The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-09-18
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The falzirs are making preparations for
the reunion.
DR.. s: E. Martin returned Sunday from
Pennsylvania.
DR.. L. H. Mum returned this afternoon
from Colorado.
The fair grounds will be Camp Fun
stOn'' next week.
A Topeka minister preached about the
Dreyfus trial Sunday.
Next week the city Joint cases will come
up in the district court.
over the cooler weather.
The Republican Flambeau club now has
a membership of over 300.
All the policemen want to go to the
Corn Carnival at AtchisOn.
The cool, Their makes one think of
turkey and cranberry sauce.
Choice meats and premium stamps at
r. 3. Gathers, 403 Polk street.
Admiration for fires suddenly developed
in many Topeka homes Sunday.
DIT j. C. McCIntock has returned from
Colorado after a four weeks stay.
Quarterly meeting services were held at
the Oakland NJ. a. church Sunday.
The ladder truck of fire station No. 3,
was in for light repairs last week.
AS baseball enthusiasm begins to wane
football begins to come to the front.
Tom King, city passenger agent of the
Santa Fe has returned from New York.
There are 90 electric lights in the dis
play windows of the Palace clothing store
One Topeka firm has sold 500 worth of
golf supplies during the past two weeks.
Straw hats and upturned coat collars
are poor combination these cool morn
ings.
There is one lone bloomer girl in To-
peka and she rides diamond frame BIZ
cycle.
Ralph ingalls,, son of Senator ingalls,,
is recruiting volunteers for the Philip
pines.
Many. people are buying coke and stor-
price.
Irwin lodge No 26O. A. o. U. w, will
day night.
The merchants have lost lots of trade
the past few Saturday nights on account
OF the rain.
Dean Low will referee the football game
between Washburn and the Kansas City
New stoves have to be bought for the
police station A heating plant would be
a good thing.
There are some meat shops in Topeka
that cut up all kinds of meat and call
seem to be the prevailing style for ladies
just at present
When all the paving contracted for is
completed there viii be 146 blocks OF paw
ed streets in Topeka
DR.. 5. f. Sheldon was called back home
from Colorado on account Of the serious
illness OF Mrs. J. P. Davis.
General Manager Frey of the Santa Fe
has returned after an inspection tour with
Third Vice President Barr.
Topeka is the one city in the universe
where the street cars do not run until
o clock on Sunday mornings.
Henry billiards. colored minstrel com
opera house on September q.
Farmers say the rain Sunday has put
plOWing that is still to be DONE
A Topeka dentist says a Christian
Scientist makes just as much fuss about
having tooth pulled as anybody else
The street paving is being done very
slowly; It now looks as if all contracted
for will not be completed this season.
The new Edison smoke stack will when
finished have an iron ladder running from
the ground to the top, on the outside.
The paVements are moderately clean
since the rain. They were washed as
usual this morning by the street force.
A collection OF photographs of the Twen-
tieth Kansas in action on exhibition on
Kansas avenue attracts a large crowd.
The young man who soaked his over
coat TO pay the expenses OF his summer
vacation is now wishing that he hadn't.
The divine heaIers who were on the
streets last week viii adopt broadcloth
for winter wear Linen would be rather
Topeka, has already been worked by the
same young man, three times Tor fresh
shine.
Mrs. Margaret Houston has sued for a
divorce from her husband, Charles G;
Houston They have been married "a
a Topeka man observes. that tie next
generation will be noted for its kicl1ers,
judging by the way that boys pursue
The school, boys are. already talking of
shiny on the ice The fever has been
golf clubs.
Several sidewalks on Kansas avenue
have fallen in and injured people lately. |
1t is time for the sidewalk inspector TO |
Topeka people who are inclined to be |
literary are looking forward to treat !
when William Dean HoweIs comes to ,
lecture here.
Some people are now. wishing that they
had taken their vacations earlier. Now |
lnaI II mas become cooler they feel more I
like working.
It is said that the. new smoke stack of
al least six inches at the top, in or |
tsement on the outside, only the number /
of the phone. People are expected tc |
guess the rest
w. F. Evans of the Rock Island law
department has returned from Washing
days on business.
Rev. George Thomas, a colored travel
ing evangelist who has the power will
hold a street meeting a Third street and
Kansas avenue tonight.
Syl Dixon's exhibit car of Oklahoma
different state fairs. It viii be in Atch-
isOn at the Corn Carnival
shawnee tribe No. IA. Improved Order
of Red Men will the scalping knife
on u victims next Friday evening by in
Eating them into the order.
If the interest in football increases in |
the same ratio as the attendance at kan
up some good football games.
Rev. J. L. Paynter of New York, for
merly president of the Rescue league of
First NJ. Z. church Sunday night.
A number of Topeka people will go down
10 Dig springs thursday TO attend the
ceIebra ton OF the anniversary Of the first
territorial convention in Kansas.
The first football game to be played in
Topeka viii take place Friday, Sep
TENDER 29th- WaShburn and the Kansas
City Med1cS will meet on the gridirOn.
Already people are shivering around in
the mornings and complaining about the
cold weather, when only a few days ago
they were wishing the hot weather was
over.
The street light schedule is a little off
or else it gets dark too soon. There is a
space of about an hour in the evenings
before the lights come on that is dark as
Egypt.
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