The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-11
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

Gk.a
The Washburn baseball team has dis
banded.
June 20 the penalty for unpaid taxes viii
be assessed.
Mr.. and Mrs Jacob Helbert are the par
ents of a. son.
Fred Cole and Frank Crane were at |
Lake View yesterday.
Gospel meetings are being held nightly |
in a tent in Oakland.
Topeka Ell1s instituted a new lodge at /
Lawrence Saturday night.
Yesterday mornings rain was one of |
the heaviest of the season.
Several new liquor signs have appeared |
on the fence to GARFIELD park.
Chief Wilmarth is looking for new
horses for the fire department
The expenses for maintaining Christ |
hospital last year were $10.752.41.
Rev. Abram Wyman, of Unity church. |
preached in Lawrence Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Etzel, of s09 Branner
street. are the parents of a daughter.
The Elmwood club has opened tennis
courts at Eleventh and Polk streets.
Judge Hazen has returned from Atchi-
son, where he held court for Judge Bland. |
Company A, the new militia organiza-
uon, will be mustered in tomorrow night |
c. NJ. Olson. of Chattanooga, addressed
the Y NJ c. A meeting yesterday after
The family of H ]. Neiswender is spend
ing the summer in Colorado Springs. Colo
President c. c. Baker made a trip of
terday.
Grant Shaw of the Florence Bulletin
senator.
The State Bank of Luray, Russell coun-
ty. has been opened for business. 1t is a
The Kansas Temperance commissioner
club will hold a regular meeting tomor-
row night.
Mr.. ". E. Samuel has removed from
Topeka to Emporia and viii engage in
business there.
Mr.. ]. D. Salmon, who was stricken
home in Topeka
Marshan's band played the march
Olympia written by J. B. Marshall, at
the Sunday concert.
a Chautauqua assembly as Winfield or
other Kansas towns?
The road between Potwin and the in
sane asylum is very rough. Wagons haul
ing stone have cut it up.
The plans have not yet been made for
the Sheldon drinking fountain to be placed
near the transfer station
j. r. Burton has gone to Philadelphia
to get things in shape for the Kansans
at the national convention.
The Leland hotel Chicago will be the
Kansas headquarters during the national
encampment of the G. A. R.
The so given the, Y. w. c. A by Rev.
department of domestic science.
Ward Silver has returned home from
Pendleton, Oregon, where he has been
teaching in the Pendleton academy.
Buffalo Jones arrived Saturday, on his
way to Washington with two Rocky
Mountain sheep for the Smithsonian insti-
tute.
A good strike of mineral is reported in
the vicinity of the land owned by General
Hudson and other Topeka people in Mis-
souri,
The work of running the line for the
fire alarm system into the new fire de-
| menced.
The white wings do not work as hard
as they did when the plan of cleaning
Kansas avenue in that manner was an
experiment.
a. Larson. formerly of the Santa Fe
OFFICES, has resigned and taken a position
| with the Southern California railway at
Los Angeles
John w. BreidenthaI says Ellis county
| viii raise 900 bushels OF wheat for every
| farmer in the county this year. This beats
/ the gold mines
The Students Christian association of
| Washburn college, attended the services
/ at the Central Congregational church last
\ night in q body.
The commencement exercises of the
! Washburn academy takes place tonight.
There are six graduates. The graduates
! will deliver orations.
M A. Low is compelled to go to Ne
braska this week official business and
| may not get through in time to go to the
national Republican convention.
A city railway car jumped the track at
last night. Several policemen complained
of being awakened by the noise.
Rudolph Detweiler mas been elected
| manager of the Washburn ball team for
next season. George Huron is manager
of the football team; Ernest Hughes is
] captain.
w w. Dennison. Topeka, has been
| named assistant quartermaster general
| of the Kansas G. A. r. department. Jesse
Langston has been appointed chief color
| bearer.
Architect Holland has discovered that
some of the stones on the north wall of
the auditorium building were started
| wrong and the work will have to be done
| over again.
Hairs beautiful waltz. 1.-The Wedding of
| the Winds" and SOusa's latest march,
THE Man Behind the Gun" were num-
bers of the Marshall Band concert Sun
day afternoon.
Clyde Foote, late of the car service de-
partment of the Santa Fe, left today for
Chicago to take a position as stenog-
rapher in the office of the superintendent
of terminals of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& ST Paul railway.
The address to the religious societies of
| Washburn college was given last evening
at the Central Congregational church by
of the address was Ideals
The executive council has granted per
mission to the park commissioners to i'm
seats and other comfortable conveniences
in the shade along the walks
An open meeting Of 7, the Washbq 1E1
college chapel Tuesday evening. This viii
be the first open meeting of the associa-
ton and a special programme has beer
The residents adjoining the MetskeI
tract are complaining that the low ground
in the ravines is being used for a dump
The sanitary department has been fire.
quentIy notified. but no effort is made tc
put stop to this practice
/ AT the meeting of the board of trustees
OF Christ hospital held at Bishop Mills
paugh's house, Saturday evening, Dear
J. w. Sykes Mr.. J. w. FarnsWorth, Mr.
w G. Smyser and Major William Sim:
were reelected for the term ending il
1904.
The senior class at Washburn viii hole
their class day exercises on the college
campus tomorrow morning. The class
| Of the program win be a funeral service
in which the seniors will bury their books
From the Benton County, Missouri. En-
terprise: General J. h. Hudson who re
Gently spent week in Benton county
and as a result of his Investigations in
vested largely in mineral lands has dis
1,osaa of his interests at Topeka and vii