The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-10-17
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWs
A soldier who drummed in the corps,
Was constantly thirsting for corps;
But, alas, one day
He engaged in a. fray
And now he wont thirst any more.
Chicago News

Chicago News.
Ezra Kendall will be at the Crawford
tonight in The Vinegar Buyer
The W. C. T. U. will meet at the First
M E. church at D. m. Monday.
The jury in the district court was
dismissed last evening until Monday
morning.
The grand lodge officers have return
ed from the meeting of the Odd Fellows
at Wichita.
Elster Halle will preach at the Belvoir
school house Sunday afternoon at Ais.
Sunday school at 3:15.
Sheriff Lucas, Judge Hazen and Pro-
bate Judge Hayden went to Richland
today to hunt squirrels.
The cover design for the High School
World was made by Miss Fanny Le-
land, daughter of Cyrus Leland.
Mr.. Allen NJ. Cameron will address the
Topeka Y NJ c. A. Sunday at o'clock.
He will dress in Chinese costume.
Director Jennings hopes to have a
STOCK OF pleasant weather on hand for
the coming Washburn football games.
j. R. Wick has returned from Leav-
enworth where he reported the trial of
the five federal penitentiary mutineers.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon is suffering
with sprained ankle He has been
unable to leave the house for several
days.
LNCNs a. w yludu Will ~ next week 10
attend the annual session of the Mis-
souri, Valley Unitarian conference at
Omaha.
Duck hunters of the present are MAX
ing journeys to the ponds. Duck hunt
ers of the past are telling what they
used to do.
The ways and means committee of
the city council has let the coal con-
tract to the Wear company at SO ton
for slack and $3.50 for Usage lump.
The Lincoln school juniors defeated
the Polk second football team today by
score of to 0. The Lincolns want a
game with any So pound team in To-
peka.
Miss Lunina C. Riddle and ]. D.
Brown will sing solo parts in a Juvenile
cantata to be given by the Junior choir
of the First Cumberland Presbyterian
church.
Rev. c. M. Sheldon will read paper
on Christian Socialism, at the Y. NJ.
c. A. parlors at 10 o'clock Monday morn
ing at the meeting of the City Minis
terial union.
Washburn college will play three
games of football next week, at st.
Mary's college, Campbell university at
Holton and one with Midland college of
Atchison here.
Judge" Anderson, the Washburn
quarterback, hurt his ankle again last
night. and may be unable to get in
team next week.
1t is reported that there is an cpl
demic of hog cholera in the southern
part of Shawnee and Douglas counties.
Farmers along the Wakarusa valley
are the heavy losers.
The first meeting of the Mems club of
the Central Congregational church was
held last night at the Tennesseetown
library. The Mems club is in charge
of the TennesseetoWn work.
Plumbing Inspector Ed CLANCY says
that he will be ready to begin the ex-
animation of plumbers the first of next
week. Plumbers have to get a license
to practice just like physicians now
Bishop Mdllspapgh will be at the
Church of the Good Shepherd at the IL
o'clock service Sunday morning. He will
preach and also confirm the Rev. s. H.
Atkinson, recently a Baptist minister in
England. He will begin his studies at
once for holy orders in the church.
Since the trial of the mutineers at
Leavenworth it has developed that one
of the Jurors in the case had served
term in the Kansas penitentiary for
forgery When he voted to convict the
prisoners he knew what he was sentenc-
ing them to.
Probate Judge Hayden has a new
typewriter in his office. That was
part of the judge. but the first thing
the new county treasurer, +. c. Bowen,
did was to get requisitlon past The
county commissioners for three quarter
sawed oak, revolving. tipping and highly
polished Office chairs.
There is a $50 pound colored man
named Page who is now playing foot
ball at Washburn. He is a, brother of
Gaitha Page, the baseball player. The
football Page does not know anything
about football, but he can stop up a
mighty big hole. He will probably be
able to make the first team by next
season, and may be used as a substi-
tute on the first team for some of the
games mex week.
The Topeka Homeopathic Preparatory
School of Medicine, recently started at
704 Kansas avenue, is preparing inteli-
gent men and women to enter medical
college and fit themselves for the medi-
cal profession Nearly all of the homeo-
pathic physicians in the city are active