The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-22
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMEN NEWS.

If you expect to vote you must reg
The Dougherty Success club met last
night
The chart for the Bostonfans opens
Friday morning
In spite of the noise, this campaign
has been quiet one
Well, Topeka got look at the bright
baseball stars, anyhow.
A. G. Goodwin returned today from
business trip to Chicago
Don't forget that the registration
books close Friday evening.
The government Thermometer ranged
between 50 and 10 Tuesday
Ex-Sheriff J. NJ. Wilkerson is now Iv-
ing on lis farm near Meriden.
IF you haven't registered there is still
| time to do so before Friday evening.
Tom McNeal is still more in demand
than any campaign speaker in the state
The trains for Oklahoma are all
crowded on account of excursion rates
1t is reported that there is a scarcity
of quail in the vicinity Of Topeka this
year.
Topeka coal dealers say that there
may be anthracite in Topeka by jan
uarY
The starch factory, sugar mill and
cotton mill have all gone up in smoke.
Mt.
Topeka once had prosperous starch
factory. Now she has the place where
the starch factory stood.
The bittersweet season is here, and it
furnishes an excellent excuse for an ex-
cursiOn into the country.
The graders have completed their
work on Clay street between Sixth ave-
nue. and Seventh street
Mayor Parker thinks that the water
works sQua bible Will be Strengthened out
without much more trouble
The momentcus question of whether
the Ifble shall be used in the schools in
Topeka is at last near a settlement.
The most beautiful and effective bed
OF cosmos in Topeka is at the Robbins
home, corner of Taylor and Huntoon
streets.
Dick Cooley says he has entirely re-
covered his old form in ball playing. 1t
is unnecessary to say he has become
teetotale-.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company's wires to the state house are
being placed under ground from the
Jackson street conduit.
The asphalt pavements in topeka re-
quire constant attention and when they
are neglected it doesn't take long to
make the fact evident.
There are four candidates for county
clerk and all of them are members of
some labor union. Who saws the union
man isn't recognized in politics?
There is almost an epidemic of typhoid
| lever on the WeSt size. MOST OF lnG
! cases are west Of Lincoln street and be-
tween Fifth and Seventh streets.
The Chaminade Music club met this
afternoon at half past o'clock in the
violin studio at Washburn college, Miss
Clark and Miss Parker. POSSESSES.
THE Modern Magdalene, which comes
to Topeka next week, will play at the
| Grand. 1t viii be the first big produc-
ton at that house since the Sultan of
! Sulu."
George K. Little, the Chicago evange-
\ list who has been holding services at
the First United Brethren church, will
talk to the Santa Fe shc9men. Thurs
day noon.
County Clerk John NJ. Wright has fin
isAed the correct COPY for the official
ballots to be used in Shawnee county at
the Noven. Der election. The Hall COM
pany will print. them pi.~rt
In a game of fnotbe Iii between the
Junior Harf isons and the Junior Lin
avenue and Monroe street. the former
smothered the latter by the score OF 10
to :.
The Washburn- Medic football team is
practicing now for the game With the
/ Haskell Indians Saturday. The Indians
call it d practice game. and the To-
pekans Will try TO give them all the
practice they want.
George H.NEvans is able to be around
after an illness Of several years. He
will be inspector of the West Sixth ave-
rue mecadam road Mr.. Evans had
more to do with building the state
house than any other one man.
DR.. Charles Lowry is a personal friend
of Edward Wheeler Parker. member
of the commission appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to inv estigate the claims
Of the anthracite coal miners and the
operators. They first became acquaint-
ed in Austin, Texas. about ten years
ago
Rev. f. B. Sanford, of New York, gen
eral secretary of the Federation of
Churches and Christian Workers, is in
tie city in the interest of that organi-
cation. He will deliver an address be-
fore the Ministerial union a the Y. M
c. A. oarlors tomorrow morning at 10
c'c.oo-.
DR. John McClintocE. who has been
spending the summer in Europe was
expected to land in New York today,
having set sail from Liverpool October
international Congress of Surgeons at
Rome. and has visited the great bospi-
tails at London. Berlin and Vienna.
A meeting was held at Menoken last
pigrt in the interest of the Farmers Co
operative Grain & Live Stock assOcia-
tion James Butler. secretary of the
ing. Several farmers subscribed for
ed. It was decided to form an associa-
appointed to solicit members. Another