The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-12
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Work on the postoffice elevator has
| been stopped.
! The grass in the Toreka base ball park
] should be cut.
, The first Presbyterian church will picnic
| at Garfield park Wednesday.
Postmaster Arnold is already preparing
| for his annual 'possum hunt.
| Many farmers in the vicinity of Topeka
J are losing their hogs by cholera
/ The state gatling gun is undergoing re-
| pairs in downtown machine shop.
Mr.. r. B. Luce will leave this week
for Galesburg, Ill, to visit relatives.
People drive around the state house now
just to get Whit of the petunia beds.
Police Matron Thorpe has found homes
for nine babies in Topeka since March L.
The Junction City base ball team will
make its first appearance in Topeka next
Thursday.
State Treasurer Heflebower will not
touch tea or coffee. He drinks nothing
but water.
1t is no use to go to summer resorts
now. Topeka is having period of Colo
RADIO weather
Mrs. Jonathan Thomas has estab lished
a scholarship in Edward Stevens Indus
trial institute.
Extensive repairs are being made at the
Shawnee mills. corner of Kansas avenue
and Third street.
The Epworth league of the First Meth
odst church will picnic at Garfield park
tomorrow afternoon.
Miss Leila Green. of the car service de-
partment of the Santa Fe, leaves this
week for a vacation in Denver.
Cletta Thompson, aged Is months, died
this morning at $40 East Twelfth street.
The funeral was held this afternoon.
Clerk George Sharritt of the United
States court will spend the remainder of
the summer in Wyoming with his family.
Dean BodIey of Grace cathedral, is in
New York visiting relatives and attend
ing to private business interests he has
in that state.
The candidates are wondering today
how they happened 10 make such a mis-
calculation the number of votes they
were to receive.
The Mems league of Westminster Pres
byterian church. will give social at the
church Tuesday evening. 1t will be
invitation affair.
Mr.. W. J. Black, general passenger agent
of the Santa Fe, has returned from Chi
cago where he has been looking after af-
fairs Of his department.
The cool weather of the last few days
has improved the health of Topekas baby
lion. His proprietors again seeing
visions of an immense fortune.
This is the day that the successful can
didates at the primaries receive con-
CALCULATIONS from men who knew all the
time they would be nominated
"Cinderella's'' coach is being built in To-
peka and will be finished sometime this
In IN hnfv1 iv1
opera it will appear in the Floral parade.
In President Streets overture to the
city for a compromise on waterworks
rates all reference to the private con-
sumner was omitted A very important
postscript might be appended along that
line.
R. J. Groves, the Topeka florist, has
made an assignment under mortgage to
his sister, Miss Lily Groves the mort
gagee- The mortgage is small, amount
ing only to about $1,000.
The police Saturday evening pulled the
joint of Harry Ogden near First and JEFF
ferson streets. The double charge of
selling liquor and maintaining nuisance
was placed against him.
The Rev. A. NJ. Reynolds, the new pas
tor of Westminster Presbyterian church
yesterday assumed his duties. Yesterday
morning his text was: with What In
tent Did Ye Send for Me-"
Tom McNeaI is suffering from a ser
iously inflamed eye, and is considerably
concerned about it. Let everybody hope
that Toms eyesight will always remain
as sharp and serviceable his wit.
Harry Ogden this morning pleaded gull
ty to maintaining a nuisance and was
fined 800 and sentenced to thirty days in
jail. VIM. Giles. who was found in charge
of the place will be tried for selling IL
quor
Camp No. rs woodmen of the World
will give ice cream social Tuesday
evening at the hall at 620 Kansas avenue.
Admission will be free as will also re-
freshments. Woodmen and their families
will attend.
A man remarked as he walked out of |
a primary voting booth at King and Clay |
streets Saturday: 'I like this Australian |
ballot system, for you tell each cam |
didate that you voted for him and he |
don't know the difference"
According to the records of the Santa |
Fe dispensary there is an unusual amount |
of sickness among Santa Fee employees in |
this city at the present time. With few |
exceptions the illness is due to the intense |
heat of the past two weeks.
An old lady named Collins has returned |
to Topeka penniless and destitute. She |
went to Oklahoma where her husband |
died two weeks ago. She used to own the |
land on which the Rock Island depot is
located. She is energetic and has secured |
employment
No less than four colored women of low
reputa ton, and dressed in loose and in
decent wrappers, walked Kansas ave-
nue. as far south as Eighth street Satur-
day evening without being molested by
the police. Perhaps they had paid their
periodical fine for protection.
There is new whistle on Moser's ice |
plant which sounds much like the fire
awning could has