The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-16
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

| tomobile.
| E. A. Austin, of Arkansas City. is in
| Topeka today
| The Commercial club meets in spe-
| cial session tonight.
Summer is over The awnings have
| been removed from the city hall.
J. r. Mulvane is in Milwaukee at
| tending the convention of bankers.
| S. G. Pottle. of Ell Dorado, now rev.
enue office clerk. is here from Leaven-
| worth.
The force in the county treasurer's
office is still working on the annual set
| tlement-
Mr.. and Mrs. c. J. Rolfe. of Topeka,
are visiting the family of E. E. Smith,
/ at Salina.
The Kansas Medics are playing foot
! ball at ST. Marys with team of the
| college there
For Hearth and Home plays a mat
inee and night performance at the
Crawford today.
Rhetorical exercises We're held this
morning at 11:45 o'clock in the high
| school auditorium.
S. G. Pottle, of ElDorado, was in To-
peka yesterday. Pottle is one of the
! Fourth district politicians
A. F. Robinson. a Santa Fe bridge
| engineer, has been in Las Vegas, N. M,
| lately on company business
VIII Thompson's crOnieS say his name
| is McThompsOn these days since he has
| joined the smooth face procession.
Lawns that were burnt out by the
| drouth of the summer, are now being
| cultivated and sown to grass seed.
| Probably the largest crowd OF the sea-
| son will witness the Washburn-K. u.
| football game at WaShburn park next
| Saturday.
| Grocers say that pickles are higher
| this fall than they have been for sew
| era1 This is account OF the
| short CROP
| Rev J. r. Lawson, of Topeka, has
| sold a house and lot in the Wesleyan
| addition at Salina to Rev. r. H. Nc
| Dode of Lawrence.
! City Engineer McCabe has compiled
| some figures to show the cost of laying
| pavement. He figures the average cost
| per lot to be $3.50 year for ten years.
| j. c. Farley of Hays City, will move
| to Topeka with his family. He form
| er1y conducted drug store at Hays
| City, but has transferred his interests.
| Captain Gill, of the Washburn team,
was badly battered up in the St Joseph
| game. He dislocated finger on one
hand, and broke small bone in the
| other.
| The unwilling exercises for the tablet
| to mark the site of the first house
| erected in Topeka will be at the Null
vane building at First and Kansas
| avenue. at 2 o'clock Saturday.
| ne SHOW at STdWIOTQ WAS OAt 81
| late last night that half of the cars in
| the city had stopped running WHAT
| do you think of town of 10000 PEOPLE
where the cars stop before midnight?
| There is considerable complaint about
| the condition of the North Topeka sew
| ers. 1t is said that the flushing tanks
| do not work properly,and that the sew
| ers are in very foul and unhealthy con-
| dition.
It has been decreed by the ]. Waldere
| Kinks and Beau Brummels of Topeka
| that if the weather be chilly it will be
| according to Hoyle to wear sweaters to
| the Washburn-K- U. football game next
| Saturday.
| The bishops at the general assembly
| of Episcopalians at San Francisco this
| week refused to divide the diocese of
Kansas. Petitions were made to make
| the western portion of the state mis-
| sionary territory.
Copeland county has surrendered to
| the railroad men. The Santa Fe has
| freight agents convention and a divis-
| ion superintendent conference on it's
| hands today, and has Quartered all the
| officials present at the Copeland.
Ex-Warden J. B. Tomlinson, of Min
| neapolis, says he is not disappointed in
| the appointment of j. W. Dean as
| United States district attorney. The law
| business is rushing ii Ottawa county
| to the satisfaction of Mr.. Tomlinson. He
| is in the city today.
| officers of a school district near Leon,
Kan, have notified State Superintendent
| Nelson that they intend to attack the
| constitutionality of the law consolidat-
| ing districts and compelling pay for
| the transportation of pupils. They re-
| fuse to haul the pupils.
| The jury in the district court yester-
| day afternoon gave Louis Charowhas,
| the Greek, a judgment against Marshal
| Stonestreet of the city court for $52. The
Greek sued for 81 200 damages because
he off fool HI C dc o0l~
| emit
| al League, has announced the baseball
| players averages for the past season.
| Dick Cooley gets in with batting av-
| erage of .270. He made 80 runs and
stole IL bases and he stands above the
middle of the list.
The telephone and telegraph compa-
MES which are at present under the ban
for the city engineer because they have
not taken out permits for excavating in
the streets, have promised to be good
and will produce bond for $4,000 each
within a few days.
| w A Smith, better known as Tick
Smith the fisherman, has been voted a
| life membership in Topeka lodge Ben
eyolent and Protective Order of Elks
No. 204. Smith has been the prime
mover and head instigator in the lodge
since it was organized.
| Manager Crawford wishes several
more children to take part in Lovers
Lane'' which will be at the Crawford
| Thursday of next week Boys and girls
| who wish to take the first step on the
dramatic ladder of success may apply
at the Crawford box office.
In the last act of the Village Post
master" the heroine comes to the church
and is about to be married to the viii
lain but changes her mind and ma-rjes
the hero instead without 80 seconds de-
lay. The question is, where did the he
70 and the heroine get their marriage
! license? Maybe it was a poetic license.
The Winfield Workman is the name