The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

visitor yesterday.
c. H. Turner. of Agra, Kan, has been
attending to business in Topeka.
The various football teams are work
ing out" every afternoon these days.
Harry Steinberg went to Alma yes
terday to play for a Woodmen dance.
Mrs. Stewart Sheldon, mother of
Charles NJ. Sheldon, is seriously i'll.
Fifteen new houses have been built
this summer within 8. block of Central
park
The ce-Arlington company now at
the Grand viii go to Salina to play next
week.
Kansas university and Ottawa foot
ball teams will play at Lawrence next
Saturday.
illogical seminary at Chicago the COM
ing winter.
This week in the district court is
given over to joint cases appealed from
the city court
W. L. Flannelly, travelling passenger
agent Of the Southern railway. was in
Topeka Wednesday.
c. z. Green and c. L Eilleary, trav-
cling passenger agents of the Big -Four
We're in Topeka Wednesday.
The thing to drain the water from
Jackson street is being laid underneath
the Rock Island tracks to the river.
Il. F. Randolph, of Nortonville, pass
ed through Topeka. last evening en-
route home from the Buffalo exposi-
ton.
The Priee-Arlington company at the
Grand viii play Nell GWynne' tonight
with Miss Bonnair Price as the viyac-
ious Nell
A. o. Saunders, Santa Fe brake
man running between Topeka and
Scranton, is in the hospital with
crushed finger.
K U. Whitfield sprained his wrist
Wednesday, Inv stumbling the end
OF one Of the telephone poles which was
lying In the street.
The football enthusiasts are all
anxious to note the work of the Wash
burn team in Saturdays game with the
State Normal team
T. f. Doran viii read a paper on 1.-THE
Unique Position of Kansas in the Uni
ted States at the Saturday Night club
meeting Saturday evening
VIII White has a political love story
in the October Scribner's. Several we'll
known Kansas political characters can
be suspected" in the story.
The national convention of general
passenger agents will be held next
month at Asheville, North Carolina~SeV-
era1 Topeka men will attend
A man with a strong voice is attract
ing considerable attention by preaching
on the streets this week. He is accom-
panied by a woman and child.
Delameter and Thompson. who were
missed from the training table at w ASH
burn, are back at their places at the
table and on the practice field
The finance committee Of the grand
lodge of Odd Fellows report that the
exact shortage Of the defaulting grand
secretary, D. w. Kent, is $S.696. IL.
The Hutchinson band. which goes to
Denver for the Festival of Mountain
and Plain. will take with them half a
dozen players from Marshalls band.
No clue has yet been obtained as to
who robbed the house Of @. III. Artz, in
Oakland, ten days ago. In money and
jewelry the thieves secured about $50.
John Elliott has received word that
his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth EasterbrOok,
of Buckfast1eigh. Devonshire, England.
died on September II, at the age Of AZ
years.
The new ice making machine of the
Charles Wolff packing company will
arrive in Topeka within a few days.
and preparations are being made to
install it
The remains of Joe Myers, the Rock
Island brakeman killed in an accident
in the Rock Island yards here Monday
night have been sent to his home in
Moberly. Mo.
A man named Edward c. MeLaugh- !
lin, giving his. residence as Topeka. Sc
cured a marriage license to wed Laura
M. Welch, of Pitscairn, Pa, in Kansas
City yesterday.
The Topeka High school football !
team Will play the Lawrence High
school eleven on McCook field at Law |
renee November 2. The return game
viii be at Topeka, November 9.
J. T. Jones, a minister and mission
airy of the American board, is in To- |
peka, and will lecture this evening at !
the First Congregational church. Mr.. |
Jones has been working in India
The announcement comes from St. |
Louis of the birth of a son to Mr.. and |
Mrs. Ellis Davis. Both parents were |
formerly of Topeka, and MIR. Davis was
a member of the Twentieth Kansas
The name of Charles NJ. Sheldon's |
new story will be The Reformer-" Mr.. |
Sheldon viii begin to read this story, !
one chapter at a time, to his Sunday
evening congregations on October 6.
The Price-Arlington company at the |
Grand has extended the courtesies of /
the company to the newsboys of the /
State Journal who are invited to attend /
the matinee Saturday in a body. They /
will.
Mrs. J. b. Davidson, of 1911 East |
Sixth street was thrown from a wagon /
out near Tecumseh the other day, and |
received some painful injuries. She was
unconscious for a time. her face was
badly bruised, and one ankle was
sprained. At last reports she was i'm |
proving.
Hogs are breaking all records for
price Topeka packers are paying $6.75, /
which is the highest paid since 1885. In |
chicago hogs bring $40 Ihls IS due /
to the drouth, which caused farmers to |
ship out all their stock. The result is |
that hogs are very scarce now.
For Her Sake drew a large audience /
to the Crawford last night The play I
is Russian and tells of the love. trials |
and Punishment of the hero and hero +
inc. The vallains were really villain /
Gus set, the comedians were a jolly lot, /
the climaxes were exciting and all in |
all the play was well presented and /
kindly received
John Davidson & Co, hardware mer-
7tes- ,F Trrr- A
petition in bankruptcy was fled with /
the clerk of the United States district I
court here yesterday, setting the liabil
tiles at $4,000 and the assets of the /
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