The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-25
LOCAL MENTION.

Howard Guild spent yesterday at the
Beatrice Chautauqua.
RI Howard returned yesterday from
a few days visit in Kansas City.
The Flambeau club will not wear their
uniforms in the parade this evening.
The concert by MarshalTs band liz
Garfield park yesterday was well at
tended
Hale Hamilton won the handicap golf
tournament Saturday. He had handi-
cap of Is.
o. P. Updegraff has returned from
Denver where he has been attending the
Denver horse show.
NJ. s. Hollis and Burr Willard were
the two who put dollar each for riding
on the sidewalk today.
Work has been commenced on the al
ley between Van Buren, and Harrison
and Seventh and Eighth.
Mrs. Alice Chadwick Jefferson of
Pittsburg, Kan, is visiting Mrs w. H.
Wilson, 612 Monroe street.
The council will hold short session
tonight and will then attend the meet
ing at the Commercial club.
The paving of the alleys in the block
between Van Buren, and Harrison and
Fifth and Sixth has been completed.
The asphalt sidewalk on the southeast
corner of Sixth and Kansas avenues, is
being torn up to be replaced with brick.
A. K. Rodgers has gone to Kansas
City to meet Congressman Curtis. He
will return with Mr.. Curtis this evening.
The citizens who will participate i'll
the Curtis parade this evening will meet
at the Rock Island depot at O'Clock
this evening.
The railroads have granted a rate of
one and one-third fare for the conven-
ton of commercial clubs, to be held in
this city on July IT, next.
The plans and specifications for the
city water plant will be completed June
q. They viii be submitted to the coun-
ell the first meeting in July.
John w. Jones has filed suit for di-
vorce from Mary 3. Jones. He claims
that she left his home several years ago
and is now living as the wife of another.
r. B. Kepley of Topeka has secured
the contract for building $4,000 feet of
brick sidewalk in IeaVenwOrth- The
price is seven and sixteenth cents per
square foot.
Charlotte Patterson was adjudged in
sane in the probate court this morning.
The jury found that she had lost her
reason through worry and trouble with
her husband.
The committee in charge of the Curtis
reception requests the presence of the
Ladies of the Woman's Republican as
sociation on the balcony at the Cope
land hotel at s o'clock this evening.
William Burns, who was formerly
the representative of the Swift Packing
company in Topeka, has resigned his
position. He will in the future repre-
sent a commission house in Oklahoma
| Maurice P. Gould, a former Washburn
! student who carried a State Journal
/ route during his term in the Topeka col
! lege, is mentioned in the dispatches to-
/ day as one of the historians in the ex-
/ ercises at Yale.
Mr.. J. w. higgins, mayor of Waco,
| Texas, has written the Topeka CONNER
| cial club asking for information con-
/ corning the Melan arch bridge across
/ the Kansas river. The fact that a bridge
| is about to be constructed across the
| BrazoS river at Waco is responsible for
! the request.
The Topeka Turner's secured second
| place in the national contest now be-
| ing held in Philadelphia. There are a
| great many Turner societies in the con-
/ test and the local men are greatly elated
I over their success. A reception will be
! rendered them when they return home.
| The letter telling of their success does
not give the number of points scored but
! says the Kansas boys are being treated
| royalty and are attracting a great deal
| of attention.
Ollie Day, a young man whose par
ents live in Topeka, was thrown from
| the top of Santa Fe passenger train
| No. 6 as it was entering the Lawrence
yards last Friday evening. He struck
| the ground with great force, sustaining
a fracture of one ankle and severe in
| ternal injuries. Young Day had been in
| Topeka visiting his parents, and was
| stealing a ride to Lawrence on the top
| of one of the cars It is understood
that his injuries are serious.
AS Mrs. Alice Brubaker, who lives in
the country, was driving up Kansas
| avenue this morning her buggy collided
| with a light wagon driven by P E.
| Vicken of 1101 Western avenue Mrs.
Brubaker was thrown from her buggy
but was only slightly injured. The
| buggy and harness were considerably
damaged. Niclen was crossing the
street car track and said that he drove
into her buggy in attempting to avoid
being run down by a street car. His
! rig was uninjured.