The Topeka state journal., 1899-09-09

that the hot weather is at an end. but it
| is not safe to bank too much on It
Smoke coming out of a chimney does
not seem SO much out of place as It has
heretofore for several months past.
A swarm of ''katyflids" arrived in town
! last night and hundreds of them were on
/ the sidewalks under the electr1c hGhts
| Prof. Albin of the Topeka Business Coi-
| lege, 521 and 523 Quincy street, does all
| kinds of engrossing, card writing, etc.
move his family to Fort Scott next week.
! He has purchased the Fort Scott Lantern.
! State Superintendent Nelson addressed
| the meeting which celebrated the opening
4 of a county high school at Norton yester-
4 day.
The federation of clubs is meeting at
! Unity church this afternoon to consider
| plans for decorating the public school
J. W. Gibbons and ]. R. McNary. spoke
at the dedlcaton OF 1he new new nan u IagI SII
! Mr. w. c. Nixon, superintendent of the
/ Chicago division of the Santa Fe, passed
! through Topeka Friday on his way to
| Chicago.
| There is some money up in Topeka on
the result of the National league contest.
Backers of Brooklyn are just now feeling
The camphor has been shaken out of
! Jackets and several young ladies' IN straw
this morning.
Street fakirs will become more numer-
Gus th eyer GoI5hg { te cirens smd sffer
that the reunion.
The city schools open Monday, Bethany
oP9s opPege opens Tggesday ana the circus
comes Wednesday.
Two divine healers occupied a street
and laying on of hands, Numerous
cures" We're made.
Joseph Bowhay who While riding in n
buggy few weeks ago was struck by
a Union Pacific train is able to be about
the StormOnt hospital.
Economical people are now laying in
their supply of clothing for next summer
summer stocks cheap.
If those Strip people would come into
commissioneTs to est esta biisb another Voting
precinct for their benefit.
The Topeka Business College has re-
placed all old typewriting machines with
latest pattern Remingtons.
A reporter said a Topeka man had been
enjoying his vacation but the man says
he didn't enjoy it at all-in fact he would
have felt better without any vacation
/ Miss BERTHE McKirahan of BeIlecenter,
| Ohio, has come to attend Washburn col
Hill.
By scientific calculation it has been
found that it would take man but three
and one-tenth seconds to reach the ground
from the top of the Edison companys s
chimney.
The spaIding official football guide to-
tally ignores the Kansas university foot
} League and says nothing about the annual
Kansas City game.
wonderful stories to tell when they re-
i, turn and it seems as if the young ladies'
I dined by Admiral Sampson.
Rev. W. F. Miller of Indiana will de-
church Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. Rev.
Miller is visiting with Mr.. Alexander Vo-
gel at No. 212 Van Buren, street.
Many of the wagons used for hauling
! sand have large cracks in them and
The sand T IS ground m io fge ' by ofer veheIe
and great deal of dust results.
About once a month the police order
occupy half the street but they keep on
like some country blacksmith shops.
! A Topeka man who has been arguing
with his family all summer against going
away on a vacation is telling them now
that it is not necessary. since there
have been two days of fall weather.
Captain Paul Boynton stopped off in
Topeka for few minutes last night on
his way west; He is globe tr9tter and
house during the trip across the conti-
nent-
Leon Herman, who will be in Topeka
soon is travelling this year as The Great
| Herman" Next year it will probably be
Herman, the Great" the title under
which his uncle was known for so many
years.
Rev. M. F. McKirahan has completed
his seventeenth year pastor of the
United Presbyterian church in this city
and is now the dean of the city pastors.
being the oldest in point of service since
the retirement of DR.. Blakesley.
Judge Hazen has already granted four
week They were Robert D. Waters from
Georgia Waters. Clara Van Solver from
John e: Van Solver, Lulu NJ Vance from
VIM. N. Vance. and Melvina Woodbridge
from Eugene Woodbridge.
1 Theodore A. Wilkie of the Topeka post
office has returned from Memphis, Tenn,
where he has been in attendance at the
National Association of POstOffice Clerks
! which has been in session there the past
week. Mr. Wilkie was elected third vice
president of the association.
Out in the Bethany grounds is the roost-
ing place of an immense number Of black
! birds but they are nowhere visible in the
day time. Just about sunrise they start
out east and west dividing about equally.
| At sunset they begin to return from each
| direction again and for an hour or SO
they keep up an incessant chattering.
= Another Hillman suit was filed Friday
and had nothing to do with insurance.
E John Hillman wants a divorce from his
- wife Cora Hillman. He claims that his
wife has habit of staying away from
) home at nights whenever she feels like it.
, / and that he does not know where she is
on such occasions.
] Bids for the erection of the new Wells,
: | Fargo express building which Will be
just south of Fifth street, near Santa Fe
| tracks, have been received and forwarded
: to Kansas City for opening of the con-
tract Work viii be commenced lmmed-
lately and the building will be finished
! | as soon as possible.
Mr.. Thomas Neiswander living seven
miles west of North Topeka, brought a
7 melon to the Journal office this morning
: ! inches in circumference. Mr. Neiswander
1 has four acres of these melons and they
will average from fifty to seventy pounds
each. He sold twelve melons this morn
: | ing that weighed 776 pounds The melons
are of the Kold Gem variety.