The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-06
SNAP SHOTS ATHoME NEWS

George Sharitt is attending court at
Leavenworth today.
Thomas Stewart has applied for adj
mission to the bar before Judge Hazen
Archdeacon Crawford. of the EDis-
copal church, is spending few days IN
ToOeka-
Lathrop Resseguie who is now located
at Kansas City is staying In Tooeka
this week.
The price of Manhattan shirts re-
duceds tomorrow at The Palace only.
Come sure.
Mrs. J. E. Davies has gone to Chicago
for a visit with her daughter, MRS
Fred Lyman.
street, is spending several weeks with
relatives in ST. Louis.
Potato growers have stopped the work
of digging for a few days, at least: the
price doesn't suit them
Miss Winnifred yanderpool returned
Tuesday from Chicago where she has
been attending the Chicago university.
DR.. j. c. McClintock has returned
from Phillipsburg, where he has been
for several days on professional Dust
ness.
Was this cool weather imported by
Observer Jennings especially for, the
Elks-Topeka club ping pong tourna-
ment
The dismissal of 80 liquor cases in the
district court makes a very large hole
IN the SplflIuOuS dIlQ lcI11CAitC0 Ai4ooA
docket
The government thermometer got up
to 81 Tuesday and stopped moving for
three hours. That was 10 degrees lower
than Monday.
The Topeka Business college baseball
team will play the team from Valley
Falls on the Washburn grounds Satur-
day afternoon.
City Attorney Spencer will leave for
his vacation trip the latter part OF TINS
week. He will return in time for the
September term of court.
Celia Pillow has filed suit in the dis
trict court against the city of Topeka
for $500 damages for injuries resulting
from falling on defective sidewalk.
The date of the opening of the Topeka
city schools was by an error published
as September 2 1t should have been
September It,
There is a hooking bird in the south
part of town that has been heard whist
ling SCREENINGS Willow Grove" march,
it is claimed.
| William Boyd. of Topeka. pitched
Thinning ball game for the Kansas City
Commercial Blues at Kansas City Mon
day. He won the game with three
base hit.
The plans for the heating plant at
Washburn college have been completed
and bids will soon be asked for. The
plant is to cost in the neighborhood of
$1,000.
Dr. E. L. Thorpe. pastor of Rose Hill
NJ. L. church, New York city, and for
merly pastor of the First Methodist
church for short time, is visiting in
Topeka
The Rev. Norman Plass, president OF
Washburn college, will preach at the
Central Congregational church Sunday.
the First Congregational church.
Mr. and Mrs Chas. J. F1eisch. of
Pueblo, Colo, are the parents of a 91a
pound boy. Mr.. Fleisch formerly was
employed on the State Journal His
wife was Miss Eleanor Wingert.
Work was commenced on Tuesday by
Wall & Hanley on the Washburn cob
lege sewer. Twenty-seven men were set
to work excavating the junction
with the sewer No. IA. The contractors
expect to complete the work by Dec. l.
for passenger traffic that the railroads
of Topeka have experienced this sum-
mer. Extra cars had to be put on here.
and the trains going both ways were
heavily loaded with tourists.
Stop paying rent and let the Shawnee
Building and Loan association help you
own your home. Pay for it in monthly
installments Just like rent. The secre-
tary will explain the plan at the Office,
115 West Sixth street
Major Anderson's 8-year-old son who
was hurt by falling from a swing last
week. will recover the use of his arm
It was at first thought the fracture of
the elbow would render the arm use
less. The doctors now say that the
bones will heal properly.
Those who attend the First Methodist
church prayer meeting Thursday even
ing will be treated to a love feast in
Thorpe, now of New York city. He will
lead the meeting. He is stopping at the
home of ]. p. Davis.
J. Q. Countermine, pastor of the First
PRESBYTERIAN church, is away on his
vacat ton. His nephew j. w Counter
mine will take his place for the first
three Sundays in August. The Rev.
Elmer A. Bess of Independence, will
occupy the pulpit the last Sunday in
the month
Deputy United States marshals have
arrested Joe Bush and A. J. Nix at Pa
ola on the charge of robbing the post
office at Wagstaff, Kan. They are now
confined in the county Jail at Fort Scott
and their preliminary trial will be held
August IL. 1t is said the prisoners Sc
cured $50 in money and 1912 in checks
at the Wagstaff postoffice.
A wagon load of hay blocked the
street cars at Tenth avenue and Harri-
son street for a time Tuesday afternoon
The right hind wheel came off ,owing,to
a loose nut, and of course let the wagon
down where it would be most in the
way. Some of the hay which tumbled
off was blown in all directions. and the
hay market for awhile
DR.. A. H. Thompson of Topeka has
been elected a Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of
Science, one of the foremost scientific
organizations of the country. He was
appointed to this membership because
of the work he has been doing along
the line of photographic odentology, or
the comparison of the different races
of the earth through their teeth. Mr.
Thompson has made a careful search
for material for these studies in the
large museums and has prepared a
number of papers on the subject.
Officers for the knights of Pythias
band have been elected as follows: Pres
ident, Harry Pohlman; vice president
Frank Kehoe; secretary. l. NJ. Frazier;
treasurer, Nicholas Sickinger; director,
Frank Kehoe; assistant director. Frank
Wilcox. trustees, Lawrence Bell and