The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-30
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Soldier creek is up and the boating is
good.
Frank Nelson speaks at WaKeeney
tomorrow.
A B. Quinton transacted business in
Kansas City today.
Governor Stanley starts out tomorrow
on speaking tour.
Probate Judge Dolman will return this
week from Colorado.
The work of roofing the auditorium
is nearing completion.
]. d. Downes, Topeka, has been COM
missioned as a notary public
MarshalPs band played the British
Patrol at the concert yesterday.
General Manager H. U. Nudge, of the
Santa Fe, returned Sunday from Colo
RADIO.
General J. X Hudson has returned
from Missouri for a short stay in To-
pelxa-
Governor Stanley fixed August 10 as
pardon day, but later changed the date
to August 20.
Mr.. W. ]. Healy, auditor Of freight
receipts of the Santa Fe, has returned
from Chicago.
Work has commenced on the addition
to Polk school and the stone maSonS Will
soon be at work.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
will spend three weeks in August at
his old home in Iowa
General Freight Agent H H. Embry,
of the Rock Island, is making a tour
Of the western lines.
The third of the handsome new Santa
Fe chair cars was taken to Kansas City
Sunday for a trial trip
The Central Congregational church Of
Brooklyn may invite Rev. Charles M.
Sheldon to the passionate.
John A. Bright, grand master the I. o.
0. F., is lecturing in Pratt, COmanche,
Clark and Barber counties.
Grading for pavement on Taylor
street between Sixth and Eighth ave
nueS has been commenced
Henry Scott, of the auditor of freight
receipts office of the Santa Fe, left to-
day for Chicago on a vacation.
The concrete floor in the new fire de-
partment headquarters is being laid. The
carpenters are finishing the upper floors.
Bailiff John Coyne of the district court
says 1t angerS him to have people come
into the court room smoking and not Of
fer him cigar.
The streets and walks committee is
the hardest worked committee in the
city council. This is due to the large
amount of paving that has been done
this year.
The great Wallace show is the only
large circus billed to visit Topeka this
year according to the reports sent out by
Wallace'S advertising agent. 1t will be
here August II.
In the absence of his mother and sis
ter, who are visiting in Beloit, Will G.
Dickie gave an enjoyable stag" party
to a few Of his friends Saturday night
at his home on Fillmore street.
The Home Annuity association, a fra
ternal organization of St. Louis, has
been admitted to do business in Kan
sas, proper license having been obtained
from the insurance department.
Manager L. NJ. Crawford's scheme to
remodel the Academy of Music in Kan
SaS City and open it as a home for
popular price light opera has. accord
ing. to a Kansas City paper, fallen
through.
Mr.. F. J. Shubert, assistant general
freight agent of the Rock Island, and
Mr. H. d. Crosby, of the legal depart
mountains of Colorado on a hunting ex-
petition.
Joseph Lewis of Topeka seems to have
a varied experience. According to a
morning paper he came to Topeka in 1872
when he was five years old and that
same year returned to Illinois to engage
in the Black Hawk war.
Conductor Dick Wilson now offici-
ates as Sunday conductor of the Santa
Fe plug. He is equally at home boss
ing a freight gang or collecting tickets
from a crowd which has spent the day in
Kansas City.
A committee of residents of Highland
Park called on Mayor Drew, Saturday,
in the interest of the macadam road be-
tween Topeka and the park. They want
the city to give them financial aid in the
building of the road.
Congressman Curtis wrote to the post
office department asking that the estab-
lishment of free rural delivery routes be
pushed in this district, and was informed
that all applications for routes would be
considered in the order that they are
filed.