The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-09-15
SNAP SHOT AF HOME NEWS.
He boiled the water that he drank,
by rule he slept and ate.
lie Wore hygfenic underclOtheS
To get the bulge on fate.

And made him microbe proof,
But yesterday he met defeat
by failing from a root
Chicago Record-Herald.
H. G. Short. of Topeka, was in Kan
sas City Monday.
The usual number of lunch tents are
on duty at the fair grounds.
Colonel r. NJ Wright, state forestry
commissioner, is here from Dodge City
Harmon Wilson. who has been very
sick with typhoid fever, is much better.
Cider Smith seems to have been play
ing sure thing when he prophesied
unsettled weather for this week
Geo. Hanley will leave for Chanute
and Thayer in the morning to drill for
oil and gas on his farm in the Tnayer
oil field.
DR.. A. B. Jones, representative from
Trego county in the last legislature,
brought his son to Topeka Monday to
attend Washburn.
The first regular practice of the Wash
burn football team viii be held today.
Coach Kennedy arrived from Lawrence
yesterday to begin work.
An oldest inhabitant' says his diary
shows that it has not failed to rain a
week between September Is and 20 but
two years in the last thirty.
Adjutant General Kelsey says his title
and his salary do not ''jibe.' His rank
is that of brigadier general while his
salary is that of second lieutenant
The most popular place on the fair
grounds Monday was the tent where the
continual barbecue was on. The crowds
thronged about the fire to get warm.
| Some of the merchants are tired of
/ beggars on the streets and may petition
| the council to have them kept off. There
is city ordinance prohibiting begging.
Today is registration day at Wash
burn. All students have to register and
pay the first installment on their tuition
before they are allowed to start in to
school.
The state board of health will shortly
send out inquiries to the county health
officers to ascertain the number of con-
sumptives in the state. The data are de-
sired for statistical purposes.
DR.. Lowry, secretary of the state
board of health, says that the reported
epidemic of diphtheria at Baldwin is not
as serious as reported and the schools
there were reopened yesterday.
William Taylor, the bicycle man, is
going into the automobile business, in
addition to his bicycle line. He will
spend the winter studying automobiles
and their mechanical construction.
The state fair here at Topeka is not
the only gathering that the rain Is in
terfering with. The Hutchinson fair
and the state G. A r. reunion at
Lawrence are both catching it. too.
Representative Dunn, of Pottawat-
omie county. was in Topeka Monday
on his way home from Colorado
Springs, where he has been for several
weeks on account of hay fever. He
has returned much better.
An old portrait of ex-Chief Justice
Doster has been added to the collection
of former supreme justices portraits
on the walls of the supreme court
room. 1t was painted by George M
Stone, who is also painting a portrait
of the late Judge Ellis.
John Freshman, of last years high
school football team, will attend the
state university this year. and will try
for a position with the first eleven there.
/ Arthur Griggs has not yet decided where
he will attend school. He may go to
either K. L. or Washburh.
Home owners are the better class OF
citizens Are you in that class? If not,
you should be. The Shawnee Building &
Loan association will help you to own y
| home and you may pay for 1t In month
! ly payments. Call on the secretary and
/ have him explain it to YOU Office, 1l5
West Sixth street.
and Coyville on the Benedict branch of
the Santa Fe have petitioned the state
board of railroad commissioners to COM
pei the re-esta adjustment of passenger
service on that branch. Only freight
trains run on the road now, and they are
said to be uncertain.
J. H Devlin has filed with the city
clerk request to have well near his
/ property at Third and Madison filled up.
J He also wants the curbing raised so that
the water from the cutters will not run
| across his property and into the well.
He thinks that the water in the well
! hoe Ioooor,aa con IA minated with sewage.