The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-20
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
The Cremerie restaurant is . mighty
busy place.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Marshall are visit
ing at Kiro.
DR.. Buck. OF Oakland. is sick with
typhoid fever.
Shawnee county farmers are shipping
potatoes by the carload.
OF the 275 students at :Washburn col
lege this year, 107 are new.
Mrs.. A. l.. Thorpe is in Greensburg,
Ind, for q visit of a few weeks.
Auburn is to have a new town hall
and new store. Auburn is booming
Archie Bush, of Oakland, has gone to
Manhattan to attend the Agricultural
college.
There win be a social dance at the
Democratic Flambeau club hall this
evening.
Mrs. J. D. Knowles will return this
evening from an extended stay in De
linda. Ill.
John M. Wilkerson has bought quar-
ter section of land adjoining his farm
northwest of Topeka.
E. w. Benedict is building a cement
"drive" for his automobile at his home
at Thirteenth and Buchanan.
Grant Mcconnell. candidate for repre-
sentative on the Democratic ticket. has
SOlQ LIS 1dIAll uedI Q0SHOkcIi.
Myrtle Pierson, of Oakland. has gone
to Winfield to enter a hospital and
study to become a trained nurse.
Miss Elva Simpson has gone home to
Kansas City after. visiting Miss Ella
Hall of this city for a short time.
Many of the country papers this week
have had a society item to the effect
that Jack Frost visited the country"
Elmer L. Frazier. a young man sent
to the asylum from Lebanon, Kas.,
escaped September II and has not been
found.
The Woman's Home Missionary So
ciety of the First NJ. E. church will
afternoon. September "a.
Mrs. ]. T. -Lovewen and daughters.
Marguerite and Carol. who have been
in New Hampshire and Vermont since
June. returned home today.
Some farmers not far from Topeka
have been making hay on Sundays. The
Ministerial Union ought to investigate
the matter.
E. e, Brown of the Observer says
that he didn't come to Topeka to pub
fish paper as the organ of the Demo-
cratic party.
are complaining that some one is max
ing a business of gathering in their
chickens while they sleep.
Anyone wishing to talk to Frank
Stahi Will be able to do so at long range
soon. A telephone line to connect To-
peka and Auburn is to be built.
The Independent Telephone company
has issued new and complete list OF
telephone numbers. It is evident that
the business continues to grow.
An unlucky Tecumseh farmer has had
two wells dug on his place and not
found water. He has announced that
he will make the third trial next week
The Eskridge Tribune says: The To-
peka exposition and carnival might
have been a complete failure If Lon
Ingersoll had not gone over to take it
all in.
torn down last night. POtwin will get a
reputation as a lawless suburb If it
isn't careful. The bill board is to be
| taken down next week, and they might
have waited.
J. H. huffman, the Paxico druggist.
correspondence contest. Topeka drug
gist would not have time to make one
| move a week in the game.
| Sylvender Worcester and wife. the
Sheriff Cook and two ESCAPED convictS
one quiet Sunday afternoon. are hav-
| ing a family reunion at their home near
! Pauline.
President Wilson of the vinewood
Park railway and l. H. Myers the con-
Cs l.
peka to try to fix up the wrangle about
| the right of way outside of the city
| limits.
At 11:30 last night there was an in
cendiary fire near the gas plant. A barn
| owned by Louis Wiss at 1872 North
| Quincy street was destroyed. and a
horse burned to death. The loss was
about 81. 00O
]. M. Padgett has called a meeting OF
| the Topeka automobilists to be held
| Monday evening at S31 Kansas avenue
| for the purpose of making a permanent
| organization OF the automobile owners
| of the city.
| May Burnett, of Collins case fame, is
| back in town. Mrs Burnett testified
back part of the Collins house on the
| morning of the murder. She was tried
! for perjury and acquitted.
II. NJ. McDermott. the leader of the
Three Drolls." the clever grotesque
| team with the Last Days Of Pompeii. %
| act which is the best feature of the
| vaudeville with the show.
| For the purpose of shifting about its
| engines and other equipment the Edison
| plant is putting in a twenty-ton electric
crane. It is similar to those installed
| shop, except that its capacity is only
| about one-third Of those which the San
| ia Fe has.
! Contractor Booth Charlesworth of
| Topeka, who is laying some new sewers
in Lawrence, is having a row with the
Lawrence city engineer about the char
acter of the thing which he has secured
A TRUE SAYING.
"Most Men Dig Their Graves with