The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
The miner digs into the earth
For all the coal we get.
I dig into my pocket book.
And that seems harder yet.
Washington Star.

For all the coal we get.
dig into my pocket book
Washington Star.
Ann must be growing older day by
day.
Mahara's minstrels will be at the
Crawford tonight.
The Potter state bank, of Potter.
Kas., has increased its capital stock
from $1,000 to $40. 600.
On Saturday the Topeka High School
team viii go to Fort Scott to play the
High School team there.
President Norman Plass of Washburn
| college is expected to return from the
east about November 1.
The charter board has issued a char
ter to the Sunfower Glass COMPANY of
Coffeyville, with a capital of $4,000
Miss Florence Simms, national secre-
tary of the Y. w. c. A. will speak at
the Y. w. C. A. rooms this evening.
A football team from Polk school
played an 0 to 0 game Tuesday after
noon with the Third High School team.
1t is about time for the chief of po-
lice to announce his policy for Hal
loween night.
H. w. McAfee, George Killum and j.
p. Lewis are in Kansas City on pusi-
ness relating to the live stock exhibits
at the Worlds Fair.
A. d. Walker, the railroad commits
sipner, complains that he is often taken
as the original of the picture of the
Beeman gum man on the sign boards.
Supt. This of the Osawatomie insane
asylum has turned into the state treas
ury 81, 337.57 as fees collected during the
last quarter for the care of private pa
-.a1ts
Senator Burton will deliver a lecture
in the opera house in Washington.
lecture viii be enc of the series of the
lecture course that has been put on
for this winter,
The Granville bridge over Soldier
creek is expected to be ready for use
within ten days or two weeks. Diff
Guilty in securing material is the cause
of the delay in finishing the county
/ bridge work.
The mills and grain warehouses In To-
peka are now receiving abundant ship
ments of wheat. the car famine on the
railroads having abated. The mills navu
nearly four hundred thousand bushels
of wheat stored for grinding.
Burglars attempted to enter the home
of Homer Ray. Wells Fargo employee,
at APO Jefferson street last night, but
were unable to get in. Mr.. Ray nnaIy
frightened the burglars away.
H. B. Howard has filed his charges
against Food Inspector Farnsworth
with the city clerk, and they will be
presented at the next council meeting.
They will probably be heard by the
committee on health and sanitation.
Attorney General Coleman says the
number of complaints filed about the
violation of the prohibitory law are
falling off. Mrs. Nation will return to
Kansas some time and then business in
the attorney generals office will pick
no.
One of the professors at Washburn is
making a collection of all the newspa-
per clippings he can find about Wash
! burn. He has enriched his museum
greatly by the recent comments of east
ern papers about the girls color fight
and Prof. Penny'S church music crus
ade
During the coming winter the wash
burn college observatory will be open
to visitors every Friday evening from s
to 10 o'clock. Cards of admission may
be obtained by sending self addressed
envelopes to WaShburn college observa-
tory or by calling at the observatory at
1890 o'clock.
In the probate court Tuesday after
noon Mary Ann Hedges was discharged
after an examination for her sanity.
The Hedges woman lives at Twenty
first and Madison streets. Her neigh
bors say that she has habit OF firing
shot gun in her back yard and that
she occasionally amuses herself by com
pelling them to run for cover by aim
ing it at them.
The Lawrence World says: Politics
is peculiar The Douglas county con-
tingent went to Topeka and recon-
mendeQ Looms Tor United States judge
and LOOMS lined up more men against
the Douglas county candidate for
speaker than any other man in the
state. However, Loomis is a rafting
good lawyer and will probably get the
appointment. Senator Long owes too
much to him to turn him down"
! The Shawnee football team composed
of boys living in the vicinity of Topeka
avenue and Tyler streets, defeated the
| Polk street team Tuesday afternoon
by score of to O. This is the report
of the game which is given by one side.
The other side claims that the score was
a tie. neither side getting across the
goal line. The dispute is in regard to
whether the score claimed by the
! Shawnees was a touchbacl1 or a safety.
/ The officers elected at the meeting of
the Women's Home Missionary society
which has just closed its meeting at
the First NJ. E. church are: President,
Mrs. Carrie E. Cope, Topeka; vice pres
| ident, Mrs. E. L. Barnes, Kansas City,
Kansas; recording secretary, Miss Anna
| Neiderheiser, Kansas City. Kansas;
corresponding secretary, Mrs. Flora
Wark Bechtel, Lawrence; treasurer,
Mrs. Robert Hawthorne, Atchison;
supply secretary. Mrs. K. P. Snyder
Kansas City, Kansas: mite box secre-
| tary Mrs Elder Olathe: systematic