The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-30
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS.

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| week from Sunday.
The government thermometer got up
| to 81 Friday afternoon.
! A. E. Spence has purchased the Valley
Falls New Era of =. C. Scott;
The pavement in the alley east Of the
| postofhce has been completed.
For Sale-A shorthand scholarship.
Cheap. r. H. B.. care Journal
Excellent meals at The Wintrode, cor
| ner Tenth and Topeka avenues.
Today's sprinkle was one of cider"
| Smiths blue ribbon varieties.
The next regular meeting of the Corr
| mercial club is called for September 10.
A street railway employe drew the
| piano in the grab bag drawing contest
| The Topeka Business college team will
play at the Clyde Watermelon carnival
| The painters have almost completed
! the interior work at the federal build
| ing.
| Scott Hopkins. of Horton, regent OF
| the State University, was in Topeka
Frida~.
| Governor Stanley will speak at Okla
| homa City today. He went there from
| Osborn, 500 miles.
| The Topeka Business college team de-
feated Valley Falls Friday afternoon Dy
| the score of to 3.
The members of the plumbers union
of Kansas City have decided to come To
| Topeka on Labor day.
| The iewelry store of Fred c. Eager
| Grams will be moved soon from 527 to
| 507 Kansas avenue.
| The Topeka Business college and the
Asylum bah teams will play at Wash
| burn on Labor Day.
There will be a meeting of the w. c..
! T. U. at the First M. E. church Monday
afternoon at o'clock.
The Topeka Gun club will conduct a
| free for all shoot at the fair grounds on
81 b0r daV commencing at 2 o. m.
The heavy rains are greatly retarding
work on the several large brick build
! ings in the course of construction.
D. H. Branaman has been called to
Seymour, Indiana, on account of the
death Of his father, G. w. Branaman.
| The Slater company played Nell
| Gwynne" at the Grand last night, and
| will play THE Hand of Man" tonight.
Walter Conwell. of Chase county, has
come to Topeka to join the United
| States hospital corps for service in the
| Philippines.
| Mrs. Rena Jenkins has filed suit ask
! ing for divorce from William Jenkins,
| cook on the Santa Fe railroad, on the
! grounds of cruelty.
H. B. Thomas, formerly city clerk of
Emporia, now leading business man
of Claremore, I. T., was in Topeka Fri
! day night on his way east
| Dr. Ida c. Barnes has returned from
| Chicago where she has been for several
| weeks attending special lectures on *
| ray and electro therapeutics.
| c. C. Baker, president of the city rail-
| way, came home from Chicago Friday
| to see the new yellow car on his ROAD
He heard it before he saw it.
The Dawes commission must be a
busy crowd for Senator Burton has just
| had another attorney appointed to help
! it out in the person of r. I. Osborn.
cider" Smith is right so far on the
| weather He has been good enough tt
| promise that the weather will be coed
| during the week of the Kansas Expo
| sition.
Mrs. H l. Miller who has been spend
| ing the summer with her brother, J. T.
Lovewell, in this city. will leave Mon
| day for Meridian. Miss. where she is
the principal of Lincoln academy.
Chairman Philips will postpone the
Bailey meeting at the auditorium book
ed for September &c if President RoOse-
welt comes then. 1t would not do for
two distinguished personages to be in
| town at the same time.
| The IS pound rails which the Vine
wood Park railway will use in the city
| have arrived. The company will use 81
| pound rails on its lines outside of the
| city. The company expects to complete
it's road by November 1.
The members of the police committee
from the city council and Chief Dono
| van went to the exposition grounds Fri.
day afternoon and located the cooler
| which will be used for unruly citizens
during the exposition.
| Topeka Union baseball team defeated
the Nine Bees by the score of to 2 ir
a ten-inning game at Washburn park
Friday afternoon, Batteries: Topeka
| Union, Swarts and Hucks: Nine Bees
Clark and Robinson. Struck out by
Swarts, II; Clark, 6.
No matter how stormy the day, Oh
how hard it rains, the city railway op-
crates its open cars. much to the dis
comfort of the patrons of the road. The
company is said to be short of motors
making it necessary to transfer the mo-
tors from closed to open cars during
the summer months. thus leaving the
closed cars dead.
AS was announced in the State Jour
nal some time ago. the board of health
has decided to enforce the anti-hog or
dinance, and the first prosecution was
stared Friday. A. Hugging, who lives
on East Tenth street. was arrested or
complaint of Sanitary Sergeant c. L
Vanderpool Other prosecutions are
likely to follow.
E. E. Brown got out the first edition
of the transDlanted observer Friday
| The Observer has been operated a
Guthrie, Ok. but Mr.. Brown found tina
the field there was too limited and h.
now proposes to make his paper the or
gan of the Kansas Democracy. Tit
first issue of the Observer is devoted
largely to a write up of the Democratic
| state convention.
There must have been something do
ing in Kansas City last night for The
following people from Kansas were
there: J. H. Richards, Fort Scott; B. E
Eldridge, Topeka: w. B. Henson, Paola
c. v. Page, Hutchinson; c. S. Lock
wand, Wetmore; G. w. Akers, Stafford
B. T. Darling, Wichita; o. v. Vernon
Emporia; J. w. Thompson, Bonner; S
i L. Carpenter, Severance; H. B. Sellers
Paola; w. B. Brown, Coffeyville; E. T,
Emich, Pittsburg; A. A. Reinhold, st
Francis; D. A. Hamilton and wife
!; Atchison; Mrs. ]. M Rhodes and Emma
D Rhodes, Frankfort; w. P. Brown
| Coffeyville.