The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


| Topeka this week.
The oyster season was inaugurated at
the Cinderella Cafe.
The large 60 pound melons now in mar
! ket are from Shawnee county.
Business at Topeka banks was never
better than at the present time.
Subscription lists for the big court ball
on the evening Of Floral day were started
today.
There will be meeting of the state
board of education in this city Monday,
October A.
Rev. S. E. Busser left today for Nicker-
son to attend the funeral of Mr.. j. P.
Herman.
State Superintendent Stryker has re-
turned from trip to the western part of
the state.
The new rules and regulations of the
! Kansas National Guard are ready for
distribution.
Cadet w. Lumberg of the Salvation
Army has gone to Emporia to conduct
meetings until September 20.
Mrs. ]. N. Graft, who was seriously in
jured time ago by falling into an
open cellarway, is recovering
The last issue of Truth has an article
about Geo. r. Peck and styles him 1.-The
Chauncey Depew of the West
IlAS AduSdS 10Qlcd1 COl1eSe Will open
tomorrow with the largest attendance of
any year since its establishment.
The Klondike Morning Times has struck
Topeka. 1t is claimed to have been pub
| lished at Dawson City. but it wasn't.
The small boy doesn't see anything in
life worth living for today. 1t is the first
day of school after three months vaca-
J ton.
The Topeka Academy of Medicine and
Surgery will meet tonight. DR.. ]. C. Nc
Clintock and DR.. J. e. Minney will read
papers.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A Evans have return
ed from a visit at Colorado Springs.
d. A. Mulvane will spend this week in
Colorado.
The Santa Fe shop base ball players are
well muscled young men and when they
hit a ball it doesn't do a thing but sail
over the fence.
Mr.. w. J. Black, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe, has returned to
the city after ten days absence in Chi
cago and New York.
Mrs. Booth-Tucker of the Salvati ton
Army, is to be in Topeka on the 18th and
will lecture on the colonies that have been
formed in California.
Miss Georgia Brown of Lawrence has
taken charge of the court minuet to be
danced at the opening of the court ball
the evening of Floral day.
Miss Mayme R. White, stenographer in
the auditor of freight receipts office of
the Santa Fe, left yesterday for Colo
RADIO to spend two weeks vacation.
The wooden mill has again sunk into OBJ
livion. The pretty japanese decorations
placed there for the dancing parties have
been removed and the doors to the hall
boarded up.
Frank Biggs, a young man who lives in
Pottawatomie county was sent to Jail
Saturday by United States District Judge
Foster for selling whisky to Indians. He
was given 80 day sentence and a fine of
So.
There will be 10000 people walking the
streets all night during the Fall Festival
looking for a place to sleep, if the Blu
reau of Public Comfort isn't organized
pretty soon. Everything so far in this
line seems a dead fizzle.
A special train is to be run from Mar
ion, Kan, to the Fall Festival at Topeka,
September q. This is in addition to the
regular trains. Fully 500 Marion people
are expected here during the week, and
fully many more from the county.
Kansas has had three ''hot spells this
summer, each one long. 1t is no use for
summer vacationists to try to dodge them
except by leaving the first of June and
staying away until October 1. People
who stay at home have to take their
medicine"
If something isn't done the excitable
reporters at Emporia will continue to find
bodies at the site of the Santa Fe wreck
until next Christmas. They went on
finding them for forty-eight hours after
every vestige of the wreck had been
cleared away.
The base ball game between a nine from
the Santa Fe offices and a nine from the
Santa Fe shops at Athletic park Satur-
day afternoon resulted in a victory for
the shop team by a score of IS to 6. The
game was played as a means of raising
funds for the Santa Fe executive commit
tee and a small sum will be realized.
John W. Shaffer of the Barber Asphalt
Co., was married to Miss Rosa A. Myers,
daughter of c. D. Myers of North Topeka,
on Thursday night. The couple went
quietly to Lowman Hill and Rev. Mr..
Rice of Lowman Hill NJ. E. church tied
the knot. Mr.. and Mrs. Shaffer will re-
side for the present at First and Topeka
! avenue.
The following have been elected Off
GERS of the Topeka district of the Ep-
worth league: President, Geo. E. Dough-
erty, Topeka: first vice president, F. H.
Goudy, Burlingame; second vice presi-
dent, Mrs J. r. Naylor, Tecumseh; third
vice president, James Stephens, Pleasant
Hill; fourth vice president, Miss Mary
Brown, North Topeka; fifth vice presi-
dent, Mrs. J. r. Madison, North Topeka;
recording secretary, r. E. Haynes, Perry;
corresponding secretary, Miss Estella
Harding, Parkdale; treasurer, James Ire
gamble, Overlook. The next annual
convention will be held at Lyndon.
DUCHESS OFMARLBOROUGH