The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-27
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS.

Friday.
The government thermometer ranged
between so and SO Friday.
Sam Lakin has been elected captain
Of the Kansas Medic football team
Republican primaries are being held In
Topeka and Soldier townships today.
The Saturday Night club will meet
tonight. L. L. Kiene will read paper
on Kansas LITERATURE
Judge J. G. Wood will speak at the
Euclid Avenue M. E. church Sunday
evening on Temperance"
Mrs. ]. s. Collins and daughter Grace
will move to Horton, where Grant Mead.
Mrs. Collins son, is located.
The football season is on in earnest
Don't forget that 1t is quite stylish to
be enthusiastically footballish.
John Dawson. of the state treasurer's
Office, is the star speaker of the Shaw
nee county Republican campaign.
W. A. Snyder. formerly Of Topeka.
won the Elks' charm at the Colorado
Springs street fair. 1t is valued at SIS.
The T. A. A. will increase the num-
Der of ping pong tables at the associa-
ton rooms. The game is growing In
favor.
The Omaha papers praised "Aiphonse
and Gaston,'' which is in Topeka to-
day. and the st. Joe press say it is very
bad.
One never knows how many loafers
there are in town until some one starts
a new building, or the river goes on a
rampage.
The Missouri and Kansas Telephone
company is employing a large force of
men to dig the ditch for its under
ground conduits.
Capt. J. G. Waters has returned from
Russell. where he took part in the de-
Tense of A. ]. Francis, who was acquit-
ted of the charge of murder.
George W. Pearson has asked Judge
Hazen to divorce him from Barbara
Pearson on the ground of abandonment.
They lived together "a hours.
Knights of the Maccabees are to give
their Erst annual ball at Steinbergs
hail. on the evening of October 3. Stein
berg's orchestra will play.
The free employment agency has re-
ceived an order for $50 Quarrymen to
work at Benedict, Kas., or Blackwater.
Mo. The wages offered at 81 so and $1.75
day.
An irrepressible wag inquiries whether
the christening of the new street car by
Prof Harry Worrall was for the pur-
pose of securing an annual pass or only
a Dastime.
The question is, Did General Funston
consult the Ministerial union before he
announced the adjustment of the can
teen is a detriment to the discipline or
the army?
The Commercial club rooms present
quite an agricultural appearance with
it's loads of samples of corn and vege-
tables. entered in the prize contests to
get products to send to Washington
with the Kansas delegation to the ia
tional encampment of the G. "A r.
The Tennesseetown kindergarten will
open Monday morning, September 20,
at 9:15 o'clock: Mrs. June r. Chapman,
director; Miss Ruby Pliley, assistant.
The Sheldon League of American Moth
ers will meet Thursday afternoon, Oc-
| tober 2. at 4 O'Clock. at the kinder
garten.
City Attorney Spencer did not go to
Wichita to attend the conference about
the city charter act because he was noti-
fed that the deposition of III. S. Morgan
in the. dollar gas case would be taken
yesterday The attorneys for the gas
company suddenly decided not to take
the deposition. and so Mr.. Spencer was
out all the way around.
pilates Most Important Question. -
fis the subject of an address which she
Rev. Homer Wark will deliver at. the
meeting for men at the Y. NJ c. A.
| rooms Sunday afternoon at O'Clock
Mr.. Wark is well known as a temper
ance orator. and has lately been con-
Quoting a series of very successful
meetings in Walnut Grove.
| A stage coach was secured in Topeka
! for the Atchison corn carnival parade.
Costumes were secured in Kansas City
and the delegation of armed scouts, In
dams, MeX1canS ana COWBOYS tnaC Iol-
lowed in its train made a very inter-
esting picture. Frank Root, who was a
messenger in the early days of stage
coaching between Atchison and Den
yer rode on the stage coach
The Pottawatomie club was organized
yesterday at Garfield park by the for
mer residents of the county who now
reside at Topeka. The object of the
club is to renew old acquaintance and
to entertain Pottawatomie county peo-
pie who come to Topeka. Meetings will
be held each month. j. J. Hostutler was
elected president: A. C. Merritt. vice
president and Mrs. j. K. Coddins. sec
retarv.
| At the coming meeting of the City
Federation, which is to be held next
Thursday afternoon, in Assembly hall Of
the High school,, double quartette of
ladies will render two numbers.
| "AutumnViolets,' by Bartlett, and
| Spring tide" by Cow. The ladies of