The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-19

Some farmers in the country along
the Kaw valley have begun work in
the fields.
J. E. Leader of Findlay. Ohio. has
come to Topeka to live and open an
investment office.
Colonel Wilder S. MetcaH inspected
the National guard company at Atchi-
son Thursday night.
Rev. A. Wyman win read paper be-
fore the Saturday Night club tonight
on Poetry in Daily Life
J. B. Amos Of Topeka, past supreme
knight of the K, P. A, is the guest of
Harry H. Adams at Chanute.
Examinations for county diplomas for
teachers will be held by Superintendent
Wright, at the court house, April and
April 9.
largest bake oven in Topeka. It is at
ST Kansas avenue and is IA by 10 feet
in dimensions.
Amos Longaker of Topeka has Sc
cured. the contract for building the
large country residence on the farm of
f. A. kiene, near Valencia.
The Past, Present and Future of the
Florence Crittenton Home mission will
be presented at the Seabrook Congre-
gational church Sunday evening by
Mrs A. G. Lord.
The Woodmen of the World will in
l.
j. E. Fitzgerald, state deputy for Mis-
souri,, will be here, and there will be
a lunch and smoker
G. C. Clemens threatens to bring in
junction suits to prevent Topeka drug
gists from operating their stores be-
cause they failed to pay their pro rata
on his attorney fee in defending W. F.
Lake, a member of the fraternity.
AS might be expected the following is
from the Atchison Globe: Carnegie
gives $4,000 to Washburn college. To-
peka, for a library, though a cheaper
building would do just as well for the
students to paint high-record signs on"
Rev. ]. E. Adams, who has spent
seven years in Korea and who has just
been called back to his field of work,
will address the Y. NJ. C. A, III East
Eighth street, tomorrow afternoon at
O'Clock on the subject Japan and
Korea" There will be special musical
features for this service.
Sheriff Jockey, from Chanute, came
to Topeka Friday with Dan Robbins,
whom he is taking to the state reform
school at Topeka. Robbins is a 14-year-
old lad who stole a bicycle and after
riding it about town all day, threw it
into the river to escape being caught
with it in his possession.
Upton Irwin, a 10-year-old Topeka
boy who lives at 913 Morris avenue, has
won a trip to the Worlds fair offered by
the Saturday Evening Post. He is now
working to secure free trips for nine
other boys, sub-agents in Topeka.
Samuel Hutton is now in the lead, hav-
ing increased his sales from II to rs
copies.
Colonel P. B. Warner of the Manhat-
tan Oil & Gas company says that the
company is developing very fast and
that they expect to have in two or three
new wells within twenty days. This is
the company that Messrs. O'RourlSe and
Morrow are promoting and is one of the
largest Topeka enterprises at Chanute.
Colonel Warner makes his office at the
National hotel and will be pleased to
| talk oil at any time.
Here is another hypnotism story. They
are. becoming popular. This is from Ed
| Howe's paper: Here is a sight an
Atehison man witnessed in a Topeka
theater recently: A man and his wife
sat in front of him, and when the cur
tain went down after the first act, the
man made a few passes in front of his
wife's face and she sat immovable while
/ he went out, with her eyes closed. He
didn't come back till the close of the
performance, when he made a few more
passes, and she opened her eyes and
said she guessed she must have fallen
| asleep. He had evidently hypnotized
her while he went out to run down a
| trail Of sawdust."