The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-06-14

Since the Vignette club began
To masticate the rag
The Knights of Pythias Memorial day
is June o.
The government thermometer got up
/ to 81 Friday
George E. stoker. who has been quite
sick, IS again at his office.
Matter for the second edition of ITO
peka the Beautiful is being compiled.
NJ. J. Cheney, who lately removed to
Lincoln Neb., will spend Sunday in To-
pel1a.
The Wilbur-Kirwin Opera company
may play at Garfield park for a week
| in July.
Marsha1Ps band will give its regular
concert at Garfield park Sunday after
noon at three O'Clock.
Another bank was chartered yester-
day. It is the Security State bank of
Harper. Capital, $500.
The Kansas State Undertakers asso-
citation will meet here at the Hotel
Throop June "A, rs and Is.
Or. ", L schenek and daughter left
Friday for a visit of several weeks in
Denver and Pueblo. Colo.
Winifred Pickering has asked Judge
Hazen to divorce her. from H. H. Pick
ering because he is cruel to her.
Rev. Charles NJ Sheldon viii speak to
| the members of the 7. NJ. c. A. Sunday
afternoon at 4 O'Clock on Responsible
ty.''
Miss Eleanor Smith, who is employed
| In Crosby Brothers, has returned to her
duties after severe attack of Appendix
| citis.
Prof. ". NJ. Davidson will speak Sun
| day morning at the First Baptist
church on THE Modern Church and Its
| Work.
The Martin & Dennis baseball team
| defeated the Washburn academy base
| ball team in a 1O-inning game by the
score of to 8.
There will be a meeting of the Topeka
| Orphans Home association at the home
| of Mrs. William Green, 91S Quincy street
Monday afternoon.
The efforts of the Civic Improvement
| society IN relation to the state house
| lawn has been productive of good. The
/ lawn is being moved.
Lydia Austin wishes to be separated
| from Robert A. Austin because he
| knocked her down. She has asked
| Judge Hazen to grant the divorce.
| Mehl and Cook, the Washburn BAH
players, will be with the Manhattan
/ professional team this summer. That
win end their college baseball career.
Richlands Kan, may secure two rural
] routes. The routes We're refused re-
Gently on account of the bad condition
| Of the roads. This defect is being rem
edied.
The fifteenth annual convention of the
| Kansas Christian Endeavor Union wilt
be held at Leavenworth June 1920. Rev.
Charles NJ. Sheldon and other noted
| speakers viii be present
w. H. Carruth. professor of Ger
| man at the State university, Will preach
at Unity church Sunday, supplying for
Rev Mr. Wyrnan who has started for
/ Colorado on a camping trip
H. S. Wilder, formerly of Topeka, and
/ now of Boston. will conduct a. summer
/ piano school at Ludington, Mich, this
| summer. While in Topeka Mr.. Wilder
| was organist of she First Presby
] church.
About the highest stage of the Kaw
river was reached Thursday evening.
| In the afternoon of that day boys were
diving from the top of the piers of the
! Santa F'e bridge.
At the meeting of Shawnee district
/ Court Of Honor No. SIS Tuesday even
| ing, Supreme Deputy Epperson of IlH
nois will be present to inspect the work
| of the order. The meeting place is at
AIS Kansas avenue.
| Major W. w. Bishop, formerly of the
Twentieth Kansas, will resign his office
/ as assistant prosecutor OF Manila and
| enter the Chinese service as counsel to
the Chinese minister at Manila.
| Judge Hazen has parted Reuben and
! Jane Blake because they could not get
| along together. Even people OF the good
| fashioned names fail to agree as
| well as the Geralds and Gera1dines.
A number OF towns are trying to get
| headquarters in them during the COM
! ing campaign. The action Of the Demo-
| Gratis in going to Kansas City, Kan,
| two years ago made a big rumpuS.
A Topeka man has discovered that in
| Montreal it costs from so cents to $40
for a reserved seat to see a man hung.
| Warden Jewett might extend his
| museum at the state penitentiary and
/ add a hanging feature every month and
| charge an admission.
/ T2Hu q IaiSa7- T13SIor of the Ger
| man Methodist church, returned last
| evening from attending the commence
| rent exercises of the Central Wesleyan
/ college at Warrensburg, NO. from
| which he graduated IA years ago. He
| went as representative of the German
| Methodist conference, and was elected
trustee of the college.
| There will be vaudeville attractions at
| Garfield park commencing June %. 1t
| is proposed to have three nights a week.
| Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, de-
| voted to vaudeville, which viii be given
in the Casino. If the venture is success
| full it viii be continued through the
summer A colored speciality company
win be at the park June IS and 19.
The following charters were granted
by the state charter board yesterday:
The Fort Scott Furniture company, Fort
Scott, capital, SO, 000 Randall Telephone
company, Randall. capital, $500; Har-
per Lumber company, Harper, capital
| $4,000: Odd Fellows Building associa-
ton, Clyde, capital stock, $1,000; Fort
Scott F1agstone company, Fort Scott,
capital $4,000.
H. D Resell. one of the best crop
experts in the west. has just made an
other examination of the Kansas wheat
belt for Chicago parties, and he places
| the probable yield at something above
so 100000 bushels, although he says the
prospect this year. in comparison with
last year, is poorer in Kansas than in
any other state in the Union. Notwith-
standing this he estimates that Kansas
win stand fourth in wheat production
this year.
The Morris Racers Out.
New York. June 14-Green B. Morris
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