers and butchers of the city
will meet Monday evening to arrange for
their big picnic.
Mayor Fellows is convalescing from
| severe attack Of stomach trouble, and is
now able to be out
Mr.. Alvin Wick has taken a position in
the Gunther drug store at the corner of
Sixth and Jackson streets.
The hearing in the stockyards case be-
fore Judge Clark is at last finished. The
attorneys each talked a day.
Some stores where soda. fountains are
in -T1
chimes. all of different make.
]. NJ knight has returned from St
Louis While there he purchased four new
Berlin coaches and a new hearse-
Mr. Irving Doolittle. manager of the
Throop hotel. has returned after a visit
at his old home in New Hampshire.
A lady who was in the dressing room at
Cinderella last night, tainted Fresh
air and a sprinkIing of ice water restored
her.
Yesterday wher the fire alarm was
turned in Chief Wumarth did not wait to
hitch up his horse, but rode to the fire on
hose truck No >
T. W. Dorm. manager of the Junction
City base ball team, has asked for dates
with the Topeka team at JUNCTION City,
August 1. ? and 3.
The Jubilee association which las or
ganized to celebrate Queen victoria's
jubilee in Topeka has given the Saliva ton
Army hospital $50.
Five candidates were initiated into the
mysteries of the Triple Tie Benefit assoc
citation. at their meeting held at Lincoln
Post hall this week
Dr. Long is confined to his home on &C
count of injuries received by being thrown
from his buggy while returning from the
Cinderella performance
Although Cages lake is closed to the
public this year, Mr. Gage has issued
several dozen permits to friends, and
bathing parties go to the lake every even
ing
Sam MeFerran the Santa Fe switchman
who had his hand badly mashed last Feb
ruary and has been off duty as a result
since that time, will return to work next
week.
The roof has been begun on the Bow
man Memorial hall on Huntoou, west of
Clay street, and it will be shingIed in q
few days The finishing of the interior
Will be begun soon
At the Cinderella" show last night a
coIored woman stood with her hands on
a white mans shoulders. When he asked
her to take her hands off she said, Don
act ungentIeuanly.''
To haul the people to and from the
Cinderella performances many of the
Topeka railway motormen and conductors
had to work seventeen hours each day.
They were paid for overtime.
Ice cream wagons and refreshment |
stands just outside the cinderella |
amphitheater last evening disturbed the |
play Gongs were rung and the proprte- |
tors cried their wares too loud
The Knights and Ladies of Security i
have recently issued a neat directory. /
giving the names and addresses of mem
bers of the order in Topeka The order is |
in a fourishing condition and now has up |
wards of 1900 members.
A year ago an order was passed by the |
city council for hydrant to be placed at |
the transfer station corner to supply peo- |
pie with drinking water. A space was |
measured of and preparations made for /
it, but right there the work stopped Is
the waterworks litigation responsible for
this, too?
A Topeka man, H. W. Lohruan. went /
to St. Marys with vitascope show and a
as a guarantee he placed four 800 bills in
the show window of a jeweIry store. Yes
terday the bills disappeared, and the pro- |
prietor claimed that they were stolen
while he was at dinner. Next time he
ought to use counterfeits.
The State Temperance union yesterday
commissioned Rev G. T Black as lee
turer in the Seventh congressional dis
trict- Mr.. Black is pastor of the First
Christian church at Wichita, and is
strong and forcibIe speaker He is well
known over the state and was recon- |
mended for this work by Col H. W. Lewis
of Wichita
Several weeks ago the United States
weather bureau sent some self-recording
instruments to the Topeka bureau, but |
did not send the complete set When the
indicators to register rainfall. wind direc- |
ton and wind velocity arrive Mr.. Jen-
nings will have them all placed on cabi-