The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-17

club rooms to make final arrange
ments.
The McMahan Telephone company is
figuring on a line from Harveyville,
near Burlingame to Dover. Shawnee
county viii get as badly wired pretty
soon as Kansas avenue.
Bert Parks of Rossvflle is buying up
all the apple crop in Shawnee county
that he can Therel be a time this
winter when apples will taste mighty
good canned or otherwise
The state board of railroad commits
sioners have been considering the To-
peka miller's rate case for two weeks
and the decision is expected to be
handed down next Tuesday
Just because a palm reader did not
prophesy marriage and whole lot
more happy events for a Topeka wo-
man, the said woman is trying to work
up an agitation against her.
A fruit growers society is being
talked of by the farmers IN the north
ern part of Shawnee county. This will
mean another meeting place for poll
ticians who want county jobs.
The RossviIle News calls attention to
the fact that I. B. Alter has a so acre
field OF corn that viii average SO bush
els of corn to the acre. The ears are
a foot long, the News declares.
Leavenworth is drawing on Topeka
for some Labor day oratorieal talent
man have agreed to speak. Senator j.
K Cubbison will also be there.
Sheriff Kiff. from Atchison. was here
yesterday, and said Slick Slater was as
calm and peaceable as an angel ex
cept that he acted like a demon ana
had to be handcuffed and shack1ed-
At a baby show held by the Efks at
Cripple Creek, the honors Of course
went to an infant that was born in
Kansas the child of Mr.. and Mrs. Bur
80 TolT u-
The Banda Rosa may come to To-
peka to play for the Auditorium organ
fund Bring 'eln along. and if they
need help they can find it among Mar
shall's scarlet-coated sons Of Orpheus.
Sunday school scholars come at ten
cents ahead. too, on visits to the LAM
sing penitentiary. Lawyer N H. Loom
is class dropped a dollar in Warden
Jewetts box on their excursion Thurs
day.
Albert Reid has 3. cartoon in the last
Mail and Breeze to prove that the
caying nobility so long as there are so
many handsome Kansas fellows
around
There is an advertisement in the
Weekly Kansas Chief published at
Troy, Kan, that reads in part as fol-
lows: Highest market price for coun-
try produce in exchange for goods. C.
Leland, Jr.''
John Macdonald was in Dodge City
this week as the principal feature OF
the normal institute He didn't sing
Scotch air but he ate cracked oats for
brea kfast every day and sustained his
reputation.
I. B. Ward travels around Shawnee
county for the Thomas Lumber com
pany selling lumber from buggy He
does not carry samples of posts, two by
tours scantlings and Joists in the bug
gy. however
And John Marshall was not presented
with his eighteenth baton at the bene-
fit concert last night. 1t was a success
just the same Marshall has enough
batons now to make a good pile OF
stove wood
Street Commissioner Snyder was sick
yesterday, and obliged to lay off for
half day It was the first time that
Mr.. Snyder has been absent from duty
since he assumed the office Of street
commissioner.
Walter smith, of the First National
bank, has tried living at Rossville and
coming to business in Topeka every
day for a couple of months or more and
has not yet said that this suburban
system Is a failure
Prof. VIII Vanorsdal has been Sc
lected to look after the Silver Lake
school for the coming term. When not
running q school he runs a farm and
mixes in politics. He seems to under
SL1IQ llSln al pretty NSA-s w.
w. @. Garvey. agent for the Santa. F'e,
left Friday evening for Buffalo. New
York City, Washington and other east
ern cities. where he will visit for the
next ten days or two weeks. He was
accompanied by his son Edwin.
Tom McNeal, editor Of the Mail and
Breeze. is editing the Kansas Com
mercial News, the official paper of the
Commercial clubs of the state The
paper is to be published monthly. The
business manager is F. R. Aldrich.
The friends of Clyde Mattox. the IA
nous bad man from Oklahoma who is
now in the penitentiary for killing his
fifth man. viii raise a fund to test the
right of Oklahoma to send her prison
ers to another state for imprisonment.
Item from Clover Hill: Miss May
Strawn's cousins from the city came
out with their automobile TO spend the
evening From Miss Strawn's home
they went to Berryton. It is the first
automobile we have seen out our way
There are 635 persons served on the
Rossville rural free delivery routes.