The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-09-14

| Barnum & Bailey's circus one week
from today.
Eugene Ware is in st. Louis attend
| ing the Worlds fair.
DIR. w. S. Lindsay has gone to st.
Louis to spend a week.
! General Manager H. u. Nudge of
| the Santa Fe is in Chicago.
! Overcoats were frequent and Of
! ten on the street last night.
The ball game on Thursday morn
ing will be called at 1890 o'clock.
Dean Kaye will address the Thursday
noon meeting at the Santa F'e shops.
| A daughter was born to Mr.. and
! Mrs. Omar F. Harshman on Monday
evening.
U. S. Marshal Mackey has returned
from Wichita where court has been in
session.
All the city offices are closed this af-
ternoon, and the city officers have gone
to the fair.
DR.. j. NJ. Hamme and Mr.. George Nc
Nee of Cottonwood Falls are Topeka
fair visitors.
d. C. Tillotson, of Topeka, will en-
ter the national Republican campaign
| as a spellbinder.
Bowling enthusiasts of Topeka, Leav-
enworth, Atchison and st. Joe are talk
ing of organizing a state league.
Mrs. o. F. Sawyer and daughter
Lillian went to st. Louis Tuesday and
Philip Wagner of Neosho Falls is in
the city visiting his uncle. T. V. Cod
dington, of the city sanitary depart
ment.
The city clerks office issued a num-
Der of licenses Tuesday to people who
are here to do various taking stunts
during the fair.
The afternoon Rock Island trains
were each an hour and a half late Tues
day because of a freight train derail-
/ 0or1t Of
William Sells, the Topeka circus
man, is in the city this week. His
show is making a tour of Kansas
towns this month.
D. n. Wnlitts, formerly deputy Unit
ed States marshal here. and now chief
deputy for the marshal at Guthrie, Ok,
was in Topeka Tuesday
John A. Bright has gone to Wash
ington county, to fill a two days en-
gagment lecturing at a Woodmen
Vile.
Fred d. Cray of Topeka, formerly
a member of the hospital corps in the
regular army in the Philippines has
been appointed a clerk in the Kansas
City, Kan; postoffice.
The Sedalia and Topeka baseball
teams will play an exhibition doub- |
le-header in Topeka, at League park
on next Sunday afternoon for the ben |
eft of the players
Lord Euston of London, passed |
through North Topeka yesterday af- |
ternoon in his special car on Union |
Pacific No. on his way from San |
Francisco to the St. Louis Fair.
Mrs. NJ. c. Gillette, Mrs. Blair. Mrs.
E. c. Stafford, Mrs. E. w. Gilmore,
Miss Blanch Boise will go to Hoyt |
tomorrow as delegates from the Will |
lard w. C. T. U. to attend the conven- |
ton there.
The entrance for people going to |
the state fair grounds on the street |
cars is at Eighteenth and Topeka ave-
nues. That entrance is for pedestrians
only and the old main gate at Seven
teenth street is for vehicles.
The street force of the city is not |
working today. The men took a vote
yesterday. and decided that instead of |
fair. they would take one whole day off.
They decided on Wednesday as their |
day off.
City Street Commissioner Snyder was
serving notices Tuesday on some of the
Kansas avenue property owners. in
them to Immediately make re-
pairs on their area ways, which on ex-
were found to be in danger
GUS condition.
Rev w. S. Naylor, who has supplied
the pulpit at the First Methodist
church during the past summer
has been appointed professor
of the English Bible at Lawrence Uni
versity at Appleton, Wis. He is also
to be the university preacher and pas
tor. Mr.. Naylor was born and raised
in Shawnee county. and was educated
in the public schools of the county and
at Washburn College
An interesting meeting of the Will
lard w. c. T. L. was held Tuesday
afternoon at the home of Mrs. E. G.
Stafford, 1905 Euclid avenue. Dele
gates to district and state conventions
were elected. One dollar per month
was voted to help support the training
school to be opened here late this fall.
Love and sympathy were sent to the
women of Cuba. Kan. who cleared out
the joints there and spilled the liquors
a short time ago.