The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-19

4 crowd that sits up half the night
The 70 p match IN fading ghba1sy ge
Must feel like watchers with the dead.
For it's mighty like a wake and quite as
The colored odd Fellows have gone
The government thermometer got up
to sc Friday.
About thirty men are at work at the
fair grounds.
Bishop Millspaugh win hold services
in the church at Monmouth Sunday
The street car bridge will be repaired
and ready for use by the first of next
week-or later.
Mrs Clara Burgess and daughter.
Stacy. have returned from months
visit in Chicago.
George Cook, the baseball pitcher. has
eloped from Manhattan and is playing
with the Seneca team.
There will be a meeting of the w. G..
T. U. at the First Methodist church
Monday afternoon at three o'clock.
Miss Emeline Gould of Ness county
is here for a months visit with her
brother, Hilton Gould, a Santa F'e en-
ploye.
The old Huntoon livery stable. one Of
the Topeka land marks, is being torn
down to make room for Adams Brothers
new building.
The orphans home needs a COW.
There are eight young babies In the
home. Here is a chance for Topeka
philanthropist-
Word has been received in Topeka
that U. S. Marshal L. S. Crum who is i'll
with the typhoid fever at his home at
Oswego, is improving.
It is reported that Governor Stanley
has given up bowling and now gets his
exercise pushing lawn mower on the
executive mansion lawn.
Cider Smith says the corn is big
ger at this time Of the year now than he
ever has seen it in Kansas; not only
large stalks, but the ears as well.
Rev. E. M. Coleman, pastor of the Re-
formed Presbyterian church, has re-
turned from a five weeks trip and is
now at home at GIL West Eighth ave-
nue..
weeks during the hot weather. Chas L.
Wood of the National hotel furnishes
good things to eat and a cool place to
sleep.
If you have played ping pong you are
close to the crowd to be awarded the
up-to-date, but you won't have any
Rhine stones set in it unless you watch
a night blooming cereus open
The Peoples Ice company has a great
abundance of clean, clear, n1anufac-
tured ice and is selling it to its
customers at lower prices than other
dealers are charging. Buy of it
The Vinewood railway Is unable to
get in ties, which are said to be on the
way here. The work is being delayed
on this account. 1t is claimed that "a
carloads of ties have been shipped.
The Topeka Railway company will
probably let the contract for the repairs
to the Kansas avenue bridge to the Mis-
souri, Valley Bridge company. 1t Is
rumored that this will be done before
next fall.
1o CT min ho1 in
peka twenty-six persons passed the ex-
aminatiOns making them eligible for
positions under the civil service in the
postal department. A. H Kline and
pointment to the first vacancies as they
received the highest grades.
A Santa Fe man said today: Have
you noticed that new advertisement of
the Santa Fe, showing the Navajo In
dian poker game? Well, I don't know
much about poker, but I'll bet a hat
that the Injun who has the Santa Fe
trademark on his back will get all of
the money before the end of the sit
ting
Dr. w. B. Swan, secretary of the
state board of health, says that the
water furnished by the Topeka Water
company is impure. He attributes the
milky appearance of the water to sedi-
ment dislodged from the mains, or to
the fact that the company may he
pumping water direct from the river
into it's mains.
Emancipation Day will be appropri-
ately celebrated in Topeka by the color
ed people of Shawnee county. Excur-
sions will be run to this city from near
by towns and the day will be spent at
Garfield park where will be an old
fashioned barbecue. Amusements will
be provided for the entire day. A parade
will be given in the morning.
Ed Thompson, the boy who was badly
hurt by riding his bicycle into a wagon
left standing in front of J. A. Bidwel1 e
blacksmith shop at 504 Quincy street.
will sue the city for damages. The city
is supposed to keep the street clear of
Instructions. The ordinance providing
that this be done is one of the most
books.
of the Retail Grocers' association met
with the Topeka grocers at the Hotel
Throop parlors last night. President
Joseph E. Williams promised to bring
some of the national officers of the as
ISOLATION to Topeka if the meeting of
the Kansas association were called for
a convenient time next January. The
national association meets at Kansas
City in January.
Wealth seems to flow towards State
Treasurer Grimes without much effort
on his part. Some time ago he and his
partner in the bond business, s. b.
ROhrer, purchased ranch of $500 acres
in Harper county for about $4,000 The
seller reserved the right to harvest
about thousand acres of wheat grow
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