The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-06
SNAP SHOTS ATBOMENEWS.

Miss Ruth Collins, of Topeka, VIII
give violin lessons at Baker university.
Manager Mills, of the Washburn foot
ball team. is in wellington looking for
football players.
Miss Marion Bissell of Twentieth
street and Kansas avenue is seriously
sick with pneumonia.
Ellen M. Douglass wishes a divorce
from Edwin E. Douglass because he
threatened to choke her.
The officers of the federal court here
will attend the term of court at Wichita
the week of September Is.
j. F. Refsner, of Topeka, has been
chosen as the assistant instructor in the
gymnasium at Baker university.
Scraps" the horse which carried off
the free-for-aH pacing race at Salina,
will be in the Topeka races next week.
Henry 7. March, state commander of
the Maccabees, has gone to Hays City
to establish new lodge of 100 MEM
bers.
Albert T. Reid has a younger brother,
Llewellyn Reid, who is in a fair way to
equal his clever senior brother as an
artist.
F. G. Mitchell has returned from Ari-
iona. He will conduct the 7. M. c. A.
O'Clock.
Cooley, the Topeka ballplayer got but
two hits in two games with Pittsburg
yesterday at Boston. but one was
threebagger.
Let the clouds hand out another rain
like yesterdays and the street force
won't have to work all the night before
Roosevelt comes.
No ARA ngements have yet been made
for successor to Judge Horton in the
Topeka branch of the firm of Wag-
gener. Horton & Orr.
William Heiser. who runs a black
smith shop on East Second street. has
been taken to Stormont hospital suf-
ferer from typhoid fever.
Dusty Miller the former Topeka ball
player, now playing with the Kansas
City Blue Stockings. got three hits in
yesterdays game with Peoria.
Rev.. p. Price is ill and unable to
terrain church. Rev. J. D. Knox will
preach for him Sunday morning.
Charles Samson is ready to receive
entries for the ping pong tournament.
| for the championship gold medal, to be
played during the Kansas exposition.
Capt Wilcox, electrical engineer at the
state house, visited Emporia yesterday.
Capt Wilcox used to be in command of
! the Emporia company of the Kansas
National Guard.
| Miss Gertrude Tryon. assisted by a
class in elocution which she has been
| instructing for some months. will give
a recital this evening at the Walnut
Grove M. E. church.
| Sunday evening will see the close of
| the protracted meetings which have
been in progress at the Walnut Grove
M. E. church for the last month. About
I 80 conversions have resulted.
/ The w. S. c. met at the home of Mrs
Low, president of the club, last Thurs
day for the first time after the sum-
mer vacation. The time of the next
| meeting will be announced later.
The advance man for Pains Last
| Days of Pompeii" is in Topeka. The
| show VIII be here all of the week OF
September 1920, and the surrounding
towns and cities are being billed for il
like circus.
The wholesale prices of butter in New
York are lower than at Topeka and
| Kansas City. The price is regulated by
the immense amount of butter placed
in cold storage in New York when the
oleomargarine bill was passed.
The popularity of Derby Day. at the
races next week is being augmented by
hundreds of people wearing ribbon
streaIners bearing the words Derby
| gives promise of being a great event.
A Kansas City dispatch says that w
| F. Evans received notice of his appoint
| ment to be general attorney for the ST
Louis line of the Rock Island while he
| was in attendance at the hearing be-
| fore the state railroad board Friday
| morning.
The big barn on the A. M Coleman
farm, two miles north of MenOken, was
| struck by lightning Friday afternoon.
| and entirely destroyed by fire. Walter
| Coleman, son of the owner of the
| barn, was in the barn when it was
struck, and was partially paralyzed by
| the shock
At the reception by Degree of Honor
| lodge No. of this city in honor of
Mrs. Niece D. Cole, Wednesday evening,
| there was large attendance Mrs Cole
| gave an interesting talk on the merits
of the order. Refreshments were serv-
| ed and the degree team of No. 26O A.
o. U. w. gave drill
The council committee on streets and
walks decided yesterday afternoon that
/! the Smith street middle was a little bit
too technical for them. They visited
| Smith street, and found that it is all
occupied with houses and trees. which
| were put there by their owners under
the misapprehension that they owned
| the ground. The owners and the COM
mittee will have another conference to
talk the thing over.
There is a big demand for kitchen
girls and walters for restaurants this
| week. People are preparing for fail
week, and one restaurant man who ap-
| piled for a second cook, a dishwasheI
and two walters at the free employ
ment agency saida Il prefer good girls
for these places, but will take girls. men
or boys, black or white. This is a time
when a man can't be very particular
The application of the mysterious
| unknown" for franchise to build 6
| compressed air plant came up before
| the council committee on streets an6
| walks yesterday afternoon, and upor
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