The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-12-06

Arthur Kane's new theater in Kansas
City was opened last night.
The government thermometer ranged
between % and 43 Friday.
County superintendent Wright visited
the Elmont schools this week.
Will Chess of Rossville recently husk-
Cd 100 bushels of corn in a day.
Frank Griggs will be captain of next
years high school football team.
Kansas spent s4,S04, 562. 55 for school
purposes during the last fiscal year.
Mrs. S. D. Harlan has moved from
Burlington to Topeka for the winter.
Frank Daniels and his opera company
will be at the Crawford December Is.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Foss were in Kan
sas City Friday for brief visit to
friends.
There is a feeling that those who
prophesied long hard winter were
correct
A local hunter has record of 10 rab-
bits in one day and 1t was a poor rabbit
day at that.
Joseph P. Limeburner. Of Chicago.
arrived this afternoon to visit w. Z.
Brown and family.
The Topeka City railway and the
Ninewood line can't consolidate too soon
10 please the people.
A Topeka philosopher says that when
the janitor takes down the screens it is
a sure sign of winter.
c. l. Wood went to Kansas City Fri
day to meet his wife, who has returned
from a visit in the east
L. A. Stebbins will read a paper to-
night before the Saturday Night club
On The Settlement of the Coal Strike
Miss Emma Kassebaum of RoosvilIe
was offered position as teacher in the
Topeka public schools but declined the
offer
Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. T. Hooks of Mt. Olive
n. z. church were given a donation
surprise party by their friends Wednes-
day night.
The Washburn college girls basket
ball team will play the Topeka high
school at the Y. W. c. A. gymnasium
this evening.
The request of the street force for pay
on Labor day was rejected by the
streets and walks committee of the city
council yesterday
The family of K. U. Whitfield has been
released from quarantine. Their little
daughter, Helen. has recovered from an
attack of diohtheria.
Mr.. w. W. Gavitt is at the head of
corpora ton which controls the sale of
over one-half of all the cheap wild lands
in the United States.
Mrs. L. S. Harrison of Atlantic City
N. J., formerly Miss Laura Longacre of
this city. is here for visit with her par
ents and other relatives.
Mrs. Carrie Nation was in jail Friday
and Ex-Governor John Prohibition" ST
John was in Kansas City. Both We're
either in or out Of place.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Cumberland Presbyterian church is
holding a successful doll fair at the
church. It will close this evening.
The Kansas State Historical society is
surely growing. During the past year
there was added to it 1878 bound books,
5.S71 unbound and 2,019 newspaper vol
uInes.
The family of Rev o. M. Bowman,
pastor of the Lowman Hill Me. church,
is recovering from diphtheria. Rev. Mr..
Bowman has been III quarantine about
two weeks.
Mrs. Joseph Ost and daughter Agnes
her husband is purchasing agent of the
Colorado Southern and where they will
make their home.
Luther Burns. who resigned as pri-
yate secretary to Governor Stanley TO
take a railroad position. says the work
Is little more exacting but it isn't so
hard on the nerves
The state papers are again saying
mean things about Topeka just because
there is a candidate for United States
senator and state printer from this city.
That isn't Tooeka's fault
The annual reunion of Sloan lodge
No. e25 A. F. and A. NJ. will be held
Saturday night. December ID. Several
mem berS OF the lodge from Chicago anC
other places will attend.
The jury in the district court found
L. L. Bellchamber, eolOred. guilty OF
larceny. Bellchamber was charged with
holding W Fred Weaver and taking
from him a gold watch.
The council committee on streets and
walks met Friday afternoon and voted
to reject the petition for paving on Tay-
lor from Tenth to Huntoon on the
ground that it has insufficient sigma
lures.
The streets and walk committee have
decided to recommend that the CAuncil
adopt the following pavement petitions:
Kansas avenue from Tenth to Thir-
teenth and Harrison street from Hun
toon to Huntington.
Rev. A. H. Kelso pastor of the First
Cumberland Presbyterian church. has
returned from a brief visit in Wash
ington. Ind, bringing with him his two
daughters and SON The family is now
located at ELS West street
Lewis Morrison wiz play "Mephisto'
In Faust" at the Crawford tonight.
The dramatic version is better than the
grand opera, unless you have been edit
Gated in music by a schooling of at least
ten years in Boston, Munich or Paris
The EmDoria Gazette says: '"Thc
other day a card came to the Em2oriS
Dostoffice addressed to Mrs. Carrie Ne
ton, Emooria, Kas.. and the postoftice
employees sent 1t to the Gazette. This II
as near as anyone has ever come to