The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-03
snap SHOTS At HOME NEWS

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D. W. MuIvane has gone to Chicago
to meet Senator Burton
Marshall's band will give a concert
at Garfield park Sunday night.
The Sunday school of the First Con-
gregational church viii be resumed
Sunday.
Miss Jennie Caldwell Of Valencia is
the guest Of Mr.. ana Mrs. +. e. Crouch
Of Oakland.
NJ. R. Thomas. superintendent Of rail-
way mail service went to LeavenWorth
last evening.
city building. That one is owned by
the city clerks Office.
W. R. Fisher OF Holton has returned
home. He is a member OF the state Re-
publican committee.
Charles Gage. the inventor of the
Gage gold extracting process, has re-
turned from Arkansas.
The circus grounds for Ringiings
show will be on the Douthitt tract,
with an entrance on Tyler street
City Attorney Spencer has had a
wide shelf built In his room to lay his
law books on while studying his cases.
Payne & Thompson have sold to J. T.
Barker. Of Harrington, the SO acre
Eckerts farm, seven miles southwest,
for So, 200.
7. B. Gerow, director of the free en-
ployment bureau of the state of Kan
A@<AA4% $4,000
few days.
T.w. Todd, A. NJ. IL. B.. graduate
Of Monmouth college, will succeed c.
=. Conant as professor in German at
Washburn college
DR.. F. Anton Smiths two-seated
gasoline automobile has made its ap-
pearance on the streets, the first two
seated auto to appear in Topeka.
Harry Croft is purchasing a great
deal of costly furniture with which to
furnish his country home. the Stone
castle west of Washburn college.
The city council viii meet on Monday
night. The question of completing the
paving of East Fifth street is one Of
the principal things to be decided
The Rev VIII P James, rector of
Brookfield, No, formerly Of Manhattan.
Kan, viii celebrate Holy Communion
and preach in Grace cathedral on Sun
day.
The county commissioners yesterday
granted the use Of the fair grounds for
the officers school of the Kansas Ma
tional Guard, to be held here in Sep
TENDER.
The gospel meeting at the Young
Woman's Christian. association Sunday
will be led by Mrs. J. R. Silver. A cor
dial invitation is extended TO ali young
women.
A man stood an hour and a half in
the public telephone box at the Ma
tionaI hotel last night, talking to Wtch-
ita. He was not conducting a Sunday
school, either.
Mayor Hughes new aquarium is still
empty The mayor Is waiting for the
United States fish commissioner to
come along and stock the aquarium
with black bass.
David Fronke, of Hoyt, who is in the
Shawnee county jail on the charge of
selling liquor to Indians has been bound
over for a hearing before the grand
jury by missioner Hayden
The executive committee Of the DEM
ocratic F'1ambeau club have made ar
engagements for the rental of the hall at
No. 222 Kansas avenue, and the head
quarters Of the club viii be moved there
shortly.
Some of the finest apples seen IN To-
peka this season were those brought IN
Friday from the Bartel farm south Of
Pauline. They were of an early sweet
variety and despite the drouth the yield
Will be heavy.
The carpets have been laid in the
Office rooms of the United States mar
shall at the federal building This Of
flee is the first to be fitted with the new
carpets and the occupants of the ofhce
are now wearing a superior smile
c. A Anderson, formerly telegraph
operator at the Rock Island officer but
recently Associated Press operator at
the Capital, left today for FL Reno, o.
T.. where he will take the Associated
Press report for the Daily American
E B. Merriam returned yesterday
from a months trip in the eastern
states. He says that eastern confidence
in Kansas is not going to be seriously
shaken by the drought Fasteners are
beginning to trust in Kansas recupera-
tive powers
r. NJ. Thomas. of Albany, N z. as
sistant superintendent Of the railway
mail service. was here Friday making
arrangements with the city electric
railway for transportation of the mails
between the central station and sta
lions A, 3 and c.
The Magdeburg Fire Insurance COM
pany has notified the state insurance
department that it withdraws from
business in Kansas. All its business in
the United States was turned over to
the Springfield Fire and Marin@ In
surance company on July ~.
The people who work in the office Of
Superintendent of Transportation e
w Kouns at the Santa Fe are looked
upon by their fellow Iaborers as the
1uckiest on earth Six employees from
that office registered at the III Keno
lottery, and four out of the six won
claims
Ernest Buckner. the colored man who
was discovered sick with smallpox, was
taken to the pest house Friday 1t was
learned by the health authorities that
his wife had recovered from an attack
Of smallpox ten days ago. The case was
never reported to the health authort-
ties.
A. s. Barnes. well known in Topeka
and who has been connected with the
Wells Fargo Express company at To-
peka and other places for the past
five years left this afternoon to accept
the agency for this well known ex-
press company in his old home town,
Leavenworth.
Mayor Hughes has received a letter
from Canada. asking about the where
abouts of Peter Patterson. G. p. Boil
mar told the mayor that he remem-
bered such a name, and thought he was
q relative of John Patterson, Of the
city electric light plant John Patter-
son was notified, and said that Peter
Patterson was his uncle, and died sew
eraI years ago The Canadian Patter-
sons had not heard from their Topeka
kin for about twenty years