The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-20

In a double degree of hyphen.
Minneapolis Tribune.
Is Ann any older today than yester-
day?
Councilman George Neil went to his
farm at Wakarusa today
Seven Lawrence applicants are talk
ing civil service examinations in To-
2oka.
Norman Gilhllan and P. H. McKech-
ME Of Beloit lin Topeka today on
business.
The Harrison and Lincoln school foot
ball teams played a 5 to 5 game of foot
ball Monday afternoon
Otis Dalton. of the Santa Fe offices.
is seriously i'll with typhoid fever. He
is at the Santa Fe hospital.
J. w. Gibbons, of this city, attended
the convention of the Knights of CO.
lumbus at Atchison Monday.
City Attorney Spencer goes to Leaven-
worth today to argue the old hydrant
rental case in the United States court.
The special call for the aerial truck on
all fires outside of the regular district
is four strokes of the headquarters bell.
The Topeka high school football team
will go to Fort Scott to play a game
with the high school team at that place
next Saturday.
Department Commander A. w. Smith
of the Kansas G. A r. served nineteen
months imprisonment in Andersonville
during the Civil war
In resolution the Topeka Ministerial
union has commended the presentation
to the city council of an ordinance to
prohibit the Sunday theater.
The Topeka branch of the Tneoso-
phical society will meet for the present
with DR.. Anna Scott. 307 Van Buren,
street, on Wednesday afternoons.
The city's brief in the Auditorium case
has been filed in the supreme court This
shit involves the RIGHT n the 0ifU In
the Auditorium to pay entertainments.
1.-The street car trolley wire was down
between Harrison and Van Buren
streets on Tenth last night. The wire
was live one and had to be guarded.
The A. B. Jetmore house at Tenth
and Harrison is being moved to the
north side of the lots, and a large mod
ern dwelling will he erected on the cor
ner. ~
The members of the faculty of the
Washburn musical conservatory will
give a concert this evening at . the
| Washburn chapel The admission is
free and the public is invited.
The old fire steamer of the department
headquarters is being painted up. 1t
has recently been fixed UP with a new
interior apparatus and does very salts
| factory work in the pumping business
George Stewart, aged 81. has begun
proceedings for divorce against Lucinda
Stewart. aged 81. with whom he mas
/ lived during seven years of married
life. He alleges extreme cruelty; his
wife threw coal at him.
A complaint has been made In the
probate court by neighbors of Mary Ann
Hedge of Twenty-first. and Madison
street that she has lately shown evil
dences of insanity by f1ourishing gun
and threatening them with the weapon.
The Lawrence high school football
team that was defeated by the local
high school Al to has cancelled the re-
| turn date, which would have been next
Saturday. They claim that they could
not get the playing grounds.
While six street cars waited in pa
tienee for fifteen or twenty minutes
this morning work train on the West
Tenth street line Dlaeidly maintained
it's position until it had unloaded a
quantity of stone. Two men missed
train connections as result of the de-
lay and fifteen or twenty others were
late to business. Work on the Tenth
street track is progressing nicely.