The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-11-29
LOCAL MENTION.


w S. Fairchild of Oskaloosa was In
the city this morning.
Mr.. and Mrs W. w. Webster of San
Bernardino, Cala- are In the city
Alexander Lewis, a leading lumber
dealer of Lawrence, was in Topeka Fri
day night
Joseph Hampson and family left this
afternoon for Chicago after visit al
the home of A. A. Robinson.
Dr. F. s. Palmer of Hays City has
recently moved his family to Topeka.
and will open a dentist parlor here.
Fred Cowley of Columbus. a member
of the state live stock sanitary commits
sion, was registered at the National this
morning.
announced to deliver religious lecture
free to all, at the hall at Ill East Sew
enth street, Monday evening.
Major Anderson has received a great
quantity of bulletins issued by the Uni
ted States department of agriculture
These he VIII send out in connection
with the croD bulletin work.
A Scott Bledsoe, president of the
Kansas Spiritualist society, has return
ed from Evansville, Ind, where he has
been working in the interests of the or
ganization He went to Ellis today to
conduct a funeral
DR.. L. H. Mum of this city has been
appointed surgeon for the Kansas divis-
ion OF the Rock Island, reporting direct
to Chief Surgeon S. c. Plummer of Chi
cago. DR.. Mum has been for the last
nine years the company's local doctor.
President A A. Robinson of the Mex
lean Central railroad is confined to his
home in this city, belfast. He returned
from the east Thanksgiving and has not
been out since that time. He is slowly
getting better and plans to start for the
City of Mexico next week.
Mrs. w. e. Stanley will entertain the
Daughters of the American Revolution
at the executive mansion Friday after
noon at 2:30 An interesting programme
has been prepared. In the morning of
the same cay there will be business
meeting at which election of officers will
be held.
Next Tuesday the Stockholders of the
Farmers Cooperative Grain and Live
Stock association will hold their annual
meeting. They will come from all over
the wheat belt. On Wednesday a gen
eral cooperative meeting will be held:
The meetings will be hello in the council
chamber in the city building.
J. H Hampson, the president and
principal owner of the Mexico. Cuerna-
vaca & Pacific railway. Mexican line,
called upon General Manager H y.
morning. The visit is said to have been
merely a friendly call, and to have no
significance in railway matters.
A new petition for paving was filed
today. 1t provides for paving the alley
back of the Martin & Dennis Methodist
church, between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth and I.7co!n and Lane. The
alley is now nothing but a gulley, and it
viii be an expensive job for the city
to bring it up to grade and get it in
shape to be paved
Judge Hook has instructed the attor-
neys for the city that they must file an
amended answer in dollar gas case, elm
mating those portions which refer to the
matters which were stricken from the
case by the demurrer of the city to por-
tons of the company's bill. Judge Hook
held that the company's bill did not
need any changes, as the demurrer fixed
that
Bailiff John Coyne of the district
court has received a letter dated No
vember from his son, Arthur Coyne,
Olympia The letter was written at
Culebra Island. where Coyne was en-
gagged in helping establish signal sta
ton to be used during the coming man
euvers in which Admiral Dewey is to
take part.
Two babies will be christened by the
SpirituaIist society of this city Sunday
evening at a meeting TO be held in Sc
curity hall, at 1880. Instead of using
water in this ceremony, the Spiritual
lists use flowers, SprinklinS the bies
with petals. 1t is the first service of
this kind to be held in Topeka and will
be interesting. 1t Will be in charge or
Mrs. Eta Sea man Bledsoe.
A Auchly, proprietor of a factory
which manufa etures agricultural imple-
ments at Montgomery City, Mo, has
written parties in Topeka requesting in
formation about the resources of the
state and railroad facilities of the city
with d view to locating his plant here.
The Auchly farm implements are gen
orally used in this part of the country,
have good standing among the deal
ers, and it is believed that the institu-
ton employs at least fifty men.
The jubilee which the members of St
John a. NJ. E. church are to hold VIII
open tomorrow morning at II o'clock with
a sermon. At .. m. Rev. C. D. Olden
will preach on The Onward March Of
Christianity and fraternal address will
be given by Miss Laulta Cliniscale There
will be a response by Miss Bertha Harlan
and an address on THE Old Soldier by
veteran. In the evening a Sunday school
jubilee celebration will be held. Prof h
H Wade will preside. Monday evening
the choir Of the church will give the jubi-
Ice cantata "Jephtha's Daughter"