The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-28

-OnlCd6O NEWS.
r. G. Merrick was in Kansas City
yesterday.
The district court will be in session
during far week.
w. C. Dickie and wife. of Topeka.
went to Kansas City Thursday.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. w. D. Gilpin Tuesday evening.
charter has been granted to the
Charities and Corrections association of
Wichita.
The druggists are kept quite busy fill
ing favorite prescriptions for cholera
morbus.
Councilman w. F. Weber and son
Carl are expected home from Colorado
Sunday.
Local hunters are planning for the
slaughter of the quail as soon as the
season opens.
The county commissioners have been
checking over the books IN the county
treasurer's office
] T. Pringle. speaker of the house in
the recent legislature. was up from Bur
lingame Thursday.
The work of rehtting the Masonic
quarters in the Jackson street building
Is nearly finished
A Topeka young man spends on an
average of $15 month for novels. he
reads them as fast as he buys them.
Horace Cowgirl has returned from In
diana, where he has been engaged most
of the summer with a party of mine
surveyors.
DO you suppose that the New York
streets that are torn up for the build
ing of the subway at all resemble Kan
sas avenue.
c. H. Matthews, of the Mutual Laun-
dry company, has gone to Chicago TO
buy machinery for the plant which is
now building.
The Topeka Unions will play the
Kansas City Bradburys at Washburn
college this afternoon and again sat
urday afternoon.
The fire bell and the Catholic church
bell rang together this morning at eight
O'Clock. The church bell drowned the
sound of the fire bell.
On September 1 the First district w.
c. T. u. will meet in Topeka for its
annual convention. The meetings will
take place in the Central Congrega-
tional church.
After Thad Sowder subdues a bucking
broncho at the fair grounds he might try
riding a Topeka street car on the West
Fourth street line just to see if he could
stay on.
H. A, Heath general superintendent
of the live stock department of the To-
peka fair, will return Sunday from Des
Moines, where he attended the Iowa
state fair.
The horns used by the sautonobihsts'
sound so much like the ten cent variety
that goes with toy balloons that a per-
son is apt to think of circus day when
they are sounded
The state text book commission will
meet in Topeka September 1 to continue
the work of approving reference books
and apparatus for Kansas schools, which
1t was temporarily enjoined from doing
some time ago.
The Worlds fair committee of the
State Teachers association will meet
next Thursday to talk over the Kansas
educational exhibit for st. Louis. 1t
will probably ask for $4,000 for the eX
hibit from the Kansas appropriation.
Charley Morton lost a valuable pointer
dog. He put an Advertisement in the
State Journal offering a reward. This
morning he called up and said Take
that advertisement out. The dog came
back with a copy of the State Journal
in his mouth and demanded the re-
ward"
A breakdown at the Peoples ice plant
Thursday nearly precipitated an ice
famine about town last night. The
soda fountains were unable to get their
usual supply of CONCEALED moisture and
a good many ice chests around town
became warm.
Sensational shoe selling occurs tomor-
row. The Palace Clothing company's
twice year clearance sale of Wash
burn $3.50 and S4OO shoes and w. l..
$3.50 pair. The people know what this
sale is-It means what 1t says.-Sale be-
gins at tomorrow. $3.50
Roy J. Roth has appealed to the su-
preme court suit brought by him
against the county commissioners of
Ness county for s240 salary as deputy
county treasurer. The lower court decid-
ed that the payment of the salary was
discretionary with the commissioners as
long as the board itself did not hire the
deputy.
The modest frame structure of the
First United Presbyterian church, at
the corner of Eighth and Topeka ave-