The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-05-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Oakland and district 102 schools clos
ed last Friday.
Misses Lille and Dollie George of En-
poria are here for a brief visit
Monte Christie" at the Crawford to-
morrow night is the closing attraction
of the season.
G. c. Clemens should have sung This
is my time to shine" at the auditorium
Sunday afternoon.
E. Sharum. form erly of Topeka. has
moved his medicine factory from 814 to
8TS Broadway, New York.
If a man could not find his choice in
the way of sentiment at the auditorium
| Sunday he was hard to please.
Harley Stack. of Emporia. passed
through here today on his way home
from a brief stay in Kansas City.
Mrs. L. J. Pyle, mother of Charles
Pyle of the Topeka fire department,
died last Thursday at Garden City.
How Carries Nation must have yearn-
| Sunday. In the afternoon and even
ing.
There are now only two cases of
! smallpox in the city. One IS in the
pest house and the other is quarantined
outside.
The College Hill baseball team defeat
| ed the Lowman Hill Reds on the Low
man Hin grounds Saturday morning by
the score of 8 to g.
Charles Morton and ]. J. German will
shoot the first SO birds Tuesday and the
| other SO on Decoration day.
The Auburndale baseball team defeat
/ ed the Edison Electric company team
on the Auburndale grounds Sunday af-
/ ternOOn by the score of "A to IL.
The AIodoes should have responded to
an encore at the meeting at the audi
/ forum Sunday afternoon with that
! good old college song Drink her down
The boilermakers of the Santa Fe de-
I
! ball game on the Auburndale grounds
| Sunday afternoon by the score of 16 to
The man who attended the prohibition
! meeting Sunday night and then went
| home and ordered case of beer by
/ telephone should be ostracised by So
ciety.
The two meetings at the auditorium
] Sunday were responsible for consider
able closing In the afternoon the Tur-
nerS and ArionS closed and the churches
closed in the evening.
Frank E. Munger. e. L. Schwab and
NJ. W. Mikesell, who represented the
! Democracy Of Rawlins county at the
/ Democratic state convention al Wichita
/ last week visited in Topeka Saturday.
East Fourth street beyond the Santa
| F'e tracks has been one of the worst
| thOrOughfares in town since the late
rains. It had been plowed preparatory
to further improvements last week
mrs. j Josephine LelQlef mas gone TO LIE
troit Mich, as a delegate from the local
lodge of the Catholic Knights and La
/ dies of America to the general conyen-
| ton of that body to be held there this
week.
The prohibitionists will claim that
| every jointist in town attended the
/ meeting Sunday afternoon. Such is not
/ the case. The jointists did but the bar
| tenders looked after the soda water
| fountains" during the meeting.
] rr-,--
off the press of Crane & Co They are
| bound in green covers, and are being
| sent out from the office of Superintend-
| ent Ressegule to all parts of the Santa
( F'e road and to other railroads
After a careful Investigation it seems
that those who attended the Sunday
| afternoon meeting at the auditorium
| were quite bitter toward Frank Stahl
| and called him hypocrite. Those whQ
I attended the meeting at night called
/ him martyr.
The Barber asphalt paving representa-
| tives agreed to meet City Engineer Nc
| Cabe Saturday and arrange for begin
( ming the work of repairing pavements,
! but failed to keen their agreement.
However this is nothing unusaI for
the Barber representatives.
Ex-Police Judge Frank I4indsay
should have attended the joint meeting
/ at the auditorium Sunday and received
| the thanks OF the 5OlntlStS- linen he
should have attended the prohibition
meeting and explained how he happen
ed to blunder and allow 40 jointists to
go free.
John Macdonald, editor Of the Western
School Journal, will make the Memorial
Day address at Foster cemetery four
miles northwest at IL a. m The exer-
cises viii be SO arranged that they
win close in time for those desiring to
come to Topeka in the afternoon to do
So
Garden City Herald: It is reported
that Gene Stotts is down with the small
pox in Topeka, having contracted the
disease here. AS Gene pronounced the
disease here to be smallpox. the Topeka
board of health should accept his di-
agnosis and send him to the pest house
and not wait for the opinion of the state
board.
J. Kirk White, the plumber who was
arrested by City Engineer MeCabe for
leaving excavations in dangerous condi-
/ ton, claimed that his employees failed to
notify him that the city engineer had
left a warning that the excavation be
1 repaired at once, and on this exDlana-
ton, the case against him was dismiss
ed.