The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-04
sNAPsHoTsAT HOME NEWS.

Anyone wishing to engage rooms at
the poor farm can do so now by tele-
phone. asms
John Howerton Claims the tallest sun
flower in Shawnee county. 1t measured
171z feet
L. C. Edwards. ,editor of the Hum
boldt, Neb., Standard, visited in Topeka
Friday.
George Burghart the cigar manufac
turer. is working his cigarmakers night
and day.
The annual meeting of the Topeka
Athletic association will be held Mon
day night.
The walker-Janes Clothing company,
of Ottawa, has been Incorporated with
capital of 100000
There are 81 patients at Christ hospi-
tai. All lines of business seem very
good this fall.
What is the matter with Trego coun-
ty? No one has built a gold shale mill
there for ten days.
Farmers are selling potatoes for q
cents bushel. Do you remember the
price a year ago?
Wakarusa has a basket ball team.
The Y. M. c. A. and High school teams
please take notice. 4
The w. C. T. U. will meet Monday
afternoon at o'clock at the First
| Methodist church.
The Topeka medic football team is to
| burn field October IL.
The Topeka NEEDLES will not play the
ST. Marys college football team today.
1t is wet even in st. Marys.
Joseph L. Bristow, fourth assistant
postmaster general is expected home
/ from Washington in short time.
The noon religious services at the To
peka wooden mill have been suspended
while the mill is being remodeled-
/. L. Dayhoff. Republican candidate
| for state superintendent of public in
struction, was in Topeka yesterday.
Miss Lamy, the instructor in art at
the Y w. C. A, held the first meeting
of the watercolor class this afternoon.
If it is too wet for the Washburn-
Normal football game this afternoon
the two teams might play water polo.
Andrew Smith. of the Bank of To-
peka, leaves today for Bennington, Kan.
where he will be connected with a
bank.
Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter will
hold it's first meeting of the Y. w. c. A.
Literature class Monday evening at Z
] O'Clock.
What will Ed Howe say. now that it
has been discovered that Mrs. Bob Bur-
dett'S brain congestion was sick
headache?
S. t. Pringle, Republican candidate
| for the legislature in the Burlingame
4 district of Usage county, was in Topeka
ldSI evening.
There will be a play given in German
Sunday evening at the hall of the To-
peka Turnverein. Mrs. Agnes Voegle
will have charge.
The High school teachers have or
ganized a basket ball team and will
play at the 7. W. c. A. gymnasium
I Thursday afternoon.
r. The DR. Mefert trial will be held in
4 the district court Tuesday. John Coyne
lis thinking of building some bleachers
to accommodate the crowd. ss.
Carrie Nation sent SIT to the county
| commissioners to be applied on her ac-
count of fines. costs, etc. She is pay
i ing on the, 1ustalIment plan.
Judge Charles Eopde1I, or Ness City.
wasain Topeka yesterday conferring
| with the Republican managers. He be-
aieves he will have little trouble in be-
i ing elected to the bench this year. ~
z The big electrical flag which has been
Fbuilt in the Auditorium is now COM
pleted and is the most handsome piece
of decorating ever put into the Auditor
FUN.
Owing to the weather. the annual
meeting and reception of the Gamma
Sigma Literary society of Washburn
college was postponed last night for
one week.
The Wilson. Kansas. football team
defeated the Russell team Friday by
the score of Sc to 0. High. one-sided,
football scores seem to be fashinabla
this season.
The Y. w. C. A Bible classes meet
on Monday at p. m. Tuesday at $3.50
D. m, Wednesday at p. M, and Thurs
day at p. m. These classes are open
| to all women.
The Shawnee County Medical society
will meet Monday night at o'clock at
the National hotel Darlors. DR.. N. ].
| Taylor, of Berryton, will read a paper
entitled Typhoid Fever
The K U. and Agricultural college
football game scheduled for Lawrence
today was called off. McCook field I'M
der water, no street cars running in the
town and mud several inches deep.
The work of sidewalk laying in the
city is behind time, owing to the wet
weather. Paving which would have
been completed this year had the wea-
Their been dry will have to wait until
next year.
Monday evening at 1870 the Ninde
Chautauqua Circle will meet at the
First M. E. church. There will be a
musical and literary program in addf-
ton to the election of officers which was
postponed last week.
Washburn college students are work.
ing hard now in preparing decorations
for the Washburn chapel and Repre-
sentative hall to be used during the in
stallation exercises for President Plass,
which occur on September T.
Ada R. Kelley filed a suit for divorce
from JeWel Kelley IN the district court
Friday afternoon. She is an actress.
She found that her husband was not a
jewel She says he drank and spent all
their money and then left her.
Thursday noon Miss Carter, the phys
lical director of the Y. w. c. A, ad-
dressed the girls at Washburn college
on the subject of athletics, and assisted
in the organization of an athletic asso-
citation of 30 members.
The people of Potwin and Auburndale
wonder if a petition to Supt. Patton OF
the city railway to run a double-head
car in at in the morning and out at
s in the evening would do any good? 1t
would probably work, for Mr.. Patton is
a tender-hearted man.
Myrtle NJ. Lewis has asked for a Iii
vorce from Shirly E Lewis on the