The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-08-20
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Brooklyn Times.
Is your money up on the yacht race?
Warden Jewett was over from Lam
sing Wednesday afternoon.
Mayor Mclean of Wichita was in To-
peka Wednesday afternoon.
A large bed of golden rod is in bloom
in the state house grounds.
P. e. Stewart of Monroe street has
begun the construction of a new house
to cost 81, 325.
On September the Delaware camp,
No. 2270. NJ w. A, will picnic at
Thompsonville.
A party of oil drilIers at Hartford in
Lyon county has bored 300 feet finding
traces of oil sand.
Governor Bailey has promised to at
tend the banquet of the Franklin coun-
ty Republican club on October 8.
c. c. Coulson of the Palace Clothing
company, with his family. is spending
his vacation camping at Maple Hill.
w r. Marshall and wife have re-
turned from Trinidad. Colorado, and
will locate at Parsons about September
1.
Wichita proposes to build some dykes
along the Little Arkansas to keep it
from overlooking that town every
spring.
Atchison Globe: Topeka's city coun-
ell is toying with a proposed license tax
upon druggists. You know what that
means?
The injunction proceedings of George
w. Crane against Miss Lizzie Wooster
will be heard by Judge Hayden Satur
day morning.
.-Spotless Town will be at the Craw-
ford Labor Day matinee and night. In
spite of it's name this is said to be
very good play.
Miss Carrie Moore of Kansas City.
niece of Mrs. Nation. is visiting Miss
Blanch Boise at Mrs Nations place, 1908
Kansas avenue.
A charter has been granted to the
Wichita Casket company, of Wichita.
1t has a capital stock of $4,000 and will
manufacture collins.
County Commissioner Haynes made a
trip through the. country west of North
Topeka Wednesday inspecting bridges
on the country roads.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the First
Christian church will give birthday
party at the home of Mrs. ]. A. Going
tomorrow afternoon at 2:3o
Fred Carson. formerly in the Santa
mechanic of the Gulf division, visited
in Topeka today an his way to Califor-
mia.
County Superintendent Wright is re-
celVing many inquiries from persons
who wish to take the necessary exami-
county.
Frank L White of Denver is here to-
day arranging for the newspaper cor
respondents excursion The train will
arrive at 500 p. m. September and will
leave at D. m.
Remember this: Dan Patch broke the
worlds record on Brighton Beach on
August 10 by pacing a mile in 1853.
Star Pointer made the record in 1897
by doing a mile in 1894.
Ex-F'irst Lieutenant John Dudley, of
the Dave Mulvane forces in Topeka, but
NOW general manager of a stock yards
concern at Turner, Kansas, was visiting
his old battle ground today.
A letter from the German consul at
Washington has been received by POST
master John Guthrie, inquiring for Carl
Gottleib Boehmer, a German tailor. The
man was last heard of here.
The building committee of the city
council has given the job of repairing
the roof of the city building to ]. NJ.
Brain and he has gone to work. Brain
contracts to keep the roof in repair for
three years.
John F. Strickrott left last night for
Colorado where ne will take some noun
tain views which he will enter in the
prize competition of the Kansas Pho
tographers' association at the Auditor
ium in September
On his way to attend the meeting of
the officers of the Kansas Improved
Stock Breeders association and the St
Louis fair officials on Saturday in St.
Louis, H. A. Heath will visit the Mis-
souri, state fair at Sedalia.
A new derrick is to be purchased by
the Northern Shawnee Development
company which is determined to resume
prospecting upon its ground on the j.
H. Skinner place in Shorey. The der
rick and machinery were badly dam
aged by the flood.
Phil n Hicks n Anderson ..o11pfv.
corn raiser. is holding 10000 bushels of
his last years crop because he expects
high corn prices soon. He says the
Kansas crop this year will be below
average. He says it was started too
late to mature fully.
The latest song is, "They All Spoke
Well of You" This might be sung by
governors and senators to the men who
apply to them for political jobs and send
their friends to say word in their be-
half in the ear of said governors and
SAID senators.
Street car service on the Twelfth street
line is miserable. Cars try to run from
one switch to another and meet other
cars between. Then there is swearing
on the part of the motOrneerS to see
which one shall hack to the switch
Three cars in a bunch is not an uncom-
mon sight on the line.
State Architect John Stanton will
make new plans for the new building to
NC uScU DIS d WOi1ldn > warn DIT the pen
itentiary. 1t originally intended to
build a $4,000 structure, but the leg
islature appropriated only $1,000, and the
building will have to be cut to fit the
appropriation.
Speaking of commercial and other
consultations: the churches are at it.
too At the congregational summer as
sembly at Buffalo where twelve states
including Kansas, are represented a
resolution was adopted endorsing pro-
posed plan of organic union of the
United Brethren. Methodist, Protestant
and Congregational churches.