The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-02
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWs

it in Chicago.
The fill at the north end of the bridge
is nearly completed.
The regular meeting of the city council
will be held tonight.
F. L. Vandegrift has returned to KAN
sas City after visit in Topeka.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has re-
turned from visit in Kansas City.
Miss Alice Holdridge of the car service
department of the Santa Fe, is seriously
i'll.
Miss Hattie Holman, the competent as
sistant city clerk, has resigned her posi-
ton.
Webb McNall. who has been sick for
several days made a visit to his office
today.
"a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
is stolen from ''Tarara-Boom-de-Ay' and
isn't near so lively.
Charles P. Adams, who is travelling in
Europe, says he misses the Topeka soda
fountains more than anything else.
A Topeka woman has had a stylish
bloomer suit made which she wears while
riding horseback. She rides astride.
The soldiers committee of twenty-eight
is sending out a large number of pro-
grammes and reunion announcements.
Dr. E. E. Carpenter spent yesterday
ter has now a dental office at Rossville.
The Topeka base ball team is arranging
to play a benefit game this week to Sc
cure new uniforms. They are badly need
ed.
Capt. P. H. Coney owns a complete
Alaskan outfit, which he preserved from
his exhibit of Laplanders at the Worlds
fair.
Mr.. w. H. Stillwell, assistant general
superintendent of the Rock Island, left
today to spend short vacation in Colo
RADIO.
After September 1 George NJ. Crawford
will manage Arthur Cappers recently
purchased job printing office in North To-
peka.
Mr.. VIII C. Chaffee has returned from
Chicago and New York where he went for
the purpose of ordering fall and winter
stock.
Special services with music were held
all day yesterday at ST. Johns A. NJ.
E. church, corner of Seventh and Topeka
avenue.
That twenty-four foot paved roadway
from Thirteenth and Topeka avenue to
Washburn college seems to have been for
gotten.
The New Orleans Item anxiously asks:
rs it KIondyxe, Klondike or Clondike?"
Unquestionably it is.-Chicago Times
Herald.
Charles H. Sessions, the Topeka cores
pendent of the Kansas City Journal, will
leave this week for a visit at his old
home, Urbana, o.
Mr. John Norton is in Springfield, O.,
where he attended the funeral of his
week at the age of IS.
nix Ia rr-a11 oitv adifor of tho CaOitai
left yesterday for Manitou to visit his
family. They are residing In a cottage
half way up Pixies Peak.
A delegation of Topekans will go to
Lawrence tomorrow to witness the bicy
Gle races and attend the state meeting of
the L. A. w. Wednesday.
Tomorrow evening the committees from
several lodges will meet at the CONNER
cial club rooms to make further arrange
ments for Fraternal day.
The state tennis tournament will begin
at Emporia one week from tomorrow.
Ten ToLeka players will attend the con-
test in singles and doubles
Residents living in the southwest part
of the city are agitating the question OF
having the sewer extended to their vi.
cinity, and petition will be circulated.
The mother of Charles NJ. Ross, assist
ant secretary of state, is quite i'll. She is
almost 70 years of age and the present
hot weather affects her health seriously.
Last night as the last car for Washburn
college was going south on Jackson street
near Twelfth it jumped the track and the
''wrecker'' had to be brought to replace
it.
Mr.. w. o. Neville, chief clerk in the
office of the assistant general superin-
tendent of the Rock Island, returned yes
he spent a three weeks vacation.
In one place in Topeka six small dwell
ing houses have been placed on three lots.
The owner says that rent from six houses
though small, pays better the invest
ment than from fewer and larger houses.
The Knights and Ladies of Security in
tend erecting an arch across Kansas ave-
nue. at Sixth street for Fall Festival
week, which will be covered with flowers
and lighted with 500 incandescent electric
lights.
Ten thousand flowers will be made at
the Flower committee rooms this week,
and a sufficient number then will have
been prepared for the decoration of the
flowers are now ready.
E E. Anderson of St. Louis, who rode
a mile in 1:O3, the fastest time ever made
by a human being on a bicycle, behind a
locomotive which set the pace, is one of
the riders who will be in Topeka at the
state circuit bicycle races.
The fire department was called to Crane
and Adams streets Saturday afternoon to
extinguish fire in the conveyor at the
Topeka Milling company's plant. The
blaze had been started from overheated
bearing, and the damage was slight.
Mr.. John P. Hayden, a brother of Rev.
Dean Hayden of the church of the AS
sumption, has been elected to a seat in
the English parliament, representing the
district of South Roscommon. He suc-
ceeds his late brother, Luke Hayden.