The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-30
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The city employees will be paid Mon
day.
Governor Stanley has returned from
Tailor Grubbs is again able to be at
the city jail.
George FindIay has returned from
Philadelphia.
The soldiers reunion at Wichita will
be held in October.
The state bank of Cimarron has been
granted a charter
The Santa Fe Reds are playing ball
in St. Joseph today.
The state officers and employees drew
their monthly pay today.
The Kansas Democrats will go to
Kansas City tomorrow.
Miss Anna Parry Bundy will be at
her studio again on Monday.
The county treasurer's books for the
payment Of taxes, close today.
Alvin Young of the Santa Fe is
spending his vacation in Wisconsin.
The state convention of silver Repub-
1icans will be held in Topeka Monday.
Judge McCabe and Judge Dolman
boast of the coolest offices in the court
house.
DR. Bailey will lecture Monday NOR
ming at 10 o'clock at the Y. NJ. G. A
Rooms.
Mr.. and Mrs Herman Dreyer leave to-
Germany.
George Kirkpatrick addressed a tenn
perance meeting at the Euclid Avenue
church last night.
John Sargents horse ran away with
him yesterday without injuring any
thing but the buggy.
Watermelons displayed on Kansas av-
enue today look like they had been kept
in a cellar all winter.
Col S. M Fox, adjutant general, has
returned from attending the K. n. G.
officers school at Newton.
The meeting of the quarterly confer
ence will be held Monday evening at
the First Methodist church.
The executive committee of the state
| temperance union will meet at the office
of Troutman & Stone July 20.
Major A. P. shreve of Topeka is one
! of the sergeant at arms for the Demo-
cratic national convention.
]. IT White of Ada formerly a mem
Der of the state live stock sanitary COM
mission, was in the city today.
The examination of applicants for
| teachers certificates in this county will
! be held Monday and Tuesday.
The improvements which are being adj
ded to the residence of A. A. Robinson
at Eighth and Tyler are elaborate.
The Citizens Protective league will
| discuss the waterworks question at
meeting to be held week after next.
Inc Kansas SenQ1-c6nI6nn1al EXPOSE
ton will be a success. Every one is
talking about it and urging it's merits.
Maple Hill wants the Rock Island to
stop the Colorado flyer there in the ev-
ening to permit Topeka shoppers to get
off.
A wild rumor started in North Topeka
| yesterday that one of the fire wagons
ran over a girl while going to the fire
| yesterday morning.
The new tangled grading machine
which dubbed around" on Fillmore
| street has been relegated for the good
| old-fashioned pillow and shovel.
Judge White, who lives at 933 Kansas
avenue had his pension increased to $50
! a month through the efforts of Congress
man Curtis and Senator Baker.
H. G. Larfmer will speak at the Chris
| tian Citizenship meeting of the Y. P.
S. c. f. of the First Presbyterian
Church Sunday evening at o'clock.
Charles A Towne, the vice presiden-
tial nominee of the Populists, will ad-
| dress the Silver Republican state con-
vention in Topeka Monday afternoon.
The name of the Mccoy Mercantile
| company was omitted from the list of
| merchants who will give up the use of
premium stamps The firm signed the
agreement.
The glass in the door of Assistant
| County Attorney Nichols office is
broken. The rumor was started that
he had thrown a man through the door
but this is a mistake.
The depressed lawn around the court
! house was to be a wonderful method of
keep plenty of moisture in the ground
| for the grass Already the grass there
is scorched and withered.
| Topeka laboring men and business
men are 50 prosperous that it has be-
come necessary for the city clerk to
make public requests that people call at
his office and get the money which is
| due them.
The tin roof of the Columbian build
ing where the government thermometer
is located is hotter these days than the
sands of the desert. If the inside of a
building is like an oven the roof is like
a waffle iron.
These hot days Judge Hazen keeps
the little window just behind his seat
in the court room open. It has been
rumored that it was built there for the
purpose of allowing Bailif Coyne to
pass in cold lemonade but it is really
for ventilation.
Fire Chief Wilmarth has suggested
many minor changes in the arrange
ment of the rooms for the fire depart
ment in the new city hall. He was