The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-01
SNAP SHOTS AT NEWS.

d. w. Mulvane has gone to Chicago.
C. Histed was in Kansas City Satur-
day.
John Richmond was in Kansas City
Saturday
Way Down East" will be at the
Crawford tonight
]. p Castle and wife, of Atchison.
were here Sunday.
Col. w. H. Rossington was a Kansas
City visitor Saturday.
]. E. Forbes of Ottawa, was Sun
day visitor in Topeka
E. G. Pipp, of Burlingame, was reg
istered at the Throop Saturday night.
B. P. Scott, assistant labor commits
sioner, was in Kansas City Saturday
Judge ]. c. Pollock attended the BAN
quet given Saturday night by the Re-
publicans of Kansas City, Kas.
Morton Albaugh attended the Wyan-
dotte county Republican love feast Sat
urday night. w. H. Craddock was not
among those present.
J. f. Roddy, road foreman of engines
for the Santa Fee middle division, was
here from Newton Saturday night
Little Eva is dying in several places
in Kansas every night Just now
H. n. Gaines is walking on air. He
guessed within 3S of the exact total vote
on gov ernor, and thinks he may come III
for a prize of some kind
This kind of weather is fine. for the
building that is going on in Topeka at
present
A cooperative telephone company is
proposed at Hiawatha which will put
in the best kind of phones at one dollar
a month or less.
Nen.aha county is puffed up because it
will not only furnish the next governor
of Kansas. but according to Secretary
Coburn'S report it is. the banner corn
county in the state this year,
1t is understood that the contribution
taken at the Crawford box office last
night for the performance was not a..
large as the usual missionary Offering.
Chief Wilmarth has purchased an iron
gray horse for the fire department, tie
only one of that color in service. The
largest percent of the " ashington, D. c..
fire horses are iron gray, and the largest
station of the Chicago fire department
on Michigan avenue, has all gray horses
School work was resumed today at
Washburn college.
There is still something to live for,
even if winter is coming on. The K. u
Washburn football game will take place
this week.
J. w. O'Neil1 manager of the Topeka
Water company, says that some years
ago he looked up the records to find out
the number of resident taxpayers in the
city and ascertained the number to be
about 1000. He thinks that this is not
far from the number at the present
time. If this is the case. it will require
1000 signatures on the waterworks petit
lions.
The jury in the United States cir
cult court assembled today for the first
work of the term.
The members of the Washburn facul-
ty enjoyed a party all their own last
Friday evening
The smoothest CRATER that ever struck
Topeka operated Saturday afternoon at
the State Journal corner of Eighth and
Kansas avenue He talked a crowd OF
400 people out of about IS inside of SO
minutes, and did not sell anything or do
anything except talk He claimed to be
a trick bicycle rider. but that was only
joke.
Potatoes have commenced to advance
in price. Instead of IS cents a bushel
they are now 80
DR.. J. It. Mcfarland failed to deliver
a pulpit editorial on the evils of the
Sunday theater Sunday.
Robert Day, the white horse fiend
who broke into Seery & Norton's hard
ware store a week ago and stole set
of lines. waived. examination in city
court this morning and was bound over
to stand trial for burglary and larceny.
The Kansas and Missouri Hotel Men
association will hold a banquet at the
Coates house, Kansas City, December
1919, and the tax will be 50 per plate
Mr. c. l.. Wood. secretary of the asso-
C1dIlOn, mas receiver e144S CT > ~ liz ~
vitations which indicate that about 100
will be present.
Fred Voeth of North Topeka was ar
rested again last night on the charge of
insanity This is the fourth time he has
been in the county Jail on the same
charge within three weeks Once he
was acquitted in probate court when
tried for insanity, and since then friends
have been trying to have him admitted
to the Soldiers home What they will
do with him this time no one seems to
know-turn him loose again in all prob
ability
Polk. school will not open till Wednes-
day and Superintendent Davidson says
! it will then be in excellent sanitary con-
dition.
The son of A. F. Robinson. Santa Fe
/ bridge engineer. is sick at the family
! home on Monroe street.
There has been a --atIceable increase
/ in the size of many OF the Sunday
schools Explanation: 1t is less than a
month until Christmas
Robert Brown has sold what is known
as the Higginson farm of 100 acres, sis
miles southwest of Topeka. to A. J
Courier, of Washington county. consid
Grafton being $3.50 an acre Mr.. Cour-
ter will take charge of the place Marcel
l. Miller & Clark executed the deal.
The Shawnee county farmers institut,
will be held at Oak Grange hail. Mission
! Center on the evening of December Il
and all day December L. & cordial in
vitation is given to the public to attend