The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-02
SNAP SHOTS AT NEWS.

auull the monthly DIS
Nearly all the milk in town soured
last night 1t begins to look like a trust
was being formed somewhere.
The High school football team went to
Kansas City this morning to play the
Kansas City Central high school team
this afternoon
In the T. A. A billiard tournament
Friday Sam Lakin defeated H. L.
Brown 20 to 81 and Fred Bradbury de-
feated Phil Eastman 40 to rs.
MarshalPs band will not give a con-
cert Sunday afternoon at the Crawford
opera house. The concerts will be re-
sumed when the weather becomes cooler.
John vlahos is the name of Greek
lad sixteen years old who arrived re-
Gently from the city of athens. He has
been away from there only about three
weeks.
Kurtz Kellam says that he shot a
burglar at his home 1241 Western ave
nue. last Monday night and thinks he
wounded the man who was trying to
open a door.
The question is will the Washburn
bell be ringing after the game at Den
yer today and will the war whoop re-
sound at Lawrence after the Mime
apolis game.
John Smith, of 2s13 Clay street, is
sick with smallpox. He was not taken
to the pest house. William Cole, a col
Ored man. was sworn in as special
guard for the case
Advice to the Medic-Atchison foot
ball players: Don't make an 90 score.
Topeka people are getting tired of go
ing to football games and not getting a
thing for their money.
A meeting of the Kansas State grange
is to be held in Topeka on December 10,
IL and II. The Commercial club is ask
ed to give the 100 out of town delegation
a free carriage ride around the city.
Police Judge Lindsay collected $545.60
in fines during the month of October.
George H. Balm, the temperance ora
tor, arrived in Topeka this afternoon
from Howard, Kan, where he made a
speech.
The council will be asked to pay $22,-
$3.50 to pavement contractors at the
meeting Monday evening. This is the
amount of the estimates which will be
submitted for the month of October by
City Engineer McCabe.
The big brick smokestack of the state
heating plant was completed yesterday.
The workmen left small United States
flag sticking at the top of the big
stack The scaffolding is being re-
moved.
Cathedral have sent Mrs Thorpe
AZ garments for needy school children.
The You and I club has also donated %
pieces Of clothing and a pair of shoes.
all new, to the children who are sick at
the pest house.
Mayor Hughes has appealed to H. E.
Palmer, superintendent of the Union
Pacific, to have him issue orders to
forbid the blocking of street crossings
in North Topeka with trains. If Mr..
Palmer does not do something, the
mayor threatens to have some arrests
made.
Joseph Hwry Cymn. an Assyrian hail
ing directly from Boston came to To-
peka the other day on his way to Los
Angeles, Cal. After arriving here, how
ever, he learned that his relatives ia
that city were not in f1ourishing circum-
stances financially and he will return to
his home in the east.
Topeka is in the midst of the football
vortex today. 1t has three games of
intense interest on hand: the Wash
burn-Denver game the Kansas City
Topeka high school game, and the
Medic-Atchison game. There is also
| great interest here in the Haskell-Min-
| nesota game.
Governor Stanley. Secretary of State
Clark, Auditor Cole, Treasurer Grimes,
Attorney General GODDARD and Justices
| Pollock, Ellis, Green, Cunningham and
Johnston are expected to be guests of
| the Topeka Whist club at the club
Monday evening. The organization is
| arranging for the entertainment or q
| large number of guests
Street Commissioner Snyder has made
| big cut in the size of his force this
| month. The summer work is about over,
| and the force can be reduced without
| loss of efficiency, and with a saving of
| about $500 a month to the city. Mr..
| Snyder's department is one of the most
| economically managed and efficient de-
| partments of the city administration.
| Charles and Frank Sloan have or
| ganized a boys orchestra with the fol-
| lowing members: Clifford Pribble,
| pianist; Elmer Haskell, first violin; AL
| bert Cook, second violin; George Veale
| the third solo bass violin; Frank Sloan,
| first B flat cOrnet; Fred Dyal and ChaS.
| Sloan, first B fiat clarinet; Milton Gill,
| first E fiat bass; Harry Snyder, snare
| drum. The members are between the
/ ages of IA and 16 years. They will meet
| Tuesday evening at 728 Kansas avenue.
| Fourteen years of actual experience
| as a teacher and conductor of a school
| means something. While the Standard
| School of Shorthand has sent out a
| large per cent of the fastest and most
competent writers of the city, it does
not live on it's past reputation, but is
a wide-awake progressive institution,
| It's improvements in methods and faci1-
tiles are still going on The new sem
| tence method of instruction and black
board drills recently adopted are prov
| ing to be successful beyond anticipa-
ton, and enable pupils to go through
| the course more thoroughly and in much
less time The school is now placing
black-boards in every room. New type
writers have also been added. The corps
of instructors assisting Miss Canaan are
ladies of education and refinement, are
thoroughly competent in their work and
take marked interest in the welfare of
| the pupils. The enrolment of the in
| stitution is larger than ever before.
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