The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-05
SNAP SHOTS HONE NEWS

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Winters snow and wind and freezes,
Are, by consent. called billiards;
Then why should not the August heat
Be called the summers sizzards?
ToDeka now has a modern transfer
system.
Mrs. Clarence Hall. of Lawrence. Is
in Topeka visiting friends.
The work on the East Eighth avenue
pavement is being pushed rapidly.
John F. Switzer has sold a ten acre
tract near North Topeka for 81, 100.
The Topeka schools will open Septem-
Der this year. That isn't very far
away.
There was rain last night. but it
was hardly enough to make good Cider
Smiths prediction
Little Eddie Wright, sometimes irrev-
erently known as Crook" has gone to
Colorado for his health
J. G. Burch, travelling passenger
agent of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
visited in Topeka yesterday.
Robert Tasker has taken clerkship
in the Office of Superintendent of Trans
portation Kouns of the Santa Fe.
DR.. j. E. Minney is again using his
automobile He still has a supply OF
horses on his farm and is not sorry.
The Woman's Missionary society OF
the Central Congregational church VIII
meet at O'Clock Wednesday afternoon
Charley Durham has returned to his
home in Lawrence after visit with
John Thornton and other Topeka
friends.
The Bird canning factory has re-
opened and the force is at work can
ming tomatoes. The supply from this
county is large.
enee of the colored Methodist church
will meet in Topeka Wednesday at the
Mt Olive church
w. w. Harvey was elected by the
local lodge of Pyramids as delegate to
the national convention that Is held at
Denver next month.
| w. L. Cole and Miss Margaret Nc
Clellan were married at the close of the
regular sermon at the Third Presby-
/ terrain church Sunday.
There will be social on the lawn OF
the Walnut Grove Methodist church,
Wednesday evening, given by the Ep-
worth League of the same.
Peter Smith, president of the Citizens
bank, has returned from a trip on the
lakes. He brought photographs with
him to prove all his fishing stories.
Judge w. c. Hook is holding court in
Kansas City, and will have before him
the ChriSty bucket shop case which Is
attracting great deal of attention
| George Burghart has had his auto
mobile overhau1ed and says he is now
ready to make long overland trips with
out any likelihood of having to walk
home. 90
Roy, 4-year-old son of M. c. Naylor
1906 Van Buren, street, is slowly recov-
ering from the effects of being kicked
| in the face a few days ago by a Shet-
| land pony.
H E. Richter lieutenant governor,
| still spends most of his time in Topeka
| but since the United States marshal
| ships in Kansas and the Indian Terri
1 frysu hoUo diSnnSnd nf q
| hunted look. l..
The Holiness people who are holding
meetings, at Sixth and Lafayette streets
have made 200 converts in the past few
| main here until 1000 have been con-
| verted
Chas. Broadwe1l, who was formerly
! in the shoe business in Topeka, is back
valuable claim at Lawton. Okla. and
has 3> acres siff corn which will yield
| As bushels to the acre.
The Rev Archibald Beatty. rector of
| ST. Matthews Episcopal chuch at New
| ton, has resigned his position there and
| will come to Topeka to serve as chap
| lain for the College of the Sisters OF
/ Bethany. The change will take place
| on September 1.
| 1t required about an hours steady
reading last night for the city clerk and
several assistants to read the seventeen
| benefit district ordinances providing for
special assessment, and then they
| skipped nine-tenths of it. The seventeen
ordinances were all passed.
Councilman Weber has a plan for do
! ing away with a lot of the surplus tele-
| phone and telegraph poles in Topeka.
| He wants the various companies to
| consolidate their wires on fewer poles.
| and far as possible avoid disfguring
| the street. Most of the companies in
| Topeka have approved the plan, and the
| city council last night took favorable
| action upon it.
The report of Mrs. Howell Jones,
| secretary of the Topeka Orphans Home
| for the month of July shows that during
| the month 48 children were cared for.
| Twenty-Five children were sent out and
placed in good homes. The twin girls
| that were taken to the Orphans Home
| in February from the Riverside hospital
| have been placed in a good home. The
work of the institution is progressing
| smoothly and great amount of good
is being accomplished.
| Superintendent Charles Of the Reform
| school has inaugurated the practice of
| having the boys of the school turn out
| for an exhibition military drill in the
afternoon at the close of the chapel ser
cises on Sunday. The boys have been
| given instructions in tactics by Joseph
Reasoner of this city and last Sunday
were assisted in their battalion parade
| by the Second Regiment bugle corps
under the leadership of Captain Robert
F. Tasker and Lieut.. Merrill Lindsay.
Other members of the corps who at
tended Sunday were: Sergeants Quinton
and Mckee, Corporal Beine and lPri-
Yates Beine, Wellhouse. McRae, Reed,
Tyler, and Colburn. They played a
number of marches for the dress parade
and then gave the United States army
| bugle calls. Superintendent Charles
says he will be pleased to have citizens
of the town interested, to drive out to
| the Reform school Sunday afternoons at
| 4 o'clock to witness the drills.