The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-01
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEws.

Sunday school workers are in conven-
ton here this week
T. E. Lambert was in Topeka yester-
day on legal business.
Ross Dickey, of Rock Creek, has re-
turned home from Topeka
DR.. Cowan, of Valley Falls, has been
in Topeka the latter part of this week.
L E. Lambert, formerly U. S. district
attorney here, was in the city Thurs
day.
E. P. Karr, postmaster of Valley
Falls, spent Thursday in the city visit
ing the local postoff1ce.
Walter johnson. formerly with the
Kansas City Times, was in Topeka yes
terday for a few hours.
Policeman Frank Parcel is going to
Denver for his weeks vacation. He
will visit his sister there.
An entertainment by the Modern
Woodmen of America was given last
night at the Auditorium.
Mrs. H. s. Nichols, wife of Council
man Nichols, has gone to Clyde, Kas.,
where her father is quite sick.
Topeka lodge No. II A. o. U. W., will
have free illustrated lecture Ben Hur"
at their lodge room tomorrow night.
F. C. Maegly, assistant general
freight agent of the Santa Fe, has re-
turned from a weeks hunting trip
No matches in the T. A. A. billiard
tournament were played off yester-
The Scottish Rite reunion in Topeka
will be November 26 to 90 The Scot
fish Riters will be here on Thanks
giving.
An admirer presented Baby Lund, her
mother and her sister each with a cost
ly chatelaine purse while they were in
Topeka
With the county treasurers, sheriffs,
insurance men, Woodmen and a few
politicians, Topeka has been quite lively
this week
The Topeka High school team will
play the Kansas City Central High
school football team at Kansas City
Saturday.
Baby Lund seems to have lost her
magnetism; at least she failed to draw
as large an audience at the Crawford
last night as she did Wednesday.
Chief of Police Stahl will speak be-
fore the Shawnee Sunday School asso-
citation Saturday morning on Wisdom
of a temperance lesson each quarter"
The Halloween jewellers made a good
deal of noise last night, but did little
damage Noise and damage are not
harmonious for Halloween business.
Colonel Hughes ought to donate his
military binoculars to the Washburn
observatory. The colonel has no more
use for them since he took up a peace
full life.
County Attorney Nichols filed a mo-
ton in the district court Thursday af-
ternoon asking that. the writ of coram
nobis in the John Collins case be set
aside.
Mayor Hughes will preside at the
temperance meeting at the Auditorium
Sunday afternoon, when Col. George w.
Balm will speak. The admission will
be free.
The Elks had a key on tap at their
Halloween party last night and drew
the contents through an old time wood
en- spiggot. Cider was the contents of
the key.
Tomorrow is the day when all foot
ball rooters in Kansas will be on the
anxious seat hoping that Washburn
and Haskell may be victorious away
from home.
Judge E. W. Cunningham of the SUI
preme court, will make an address to-
night before the Shawnee County Sun
day School association at the Third
Presbyterian church.
G. E. Gardiner, of Meriden, was in the
city yesterday He is the candidate for
appointment to the Meriden postoffice
that was made vacant by the death of
Postmaster Swallow.
The Edison company has signified its
Willingness to make all needed repairs
in the alleys which were left in bad
condition by its excavators. The re-
pairs will be made at once.
The indications now are that the
Washburn- Ottawa football game on
Thanksgiving will be the game of the
year as Ottawa has defeated all corners
and Washburn has not lost a game
c. H. Hubbell, superintendent of Rock
Island lines west of the Missouri river,
has returned to Topeka after making
the inspection trip of the lines of the
road with the officers and directors.
A confirmed Topeka bachelor contrib
utes the following: Turning big fam
lily of small children out to play on
brick sidewalk means nervous prostra
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deaf.
The barn of G. A Wieneke at Ais Ty-
Ter street burned last evening about 8
O'Clock Before the fire department
could arrive the barn was a mass of
flames and horse and buggy were
burned. The fire was of incendiary
origin.
A A. Majors brought to the State
Journal this morning a twig of an APP
pie tree on which were three perfect
blossoms. The tree is of the Red June
variety, is located at Fifteenth and
Lincoln and this particular limb grew
only since last spring.
The Santa F'e is making estimates on
a spur track mile and half long to
be built at Leavenworth and over which
the traffic to the fort will be handled.
Mr.. and Mrs. t. E. Layden of 421
Western avenue are parents of a baby
girl born Wednesday evening.
Secretary Hitchcock, of the interior
department, has invited Senator Quarles
of Wisconsin,, Congressman J. S. Sher-
man of New York, and Charles Curtis
of Kansas. to meet him a week before
congress begins to talk over Indian af-
fairs These members of congress are
leading members of the two Indian COM
mittees.
Jim Hughes, the ex-Washburn foot
ball player, who it was reported had
joined fortunes with the Denver Ath-
letic club, is in Topeka, and says that
his deal with the D. A. c. fell through.
However, he practiced with that team
for awhile, and says that he believes
Washburn will be able to win the game
there tomorrow.
Denver Republican,: James Burger
and r. G. Parvin yesterday sent a tel
egram to Washburn hackers, inviting
them to make their headquarters while
in Denver at the Denver Athletic club.
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