The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-29

II duly received your telegram of the
27th inst, rendering me the appoint
ment of United States senator to sue
coed the late Senator Mcmillan. With
a deep sense Of the responsibility and
honor, I accept the appointment with
many thanks. r. A. ALGER.
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
w. d. Album goes east next week tc
visit relatives In Pennsylvania.
The Native Sons of Kansas will meet
at the Commercial club rooms tonight.
Mrs. Thorpe. police matron. needs
some coarse print Bibles to distrib-
ute.
There will be a mass meeting at the
Democratic Flambeau club hall this
evening.
Marc Robbins the Topeka actor. is in
Topeka this week with the Morey stock
company.
What the Medic football players need
is a hypodermic injection Of ginger and
JUDGMENT.
A farmer boy brought a large pelican
to Topeka today. He shot the bird on
the Kansas river.
AS Washburn and the Medics both
lost on the football field Saturday they
are still on the same basis.
There were enough street cars at Sat
urday's football game to bring the
crowd to town. Marvellous.
There was a decided lack of roofing
at Saturdays football game and not a
college yell was heard.
The October number of PUSH" Albert
Reid and Tom McNears paper, will
make it's appearance this week.
The chair of pill rolling may be all
right at the medical college, but the
The Washburn college football team
will play the State normal team Sat-
urday afternoon on the Washburn field.
e. S. Snow, editor of the I4akin. Kas.,
Kearney County Advocate and manager
of the Lakin opera house, is in Topeka
today.
workmen began today to remodel the
Frank Long. It will be the New Oxford
hotel.
The Wichita people lost more than
twice as much on the Last Days OF
Pompeii'' show as did the Topeka Com.
mercial club.
Baptist association has just concluded
a two days session at Leland and Fifth
streets in Topeka
Transfers and hack drivers are re-
quested to attend a meeting to be held
in their interests Tuesday evening at
420 Kansas avenue.
Charles Barnes, of the state auditors
office, has sold some very fine hunting
dogs recently and is talking of starting
some kennels near Topeka.
Harry Steinberg will open his hall
next Wednesday evening. There will be
no invitations issued. All his friends
and patrons are invited to attend.
F. H Collier, formerly a Topeka
newspaper man, now with the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat, was in the city Sunday
on his way to Fort Riley where he goes
to cover the army maneuvers for that
paper.
CAPITAL Council No. 1 Knights and
Horton council Tuesday evening at the
lodge rooms, Seventh and Kansas ave-
nue.. A full attendance of members is
desired.
The managers of the football game
played Saturday had a banner journey
ing up and down the streets. On it was
the monogram "V. 81 What did that
mean, veterinary surgeons or vfvi Sec
tion;sts2
In the notice OF the coming suffrage
convention to be held in Topeka next
month a typographical error was made
in the printing of the name OF HI. B
Blackwell. 1t was printed Mrs. H. e
blackwell. when it should have been
Mrs. H. Blackwell.
The Stahl and Stebbins campaign will
be given boom Tuesday night at Jor-
dams hall in Tennesseetown. The
speakers will be w. H. Hellum, M. T.
Hooks. J. w. Gleed and others Harold
Parr and Jordan's drum corps will fur
nish the music.
The first vacancy in the membership
of the Saturday Night club was filled at
the meeting Saturday evening by the
election OF John Macdonald, charter
member of the club who has been out
for five or six years. He takes the place
Of Prof. e. G. Foster.
Five companies Of the national guard
- u tn 10 10 az
route to Fort Riley. TIE companies are
from Ottawa, Chanute, Fredonia, Yates
Center and Burlingame. They came to
Topeka over the Santa Fe and left at
noon over the Union Pacific.
Work commenced this morning on
grading the alley between Kansas ave-
nue. and Quincy and Seventh and
Seventh and Eighth. The alley will be
paved with brick, an Improvement
which has been much needed for long
back of Kansas avenue which are also
candidates for paving boom.
The Medic football players did a far
more thorough job of swearing in Sat
urday afternoons football game thar
they did of playing. The players should
remember that 1t is understandable
| and ungentlemanly for players in any
game to resort to cuss words. There
were many ladies present at Saturday:
game, and no doubt some gentlemen
and they should not have been subject
to any such indignity.
| There will be a quilting bee at Mrs
Thorpes office Tuesday afternoon. She
has six quilts ready to be finished, after
which they will be given to the needy
Mrs Thorpe's Industrial class OF chill
dren have been taught by her to work
| for what they get, and during vacation
have pieced blocks enough for AZ quilts
About Is of them have been finished
and she needs cotton and lining for II
1r>a
| in the quilting Tuesday afternoon will
| he xvoIeorno