The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-18

1:3U-N Ocal duet contest.
2:30-Harp solo contest.
3:00-Violin contest
3:30-Recital by Prof. Spencer.
4:30-DriIl by Prof. Root.
FROM KANSAS TOWNS
General and Personal News From All
Over the State.
CAWKER CITY-After being several
months without a bank the Farmers
and Merchants State bank has COM
menced business in this city. The Of
hcerS are: Lincoln Paris, president;
J. G. McClun, cashier, and George w.
Dockstader, Geo. TuthiL and John
Schoen, directors.
BELOIT-The Jensen creamery in
BelOit. with separating stations in
ScottsvilIe, Victor and Saltville, in
Mitchell county, paid out in April up
wards of So, 900 to over 500 customers
and about a dozen employees.
ALTON-Fred w. Gaunt and ]. B.
Taylor have remodeled and completed
their residences at a cost of about $500
each, which are inviting both in and
outside. Besides each one has had built
fire and cyclone proof vaults, easily
reached by stairs from the inside of
their houses.
OSBORNE-In the months of Janua-
~, February, March and April of this
year, A. Linn, a butter and egg dealer,
paid out to Osborn county farmers
wives for their surplus butter and eggs
over $4,000.
PHILLIPSBURG- Business men and
farmers are subscribing literally to
aid the creamery project here. The
Kansas Creamery company of Topeka,
who are behind the enterprise, ask of
Phillipsburg $1,50 divided into shares
of SIS each.
SMITH CENTER-This is the first
town in northwestern Kansas to get
their car load of aid corn ready to ship
to the India sufferers. and it will be
sent on its mission the first of this
week.
GLEN ELDER-Mrs. F. D. Funk,
wife of Rev. Funk, pastor of the
Methodist church in Glen Elder, is now
piecing a quilt which. when completed.
Will contain the names of 120 prominent
persons, including those Of Mrs. Presi-
dent Mckinley and Mrs. Governor Lee
dy The quilt will be sold to the high
est bidder and the money used in re-
pairing the parsonage.
GREENLEAF-T music loving
people of Greenleaf have organized
themselves into a musical association,
and now numbers 80 members. It is
under the direction Of Mrs. A. H. Will
Iams of this place
CONCORDIA-The officers of the
north central Kansas soldiers reunion
ASSOCIATION nave nXeQ COncOrdla Tor
the place of the reunion and the date
set for September 7th to 10th inclusive.
PITTSBURG- contract has been
let for the extension of the electric
street railway from this place to Elem
ing a stretch of three miles of new
track. It is expected that Robert ST.
mons, the owner, will then extend the
line another three miles to connect with
the Weir City line.
rested for a burglary at COwles, Neb.,
were being conveyed in a livery vehicle
from here to Red Cloud, Neb., by Ne
braska officers, they slipped their hand
capped. Bloodhounds were brought from
Beatrice. Neb., and are now on the
trail Of the fugitiVes.
PHIILIPSBURG- Returns from 18
townships and cities In this county
show a gain in population during the
past year of more than 800 In kirwin
the gain is an even hundred.
SALTNA-The westbound Union Pa
cific passenger, due here at 1:25 a. m,
yesterday morning ran over c. w.
Meyer, a young man employed on a
farm northeast of this city. It is said
that Mover was intoxicated, as he was
seen in the Elmo hotel joint about 1920.
The young man was taken to the de-
pot where he died inside of ten min
utes.
Captain ]. G. Waters was notified to-
day that the murder case against A.
B. Williams at Olathe had been dis
missed Williams lives near Topeka
and was charged with completely in
the murder of his 12-year-old imbecile
daughter The principal in the case,
Nancy Jane MayeS was acquitted and
County Attorney F. N Hamilton nOti-
fed Captain Waters, who is Williams
attorney. that he need give himself no
further trouble about the case, as it
would be dismissed. The two cases
have already cost johnson county over
81 600.
Truman Cook. who has worked in
the Santa Fe shops for twenty years.
left today for Hutchinson. where he
: takes the position of chief engineer in
the Hutchinson refOrmatory. Mr. Cook
is one of the best mechanics in the
Santa, Fe shops and has done much in
tricate and difficult work. He lives in
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