The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-10-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

VI. Il,
peka today
The streets and walks committee met
this afternoon.
Hamilton G. Stewart, of ottawa, is in
Topeka on business.
Lester Davis is trying for a position
on the first high school football team.
There was no meeting Saturday even
ing of the Saturday Night club
The entertainment committee of the
Commercial club will meet Wednesday
night
Cliff Histed returned Sunday from
Denver where he has been on legal bus
mess.
Congressman Charles Curtis is ex-
pected to return from Washington to-
morrow.
The Washburn football team will
play K. U. on the Topeka gridiron next
w. M. Henderson came in from Eureka
this morning for a days business in the
capital city
Harvey Fleming, managing editor OF
the Kansas City Journal, spent Sunday
in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. E. Bennett returned
Saturday from a months visit in OHIO
and Indiana.
Vote for half mill tax levy for the
state fair at the election three weeks
from tomorrow.
Gus Suns minstrels will be at the
Crawford Saturday for matinee and
night performance.
Mr.. and Mrs. John F. Stewart, OF
Clay Center, attended the Kerr-Patter-
son wedding last week.
For Hearth and Home" will give
Wednesday matinee and night per-
Torrance at the Crawford
The prices for 1.-The Village Post
master" at the Crawford Tuesday night
will be 81, rs, so, 35 and 25 cents
"a Runaway Grip will be at the
Crawford Friday night instead of Sat
urday night as previously announced
Coach Banks is limping around from
a sore foot by wearing tight shoe IN
the football game at Emporia Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. w. Stalks have return
ed from Colorado and Wyoming, where
they have been during the past summer
The Foresters of Sunfiower camp No.
$50, NJ. w. A, will give their first dance
avenue.
j. M. Simpson, of Mcpherson. has
been here since Saturday. He is still
pursuing the appointment for revenue
collector.
The Commercial club is still in the
same old quarters despite the fact that
it has been decided that larger quarters
must be had.
Street cars only run to Topeka ave-
nue. on West Eighth street. The work
of paving West Eighth from Topeka
avenue out is the reason.
Washburn sent her football team
over TO st. Joe saturday just LOT d
practice game The score looks as II
it were pretty good practice.
The question is; who furnished the
81 900 sent to Denver to bet on Wash
burn in the Denver Athletic Club
Washburn game, November 2?
Representative J. NJ. Nation, of
Neosho county, was here Saturday. He
was a Burton man last winter but the
observers noticed him flirting the ants
this trip.
1,ae 1o6
charters to the following: The Coffey-
vile Printing company, capital $4,000,
and the Pleasanton Oil and Gas COM
pany, capital $4,000
J. E. Humphreys, assistant United
States attorney for the southern dis
trict of Indian Territory, was in To-
peka Saturday comforting with the fed
eral officials located here.
The sale of seats for "a Runaway
Grip which comes to the Crawford FIJI
day will begin Tuesday morning at
o'clock at the Crawford box office. The
numbers will be given out at Z O'Clock
Denver papers are endeavoring to
make Washburn supporters believe the
D. A. c. football team is poor and have
no chance of winning the game Novefn-
Der 2. 1t is a good plan to watch them.
August Holm and Emil Draheim,
prominent Germans from Marysville;
August Jaedicke, a well known Hanover
merchant, and Carl Lemmer of Home,
Kansas, are attending the Turner con-
vention-
H K. Goodrich, formerly superin-
tendent of the city electric light plant,
has gone to Winfield to oversee the
placing of some new dynamos and
boilers in the asylum for imbecile youth
there.
The mystery of the high school ghost
is cleared up in the discovery that the
noise of slamming doors is explained in
the clanking of the water basins in the
basement falling into place after over
flowing.
d. w. Mulvane leaves this week for
a trip east. He will be present at Yale
Wednesday, October %, on invitation OF
the president, when the degree of Doc
tor of Laws will be conferred upon
President Roosevelt
A tabulated statement of contagious
diseases in Topeka for the past year
is being prepared by Sanitary sergeant
Vanderpool. The board of health ex-
pect to use this to prove that the city
is in bad sanitary condition.
At the First Methodist church Sunday
morning "a collection of $21 was taken
to aid in the relief of Miss Ellen Stone,
the Christian missionary lately kid
mapped by Bulgarian brigands The
money will be forwarded to New York
at once.
Horticulturists say that the grape
crop in Kansas is likely to be short next
year. The drouth of the past summer
Slapped the vitality of the. vines so
greatly that there will be but little left
for the production of fruit.
Councilman Swendson's pet resolu-
ton, providing that the fair grounds
be named Mckinley park" has been
turned down by the streets and walks
committee. The committee wants to
wait and see how the special levy prop
osition will fare at the coming election
There is a fight on the proposed ex-
penditure of $4,000 for sixty inch
sewer through the city park This sewer
S2d fnr he
the city from possible damage suits
to flooded Easements in that part OF
town during heavy rains. The present
sewers are said to be insufficient to car
ry off the storm water
lafcA