The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-11-08
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The Commercial club meets tonight.
Governor Stanley returned from Wich-
The city employees drew their monthly
pay yesterday.
The Republican hambeau club will hold
meeting tonight
Very little money changed hands in To-
General Superintendent Nudge of the
Santa Fe IS out on the Chicago division
Regular Frisco weather. remarked
the Twentieth Kansas boys this morning.
Augustus Thomas Alabama will be
seen at the Crawford theater next week.
1t looked for a while Tuesday as though
the election would not draw out a quorum
Mat Cave, the North Topeka jointist,
police.
The grocers and butchers of the city
of Topeka.
DR.. H. D. Fisher will deliver his lecture
on the Quantreu raid at Jewell City We'd
neSday night
VIII Nelson is still seriously i'll at the
Stormont hospital. He is not yet able to
sit up in bed.
The solicitors for contracts for the new
gas company claim to be meeting with
excellent success.
Several Topeka members of the Twen-
City next Friday.
Bishop Warren will preside at the next
session of the Kansas conference of the
Methodist church.
GQ 2g St Stanley is scheduled to speak
The Santa Fe shops closed down
Tuesday at O'Clock in order to allow the
men time to vote.
The paving on Tenth avenue between
Harrison street and Topeka avenue, is
nearing completion.
Sportsmen say that quail are scarce this
rains are the cause.
Marshalps band will entertain the
Twentieth Kansas band boys tonight af-
ter the concert at the Grand
The local fanciers will entertain the Wis
itors to the state poultry show held here
January 8-13 with a banquet
Some of the Republicans were. consider
ably worried on account of the light vote
Tuesday but it was only stage fright.
4, few of the reception decorations are
frayed from flying in the Kansas breeze.
There is man in Topeka who looks like
VIII White, but he writes figures in a led
ger instead of stories for the magazines
tramp named John Carroll was arrested
Tuesday by the police for stealing coat
The next thing to look forward to is
Thanksgiving. The turkey and the foot
stage.
The grocers and butchers met last even
ing and audited a number of bills, result
Kansas banquet.
S. F. Barton, manager of the Twentieth
Kansas band has an interesting collec-
ton of Filipino curiOs in Mills Dry goods
store window.
kIe1n's ctnematograph pictures, which
We're seen at Garfield park last summer,
viii fill three nights at the Crawford
theater this month.
The bills against the banquet committee
for the Twentieth Kansas reception so
they not all in yet.
DR.. J. T. Mcfarland will open the lee
of November Topeka lecturers "a are in de-
mand over the state.
The next on the programme is Thanks
giving and the football games, turkey
shoots and raffles, dinners and entertain
ments pertaining thereto.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon received a let
ter Tuesday stating that the pupil of a
missionary IN bulgaria had translated
Two men of opposite politics agreed
with one another to stay away from the
polls yesterday. Later each sneaked
around unknown to the other and voted.
Mamie Davenport, a colored girl, has
been arrested on a city court warrant,
charged with stealing a pocketbook con-
tanning SIS from Ella Cowan, another col
ored woman.
Dick Hodgins tried to take six voters
to the polls Tuesday in a two seated trap.
He drove which made seven in the We
voters had to walk.
The Y NJ. G: A. lecture course. to be
participated in by a score of well known
Topeka men, will open Friday evening
of this week; Every, succeeding Friday
night will be devoted to a lecture.
Columbia chapter of the knights and
night in honor Of Carl DRYER, one of the
members of the chaDter who was in the
Twentieth regiment.
Ed McKeeyer has a nickname in the
He is an admirer of the early Kansas
poet and has written no less than a half
dozen essays about his life.
The Twentieth Kansas band took their
instruments through the Philippine cam
Paign with very few scratches. Carl
Dryer. the trap drummer had the hardest
time to keep his drum heads whole.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon has begun
reading another story to his Sunday even
ing congregations. It is a college story,
and is entitled Edward Blake.' The
opening chapters We're read last Sunday
evening.
The Topeka, Academy of. Medicine and
Surgery has elected the following officers
for the coming year: Dr. b. D. Eastman,
president; DR.. W. z. McVey, vice presi-
dent; DR.. H. S. Judd, secretary; DR.. Hill,
treasurer.
The soldier uniforms have almost en-
tirely disappeared from the streets. The
boys were nearly all anxious to wear cit
liens, clothes again, and it is impossible
! to tell a Twentieth Kansas boy from
Stay-at-hOme.
Paul Gilmore. the young actor who is
this year starring in Dumas ''Muske-
teers'' and will be seen at the Crawford
theater Monday night. is following the
version used by the younger Salvtni dur
ing his career in this country.
John Rhodes, the second hand dealer,
collided with a delivery wagon while rid
ing a bicycle at the corner of Sixth and
Kansas avenues Tuesday afternoon. He