The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

New nay IS on the market
State Auditor Cole has returned from
Girard.
Governor Stanley speaks at Cimarron
tonight
Max Prescott will go to Denver the first
Of the week.
The state board of education held a ses-
sion this forenoon
Oats and rye in Shawnee country are
being harvested
Now your weeds Is the new campaign
slogan in Topeka
Twenty-four ministers left Topeka Fri
day on one train.
Jailer Grubbs is sick at his home, 1912
Van Buren, street.
J. F. Hull is seriously Ill with brain
fever at Christ hospital.
There will be a Sunday school conven-
ton at Dover Sunday.
General Passenger Agent Black, of the
Santa Fe is in Chicago.
The H. H. club enjoyed a dance at
VinewOod park last night.
President A R. Taylor, of the State nor
NAL at Emporia, is in the city.
Mr. w. E. Culver left yesterday for
Newark, n. j, to visit relatives
L. G. futile, chief clerk of the Rock
Island freight offices, is in Chicago.
The Old Settlers association will hold it's
annual picnic at Garfield Park next Fri
day.
The parkings extended by the new paw
ing on West Tenth are being graded by
the city.
General Passenger Agent Black, of the
Santa Fe, left yesterday afternoon for
Chicago.
A new brick sidewalk is to be laid on
the south side Of Tenth, between Lincoln
and Lane
Elmont has a crack baseball nine. The
team recently defeated the Meriden and
! Union clubs.
One of the best attended band concerts
| of the season was given last night by
| MarshalpS band.
A Topeka man has planted ten varieties
| OF lettuce this season, but not a single
| seed has sprouted.
The talk about Is cent corn year ago
/ is joke now: Corn is selling at 40 cents
| retail in Topeka.
| Sunday, June "a, will be the third ami
| versary of the great hail storm which
| visited Kansas in 1897.
The Prohibition central committee had a
| balance of $5.25 remaining from the cam
| paign fund of last year.
It is expected to complete the admins
tratiOn building at the state insane aSy-
| lum here by early fall.
The prohibition convention delegates
| pledged $40 towards the state and ma
uonal campaign fund.
Work has been commenced on the paw
ing. Of Eleventh street, between Harrison
and Topeka avenue.
Chicago division of the Santa Fe, return
ed to Chicago last night.
Popular Pebbles played last night by
MarshalPs band, is one of the best med.
leys ever heard in Topeka
3. E. Amos, a Wichita man, has started
on a walk around the world He will be
in Topeka next Wednesday.
Charles Sessions, correspondent of tbs
Kansas City Journal, is visiting his par
ents in Columbus, O., this week.
The march from 1.-The Runaway Girl,
was played as an encore by Marshall:
band at the concert last night.
The first installment of returning visi
tors to the Philadelphia convention is ex
pected to reach Topeka tomorrow.
Mr. W. V. Deacon. of Topeka, has beer
elected vice president of the state associa
ton of accountants and bookkeepers.
J. F. Meyers, resident agent of thu
Remington Typewriter company has re
signed and will leave the office on July /
Miss Rose Waters, a Topeka young lady
who has been nursing in one of the Den
YER hospitals, is i'll with appendicitis II
that city.
August Troutfnan and Harry Lyddan, 0
the general offices will spend their vaca
ton on the Great Lakes and in Northern
Michigan.
The office force of the Rock Islam,
freight office are playing a game of bal
with the clerks of the Santa Fe office thi
afternoon.
People who watch the construction o
z the auditorium have tramped the gras
: out Of the yards and parks facing tn
new building.
Miss Mayo, general secretary of tn
Y. W. c. A will lead the gospel meetin
4 at the association rooms, 623 Jackso
street, at AIS p. m.
James A. Troutman will address tn
8 newsboys Monday evening al MetrOpoI
& tan hall and arrangements will be mad
for the annual picnic.
Mr.. Joseph Canker, a native African
| will speak at the United Brethren churc
tomorrow morning and evening, descriI
. tive of his experiences in Africa
Railroads are getting all their rollin
stock in shape to handle what the mar
ayers believe will be the biggest whes
e crop in the history of the state
1 Miss Josephine Van Anburgh, stenoe
- rapher to Chief Clerk Mooney, of the aud
: tor of freight receipts office, of the SAINT
Fe, is i'll at the Santa Fe hospital.
Judge Guthrie is recovering rapid
from the injuries received in a runawa
last week and will probably be able
st be at his office in a few days.
a The Good Citizens Federation held
n meeting last night at the North Topek
'e Christian church Rev F. W. Emerso
5; delivered an address on Christian Cit
10 zenship.'
= Miss Alice Spradlin, the Topeka lac
= | who was a nurse at Manila, is now NAL
- ing a tour of the state soliciting funds fl
"a the establishment of a Clara Barton hon
= in Manila
J. The hearing of w B. Bowers, the s.
Id betha man. who is charged with an o
II tense against the government, has bee
postponed until Tuesday, as the witness
were unable to be here Monday, the de
"a first set for the hearing.
- Miss Mayor, the general secretary of Il
Y. w. c. A, will leave Thursday f
: Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to attend t.
summer conference of the Y. w. c.
She will spend the remainder of the sur
mer at her home in Indianapolis. Mi
Madge Koontz will act as summer seer
II tary of the Y. w. c. A
IT II. TEXAS HORNED TOAD.
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