The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-05-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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Governor Stanley returned today from
Holton.
There will be &c graduates from Wash
This is quarterly payment week at the
pension office.
A large amount of corn is already up
and is growing rapidly.
The spring oratorical contest at Wash
burn VIII be held on June s.
Commissioner of Elections Yount is in
Kansas City visiting his son.
Harry Steinberg's orchestra plays at a
party in Usage City tonight.
But rs men and 3 women saw the pro-
duction of "Sapho" at Emporia.
The hotel men are preparing for a big
run of trade during the next few weeks.
fore the old soldiers in Holton last night
The delegates to the G. A. R. encamp-
ment from Topeka returned home today.
There have been twelve divorce suits
filed in the district court within the past
week.
The next annual encampment of the
Kansas G. A R. will be held at Junction
City.
The high school team and the Santa Fe
REDS" will play ball tomorrow after
noon.
The Populist county central committee
meets at Weber's hall Saturday, May u,
at l o'clock.
Twenty pieces of Marshalrs band furn-
ished music at Holton for the C. A. R.
encampment.
A third production of La Fiesta de San
Xavier will be given at the Crawford
theater tonight.
Most of the Topeka travelling men are in
AtchisOn today attending the grand lodge
of the L. c. T.
Colonel S. NJ. Fox, adjutant general for
Kansas, attended the Masonic meeting at
Wichita this week.
The drug store saloons entirely approve
creases their trade.
The poll tax injunction case has been
postponed by Judge Hazen until Saturday
afternoon at I O'Clock.
New rails are being laid on the Huntoon
street branch of the city railway, west
from buchanan street.
Mrs. Mary. Gallagher. who died in one
Emporia this week.
The people who are really interested in
the auditorium pass the building every
day and note the changes
-, The badges for delegates to the ma
tional conference of corrections and char
tiles are elaborate affairs.
The colored Republicans of the state
will hold a state convention in Topeka
next Monday and Tuesday.
The Topeka travelling men are in Atchi-
son today attending the Grand council
United Commercial Travellers.
Some bets are being made in Topeka on
the result of the prize fight tonight. jeff
r1eS' admirers are giving odds.
The annual inter-society debate between
the Washburn literary societies will be
held on Friday evening of next week.
The graduation address before the SEN
ior class at Washburn will be delivered
this year by Governor Stanley on June ID.
Mr.. E. S. Brigham left Thursday after
noon for Hot Springs, Ark. Mr. Brigham
is the lessee of the Hot Springs theater.
A temporary sidewalk has been built
out into Kansas avenue around the en-
closure in front of the addition to the fed
| eral building.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon will read to his
| congregation a new story dealing with
! the servant girl problem after his return
/ from Europe.
! While visiting his old home in Pennsyl-
vania, DR.. A. D. Thompson found his mi
/ tials cut in a beech tree. He did the
/ carving p years ago.
/ Since the trust advanced the price of
/ gasoline stoves, there is large demand
for new burners, says Mr.. Hull, the East
! Eighth street stove dealer.
Police Matron Thorpe says that young
! girls are never placed with older and
more hardened women in the city jail,
! but are kept in q room by themselves.
The Emporia Union Epworth league will
meet tonight in the Oakland NJ. E. church,
and will be addressed by Rev. J. A. Stave-
y en- What the Np~0rfh League May
Wallace Thompson a former Topeka
| high school student, who has recently
/ been attending school in Philadelphia, has
/ returned here and will graduate with his
class.
The Topeka Horse Show association has
| been organized with F. E. Wear as presi-
dent. It is the purpose of the association
/ to hold horse shows in Topeka, the first
/ to be this summer.
Marshalfs band was wanted at the Hol-
| ton G. A r. eucampment, the Knights
| Templar conclave at Wichita. and the
/ Atchison travelling mems meeting at the
same time. They went to HoltoH.
Charles Titus, assistant secretary of the
| Y NJ c A. is running an employment
| bureau in connection with the association
| Positions have been found for IA mer
| since the first of the year.
Nelson Riker has been employed by the
! park commissioners to have charge OF
| Gage park. He has been sworn in as
deputy sheriff with fun power to arrest
| any trespassers. He lives on the place.
Stewart St. John, aged IS years, was
1 lodged in the county Jail Thursday after
noon on the charge of larceny. He is
| supposed to have stolen IS from the money
drawer of the Union Pacific depot al
| Rossville.
One candidate for secretary of ths
| Shawnee county Republican central com
mittee says to members of the commit
tee: You haven't heard anything about
me for secretary?' The answer is invar
| iably: NOT
The 10 members of NIarshaIs band whe
furnished the music at the 6. A r. en-
campment at Holton, returned to Topeka
| in a special coach attached to a Rock Is