The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-21

Ralph Moore is in Chicago.

Ralph Moore is in Chicago.
Judge Lobdell, of Larned, was in To-
peka Monday.
Pictures of Pope Leo XIII are on sale
in Topeka shops.
J. c. Harmon will go to Colorado to-
morrow on a fishing trip.
James Lane Aliens new book, THE
Mettle of the Pasture" is out.
Charles Figg is Ill with malaria at his
home at 500 West Tenth street.
r. E. Melvin and County Clerk Flory
of Lawrence were in Topeka Monday.
Mrs. l. ]. Witherell, of 700 Topeka
avenue, is seriously i'll. and may not
recover.
The Ohio Association held its month
ly meeting Monday night at 119 West
Sixth street
Congressman Charles F. Scott leaves
this week to spend the remainder of the
summer in Colorado
Marshalrs band is scheduled to play
at vinewood park next Sunday, when
the park is formally opened
A woman and her little boy came SO
miles to hear the Banda Rosa They
attended last years concerts in Topeka
also.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
is holding open air services on the
church lawn Sunday evenings this sum-
mer.
A novel Gnln6Se restaurant mas DeeH
opened at ia West Sth street, where
chop suey and other oriental dishes are
served.
Mrs S. ]. Elder, mother of Mrs.
Charles Miller and F. w. Swearingen
is seriously i'll at her home, on East
Eighteenth street.
The number of applications for help
made to the North Topeka relief COM
mittees is now over 800. No further APP
plications will be received.
Rev. J. T. Mcfarland. pastor of the
First NJ. E. church. has been given the
degree IL D. by Simpson, college, Iowa,
of which he is a graduate.
S. A. Whitley, a Missouri Pacific
trgi dispatcher at Atchison, has re-
signed and come to Topeka to take
similar position with the Santa Fe.
A good many men took off their coats
at the Banda Rosa concert last night
but the players didn't. The reason may
have been that they didn't wear boiled
shirts.
A Mcpherson paper of Monday says:
The Union services in the park were
conducted last night by DR.. Fisk, pro-
fessor of sociology at Washburr
college.
J. NJ. Bentley, the ice man, has sold
his business to the Peoples Ice com
pany. There are now but two ice COM
panies in the Topeka field, the Peoples
and the Mutual.
At a gathering of the Dougherty Sue
cess club at its rooms at 118 West
Eighth street tonight, Rev. Charles M.
Sheldon will make an address on the
topic, What Is Real Success.
State Superintendent of Insurance
Chas. II. Luiing win on August L
publish list of insurance companies in
the state which are authorized to do
business in the state of Kansas.
A. D. Wilcox, lecturer for the State
Temperance union is in Topeka for
few days. Mr.. Wilcox has. in the past
two years, held meeting of weeks
duration in ninety cities of the state
A shipment of ties for use on the lines
of the Topeka Railway company are ex-
pected here toward the later part of this
week Superintendent Ward is in Ar
kansas attending to their shipment.
Jess Leach, who is a candidate for
the title of potato king of Kansas.
states that the potatoes planted on his
Kaw valley patch since the flood are
going to make a big crop. He expects
500 bushels to the acre.
A few days ago, the Clay County Fair
association decided not to hold a coun-
ty fair. Today word was received by
Secretary Coburn of the state board of
agriculture, that the fair will be held
as planned.
Sixty members of the Methodist
church Sunday school viii go 20 Le-
compton Thursday to camp out for
week. Lecompton lost the state capitol.
lost Lane university, but it is now be-
coming a popular camping resort,
w D. Robinson, Of the state labor
bureau, has returned from Pittsburg,
where he attended the conference be-
tween the miners and operators. The
conference. he thinks, will adopt COM
nrornise He does not think there is
danger of a strike
The Clay Center Dispatch says: ''Clar
Solenger and another gentleman from
Clyde had started to ride to Topeka in
an automobile. They got as far as the
brick plant south of town yesterday
where the iuggernaut broke an axle and
the young men were forced to track
back to Clay Center. They have tele-
graphed to Topeka for new axle and
are determined to ride the thing to To-
peka if they have to walk"