The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-10
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| Lincoln Post hall has been recarpeted
| and otherwise ''fKed up"
| Nearly every vacant lot in Oakland
| is used for d potato patch.
F. A p. G. CHS title for short) Bris-
| tow left for Washington today.
Mr.. John e. Frost returned today
| from a trip in Colorado and New Next
co.
| Slot machine checks were bet freely
! against trousers buttons on Fftzsim-
mons
About the quickest trip letter can
make to Topeka from the Philippines is
80 days.
Miss May Wilson, who is at the Santa
Fe hospital ill with appendicitis Is I'M
proving.
The Arnold wolford company will
| open an engagement at Garfield park
| on June 10.
The NJ. K. & T. land contest case in
| the federal court has been set for hear
| ing on June 10.
Considerable money changed hands in
| Topeka result of the FitzslmmonS-
| JeffrieS prize fight.
Tom King is trying to arf&nge for
| special Pullman to carry the Elks from
! Topeka to st. Louis.
When the new German Catholic
| church is completed, the present church
| will be used a school.
The Forest Huebner company will
probably continue its engagement an
| Topeka all of next week.
A large audience heard the Modocs
| in Filipino for the second time at the
Grand Opera House last night.
Charles G. Titus will speak at the
Y NJ C. A. meeting Sunday afternoon
of incidents of the Grand Rapids meet
ing
The crowd in front of the State Jour
nal last evening seemed OF enorhouS
size, yet ten times as many people read
this paper every day.
DR.. Mum returned today from Smith
Center where he has been attending
court as an expert witness IN a ROCK
Island damage case.
| DR.. Linus Blakesley. the former pas
| tor of the First Congregational cnurcn.
| will leave shortly for CanIorh1d "
spend some time.
Ten minutes after the result of the
| prize fight was bulletined in front OF
! the State Journal building it seemed as
| if it was known all over town.
Charlie McCabe, the former county
| clerk. has bIossomed into an exper-
| fenced travelling salesman. He traVels
for the Smith company of this city.
! The special committee of the COM
mercial club having in charge the re
| ception for the Twentieth Kansas will
meet tonight at the CommerclaI cluO
rooms.
| Hereafter the state house electric
| light plant Will be shut down at O.cIock
| in the evening instead of at 10 O'Clock
| as heretofore. 1t ought to be run all
| the time.
Someone mas asked Ine IeeSoAI VIZ
| drift wood always comes down the river
| when the water is high. Why does the
supply never give out above US )! rs the
question asked.
| There is one kind of idiot who ought
| to be suppressed. 1t is the species that
| repeats jokes after a speaker out loud
| in a public audience, annoying every
| body around him.
| two pounds, were born to Mr.. and Mrs
| w A Montgomery of 1106 East Sixth
| street this week. The little girl died
! Thursday, but the boy seems hedAlhS
and strong.
I Slot machine men who have been OPP
I Grating their machines lately claim that
they have been giving full value Tor
| every nickle deposited in the machlhes,
| and that the machines are therefore not
! gambling devices.
A cake walk by local talent was
! feature of the performance OF the
| Forest Huehner company at the CraW-
| ford theater last night. An audience or
| fair size saw the company in AFTER
| Twenty Years"
| Capt. D. F. Wyatt and family will re-
| move from the house at the corner OF
| Seventh and Monroe streets to rooms in
the Veale block The house at Seventh
! and Monroe will be occupied by MI
! and Mrs. James Wick.
Charles Howard. a brother-in-law of
| Mr. George Wallace, assistant foreman
| of the State Journal composing room,
| has struck it rich in the Cripple Creek
| district. Howard formerly lived IN
! Abilene and is well known there.
| When Governor Stanley was over at
| Atchison the other day one Atchison
| man gave him six boxes of strawberries
| which he had raised himself. Governor
| Stanley claims to be something of a
| strawberry raiser himself when he is at
| Wichita.
MANY of the people who attended
| the Good Citizenship meeting last night
| came over to the State Journal hulle-
| tins as soon as the Meeting was out to
! T91.i1a fcrhf
| on. and arrived just in time to be in at
| the finish.
Miss Irene True. of Topeka. who is
| state secretary of the Y. w. G A has
| made arrangements for a headquarters
! tent at the Ottawa assembly She
| thinks about 75 people from the Y w.
| c. A. circle in different parts OF the
| state will attend the assembly.
| Prof. ]. T. Lovewell has resigned the
| professorship of physics and chemis-
| try at Washburn, chair which he has
| held for the past 81 years He will de-
| vote himself to his classes in the Kan
| sas Medical college and to special
| work in analytical chemistry and as
saying.
| Police Matron Thorpe says she knows
| of at least 40 children of the poor grown
! to manhood and wOmanhOOd since she
| took up her present work in Topeka,
| who are now criminals, Outcasts, drunk
ards or wives of drunkards. This is the
| reason she gives for her efforts in the
| interest of the poor children.
| Altogether, eight gallons of ice cream
| were donated for the Poor Children's
picnic The following Topeka ladies'
| were responsible for the donation: Mrs
| E. w. Thompson, Mrs. W. A. Morton.
Mrs. A B. Quinton, Mrs Geo w
| Crane, Mrs T. E. Pounds and Mrs. F.
| S. Crane
The crowd that surrounded the State
| Journal office Friday night and read the
| bulletins of the prize fight was much
larger than the crowd that congregated