The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-12

a dry summer.
Pick Smith, who has been spending
north, win be home in short time
| His health has been benefited by hls
! stay in the north.
Governor Stanley is a very good ma
| tured man. He was asked by a st.
Louis reporter if Kansas would have Il
| he did not resent it
A Topeka man is exhibiting a brick
/ made of sand and cement which he be-
| lieves Will ultimately replace the regu-
] latiOn burnt brick It is hard and dur
| able, and is not expensive.
Topeka is expected to be represented
at the meeting Of the Southwestern
/ Firemen's association which is to be
/ held in Kansas City next year. The
| place of meeting has just been selected.
Next to watching his own postmaster
/ ship fences James M. Chisham looks
after w. p. Waggener's candidacy for
the possible Democratic place on the
/ St. Louis exposition commission, when
he is over here.
The Kansas City Medics are trying to
fix up a football team in spite Of the
! adverse ruling of the Medical college
faculty. They have telegraphed Wash
burn not to cancel the game which has
| been scheduled
The Santa Fe has made a one-fare
! rate to a little dinky rbloomer'' base
ball game in southern Kansas, and viii
not do any better than one and third
| fare to the series of Banda Rosa. con-
certs in Topeka.
Senator Dick Ward perpetrated
this on Frank Grimes yesterday: Sen
ator Ward-"1901 pennies are worth 81
or more" Grimes( biting at gulp)-.
Are they? Why2 Ward Aren
they nineteen hundred and one cents? p
Manager 0. 7. Crawford is having
trouble in securing enough children for
the school room scene in Lovers
Lane" which will be here the last OF
October. Any aspirantS Tor stage
honors may apply to Mr.. Crawford
James H. Chisham, the postmaster OF
AtchisOn, was a caller at the pOstOfhce
here Wednesday, He was taking notes
on the way to run first class post,
office. He anticipates being made
first class postmaster in the near III
ture.
ST. Louis commercial men do not
think of writing the name of their city
upon hotel registers. Topeka hotels
identify them by the 1903 that follows
the signature and the travelling sales
men are a constant advertisement Ior
the coming exposition.
r. B. Ward, senator from Republic
county, was in Topeka yesterday. Mr.
Ward is the man who secured the pas
sage of the bill prohibiting druggists
from selling cocaine except on a pnySl-
/ clans prescription. The law is not en-
forced in Topeka.
These concerns were chartered by the
state charter board: The NeWS-Herald
Publishing company, of Olathe, capltal
$1,000; the Meade Lumber and supply
company, of Meade, capital $4,000; the
Ottman Tailoring company, Of lnde-
pendence, capital $1,000.
A. w. Miller, county commissioner of
Republic county, has been brought to
Topeka to undergo an operation at
Christ hospital for a cancer of the
stomach. Accompanying him are Sen
ator Robert Ward of Republic and Rep
resentatjye VIM. Short OF Cloud county,
two old time friends
w H. Weeden, of Ohio, has come to
Topeka to join A D. Wilcox in tenn
perance campaign of the state. They
will work under the auspices Of the
State Temperance union. The first meet
ing will be held at Paola on Sunday
evening. Their (tour win be in the
southwestern part of the state
E. J. Shakeshaft. chief clerk for W.
J. Black, returned from Omaha yester-
tonville, Valley Falls, Atchison, St. Joe
and other points. The people in the
passenger department of the Santa Fe
claim that a trip of this sort shouid
count the same as a summer vacation
The Wesleyan MethOdists are holding
their annual conference this week at
the corner of Third and Jefferson
streets. Services are being held every
afternoon and evening. Rev T. Teter,
of the general conference, and Silas
Bond, president of the Houghton school
arrived today to assist in the services
for the rest of the week
All the members of the street force
not cleaning crossings, are working on
the repairs at the city prison patrol
wagon stable. A brick floor is being
laid in the stable, and the door viii be
made two feet wider, to give the
wagon more room to make its hasty
exits. The brick from the floor were
taken from the floor of the Sixth street
bridge which is undergoing repairs.
Rev John A. Bright has returned
from Eureka, Kan, where he had been
to deliver an address at the golden
wedding of Rev. L. G. Groseclose, a re-
tired minister, formerly pastor of the
Lutheran church at that place. Mr.
Bright went to Arlington, Kan, in the
afternoon to officiate at the marriage of
Mr. Frank Nell, u P ticket agent at
that place, to Miss Maud Tenant of
Arlington.
In order to extend the Kansas City
Ieavenworth electric road from Fourth
and Minnesota avenues on the Kansas
side over into Kansas City, Mo, the
Missouri River Shore Railroad company
has been chartered with $5O,OO0 caplta1
stock The new terminus will be near
the union station. The incorporators
are w. H Wolcot, Leavenworth; W. P.
Conlin, Cleveland, O.; H. E. Gabriel, G.
F. Hutchins, Willard Merriam, Kansas
City, Kan.
The Monday Colorado Telegraph of
Colorado Springs says: DR. Counter
mine Of Topeka, kan, preached last
night at the First Presbyterian church,
and although the weather was MA
vorable there was very far attend
ance of worshippers. The sermon was
eulogistic of President Mckinley and
the preacher was very fervent in his
delivery At both services yesterday
special prayers were offered for the re-
covery Of President Mckinley
The Christian Endeavor society of
the First Presbyterian church combined
business and pleasure last evening
Supper was served in the church parlor,
about forty members gathering about
the cross shaped banquet table. After
wards officers were elected. as follows:
l. P. Bayha, president; Wilfred Gillies,
vice president; Miss Alice Wilson, re