The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-24
LOCAL MENTION.

L. schoch was up from Wichita to-
day.
c. A. Lasaday and wife of Kinsley,
were in Topeka today.
Frank E. Hungate, of Albuquerque, is
visiting his uncle, Otis E. Hungate.
w F. Bellairs of the Missouri Pacific
railroad was in town this morning.
The Foster cemetery society will meet
Tuesday, November %, with Mrs. c. F.
Slayton, 1924 Clay street.
Miss Carrie Ford, housekeeDer of the
Fifth Avenue hotel, is at Christ hospital
with an attack of pneumonia
John M Parr. candidate for lieuten-
ant governor on the Socialist ticket,
spent 1926 during the campaign.
A boys chorus of 25 from the Reform
school will sing at the First Methodist
church tonight at the charity meeting.
John H. Maxwell, the grading contrac-
tor says he will not pay the scale DE-
manded by Labor Commissioner rohu-
son.
Shawnee camp No $500, Modern
Woodmen of America. will give
Thanksgiving ball Thursday evening at
746 Kansas avenue
County Clerk Wright has received no
tice that Shawnee county has d balance
of STAB. 40 on account of double ana CT
roneous assessments in the state treas
ur@-.
The Santa Fe has announced that it
will run a special football train out of
Kansas City at 11:30 Thanksgiving
evening, to bring people home after the
theaters and football games.
| There is said to be considerable strong
opposition to the construction of sewer
east of the Santa Fe tracks in the Sec
Eond ward Some of the residents there
think that they can not afford 90 build
| sewer.
Several Topeka people are planning to
attend the meeting of the alumni of the
/ FIJI Kappa Psi fraternity to be held in
Kansas City Wednesday evening. The
event Will take place at the University
! club 1916 Broadway.
William Flanagan, for the last six
months Associated Press operator for
the State Journal left Saturday night
for Salt Lake City, Utah. where he be-
comes night manager for the Associated
/ Press. His position here will be filed
/ by Geo w. Hart, night operator, and E.
/ c. Gable has been sent over from Leav-
enworth to take the night report
j. M Carey of St Joseph Mo-, has
taken charge of the winter relief work
in this city for the Salvation Army. AL
ready he has gathered together great
quantity of second hand clothing and
other necessities for the poor, through
which much suffering may be alleviated.
/ The Sunday evening meeting of the
Army was largely attended, the topic
being, Smallpox VS.. Leprosy."
City Engineer McCabe has not yet
the Orchard Place and Walnut Grove
sewer. He saws that it all depends on
the amount of rock which will be en-
countered- If moderate amount of
rock is found. the cost will be between
S35 and $40 per lot. Mr.. McCabe is plan
ming to make a large number Of drill
ings to determine the character OF the
ground.
Frank Long, Sunday noon. opened the
New Oxford hotel, at SOS Kansas av-
7
lease on this building some months ago
and since then has busted himself fitting
up the place for a hotel and cafe which
should answer the needs of this city
Mr.. Long is a veteran in the business
and has opened place that was pre-
pared according to his own ideas of
what such an institution should be. The
/ dining room has capacity of 10 and
there are ga rooms The house is cen
trally located and the opening business
is flattering.
Arrangements have been completed by
the members of St. Johns A. NJ. z.
! church for holding a jubilee from No
/ vember 80 to December TO- by means of
which funds shall be derived for rails
ing the Sc 600 church debt. The special
feature is to be an election of queen
for the event. There are about twenty
candidates for this honor. and votes cost
1 five cents apiece. The browning of the
winner will take place probably at the
Auditorium, the evening of December 8.
/ There will be an entertainment eack
evening, and the cantata "Jeohtha's
Daughter will be rendered by the choll
at some of these entertainments.