The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-22

! peka newspaper correspondents, have
| gone to Chicago to spend a week.
marriage license was granted yes
| terday to John Q. Toppert, of Kansas
| City, and Carrie Quinche, of Topeka.
| George King will use Oregon horses
| to pull the mail wagons between the
| postoffice and the suburban stations.
| A young man who is thinking of get
ting married wants to know how much
| a marriage license costs by the year.
! Morton AIbaugh was in the city from
| Emporia Monday. He has returned
| from visit to his old home in Indiana.
The Shawnee county w. c. T. U. will
| meet in convention at the First Meth
! odist church next Friday at 10 o'clock.
! A. B. Crum of Usage City, county
! attorney of Usage county, is visiting
! in the city the guest of J. w. Robin
/ son.
The two young dogs at the fire sta
| ton have been "farmed OUT until they
/ learn to keep from under the horses
| feet.
The city railway cars do not begin
J running on Sundays until o'clock in
the morning. On week days they start
at 6.
A city official inquired from a joint
list yesterday if he could get a glass of
beer and he was informed that stuff
| is off,
A. R. Lingafelt, assistant superinten-
dent of telegraph of the Rock Island, is
(
! system.
A car load of old cancelled tickets
and tariffs was taken out of the Rock
Island offices yesterday and will be de-
strOyed.
It's strange that men who complain
about boys being in swimming, spent
half their time in the water when they
were boys.
place in town. This is due to the work
being done in connection with the paw
ing plans.
Atchison is counting on large crowd
from Topeka for the Corn Carnival
September 81 1t will probably not be
disappointed.
Mr.. Orson Baker and his sister have
received a silk handkerchief from the
Philippines and a watch chain made of
Filipino money.
The next meeting of the Social Re
form union of Topeka will be held in
the chapel at the corner of Fourth and
Jackson streets.
Mr.. Ira Howe's new residence on
Harrison street near Twelfth is almost
completed, and will be ready for oc-
cupancy in a few days
Hutchinson News: One of the diff
cult commands to execute in Kansas
politics will be for Cy Leland and Billy
Sterne to keep step.
The new G. A. R. roster which has
just been gotten out is valuable pub
Ifcatfon Lincoln Post did most of the
work in getting it up.
Lee Jones is an expert guitar player,
but he is growing so cOrpuient that he
can not hold the instrument close
enough to him to play well.
The special train to ST. Marys for
the Woodmer's celebration will leave
Topeka on the Union Pacific at 1923
Thursday morning.
An effort is being made to have May
Evans. the Topeka whistler give an
entertainment at one of the theaters
before she leaves Topeka.
The railroads are doing a great deal
of business just at present, and it viii
be the increase from now until this
years crops are disposed Of
Railroad officials say that Mountain
View, the new town on the Rock IS
land extension in the Territory, gained
1900 inhabitants in so days.
Mr.. George Bell has succeeded Miss
Josephine Sexton as stenograDher to
Mr.. C. NJ. Atwood, auditor of passen-
ger receipts of the Santa Fe.
Mr.. w R Faulkner, of the office of
auditor of passenger receipts of the
Santa Fe, has returned after spending
a vacation in Colorado Springs.
A Topeka man, who is unable to
walk without crutch, is able to ride a
bicycle with perfect ease. He carries !
his crutch with him on his wheel
The Topeka doctor who said that last |
week was a good one for patients left |
mis- hearers in a rather doubtful state |
of mind as to just what he meant.
girl, not only calls every evening, but |
he stops to chat a few minutes on his |
way to work early in the morning.
A good cigar gains in popularity. The |
sale of the Chauncey NJ. Depew five |
cent cigar. is increasing every day. |
Squires sells them at 1872 Kansas ave
It is generally supposed that all boys |
can swim but there are a few in town |
who can not. Several of these are /
taking weekly lessons at Cages lake.
A good cig@r gains in popularity. The |
sale of the Chauncey NJ. DepeW five |
cent cigar is increasing every day. |
Squires sells them at 1872 Kansas ave-
nue..
Governor Stanley has received from
the national treasury a draft for $780, |
600 being the annual appropriation by |
the government for the state soldiers |
home.
Some of the ice wagon teams haul
loads amounting to several tons when |
they start out in the morning, but their |
burden grows lighter as the day grows !
warmer.
Mr.. D. E. Cain, chief clerk in the Of
fee of general manager of the Santa
Fe, accompanied his family to Colo
Wednesday.
Oscar Swayze says a farmer came in
from Auburn Monday with the report
that they had run out of cobs to put
corn on. Some people acted as if they
thought he was in earnest.
The Wichita Eagle says: "Of living
Kansans Reverend Sheldon of Topeka
is the best advertised. Hardly an east
ern paper can be picked up that does
not have a reference to him.
The alley in the block bounded by
Sixth, Seventh, Van Buren, and Jack
son streets has been graded and sand
ed ready for paving for u week and
nothing has been done since.
Officer Simpson arrested ten boys for
swimming Monday and the judge look
ed grave when he fined them IS apiece.
When they We're about ready to cry he
RENTED the fines and smiled