The Topeka state journal., 1902-08-13
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

ON "A Z OnOl > "A Il NUN II n r W =
The government thermometer got up
to IS TUESDAY,
Buckskin Bills wild west show will
be IN topeka tomorrow.
The walls of the Washburn college
observatory are completed.
The new Gleed building at Sixth and
Topeka avenues is up one story.
Arthur Kane, the Topeka opera house
manager, has returned from Chicago
T. R. Hyatt and family leave today
for vacation trip to the City of Mex
leo.
( Up to date the Elks have not chal-
lenged the Topeka club to a second ping
pong match.
The general passenger office OF the
Rock Island railroad has now been es-
tablished at Kansas City
The Washburn professors are having
trouble witf<boys who insist on play
ing baseball on the campus.
The tracks of the street railway COM
pany along the west side of Central
park are being ballasted with cinders
H. U. Nudge has rebuilt his residence
and had it painted pure white. 1t is
one OF the most attractive places on To-
peka avenue.
"Cap'' Langston will probably be ap-
pointed pavement inspector for the new
pavement which is being laid on East
Eighth street.
w. j. Healy, freight auditor for the
Santa Fe, will leave Friday for the
Catalina islands, California, where he
will join his family.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team was. defeated by the Oskaloosa
team at Oskaloosa a-on-the-Prairie Tues
day by the score of to l.
Albert Roby. son of DR.. H. w. Roby.
is visiting his father, on his way from
Fort Crook, Neb., to Bismarck N D..
where he will esta blish a military hos
oital.
President w r. Carter of the Topeka
Negro Industrial Institute, has issued
his annual report which seems to show
the institution to be in a prosperous
shape.
A. E. Cooper, division passenger agent
for Kansas on the Rock Island will
arrive in Topeka Thursday evening and
will take charge of his duties here on
August Is.
burn has decided to build a residence in
the vicinity of the college. There are no
suitable houses in that locality which
are vacant.
There was a snail fire at II O'Clock
last night in the house at Seventeenth
and Jefferson occupied by Mary Young.
The origin of the fire is not known. The
loss was small.
A coat of red paint is being put on
Holbrook hall, the woman's brick dor
iIiitOIy Oultu1IlS dL w dSHDu All
three of the women's dormitcries a.
the college will be crowded with stu
dents this fall
Furman Baker returned from Law
renee today, where he has been work.
ing foreman of a paving gang, to
assume the position of city inspector
of the construction work on the Wash
burn college sewer.
A. M. Warner, who until Christmas
worked at the Santa Fe offices, is in
f<.,~ r.-.+
obliged to go to Ration, N. M, for his
health, and is working there in the
trainmaster's office. His health is much
improved.
Mrs. E. Burlingame, whose thigh was
broken by a fall some time ago, was
removed from Christ hospital to her
home at 81 Topeka avenue today. She
is recovering from her injury, but it
will be several months before she is
able to walk.
Central park. which since time i'm
memorial has. been open SO that people
could pass through it at Fourteenth
street. was closed up Yesterday, and a
man with pIow broke up wide strip
of ground all around the park.
At a meeting of the trustees of WASH
burn college held Tuesday afternoon it
was decided that formal Inauguration
exercises for DR.. Norman Plass the new
president, will be held in the latter part
of September Or first of October.
MISS JeI1lio MUM Is VlSlllnR at TIE
home of. her parents, Rev. and Mrs. H.
K. Muth, 1924 Lincoln street She has
been in Chicago for the last year, study
ing music and drawing to fit herself
for a position in the public schools at
Pueblo, Col.
Kansas City is beginning to adver-
tise in Topeka its annual fake show, the
Priests of Pallas parade. This will take
place on October 7. 1t is claimed that
the parade managers this year will try
to avoid the fiaScO which has character
lied the event for several years past.
Copies of the license ordinances of
Kansas City. Kas.. Fort Scott and
Leavenworth have been received by the
city clerk and turned over to the license
committee The committee will use
these license laws as suggestions IN
drawing up the new license. ordinance.
The con mittee will likely meet next
Wednesday,
Mrs. G. c. Mcclure of Michigan Val
ley, Kan, was brought to Christ hospi-
tai yesterday for an operation on her
left eye. Some years ago she was struck
in that eye by a pitchfork, causing
blindness. The diseased condition has
now extended to the other eye and The
left eye will have to be removed.