The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-27

Topeka Friday on his way from Chi
cagO to Los Angeles.
There will be a vacation party given
at 61S Kan. Ave, by the colored stu
dents of the city schools, "Wednesday
evening, May 81.
Memorial services will be held at the
Rochester cemetery on Tuesday AFTER
noon at 2:3O o'clock Good speakers
will be present and good music FURNISH
ed by the Baptist choir.
The authorities of Bethany college
have requested a conference with the
Tenth street property owners upon the
pavement controversy. The meeting
will be held Monday night.
Painters think they have more cause
for complaint just now than any other
class in Topeka, on account of the fly
ing cotton from the cottonwood trees.
1t persists in sticking to the fresh paint.
Rev. NJ. F. McKirahan has gone to
Howard to deliver the memorial sermon
there tomorrow and participate in the
Memorial Day exercises on Monday, by
invitation OF the Grand Army post at
Howard.
Father Hayden paid the members of
the G. A. r. very handsome tribute
at the funeral of Paul LaVigne when
fifty members of Lincoln Post attended
the services at the Church of the As
sumption.
A Topeka bartender is getting. tired
of his job. He says he never knows
when the officers are going to SwoOp
! down and take it away from him. 1t is
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J disease.
There will be a special meeting of the
Ministerial union for prayer and con-
ference at the Y. M. C. A. parlors Mon
day morning at 10 o'clock. All min
listers of the city and vicinity have been
invited to be present.
Whenever many Kansas towns want
speakers for public occasions they send
to Topeka for them. Some Topeka men
are called on every Memorial Day and
Fourth of July to make speeches in
different parts of the state.
A Potwin family has just purchased
q new ice cream freezer, but they have
| been careful not to let the neighbors
| find it out for fear that the neighbors
will begin to borrow it and they will
not get it back till next fall.
DR.. Eva Harding has returned from
| Cincinnati, where she attended the ma
| tional meeting of the Association of
| Charities and Corrections. Much of
| the credit of securing the next national
| meeting of the association for Topeka is
due to DR.. Harding.
People who go to the office of the
| clerk of the district court to consult
| court papers complain that attorneys
| are allowed to take papers out of the
| office without receipting for them, and
it is then impossible to find where they
| are.
The w W. Manspeaker Mercantile
| company has filed suit in the district
court for the collection of a note for $3.50
| given by T. ]. and ]. r. Hankla last
| February. 1t was to run for 60 days
| and the company claims that it is still
| unpaid.
| The work of painting the walls and
| vanishing the woodwork in the Santa
| Fe general office building, which has
| been in progress for several weeks,
! much to the discontinue of the EN-,
| ployeS of the various departments, is
| about completed.
! Topeka people who can afford it are
| beginning to look forward to their sum-
mer vacation and to talk about the
| places they intend to visit. When they
| get home again they will wish they
| had their money back and that some
| body else had the vacation.
| A man in Kansas City named f. Full
| ton has written a military drama enti-
| tied THE Man Behind the Gun" which
| will be given at the Auditorium in that
| city about June 10. 1t IS announced
| that the proceeds of the performance
| Will be used in entertaining the men of
| the Twentieth Kansas when they re-
turn The scheme is all right but
| Kansas City viii have to wait until To-
| peka gets through with the regiment.
H. .. Austin, of 7O3 Eighth avenue
east, who raised the radish that tied
| itself in u knot, has another curiosity
| In the shape of a three-legged chicken
Its third leg is just behind the one On
the right side, and while it is well de-
! velOped the chicken never uses it, The
chicken is five days old, and is as live
Austin says he proposes to raise it for
a Christmas dinner, so that he can
have three drum sticks