The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-01
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Dean Sykes will return from Colorado
today.
The bicycle racers viii now have an
inning.
The annual tax sale will be held next
The football season opens the last of
this month.
The horaemen talk of two race meets
for next year.
Governor, Stanley speaks at Baxter
Springs today.
The Bird Canning company is running
District court opens next Tuesday for its
September term.
tunate debtor today.
Congressman Curtis attended the Hia-
Watha fair yesterday.
Wagon makers have been busy building
new delivery wagons.
Considerable city and county real estate
was sold today for taxes.
John Kneisler is seriously i'll with rheu-
matism at Christ hospital.
Councilman NetteIs leaves today for
Colorado on a hunting trip.
Mr.. James Smith has returned from
trip through Marshall county.
Mrs. George Stolzer is quite i'll at her
home on West Sixth avenue.
Mr.. f. c. Gay retired today as general
freight agent of the Santa Fe.
The corn fields in Oakland look as if
they had been touched by frost.
The youngest daughter Of Cyrus Leland
IS seriously i'll with typhoid fever.
Farmers are cutting and shocking their
corn. 1t is early but the corn is ripe.
oysters are ripe today. This is the first
day of the first month with an r. in it.
Jaller Hopkins Is acting as police ma
iron during the absence of Mrs. Thorpe.
w. w. Cook, assistant state auditor is
visiting at his farm in Labette county.
Frank Montgomery has returned after
spending a vacation at Spring Lake, Mich.
United States Marshal Sterne is expect
ed to return from Washington this week.
Clarence L. Scott is now sole owner OF
Topeka's popular restaurant, the Cream
erie
E. J. berwick has been elected vice
president of the Democratic Flambeau
Dr.. s. f. Martin will leave Saturday for
Philadelphia and other Pennsylvania
The Topeka talent hopes to see Web
Wilder win the Kansas City tennis cham
pionship.
Topeka. wants an ordinance passed com
at home.
This is the day that the hunters at
Jackson'S hole commence to kill bars and
John Madden, the Emporia PopuIist
will be one of the speakers at the reunion
THE Man With the scythe" is needed
on some of the vacant lots in the suburbs
The choir of Grace Cathedral will meet
for rehearsal this evening after the Lit
any service.
The Topeka Whist club has moved its
| rooms to the Crow building, u6 Sixth
in Louisville Ky.
Columbia council hold their semi-annuaI
election tonight
The laying of a brick pavement always
attracts a crowd of spectators. The pro-
cess is interesting.
J. a. Davis. has purchased the property
rem street for S., 900.
Seven more men were hunting an auto
matte kicking machine today because they
had not registered.
the low rate of IS per day are beginning
to plan to come home.
r. NJ Wright of Dodge City, state for
estry commissioner, was in the city on
official business today
The dancing season is nearly here with
a scarcity of halls for those who wish to
dance to contend with.
Sylvan Klein of this city was born in
the same town as Captain Dreyfus and
knew him when boy
fr Die6 Alden i OF the 6ffice Of auditor Of
Chicago on a vacation
r. B. FIeharty has returned from North
see a brother who is sick.
Hay fever is having its inning just now
and the sufferers are wishing they could
get away to the mountains.
The Rock. Island officials. believe the
'hOOdOo' which has been following that
line for few days is broken.
The county officers viii celebrate Labor
county OFFICES viii close at noon.
1t is estimated that it will take the
Twentieth Kansas two months to reach
Topeka after they leave Manila.
A favorite stopping place for smokers
is at A T. WaggOner's drug store, near
Eighth street. He sells the Gath SC cigar.
The balcony has been removed from the
front of the city building and its absence
improves the appearance of the building
very much.
The Philadelphia excursionists expect
to return at 1 O'Clock on Saturday, Sep
TENDER 9, in time to vote for the city hall
proposition.
A marriage license was issued in Kan
sas City Thursday to Miss lola Hackley
Kansas City.
70 fe h. ~
sends for J. w. ThurstOn to get him out.
When an Indian gets into trouble he sends
for d. Q. TillOtsOn.
Winkler's Juvenile band, the organiza-
ton which disappointed several hundred
is stranded in AtchisOn.
There was fight on Seventh street, a
horse IN ditch at Sixth avenue. and two
the same block last night.
The new brick pavements are still COW
cracks have been filled and have the
houses in the neighborhood.
Tom King is probably the most exDer-
fenced golfer in Topeka He has played
the game a number of times a guest
of the Kansas City golf club.
The NOdOcs viii sing at the city hall
proposition meeting at Topeka post hall
tonight and tomorrow they leave to sing
to the Quakers in Philadelphia.
Fred Colver. former Topeka boy who
b9r4i9 Ttaiien spS rs nov WIN Lam an
company is this week in Denver.
'Sidetracked' on September Is viii be
Cellar Door at the Crawford theater,
according to the present booking.
Many people call September a fall
month and they are saying that this is
the hrst day Of fan. As a matter of fact
fall does not begin till September p.
County Treasurer Phillips took in over
$4,000 in delinquent taxes Thursday. Peo-
pie are paying up so that their property
will not be sold at tax sale next week
A P. Roundtree, rural delivery carrier
on the Tecumseh route, delivered 5,247
pieces of mail during the month of Aug
ust, an average of PA pieces per day.
Several members of the Twentieth Kan
sas are expected to return from San Fran
cisco soon where they have been waiting
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