The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03
Dr.. R. s. Magee has returned from


It is becoming quite a fad for young
! couples to meet at the ringing of the
curfew.
| B. G. Walker will open a restaurant in
the old Sharum building during Festi-
| val week.
/ John McBee, the hack driver. says he
is going to sell out and go to Klondike in
| the spring.
| of paper flowers in a store window on
| Kansas avenue
| W. c. Edwards has returned from trip
| to Cripple Creek where he has extensive
! mining property.
Mrs. Preuszner will address the Sunday
! School Primary union at the Y. M. c. A.
parlors tonight at 1880
Professor Jackson's chorus of 100 voices
! gave a concert last night at the Seventh
! Street A. NJ. E. church.
| Mr.. Nichols, the shoe merchant. has a
large quantity of boxes for lanterns that
can be had for the asking.
] Sloan Lodge No. 225. A. F. & A NJ,
last night conferred the degree Of Master
I Mason upon H. A. Huber.
! The number of the telephone in the re-
porters' room of the State Journal has
! been changed. 1t is now 81.
| will be called at $3.50. Clarence Smith will
| umpire the game. Admission free.
| Governor Leedy speaks this afternoon
! at the soldiers reunion at Concordia and
] will be at the executive office tomorrow.
I Mr.. Len Korn of the general freight de-
partment of the Santa Fee, will leave next
week for two weeks outing in Colo
/ RADIO.
! General Manager J. j. Frey of the
Santa Fe, will return Sunday from Macki-
nae, where he has been spending the past
! ten days.
! To light the city street lights it requires
fiftysix miles of wire supported 134s
! poles. There are 25S arc lights on three
I circuits.
/ There will be a mile handicap and a half
mile boys race for bicyclists the Labor
day programme of sports at Garfield park
Monday.
The city offices will be closed on next
| Monday. Labor day. The city council
! will pass the appropriation ordinances in
the evening.
Arthur Switzer. the elongated base ball
pitcher. has accepted a position as opera
tor in the Santa Fe telegraph office at
Leavenworth.
! E. H. Madison of Dodge City, was in
the city today on his way to Baxter
Springs to attend the soldiers reunion and
make speech.
Fred Gillett has resigned his position in
the Furman shoe store, and will take up
the study of medicine at the Kansas
Medical college.
Mr.. Harmon Ryus, instructor in the
Wentworth Military academy at Lexing-
ton, Mo-. leaves tomorrow to resume his
! duties at the academy
Abe Steinberg returned yesterday from
Emporia, where he took the measures of
100 Santa Fe employees who will wear uni
forms in the Santa Fe parade.
Chief Steele offered a reward of So for
the finding of Willie Putnam's body. Cliff
Moffitt and John Dennis found the boys
body on a sandbar opposite Oakland.
All lodges who intend-to have floats
in the Fraternal day parade should notify
the secretary. C. B. Tyler. at 72s Kansas
avenue. if they have not already done so.
The Shawnee County Horticultural So
ciety held a meeting at the home of A.
]. Coleman yesterday. There was a large
attendance. A basket dinner was of
the principal features.
J. r. Burton of Abilene, has already
ordered SIS dress suit for Mrs Suttons
Floral So ball at the state house, Septem-
Der 80. Distinguished people from all
| over Kansas will be there
VIII Eberle. who is getting up a signal
corps which will be attached to the K.
N. G., says that the new organization
will not be mustered in until after the
Fall Festival as the corps is not yet
ready for regular duty.
Mrs Thorpe has sent a destitute woman
and her baby to Lincoln county, where
they win have a home The woman's
husband is a drunkard and he spent all
| the money received for liquor, leaving his
family public charge.
J. E. Van Solver, a driver of a gasoline
| wagon, was thrown from his wagon at
the corner of Euclid and College avenues
and his leg fractured. He was driving
fractions horse and it became frightened.
The wagon was demolished.
The young ladies employed in the Santa
| Fe general offices have organized to aid
in the work of decorating the building
and the general office floats. Mrs Lea
is chairman of the organization. and Miss
| Bessie Van Anburgh, secretary.
The Topeka canning factory will next
week have force of 250 employees at
r-ork putting up tomatoes. The tomato
! crop is not yet fully ripe. but the factory
/ is putting up all that be bought.
| Other vegetables and fruit will be canned
| this fall.
A young lady in Topeka signs her name
| ''MaybeIle'' and was taken to task for
! not spelling it in the good old fashioned
way She replied by asking if that was
not the proper way to spell May. Yes"
said her grandmother, but would you
| spell it 'Hayzelle' if your name was
| Haze12''
The Mormon elder, Peter Gruhalge,
| who was taken seriously i'll with typhoid
| fever while en- route to Utah, lies very ill
at the Salvation Army hospital. 1t is
| thought that he may recover. The two
| Mormon elders who are working in To-
peka, make daily visits to the bedside of
| the sick man.
A minstrel show for the benefit of Fred
| Munsie, a former Santa Fe office en-
! ploye, who is now helpless from stroke