The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Governor Stanley speaks at Bur-
1ingame Tuesday
The Y. NJ. C. A Bible camp is in
session at Wakarusa-
Dr. L. H. Mum left Friday afternoon
for Chicago and New York
Horace Macferran and Frank Bennett
will spend Sunday in Holton.
Topeka's contingent at the Fort Scott
convention has returned home.
United States Marshal Sterne has re-
turned from a business trip to Wichita
The material has been ordered for
a new 400-telephone plant at Emporia
Camping parties choose Silver Lake
as a popular camping ground this sum
mer.
There is hot fight in Usage county
today between the Baker and Burton
forces.
The horse traders who travel from
place to place are sojourning in To-
peka.
Mr. George J. Chapman, Santa Fe
agent at Leavenworth. was in Topeka
Friday.
Mrs. Isabel Waldron wants to be sep
arated from her husband on the ground
of neglect.
Sheriff Cook is hunting for Charles
Beckley who escaped from the Usage
county Jail.
telegraph of the Santa F'e, has returned
from Chicago.
John Waters has been staying awake
nights trying to invent something new
for the ElkS Ministries.
Charles Buschow, of Colby, nominee
for state senator, visited Republican
headquarters yesterday.
The Parsons Water and Gas COM
pany has increased it's capital stock
from 100000 to $500, 000
Will Fulton, stenographer in the gen.
eral managers Office of the Santa F'e.
Is in the east on a vacation.
There will be two f1agstaffs on the
new city building, one the city hall
and one on the auditorium.
New brick sidewalks are being put
in on the west side of town, beginning
with Tenth and Lane streets.
At the close of today's Republican
conventions half of the 125 members of
the legislature will be nominated.
Next week the city engineer and
street commissioner will make a gen
eral inspection of the city bridges
The State Temperance league seems
| to be doing very little if anything
towards closing the joints in Topeka
Terry Stafford's automobile has been
painted and finished and now looks
as well as those made by manufacturers.
There remains only three blocks of
old paving contracts to be completed,
and work is being done on all of them.
The one horse hose reel used for keep
| ing reserve hose at fire department.
headquarters is being repainted by the
firemen.
Rev. H. A. Pallister of Mt. Hope,
| visited in the city Wednesday and
Thursday, the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
| FHeacock.
Mrs A. H. Thompson, Mrs. T. J. KEEL
/ lam and Superintendent Davidson are
| selecting the wall paper to be used in
| the school rooms.
| The members of the Alabama Press
| association passed through Topeka over
| the Union Pacific yesterday en- route
| home from Colorado.
| Rev. M. L. Thomas, former pastor of
| the First Baptist church in this city,
| will conduct prayer service at the church
next Thursday evening.
| John w. Breidenthal has received 300
| kilograms and nearly 1000 letters con-
| graduating him on the result of the
| Fort Scott convention.
| Two hundred Kansas men will at
| tend the reunion of the survivors of the
| Philippine campaign in Denver, August
| IS. That's an unlucky date.
DR. d M Fisk, of the Congrega-
| tional church, and Rev. H. Myers, will
| conduct services in the Belleview school
house at 8 o'clock tomorrow.
Thomas Kimble has brought suit
| against his wife for divorce and gives
| as the reason that she stayed out late
| at night and came home hilarious.
An automobile race is being talked of
| in connection with the opening of the
auditorium. It will not be given in
Washburn avenue from Tenth to
| Fifteenth streets, one of the best drives
| in Topeka, has been graded and will
| otherwise be improved in a short time.
Some of the papers are talking about
| the campaign speeches which Ben G.
| Rich of Trego county, will make. Mr..
| Rich has been dead for two years His
death, from heart failure, was very IN
| expected.
Since the shipment of Kansas corn to
| India $500 has been received by Secre-
! tary Anderson for the relief fund. This
| money will be forwarded to the Chris
tan Herald Relief association in New
York.
L. P King. of Cowley county, who
| was candidate for governor prior to
| the Fort Scott convention, announces
| that he will enter the race for United
| States senator, If the Populists secure
| the legislature.
A motion for the rehearing of the case
| involving the constitutionality of the
| court of common pleas in Cherokee and
| Crawford counties has been fled The
| supreme court decided the court is I'M
constitutional
Secretary Anderson of the Commercial
club is compiling a list to be used in
the distribution of good roads literature
All state and county officers, members
| of wheelmen's associations, mayors of
| cities and township trustees will be in
| cIuded.
David Ansel, of 638 Locust street,
| brought a basket of tomatoes to the
State Journal office today raised from
seed originally secured from the gov
riety, but very large. Three of them
weigh five pounds.
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