The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-01
sNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Hard coal is worth 50 per ton.
Peaches are still selling at famine
The city council viii meet Monday
night.
Bishop Millspaugh is i'll at Prior Lake.
Mimi.
1t is a fact that over two-thirds Of the
Joints are closed.
J. I. Gabel, editor of the Holton Tri-
Dune Is in the city.
Judge S. H. Allen was in Emporia on
legal business Friday.
Whose rain was it: Cider Smiths
or the weather bureaus?
Soft coal is scheduled for an increase
in price. beginning today.
Hay is selling above IS per ton. The
dry weather made the crop short.
Farmers are rushing their corn to
market at 81 cents per bushel-
The Pottawatomie Indian school at
Nadeau will open Monday with a bar
becue.
Jacison's band will play for the Re
publican picnic at Wakarusa Septem-
Der IL.
at o'clock this afternoon at Grace Ca
thedral.
A Free Methodist conference is now in
session at the Parkdale Methodist
church.
A cavern social" is to be given at
day evening.
The Turner's will run an excursion to
LeavenWorth week from tomorrow,
September 9.
Santa Fe, is absent from the city on an
inspection trip.
r. B. Kepley has been in Leavenworth
the past week looking after his paving
contracts there.
Governor Stanley will arrive in Topeka
mr. inc hi ia ri
tour of the northwest.
Morton Albaugh has gone to King
man to renew acquaintance with the
members of his family.
Professor jackson is trying to beat
the Auditorium MINISTRIES by having the
largest and best show.
The city scales have been moved to
the lot north of the city prison and are
now In working order.
The rain yesterday caught many far
mers with hay stacks open and much
hay down in the fields.
Jailer ]. A. Grubbs, who was gored by
a vicious bull, is improving. He will
be able to be out in a few days.
Councilmen Swendson went to st. Joe
and Atchison for few days vacation.
He will return Tuesday evening.
All the oats used by the fire depart
ment at the new quarters will go
through an automatic Oat cleaner.
SasheS for men were popular ten
years ago. A young man wearing one
today was seen on Kansas avenue.
Rev. Frank Scott, of the Free Meth
odist conference, will preach at the
Third Presbyterian church Sunday ev-
ening.
Dean Hayden, of the Church of the As
sumption, is now in France He will re-
turn to Topeka about of the first of Oc-
tober.
The Topeka City Troop viii meet at
the usual place at 9 o'clock a. m. next
Monday to assist in the Labor Day
parade.
Col. Ed Little and Rev. D. M. Fisk
will be the orators at the Labor Day
celebration at Garfield park Monday af-
ternoon.
Mr.. ]. D. NJ. Hamilton, claim attor-
ney of the Santa Fe, has returned after
spending a vacation in New York and
Long Island.
Pick Smith is still absent from the
city. He is supposed to be at Snow
Island. He changed his mind about go
ing to Europe.
Many people went to Garfield park
last night expecting to hear band con-
cert. The concert was called off because
Of the rain in the afternoon.
Tom Kelly, secretary of the Repub1i-
can state committee, has gone to Denver
to visit a week with Mrs. Kelly, who
has been spending the summer there.
The rails that are being put on the
Quinton Heights line Of the car line
are old ones that are having the I'm
worn side placed toward the center.
The sanitary department is kept busy
looking after complaints concerning vile
odors. More complaints are made now
than during the extremely hot weather
in August.
The last case of smallpox in the city
was released from quarantine this morn
ing and the house and contents were
fumigated- The case was at 905 North
Tyler street.
The streets and walks committee will
again investigate the paving on Topeka
avenue between Fourteenth and the city
limits. The kickerS were not satisfied
with the last investigation.
w. c. Miller of Medicine Lodge who
has been renominated for representa-
tive by the Republicans was a Topeka
visitor yesterday. He predicts the re-
election of Congressman Long.
Shawnee county has more defective
culverts and small bridges than any
county in Kansas. A ride over some of
the roads west of Topeka would lead
one to believe that the road supervisors
have all become blind.
Miss Morgia Warde Lytton, formerly
of Topeka, soubrette with Dodge'S
"Trip to New York" last season, is now
singing the leading soubrette roles in
repertoire opera at Midland Beach, L.
L, one Of the popular summer resorts.
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