The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-18


Horrors! A man has struck town with
parrots to sell and they have been taught
to talk.
The Shawnee County Sunday School as
ISOLATION meets in Topeka next Friday
and Saturday.
The Mills-Adams company has rented
the building at I'll Kansas avenue for a
cloak department.
One carriage maker has several orders
for vehicles to be built and ready to use
for the flower parade.
Sunday evening at the First Methodist
church Prof. Waldemar Won Dahlen will
sing two sacred solos.
A new song on the market is 1.-The An
gel of Smoky Row" This does not mean
our Smoky Row. does it?
Topeka alleys are in bad shape. Some>
thing should be done toward cleaning
them before Festival week.
Mrs. E. S. Emmert and son Harry of
Denver are visiting in the city and will
remain for the Fall Festival.
The elevator in the federal building is
still used for ornamental purposes. 1t
may be started in a year or two.
Pension Agent Leland has rented N. r.
Bakers home at 1O15 Quincy street and
will move his family to Topeka.
Frank Sheldon. Tom King and Oscar
Charleson of this city will attend the
Kansas City Dental college this fall.
The arms for the trolley wires the
fair grounds loop have arrived and will
be placed in position in few days.
Topeka sportsmen are pursuing the first
arrival of ducks. which are to be found
in the ponds throughout the country.
The reform school float in the Fall Fes-
tival parades will be a novel feature. The
decorations for it are now being made.
The banner in front of the Fall Festival
headquarters is fading. The lettering
should be retouched before Festival week.
The next meeting of the Karnival
Knights will be held Wednesday evening,
just before leaving for Atchison Thurs
day.
The gymnasium classes at the Y. NJ. c.
A have opened with an Increased attend
ance. c. E. CassweH is the physical di-
rector.
Tomorrow will be the last open air
concert given by Marshalrs band. AT that
time w. F. Roehrs official march, Queen
of the Festival" will be played.
The first meeting of the Stedman club
after the summer recess will be held at
the physical culture rooms on Jackson
street on next Monday evening.
A E. Moody, who was assistant state
secretary of the Y. NJ c. A, will attend
the state university this year and will
probably play foot ball. He was a mem
Der of the team in 1915.
J. w. Blackburn was caught early in
the morning with a large sized revolver
in his hip pocket Patrolman Sommers
found him and he was fined IS for carry
ing concealed weapons.
The Festival Queen and her court the
Prime Minister Mayor Fellows and Mr.
A. K. Wilson, master of ceremonies, went
to the fair grounds last night and prac-
ticed the opening ceremonies of Festival
week.
Next Friday evening at the residence
of w. w. Mills the board of directors of
the Y. NJ. G. A, the Yoke Fellows band
and several of the pastors of the city
will meet to discuss 1.-The Spiritual Work
of the Y. NJ. c. Al
A Kansas City lady who is in Topeka
with artificial flowers for sale has Of
fered the services of her decorator to
the Karnival knights to decorate the
carriage which Queen Edna Whitney will
ride in while in the city.
Four thousand of the souvenir Santa
Fe celebration badges have already been
sold by the executive committee and an
other thousand has been ordered. Several
thousand badges will probably be sold in
If ladies having floral decorations which
were used carriages in the floral pa
rade last year will send them to the
flower committee rooms Mrs. Sutton will
arrange for their disposal, providing the
flowers are in suitable shape.
J. J. Allen, hostler at the barn at the
insane asylum, has resigned and written
an open letter to the public denouncine
the state board of charities, B. F. Shane,
the member of the board who got him the
job, and the administration in general
With the comedy MY Wife's Maid,''
Woodman & Stater's Fun Makers will
open a four nights engagement at the
Grand Opera House next Wednesday
night The prices will be TO- 20 and 30
cents and on the opening night ladies will
be admitted free.
Ed McKeever and Robert Stone used to
hold the short and long distance records
for running while attending Washburn
college. McKeever's 100 yards record was
1O34 seconds and Stones mile record was
4 minutes IS seconds. AIcKeever couldn't
run like that now.
A female prisoner at the city Jail hand
ed Police Matron Thorpe 10 cents and
asked her to procure some cigarettes. On
being told that she would not be allowed
them she said: 80 well. get some
muslin and I'll make some clothes Ill
have to do something
The officials of the Rock Island road
have acknowledged the receipt of invita-
tions from the Festival Queen to be pres
ent in Topeka and participate in the fes-
tivities of the week, in a courteous letter
written Mrs. Sutton by Mr.. H. A. Par
ker, assistant to the president
A man who owns one of the largest gro>
Gerry stores in Topeka has not contributed |
to the Fall Festival The soliciting COM
mittee has been in his store dozen |
times, but he has always replied, Il |
haven't time" or ignored them alto
gether. The committee is working for |