The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-01
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

Edward Grafstrom has returned from
a trip to Chicago.
The Kansas Worlds Fair commission
is in session today.
w. Y. Morgan, state printer, was in
Lawrence yesterday
cider" Smith says the weather is all
right for the apples and corn.
]. M. Padgett will leave for the east
Thursday to be gone two weeks
Next Saturday is the regular "clean
up" day OF the Civic Improvement so
eiety.
Mr. ]. r. Wick went to Colorado to-
day where Mrs. Wick is spending the
summer.
Dick Rodgers of Muscogee, l.. T, is
here visiting his parents. He will re-
main until Sunday.
Senator F'indlay, of Rice county, is
sometimes referred to as 1.-The broom
corn king of Kansas"
The government thermometer got up
to SO Monday, almost warm enough to
go without an overcoat-
The July session of the supreme court
begins today. 1t will be brief and will
be the last until the October term.
Governor Stanley has appointed J. F.
Botkin, of Galena, Justice of the
peace to succeed J. Y. McKelvy, re-
signed.
Mrs. J. "A Grubbs, who underwent a
severe operation at Stormont hospital
Saturday afternoon, is reported as I'M
proving.
4, Royal Matthews, formerly state SEN
ator from Mcpherson county, is in To-
pexa from Texas. where he is interested
in the oil fields.
Henry Weingartner came to Topeka
from Lawrence Monday to interest the
Topeka Elks in the EIks' celebration at
Lawrence on July T.
The baseball team from Crane & Cos.
will play the State Printers team on
the Lowman Hill grounds at 8 o'clock
ON the Fourth of July.
The Santa Fe general offices sent a
lot of old records to Lawrence yesterday
to be stored in the upper rooms of the
Lawrence depot building.
1t is announced that the regular meet
ing of the Central Congregations!
church woman's missionary society will
be held Wednesday July 8.
Ward Burlingame, an old settler IN
Topeka who is one of the superintend-
ents in the dead letter Office at Wash
ington for many years, is visiting il,
The Topeka free employment agency
has practically gone out of the harvest
hand business. The wheat is SO nearly
gone that the demand for harvest hands
is at an end.
Only two states surpass Kansas in
the amount of their perm anent school
funds. and you would scarcely guess
what two states those are. They are
missouri ana IeXaS~
The Dougherty Success club will meet
tonight at 118 West Eighth street. DR.
G. F. .Menninger and P. H Forbes will
address the club and Miss Clara Crumt
will furnish the music
The salary of Miss Minnie F. Daniels,
OF Topeka, who is EN- ployed as a clerk
In the Office of the first postmaster gen
eral at Washington, has been increased
from $1,000 to 81, 400 a year.
There is nearly as great an aggre-
gate of Shawnee county bonds held by
the state school fund as there are state
bonds Shawnee county owes $642. $50,
and the state of Kansas owes $643, 900.
The board OF directors of the Kansas
F'raterna1 Hospital association yester-
day appointed Mrs. Mary McKibben
who was formerly matron of Christ hos
pital as matron Of the Fraternal hospi-
tai.
F. w. Emerson will speak tonight an6
tomorrow night in open air meeting al
the corner of Sixth and Kansas avenue
on the issues of the hour. Prof. v. E
Rfdenour is expected to sing some stir
ring songs.
Edwin Snyder, secretary of the state
board of charities, has been inspecting
the county jail and poor farm In Lyon
county this week. He says Lyon coun-
ty has the worst jail and the best poor
farm he knows of.
Assistant Secretary of State Hill P.
Wilson has been called to Hays City by
tne uedtu OF MS InOtnef, MIS- A. M
Wilson, who died at the advanced age
of 49, The body will be taken to Penn
sylvania for burial.
John M. Hays, of Labette county, has
written State Treasurer Grimes asking
that the state pay him for his services
a. lieutenant colonel of Kansas militia
during the war. He says all his proper
ty was destroyed during the Price raid
also.
The controversy between N. F. More
house and Mrs. S. E. Sheldon in regard
to the lease on the building occupied by
Morehouse for a jewelry store has beer
amicably settled, and the new store fol
W. w. Mills will be built there in a few
months.
The city council has fixed it so thai
Chief Wilmarth can buy horses for the
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