The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-01
SNAP SHOTS ATHoME NEWS

SNAf SHUTS AT HOME NE WS
If you want to hear some music
OF the bubbling. gurgling kind,
And the sort which is Inspiring
To the average fellows mind.
Then you'll take a fan and sunshade
And to Garfield park youn 60
To hear Jackson,s band, SO famous.
Play The Fall of Jericho"
The government thermometer got up
to 81 Thursday afternoon.
Senator James C. Stone was over from
Leavenworth yesterday afternoon
battalion drill on the state-house
grounds late Thursday evening.
General Superintendent J. E. Hurley
returned yesterday from g. trip on the
Chicago division OF the Santa Fe.
The Peoples party county central
nue. at O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
County Auditor Charles D. WEIGH has
purchased home on Polk street near
Ninth of Carrie A. Worley for 1900
Secretary of State George A Clark is
planning to take Cyrus Leland to Colo
RADIO and show him few points about
trout fishing.
Has anybody heard any chinch-bug
talk this summer? They say a few are
beginning to show up, but too lata to
hurt the corn
Members of Shawnee camp No. $500
&u- w u A. Will meet at Bu0 1lek4 tVz
Kan ave, Aug. I'd, at $50 g. m.. to take
part in parade.
Dick Cooley. the Topeka ball player
with the Boston team, got three hits in
Guiding a two-bagger yesterday on
Rhodes. the Chicago pitcher.
Meat is beginning to get cheaper.
Porterhouse and sirloin are down to ID
cents, and round. square, octagonal and
other common brands cost only Is cents.
D. A. Mulvane has made a large in
vestment in the great southwestern por-
ton of Kansas, he having purchased
from Scott & Scott OF this city a 1900
acre ranch.
P. L. Wise, formerly city engineer of
Topeka, now Of the contracting firm Of
Manley, Mcclure & Wise. was one of
the bidders on street paving In Atcht-
son last night
The following recovered patients at
Stormont hospital have returned to
their respective homes: Mrs. Joe Fields,
Alma; Mrs. Charles Noon, Topeka; Miss
Sophie Horner. Altavista; Irwin Pribble.
Topeka
Some of the councilmen are talking
favorably of buying some land on Crane
street south of the city park. and max
ing the street at that point fifty-f1ve
feet wide. Councilman Weber favors
the scheme.
Miss Edith Ogden has gone to Gales
burg, Ill, for an extended visit stopping
off on her way at Mt. Pleasant, Ia Her
younger sister. Ruth accompanied her as
far as Kansas City to remain there I'M
til Sunday.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team will play the Scranton team on
the Washburn grounds Saturday after
noon. Scranton defeated Burlingame II
to 3 Thursday and claims the Usage
county championship.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team defeated the St. George team
Thursday afternoon by the score of 4
to 0. On this trip the Topeka team also
defeated Wamego- and
Westmoreland-on-the
Superintendent Nelson leaves tonight
for Illinois to deliver lecture at the
Rock River ChautauQua assembly 1t
will be flying trip, as he will leave for
Kansas again Immediately after his lee
ture, getting back to Topeka early SUM-
day morning.
During the year ending July 1, 1902.
large amount of charity work was
done at Stormont hospital, considering
that it has no endowment for that pur-
pose. Charity patients received treat
ment for 800 days. none who applied and
were worthy being turned away.
w. s. Bergundthal. the well known
councilman and real estate man, Is SER
iously ill at his home with what is sup
posed to be appendicitis Mr.. Ber-
gundthal was taken i'll suddenly Tues
his home for some time. 1t is stated
this m orning that no operation will be
necessary to effect a cure.
Engineer Stafford of the city building
is putting in his spare tine repairing
the damaged seats in the Auditorium
| injured in various ways, and a little re-
pairing now will save them from de-
struction- The commonest form of in
| jury is the peeling up of the veneering
Pension Commissioner Ware has notf-
| fed the Old Boys club in Kansas City,
| Kan, that he cannot accept the invita-
| ton of the club to be present and speak
| tomorrow night According to q Kan
sas City paper, Mr.. Ware states that
| he will not be west again until the gen.
| eral g. A. r. encampment in October,
when he expects to make a few cam
| paign speechs."
| John p White now breaks into the
! Ethel May Morgan discussion. He says
| the girl said she would be content tC
live with a private family. John p
may have been doing when the Eirl
| told Probate Judge Pagan that she pre-
| ferred to go to the Industrial school al
Beloit as she did not believe she could
| be content in a private family But OF
| course a 15-year-old child can hardly
know what is best for herself
| This is what the Topeka correspond
| ent of the New York Dramatic Mirror
wrote to his paper from Topeka before
| the Wallace shows and he must have
| just about guessed It: 'Wa1lace's cir
| Gus, July 49, is the first amusement an
| nouncement and doubtless will come, BIZ
seen and depart with our dollars de-
| lightfully delivered in gleeful eager ex-
| change for a surprised and sapieni
squint at the shows multifarious mar
| vels.'
! Advance advertising car No. 2, O
| Buckskin Bits Wild West show wal
| here Thursday for billing the town and
receiving light repairs on it's air brak'
equipment The only question is wht
| is Buckskin Bill, and that will probab
| ly be answered August IA when the ag
gregation comes to town. 1t is In Law
| renee the day before and In Usage Cit,
| the day after 1t is here The Santa Fl
handles it from Chicago to Purcell, ]
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