The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-29
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEws.


d. 7. Montague, of Boston, is visiting
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. A w.
Dana.
Miss Grace Foulks has resigned her
position as typewriter in the supreme
court.
before he drew the Missouri university
football boy.
The second Lowman Hill team de-
feated the Polk school football team
yesterday, to 0.
One of the first persons to ask about
the result of the prize fight Thursday
afternoon was woman.
twenty-five cars were required to
carry the crowd into town from the
football game yesterday.
The Lowman Hill football team and
the Clay school eleven played a tie
game yesterday, to 5.
Florists came in for their share of the
profits yesterday. Chrysanthemuns sold
for from 20 cents to 81.
The reception for Scottish Rite Ma
sons and their families will be held at
the Masonic building tonight.
Ada Robinette, a Parkdale school girl,
has been quarantined with mumps- Her
home is 140S East Eighth street
Capt. T. F. Orner, of the probate
judges office, will build a $1,000 resi-
dence at 607 West Tenth street.
About forty witnesses have been
summoned to testify in the murder
cases at the federal court this week
c. G.. Sholes.. superintendent of tele-
Thanksgiving at his home in Chicago.
Will Townsley. a former Washburn
college student, was in Topeka Thurs
day attending the Washburn-Ottawa
game.
Topeka lodge No II, A o. U. w. will
give a free stereopticon lecture Friday
evening at their rooms on the subject
of Mexico.
The criminal cases on the federal
court docket are now to be tried. The
first case, that against Jack Spear, was
called today.
The Western Woollen mill will build
a brick, one story wool house In con-
netcion with their plant. The building
The work of building the connecting
block of macadam road from the wSt
end of the College avenue pavement Is
now in progress.
Charles E. Joslin, who has been in the
drug business in Topeka for ten years.
has quit to go on the road for a phar-
maceutica1 house.
There are enough chrysanthemums in
the front windows of Topeka residences
to make a flower show if they were all
gotten together.
Three thousand people witnessed the
football game on Washburn field yes
terday. 1t was the largest crowd ever
assembled there
Wyoming to start ranch as soon as ne
quits his political job in the commits
sioner Of elections office.
A rate of one and a third fare to the
meetings of the State Board of Agrt-
culture and Improved Stock Breeders
association, January to TO-
Unpaved streets of the town are al
most as dusty now as they were in the
middle of the summer. In Parkdale
particularly the dust is disagreeable.
The tracks of the street railway on
West Eighth street may be extended
from Clay street to Buchanan in order
that cars may stop directly in front OF
the governors mansion.
H. w. Page, who has so satisfactorily
officiated at football games this season,
declined to act at the Washburn-Ot-
tawa game yesterday as he ATTENDED
Ottawa university for several years.
The High school team and the Colts
will play basket bali al the Y. M. G. A.
tonight. There is no danger of the high
school team not being there as they do
not depend on transportation but will
walk both ways.
Charles Morton won a case OF Lithia
water, a case of malt tonic, hunting
coat, two hats and a meal ticket at the
Topeka Gun club shoot yesterday. There
is more money to be made at trap
shooting than crap shooting, SO it
seems.
There are only three men in the
United States who carry more life in
surance than c. J. Devlin, of Topeka,
They are Cornelius Vanderbilt, John
Wanamaker and Peavey, the elevator
man of Minneapolis Mr.. Devlin's in
surance is $733, O00
The Topeka Medic football team, I'M
der the management of DR.. George
Thatcher, has finished the season with
all expenses paid and a clean financial
record, as we'll as an excellent record
on the field. There is no deficit to be-
gin next season with
The derelict Atchison and Sacramento
stage coach of the old DeadwoOd line
was numbered into service yesterday to
take a tally no party to the football
game 1t took about as long to get out
to the game as it would to go to Sac
ramento, so it seemed.
The infant child of Mr.. and Mrs. p.
Sullivan of 4O6 Swygart avenue died
Wednesday of membranous Group. The
case was reported to the health depart
ment. but when the sanitary officer went
to establish a quarantine on the prem
ises, the child was dead.
G. Whiting Swayne, the agent of the
orphans homes in New York which
Kansas. writes Governor Stanley that
his societies have fully complied with
the Kansas laws relative to the impor
tation of children into Kansas.
Thursday morning the price of tur-
keys dropped two cents per pound be-
low what it was the day before. The
farmers rushed their poultry to mar
ket on account of a scarcity of feed, the
result being that the market was over
crowded and the price dropped.
Hermann, the magician, drew two
large audiences at the Crawford yester-
day He is mystifying. The audiences
could not understand at the matinee
performance how he managed to keep