The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-19
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS.

P.L wise, of Topeka, was in Kansas
City yesterday on business.
w. AS. Bird has returned from an ex-
tensive trip through the east
The government thermometer crawied
up to IS Thursday afternoon.
A Topeka woman bought three tons
of hard coal Thursday and PAID $4o
for u.
c. H. Rhodes will act as Judge at the
December 10.
The street railway company Is 1ur-
nishing excellent service for the CROWDS
at the Pompeii show.
4 Topeka R paper n aDsll' SO hf Saa
from a phonetic basis.
Jesse Elliott and ]. J. German, OF
Topeka, are participating In the pie
shoot at Kansas City.
The signs about the Rock Island sta.
ton and offices here have been cnansso
to read Rock Island System
The picture of e. F. Ware that was
shown in fire at the Pompeii show last
night was easily recognizable.
How would you like to be the coal
man in the good old winter time" Inc
latest plaintive ballad success.
Superintendent Nelson left last night
for WaKeeney and Grainfield to fill po-
litical dates for Congressman Long.
The roof of the Washburn college OBJ
servatory is being put on. and the in
terror woodwork is to be commenced.
E w. Poindexter made 1874 at rubber
necks" on the T. A, A. alleys Thursday
which is a pretty fair score for an anna
teur.
There will be civil service exanina-
tions at Topeka on November % for the
positions of clerks and letter carriers at
this point.
The football season will soon be
NIar L
the first game in Topeka with Ottawa
university.
Forest Huff. who was the tenor and
manager of the Wilbur-Kirwp opera
company. has Joined 1.-THE Princess
Chic company.
Miss Ida Griffith has returned to her
home in Kansas City after visiting for
two weeks with Miss Amy Kearney, Of
Buchanan street.
By the addition of some new players
specially secured for the occasion the
music of the knights of Pythias band
at the Pompeii show is made endurable
Roy Farrell Greene. the young Ar
kansas City author, has poem in the
October number Of success. entitled
The Man Whose Watchword's Wait"
Mrs N J. Prescott and Miss Nora
Van Dine have returned to their homes
in Topeka after a two weeks stay at
Denver, Colorado Springs and Manitou
The excavations for the Washburn
ColleSS sewer are now oilly 1OuI D4OChS
from the college grounds. and a gang
of about 100 men are working on the
big ditch.
Daisy Clupper, the Oakland girl who
left home surreptitiously ten days ago
and came back with her father the first
of this week. is now ill at the home of
her parents.
The state board of educati will hold
a meeting on October 10 and IL to pass
upon the papers of persons who took
the August examination for state teach
ers' certificates.
City Engineer McCabe has notified the
Capital Iron works that some of the
casurop curbing which has beet set
on Clay street is unsatisfactory and
must be replaced
Did you ever see q man bow his head
aff1rmatively when he says yes in talk
ing through telephone or shake his
head when, he saws no? There is more
than one man in Topeka who does it.
Less than one hundred seats were left
for the performance of THE Sultan of
Sulu' at the Grand Monday night after
the first days sales The s. r. 0. sign
will be hung up for this performance. =
Samples of Shawnee county grown
corn are beginning to arrive at the Com
lnercial club in answer to the notice
sent out of a prize of $40 for the best
ten ears Of corn submitted in the con-
test.
A woman at the Pompeii show last
night advanced the theory that the rea-
son the three tumblers could support
one another SO easily was because the
upper ones held their breath and thus
made themselves light. There's moth