The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-27
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
J. Sweet is in kansas city

Walnuts are very scarce this year.
The man who failed to register has
only himself to blame.
R. H. Semple has returned from visit
in Kansas City with the Democrats.
Considerable Leavenworth ''Klondike''
literature is being distributed in Topeka
Dean Low has entered a potato race
for the horse show in Kansas City to-
night
Drill crews are handling unusually
heavy tonnage in the Santa Fe yard
this week.
The transportation of mails on street
cars will be inauguratsd in Kansas
City next week.
The first faculty concert of the season
at Washburn college last night drew
large audience.
L. A. Stebbins will speak tonight be.
fore the Bryan and Breidenthal club at
42O Kansas avenue.
The Junior Limekiln" team has de-
feated the Little Rush ems at football
by the score of 80 to 5.
The Rebekah degree team went to
Lawrence yesterday afternoon to ampli-
fy some degree work of the order.
W. B. Townsend, of St. Louis, repre-
senting the Southwestern Railway Adj
vertising and Distributing company, is
in the city.
A NJ Fuller made q. bet that McKin-
ley will carry Shawnee county by 1000
The highest estimate made by the local
politicians is 2, $50
Crowds of children are raiding the
woods for autumn foliage, which is now
in color.s that no artist will ever be
able to reproduce.
Lowman Hill has a Bryan fire sched-
uled for @tonight- A man has camped
near the sene in tent, and will remain
until the fire has burned out
The Republican county committee will
meet this afternoon in executive session
to discuss Chairman LarimerS future
f0r1v vii a iva
Mr.. ard Mrs. Keller, superintendent
at the Bird canning factory, were pre-
scented with a pair of cuff buttons and
watch chain by the employees of the fac
tory Friday.
There are some envious girls in To-
peka- A Denver girl at the Kansas
City horse show writes her nams
"Annye." And there's another who re-
spends to Ethyl"
The following is from the horse show
notes of a Kansas City paper: Dean
R Low of Topeka. Kan, will entertain
about fifty horse fanciers at the Driving
park this evening"
East Fourth street had an exhibition
of the power of the human tongue.
Wednesday evening, especially when
that instrument operates behind a face
without whiss1erS. No casualties.
The religious meetings held this week
at the German Methodist church, corner
of Fifth and Tyler, have been very sue
cessful and will be continued the COM
Jaiser.
It is announced that some Of the
cedar block paving on West Sixth ave
nue. will be replaced A citizen who
does not pay paving tax suggests that
the entire line of blocks needs replacing
with brick or other new material.
Two weeks from today K. U. comes to
Topeka to play the Washburn college
football team. 1t is hoped that Topeka
will give the Lawrence visitors a more
polite reception than Topeka people re-
ceive in Lawrence on such occasions.
In McClure's for Novem Der. is a, foot
ball story Confusion of Goods which
is illustrated by Frederick Remington
and Albert T. Reid Mr.. Reid is a kan
san whose cartoons are well known in
the state and whose work for eastern
magazines and periodicals is always in
demand
One Of the teams driven to the wagon
which carries the mail from the To-
peka postoff1ce to one of the sub-stations
has the appearance of being half-fed
and less cared for, yet the driver fright
ems. women, men and boys by driving
the animals on a. run with a sack of mail
thrown in behind the seat. This mail
wagon rushing is the municipal joke
of Topeka