The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-30

wise men who want work for the winter
to tie up to some of the good farm jobs
we have to offer" he says.
The annual election of officers for the
Topeka Athletic association will take
place next Monday night at the club
rooms. J. W. Thurston. who has been
president for several years, will not be
a candidate for reelection.
The junction of East Fourth street
and Kansas avenue is dangerous
place Hardly a DAY passes without a
horse falling Oh The ragged pavement.
which in addition to the projecting car
track makes a regular horse trap.
Tom Cave went into his first football
game at Washburn Saturday a green
man. He came out a star. Caves run
down the field following up a punt will
be femern bered as one of the neatest
plays seen on the Washburn field.
W. H. Kemper of Horton, will be a
candidate for the position of grand
secretary of the I. 0. o. F., made va
cant by the absconding of D. W. Kent.
Kemper was defeated by Kent with a
small majority a few months ago.
A football team is to be organized at
promptu gathering Saturday $40 was
raised for the support of the team
about 500 more viii be raised and a
team organized for a few games
w. E. Sterne is still United States
marshal. Tracy is still out Sterne,
their hands full of trouble getting the
fellows out whose terms have already
expired. Why should lose any sIeep?''
7. s. Williams. the Topeka free en-
plOyment agent, is going to have a
blackboard made to set in front of his
Office al the city hall. On the black
board he will write the offers of posi-
tons which he has on file at his office.
F. D. Coburn voted against the set
of resolutions passed by the regents of
the Agricultural college and sent out
to the papers which said in effect: I'VE
have been running this college and we
have been running it just about proper,
don't you think?"
There is one piece of boardwalk in
Topeka that bears a charmed life. 1t is
in front of a grocery store at Sixth and
Western avenues. This morning a
young woman was tripped on one of
the loose boards and narrowly escaped a
serious accident. The sidewalk men are
evidently blind when they pass this
walk.
E. B. Cowgirl, of the Kansas Farmer.
is not convinced by laudatory resolu-
tions that the regents are not running
farming and toward fine arts. The reg
ents have voted money to carry on
seed breeding but the work is given
to the professor of botany and Is not
given into the care of the agricultural
department proper.
Walter L. Holcomb until a few
months ago stenograp her in the Office of
Labor Commissioner w. Lee Johnson,
has turned up at KendaIlville, Indiana.
He is writing on the Kendallville News,
a weekly paper. He interviews farmers
that come into the town and furnished
a column and a half to two columns of
matter, giving the farmers an inter
change of opinions on the handling of
crops and a symposium of what they
think of that town a trading place
The Mt. Carmel Coal company has
bought the lease of No. coal shaft
This is the mine owned by W. P. Dem
ing and operated by Arch Hile. The
lease runs for 20 years and was held
by J. H. March of Topeka The Mt.
Carmel company is owned by c. J.
Devlin of Topeka. 1t is his first en-
trance into mine operating in Burlin-
game. For a good many years he prac-
tically controlled operations in Scran-
ton and Usage City. OF late he has
abandoned Scranton, but has retained
some hold in Usage City.-Burlingame
Chronicle.