The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-26

E b Merriam went to Chanute We'd
nesday evening.
J. NJ. Chisham, postmaster at Atchlson
was i'll Topeka yesterday
General Superintendent Resseguie was
down to Kansas City yesterday.
New water spouts have been put
on the Santa F'e office building.
John Hillman, of Topeka, has had his
pension increased to IS a month.
Butchers say that the price Of meat
will not go down for another month.
Members of the German Lutheran Sun
day school pienicked at Sardou's grove
today.
The Wichita Chamber of Commerce
has been chartered with capital stock
of $1,000.
Most Of the fusion politicians have
gone home-sOme satisfied and some the
other way
The beer wagons don't take the trou-
bic TO cover up their kegs with canvas
any longer.
Masons are repairing the stone steps
leading to the north entrance OF the
state house.
There will be a picnic at Jones' grove
east of town, given by the Democratic
Flambeau club, on July 4
s A Clary has removed from 400 Van
Buren, street to the corner OF seven
teenth and Buchanan streets.
Marshalls band will go to the Beatrice
| Nebraska Chautauqua on the Rock IS
land excursion next Sunday.
The name of Perry T. Toms. of To
peka, appears In the list of new pensions
| granted. He gets Sc a month
There is no kicking among the fu-
| sionists this year about the way To-
/ peka entertained their convention.
The Topeka Auditorium could have
/ held a convention three times as large
as the Populist convention here Iues-
day.
The Funeral Directors association
| convention adjOurns today. A band
concert is to be given for them at the
park tonight.
The Y. P S. c. E. society of the Cen
tra1 Congregational church viii have It's
annual picnic on the Washburn college
campus Friday.
Mr. and Mrs Robert Maxwell of 7Oz
West Sixth avenue are parents OF
Charles BUM Maxwell, an eight and-a-
half pound son.
John F. Strickrott and Henry Strawr
have gone to southern Kansas and Okla
hOma TO photograph Wheatf1elds for the
Santa. Fe railroad
The summer travel to Colorado has
begun in earnest, but not many Kansas
people are going that way. The wealth
er is too fine at home.
Now that the Federal Light, Heat &
Power company has got a years extern
sion on its franchise, the question is
what viii it do with the same?
Harry Richter says he can get al
sorts of honorary" jobs, but when i
comes to one with fat salary attached
somebody else always corrals it.
The second biennial state convention
of the Epworth League win be held a
Beloit July 1921, during the Kansas Ep
worth Chautauqua assembly there.
A license was granted in Kansas Cit,
yesterday to Mason A. Foster of Kan
sas City, to marry Mary st. John Of To
peka.
Mrs. George Hurd. of Lawrence. VIII
has been in Christ hospital for som
time has so far recovered as to return
home.
The Hanl5la brothers, formerly propri
etors of the National hotel here, ar
trying to get hold of a hotel in Kansa
| City.
, Interest is increasing in the meeting
being held at the Free Methodist taber
nacle. corner Of Eighth and Branne
| streets. The services are to contInu
each evening.
Major Sim says he has noticed Their
IS almost always a lot Of trouble al
tached to a kings job and he doesn
intend to apply for place of that sOr
A Washington dispatch says that tn
= Modocs viii accompany the Kansas vet
Grams to the national G. A R. encamI
3 ment at Washington in October.
e It VIII now be in order for lot {
p POpulist newspapers to remark ths
d Judge Waterbury, one of the candidate
{ for the supreme bench. is a stem
4 winder.
Y The general passenger agents Of tn
t, railroads are complaining that the kin
of weather which we have been havin
= recently is responsible for a decide
falling off in Colorado travel.
2. The alarm heard at 11:30 last evenin
was for fire at H. Wade's home, 14(
Chandler street. The fire was incer
" diary in origin, but was checked befo1
much damage was done, the loss bein
+ s75
City Engineer MeCabe has sent copie
of the sewer specifications to prospet
tive bidders in Kansas City There
likely to be some hot competition fl
the big contracts.
The story which Charles NJ. Sheldo
read to his congregation last winter
being printed in the Rams Horn. tt
title of the story is THE Reformer" an
it deals with the tenen ent house situs
ton.