The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-01
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

D. H Martin has returned from a
southern Kansas trip
The Wichita Carnival association has
had itself chartered for So, 900.
The High school football eleven Will
soon play the Horton High school
The whist club is holding regular
meetings every other Monday evening
License Collector p. H. Forbes collect
ed $145 during the month of September.
Austin Brady, of the Kansas City
Times, visited his parents here yester-
day.
H G. Adams, formerly of Topeka, but
now of Maple Hill. was in Topeka yes
terday.
1t is about time some of the holes in
the Kansas avenue asphalt were oblit-
Grated.
Early indications point to a larger in
terest in basket ball here this winter
than last.
r. H. Fogle left yesterday for Chi
cago. where he will work in an a.rchi-
tects office
w. F. Evans, assistant attorney for
the Rock Island, is visiting in Iowa for
a short time.
The drainage pipe has been laid I'M
derneath the Rock Island tracks at
Jackson street.
Mrs. j. K. Wright of Topeka is visit
ing her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ezekiel
Rogers, at Lyndon
c. II. Hubbell, superintendent of Rock
LSldQQ 1noS west OF the missouri river
is at his offices here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoyt Sturgis of lis
North Madison street are the parents
of a baby boy born Sunday.
The Woodmen of the World held the
first social of the season at the hall at
AS Kansas avenue last night.
J. G. Waters, L. S. Ferry and John
F. Switzer went to Alma today TO at
tend Judge Thomson's court.
Mrs. Annie L. Diggs has purchased
an acre of ground in Potwin and will
build a house on the property.
Some of the side streets as we'll as the
down town streets give evidence of the
need of a visit by the street sweeper. 4
Work has been commenced on the
new $4,000 residence of c. E. Foote,
next to the governors mansion.
The building of the new desiccating
works is well under way. 1t will be
ready for work before November 1.
A new case of scarlet fever was re-
ported yesterday. 1t is Arthur Scahill,
the son of e. Scahill, 412 Monroe street.
It is rumored that Frank Grimes has
not received definite word from Senator
Burton today that Tracy will be APP
pointed
The Washburn line will probably be
heavier when it meets the Kansas City
Medics next Saturday on the Wash
burn field.
Emporia Gazette: Miss Lena Plato,
daughter of Prof. Plato, came down
from Topeka and entered the high
school today.
returned from the hot springs of Las
Vegas, N. M, where they have been for
the last six weeks.
John HaiSch is in the hay business,
He recently bought 300 tons of hay in
the Indian Territory and sold it here
at a profit of $1,000.
There will be a Democratic caucus to
nom mate township officers at the office
of Justice of Peace Maggie Wednesday
afternoon at o'clock.
The degree team of A. o. u. w. lodge
331 of North Topeka will go to HoltQn
Friday to participate in a competitive
drill for a prize of $25.
The supreme court began it's October
sitting today, Justice Ellis being absent
by sickness. The Parker-Hughes deci-
sion is what Topeka is looking for.
The Kansas Medical college will put
a football team into the field this fall.
Lawrence Banks viii coach the eleven,
and games will at once be arranged.
Blind Boone appeared before a, large
audience at the Third Christian church
Monday evening. He will be at the ST.
Johns Methodist church this evening"
1.-THE Kids First Prairie Chicken
story written by Charles H. Morton.
stenographer IN the supreme court
clerks office, appears in the October
Outing.
The coal trust has showed up the
price of all kinds of coal from 25 to so
cents a ton. Anthracite is now so
and standard grades of soft coal from
$3.50 to 81.
The Ministerial Union meetings have
been resumed after the vacation period
The next meeting will be held at the
Y. M. G. A. parlors next Monday fore
noon at 10 o'clock.
Miss Ruth Houghton,s who has been
with the T. E. Bowman real estate COM
pany OF Boston, Mass, has arrived in
Topeka to take a position in the local
office of that firm
c. NJ. Sheldon, secretary of the state
senate, will take a Pullman load of
statesmen and politicians to look at the
Louisiana oil fields, where he has in
terests, from here next Friday.
Congressman j. NJ Miller was up
from Council Grove last night He
says neither mis- postoffiees nor the big
field of congressional aspirants in the
Fourth district are worrying him.
J. H. Blythe, an Atchison man, is in
Topeka making arrangements to build
some public bowling alleys. This is an
investment which ought to pay well.
There is not a~single public bowling
alley in town.
The washburn second team will play
a game of football with the K. u sec
ond team on October II Frank Moss,
who played first base ON last summers
baseball team, is captain of the second
football eleven.
The Lyndon Daily News is the name
of a week old sheet of four pages, SILKS,
published by j. K. Schririver at Lyn-
don. 1t is delivered to all parts of the
village for cents a week 1t contains
no telegraph news.
G. f. Worley, wife and youngest son
came in Monday from Gettysburg, Pa,
after spending two weeks with the par
ents of Mr.. Morley near that place.
Mrs. Worley has been away from To-
peka since the middle of June.
The owner of the bicycle stolen near
ly a year ago by Delno Roemer, wants
to drop the matter and let the prisoner
who has been to the Klondike and 9TH
er distant lands since the occasion, go
UNPUBLISHED. This makes the police de-
III arad