The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-26
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.


Corn is coming to market by wagons.
buted.
One bank in Topeka has 81, 522, TAP in
deposits.
The bowling contests will soon COM
mence at the T. A A.
Miss Jessie Stillman, of Nortonville,
is in town for a few days
Some of the elm trees are already
bare. The early frost did 1t.
The K. U. football team meets the
University of Wisconsin at Madison this
afternoon.
The Conversation club met Friday
evening at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Charles F. Spencer.
The Kansas City Dentals play the
Ellsworth NEEDLES on the football field at
ST. Joe this afternoon.
A carload of Shawnee county apples
were sent to Lawton, Oklahoma, recent
~, and met ready market
70. Lair. a clerk in the drug store
of W. H. Wilson, on East Fourth street,
has been sick for several days.
J. NJ. Frank is paving the entire park
ing in front of his business block at
Sixth avenue and Buchanan street
The Western Wooden mills will open
Monday morning in North Topeka This
is the second wooden mill in Topeka.
John Alexander is supervising the job
of painting which is being done on the
roof of the city hall and Auditorium.
Grocerymen are handling a great
many turnips now Late summer rains
contributed their share toward making
the yield heavy.
Tomorrow there will be an eclipse of
the moon. The almanacs say it will
be invisible in all parts of America
except Alaska, and only partially SO
there
The total registration for the Novem-
Der election is 1908, the largest in the
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on this basis the population of Topeka
is over 40, 600.
Since Dean Ruskin Low had his beau
tiful and spectacular spill at the Kansas
City horse show he has been occupying
a box that can not be turned too short
and tipped over.
Washburn offered to give Manhattan
all they asked in the football contro-
versy but they refused to come to To-
peka- There are symptoms of a streak
of yellow somewhere.
The Denver papers are making con-
siderable capital out of the fact, as
they put it, that a Washburn football
player was in the x. u. team in the
game with KirkSville.
A Montgomery of the Star grocery
was victimized by check forger and
lost $25 last week. The man signed him
self F. M. Lewis and his check was on
a Washington, D. c.. bank.
1t has been suggested that in order to
complete the effect started at the city
prison that the roof be painted yellow
and large green electric lights be placed
at each side of the main entrance.
In letter from J. Ware Butterfield to
a Topeka friend Mr.. Butterfield states
that one of the Dolmans-he does not
say which-was robbed of S25 and a
gold watch While asleep in his tent a
few nights ago.
The Nye children who started out
with Roy Crawford's vaudeville COM
pany have returned. The show is still
on the road. They left the company
temporarily on account of the illness OF
their mother.
Those who have been out collecting
autumn leaves complain that the bright
red variety is scarce 1t must be the
fault of Observer Jennings for he IS sup
posed to furnish the weather that does
the coloring.
George A. Gates the prospective pres
ident of WaShburn college, has resigned
his pastorate at Cheyenne, wyoming
and has fully decided to re-enter col
lege work at some place, and WaShburn
has the preference
One week from Tuesday is election
day. All the friends of the fair grounds
tax levy proposition should get out and
vote for it. The proposition is for a III
mill levy each year for two years.
The Haskell Indians couldn't induce
the State Normal football team from
EmpOria to travel to Lawrence ana
meet them on the gridiron this afternoon
lust for a practice game. The Nor
malites declined to go to the slaughter
like lambs.
Mrs Curtis S. Bailey of Topeka lost
three diamond rings, worth $500, at the
Midland Hotel in Kansas City Thursday
She left the rings in the wash room Dy
mistake, and when she returned for
them, they were gone.
Charles Macklin, who played the part
of 1.-The Rev. Thomas Singleton in
Lovers Lane" will be at the head of
the original company next season play
ing only the larger cities. His name is
Charles Mackelhenny and his home is at
Abilene.
East Lynne" with Blanche Stoddard
in the leading role, drew a very small
audience at the Crawford last night
East Lynne" and Uncle Toms Cabin"
companies are about on par as a rule,
but the people understand Manager
Crawford's methods and they can not
be entrapped by East Lynne"
The Rev D. NJ Fisk, pastor of the
First Congregational church, will preach
Sunday morning on the subject, Jesus
as Method, Christ the Everlasting How"
In the evening his subject will be, How
Did the Apostolic Age Organize and Ad-
minister the Early Church? Has Con-
gregationalism Any New Testament
Warrant?"
Judge Hazen will be busy with the
motion docket and court cases until the
jury reassembles in December and he
will not order the 80 liquor cases from
the police court placed on the docket
for this term. Judge Hazen is a pretty
busy man and thinks that if police
judge cannot prepare cases for appeal
in time that he can wait.
Edward Wilder read a paper on the
subject of "Popularizing a Library" at
alton at Kansas City Friday Among the
other Topeka people who were in at