The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Geese and ducks are flying south in large
The first heavy frost of the season came
last night.
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wasnburn library is now open during
the evenings.
$. J. Bear has gone to New Mexico on
telephone business.
The new state library was opened for
the patrons this morning.
Governor Stanley made a speech at
Junction City Saturday night
The Washburn football teams training
Ia bic was inaugurated Thursday.
straw hats and light overcoats were
worn together in Topeka today.
w. F. Sterne. United States marshal,
went to Leavenworth this morning.
The officials of the federal court are do
ing business in LeavenWorth this week.
J. G. Waters makes q speech for the
fusionists at Mcpherson next Saturday.
The. jointists are waiting anxiously to
see what Mr. StahFs first move will be.
William Norris Vincent Grahan) sang
night. : ''-'--''- GU = go
Efusive Bourke Cochran may abound
in superlatives. but he is in earnest about
liking Topeka.
The Sheldon drinking fountain is not
ing the summer.
The colored Masons of Topeka have
asked for the use of the Auditorium on
Thanksgiving day
Prof. Hyde. of Washburn college, adj
dressed a meeting at Junction City in the
interest of the school
Congressman Curtis was introduced at
the Rossyile Republican rally Saturday
as Our boy, Charlie"
The Washburn band viii furnish music
at the Fort Etley-NVa shburn football game
IN this city next Saturday.
Prof. Harshberger, of Washburn. is kept
from the performance Of his duties on ac-
count of malarial fever.
The contractors began the paving of
Monroe street between Ninth street and
Tenth avenue this morning.
The state encamprnent of the l. o. O. F.
meets in this city this evening and the
sessions continue until Thursday.
Much credit is due Frank S. Thomas for
the success of the Bourke Cochran meet
ing He manages it from first to last.
The Republicans viii have a meeting in
Topeka Saturday night. John p. Irish, an
ex-Democrat, is billed to answer Bourke
Cochran.
The Kansas Lutheran Synod held a spe-
cial meeting Sunday at the St Johns
Lutheran church The Synod viii adjourn
Tuesday night.
Some of the X. Z. football team admir-
ers in Topeka at first refused to believe
that the Washburn team had trailed the
crimson in the dust.
What has become of the old-fashioned
man who believed in the League of Amer
lean Wheelmen as the solution of the
problem Of good roads2
There was a large delegation of Demo-
the Santa Fe depot to see him safely
started for Kansas City
Both the ladies' and mems choruses
have been organized "A. Washburn- The
glee club Will be selected from the chorus
This is how the noisy. happy students
told the story as they paraded jub1lantly
up and down Kansas avenue: What the
score This IS it, Washburn twenty-four,
K L. Mir "
=. Drummers have :, new diversion at the
Santa F'e depot They drop half dollars
down the cracks in the platform and have
fun watching eager youths fish for them
with split stick.
The news of the game at Lawrence Sat
urday was so satisfactory to the Wash
burn students that a crowd collected down
town at bout midnight and marched out
to the college shouting and singing.
There was time in Kansas when the
h L. football team would play against
any sort Of an aggregation that might
come along; Put the team dictated the
Washburn team, should play.
H Felitz and Vim. Felitz are in Topeka
visiting Mr. and Mrs F. E. Hughes They
now live at Seattle, where they are in the
tent and awning business and where they
have become wealthy. They formerly Oc-
cupied Felitz island
Eugene Hagan is an honorary member
IS managing the Kansas tour of John P.
irish. the California Irish orator who
comes to Kansas this month for a series
OF Republican speeches.
Seventy persons have united with the
First Presbyterian church since DR.. COun-
termine returned last June. The talks he
the Holy Land are drawing large aud
fences Messrs- Moore and Zeis sang at
the services last evening.
The hose company from headquarters
made the first run from the new building
Saturday evening at clock in response
TO a telephone alarm to 124 North Bran
ner street, where a small fire started in
a summer kitchen owned by NJ. NJ. Nc
Dave. The damage was small. The hose
company from station No. responded to
a stIu alarm to the Santa Fe yards early
a blaze