The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-22

W men We are LOlQ d SHOW - A7eh0
The chorus garb may be shockingly sad
/ But how are we to know!
We see the cream Of society
/ Officials of a high degree
Assembled there to view this show
| Reader of Riddles, tell us pray,
How are we to know?
December E. is Topeka day.
C E. KitchelI was in Kansas City
Friday.
w G. Kelly was Kansas city visitor
II. E. Harrington of wichita was in
Topeka Friday.
c. H Thompson was in Kansas City
on business Friday.
Charles L. Seagraves was in Kansas
City Friday on business.
The government thermometer ranged
between 40 and 81 Friday.
D. M Smith of Concordia, was To-
peka visitor Friday night
w. H Kelsey registered in Kansas
City Friday from Topeka
JF. Sherman was here from Wich-
tia Friday
c. d. Logan of 1Iolton was here Fri
day evening.
DR.. Charles NJ Sheldon preached at
lola Wednesday.
D. Stratton of Eskridge was in the
city Friday evening.
M. A CIarkson was a visitor from
Winfield Friday night.
Home grown popcorn is said to be
especially good this fall.
Peter Miller. the sewer inspector, is
now acting as inspector of asphalt re-
pairs.
Do YOU know what a school of in
dividuality" is? There is one in To-
pel-a.
"The Princess Chic" company left this
morning for Denver over the Union Pa
cific.
"A folly American Tramp" will be at
the Crawford this afternoon and to-
night
Some of the PICTURES of Chief Justice
Doster make him appear to be about 70
years old.
Albert sarbach. of Holton. was in the
city Friday evening. He was reelected
representative.
Mr.. and Mrs. FREQ. Badger of Neode-
sha are the parents of a boy They
formerly lived in Topeka.
The third Lincoln football team de-
feated the third Harrison team TINS
morning by score of Is to 0.
The asphalt repairers say that the
pavement north of Third street is as
good as when it was put down.
1t cost Frank Bowen $2oS.50 to be
elected county treasurer. OF that
amount $500 went to the campaign siush
fund.-
Supt. Simmons, of the Hutchinson re-
formatory. reports that there has not
been an escape from that institution In
two years
A Topeka. scientific clairvoyant'' has
the prefix DIR" before her name on her
sign Must be the state medical board
hasn't been around that way.
There are few comic opera companies
on the road that do not use the
'AlpAonse and CASTOR burlesque, ana
the Princess Chic is no exception.
mt. fo0 a
its Friday afternoon meeting recon-
mended that Kansas avenue be paved
80 feet wide from Tenth to Thirteenth
The Spring Hill New Era says that 7.
T. Kelly offered E. P. Davis of that
place a position in the state treasury
down.
Mrs. Joseph Ost, of 500 Lincoln street,
has returned from Denver where her
husband is purchasing agent of the
Colorado & Southern railroad The fam
lily will move to Denver in few days
Owing to an error in the petition for
paving Tyler street from Twelfth to
Fourteenth, the petition has been re-
ferred back to the petitioners for COR
rection.
1t is reported in Topeka that Gov
ernor-elect Bailey has received so pro-
posals of marriage by mail He may
conclude from this that women are not
all modest.
Senator F. w. soonable. of Johnson
county, to whom T. T. Kelly has offered
treasurer, has not yet decided whether
or not he will accept it. but will do so
shortly.
DR.. Graham Taylor, of Chicago, will
preach Sunday morning at the First
Congregational church. DR.. Taylor is
Jane Adams chief assistant in the So
cia1 settlement work
Congressman Curtis will leave for
Washington next Thursday to be pres
ent at the opening of congress. All of
! the congress atorial candidates
viii proba bly, come home when the time
for the legislative caucus approaches.
J. J. Schenek is the latest candidate"
for mayor. The Democrats are talking
of running him as dry candidate in
opposition to. anyone who is hunting for
the wet" nomination on the ReDubli-
can ticket Think of a prohbitionist
running on a Democratic ticket!
Theatrical managers know their bust
ness They have refused to give up
Uncle Toms Cabin and their wisdom
] was justified in To9eiSa Friday when
one of these attractions drew two big
/ houses, even though The matinee was
not on Saturday, the regular matinee
day.
J. J. Roberts, of Ceres, N. Y, is in To-
peka trying to get trace of his nephew.
/ Paul L. Roberts. who he says, came to
Kansas last spring to locate in the law
/ business Ede was tedFC from at Linz
coin and Sunlmerfield Kansas, but since
that Mr.. Roberts has had no trace of
him.
The streets and walks committee went
out to Central park Friday afternoon.
and decided that it would cost too much
to build a sewer through the park. as
the park commissioners requested. The
committee viii recommend that the city
pay the cost of the thing provided the
commissioners pay for laying the sewer.
City Attorney Spencer has given it as
his opinion that there is no law limit
ing the bond issue of the city to 10 per
| cent of the assessed va1ua ton of the
city. AS was stated in the State Jour
nal some time ago, Mr.. Spencer has
been hunting for such q law in vain,