The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-10
FROM KANSAS TOWNS.
General and Personal News From All
Over the State.

FROM KANSAS TOWNS.
General and Personal News From All
Over the State
IOLA-The last empty store room in
lola, the one on the north side next to
c. B. Spencer & Co., has been leased
to Mr.. J. It. Fleming, of Fort Scott,
who will occupy it about March 10 with
a stock of general merchandise. This
means that lola is back again to where
it left off nearly ten years ago.
OSKALOOSA = Arthur Evans has
bought over 20 head of horses and
! mules, mostly the latter, here the past
week and shipped them to Kansas City
yesterday. He says he and the Walk
er brothers have bought upwards of 900
mules since the first of January, most
all for the Cuban market.
AsHLAND-The Ashland Telephone
company have ordered the poles for the
line and are going to proceed at once
! to get the line in working order. 1t is
to be free line.
LINDsBORG-P Grafstrom of
| Bethany college has presented beau
tiful painting of the Resurrection
which he has presented to former
congregation at Trepoles. MINI. 1t
was dedicated as an altar piece.
KINGMAN-The sl1imming station is
now a certainty. The committee on
building and lot have procured lots near
the river, and the old school building
on North Main street is being moved to
the lots today. The machinery is here,
and in a few days they will be ready
to receive milk.
LA CROSSE creamery building
will be completed this week, and a car
load of the machinery and the fixtures
for the skimming plant has arrived and
will be placed in position next week.
HAYS CITY-Last Friday evening
Judge Monroe received a letter from
Edwin Little containing his resignation
as receiver of the Bank of Hays City,
which was closed last November. Mr..
Little was in New York when the let
ter was written.
ARKANSAS CITY-The biggest Sun
day school in this part of the country
is the Cni1occo Indian Sunday school.
They had four hundred and eight in
attendance Sunday morning. The av-
erage attendance runs above four hun
dred.
AUGUSTA-The Augusta city schools
have 50 students from abroad, outside
the district, who pay tuition fees. 1t
is claimed that there is no other city
school in the state in a town no larger
than Augusta where there are so many.
ATCHISON-A full force of men was
kept at work at the Wagner rock
quarry below town yesterday. The
| Missouri river is fast encroa ching upon
| the Missouri Pacific railways right of
way in many places between Atchison
and Kansas City and several thousand
! car loads of rock will be used to riprap
| with Nearly a hundred men are en-
| ployed at the big quarry and the rock
| is hauled away by the railroad COM
pany as fast as the cars are loaded.
! ABILENEAA party of 81 people, con-
| Slstlng OF Howard Kann, wife and seven
| children and John Benner, wife and 10
children, left for Washington state, at
a point near Spokane, where they will
make their home. A large crowd of old
| friends babe them farewell and God
speed al the depot.
LEAVENWORTH-T Citizens Mu-
| tual Building and Loan association me
last night to wind up the business for
the hscal year. The receipts for the
| evening amounted to more than SO. 900.
! The receipts for the year were about
| $4,000 and the loans 100000 The total