The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-02
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

The rush to Colorado seems to be
growing greater.
Morton Albaugh went out to his home
at Kingman today.
The government thermometer got up
to 80 Friday afternoon.
The big corn stories of past years are
being freShened up ready for use the
coming fall.
Take your Sunday dinner at the Gre
merle. Fine music as well as good
things to eat.
The Elks are talking of putting in
shower baths and training table for
ping pong players.
Wichita isn't saying anything more
about being a greater manufacturing
center than Topeka.
There will be the usual meeting Of the
w. c. T. U. in the parIors of the First
Methodist church at 8 D. m. Monday.
Next Thursday at IL a. m. will occur
the meeting of the presbytery of the
Second Cumberland Presbyterian
People are wondering what effect it
would have on the general offices here.
if the Rock Island should absorb the
Santa FEE.
J. Thomas has filed suit in the dis
trict court against H. H. Miller for
81 80 which is claimed to be due on
unpaid lumber bills.
The LIQUOR sales of drug stores for
July reported to Probate Judge Pagan
numbered 1.15S A year ago the July
sales numbered 4.530.
Major A. M. Harvey has called a re-
union of the Twenty-Second Kansas
boys during the Brown county fair at
Hiawatha August 81, 20.
In its head over a Junction City dis
patch about Senator Burton's speech a
Burton organ carefully states that the
Senator made Republican speech.
In the year and half since it was
created the State Medical board has
collected fees to the amount of S12, 500
for the state. This will not keep up
however.
If you think of building this season.
the secretary of the Shawnee Building
and Loan association would like to show
you some plans of houses He has about
thousand at his office, lis w 9Th st.
The star player of the Topeka clubs
ping pong team is said to be J. S. Parks
the butter man. He handles a ping
pong bat better than he ever did a
saying a good deal.
Rosa Glenn, the 16-year-old colored
girl who could not be sent to the In
dustrial school at Beloit on account
or her age. is without a home. Her
parents are dead and her sisters do not
want to take care of her.
Chester Babcock, of CORTLAND. has
written to Probate Judge Pagan offer
Ing Ethel May Morgan a home The
girl has been sent to the Industrial
made to have her taken from there to
the home of Mr.. Babcock.
An Indian Polo club was said to have
been scheduled fer Topeka Friday ev-
ening, but somehow they didn't come
in and nobody knows anything more
about them. They were coming from
Fort Worth, Texas, and there were said
to be 25 or 80 people in the crowd.
E. T. Murphy, from Leavenworth and
one of the high rollers of the Modern
C in aJslx-
There never was a successful lodge af-
fair In Kansas that Murphy was not in
1t. He belongs to them all and the
Democratic party besides.
A Topeka man was perspiring and
Tuning as he worked away at his desk
yesterday afternoon. A boy handed
him telegram from his wife 1t was
sent collect and said: Il am broke and
Will thank you for a draft" The man
paid the boy four bits.
There will be a meeting of the Shaw
nee County Horticultural society at the
Boys Industrial school in North. To-
Peka next Thursday. August Z. Prof ].
ID. Walters OF the State Agricultural
college, will read a paper on Land
scape Gardening" E. B. Cowgirl, edi-
tor of the Kansas Farmer. will discuss
Sun Power in Horticulture" and A
II. Dickinson will talk about Bitter
Rot in Apples" Those attending will
assemble at 10 o'clock and noon picnic
dinner will be served. After that the
programme will be carried out
A team of mules belonging to John
Hensley ran away last night about 8
O'Clock They were hitched in front Of
$50 Kansas avenue, when they pulled up
the iron post and started to take up
the whole street and sidewalk on their
trip down Kansas avenue. A colored
man tried to stop them about the mid
die of the block but the mule he had
hold of kicked and bucked so that it
was dangerous and he severed connec-