The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-16
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London Truth
N. H. LOOMS spent Sunday in Kan
sas City.
Armin Fassler, of the NIid-Continent
mills, was in Kansas City yesterday.
Rev. H. E Wark of Topeka, preach
ed at the First Methodist in Atchison
Sunday.
A recruiting station for the United
States army will be opened in Topeka
this week.
The Dougherty Success club is plan
ming to hold a picnic at Vinewood
park on May 10.
The rain is making great deal of
trouble for the farmers. Few Of them
have their corn all in.
The South Topeka Blues defeated
the Harrison street baseball team Sat
urday by the score of 16 to 4.
Father Hayden has gone to St.
Louis to visit with one of his friends
who is i'll in that city in a hospital.
The Sells & Downs circus and the
Wallace show seem to break about
even on the rainmaking proposition.
The league team will not return to
time a series of three games will be
opened with Pittsburg.
Recruits to the Salvation Army Will
be sworn in on Thursday night, May
10. Staff Captain and Mrs. Harris will
be present to aid in the work.
Some mathematician might figure up
the extra amount of moisture which
viii be necessary in clicking the new
louisiana Purchase postage stamps.
The Kansas City papers announce
that most of the people who went
from Topeka to Kansas City Sunday
on the Rock Island excursion went to
the baseball game.
Captain j. r. McNary, assistant
county attorney, was neighbor of B.
Es Wallace, the circus proprietor,
fx4rTo he in nd Va
was formerly a liveryman.
Washburn college will probably play
the Haskell Indians in Topeka on
Thursday, and has definitely settled
upon a game with the Emporia State
Normal for Saturday.
Tuesday evening the graduating re-
cital of Miss Florence Morton will be
held at the Washburn college chapel
Miss Morton graduates from the WASH
burn conservatory in vocal music.
Mr.. Ben Barnum has moved his bow
ling alleys from Manhattan to this city
and will open up at 10 Kansas avenue,
the building formerly used by the
Royal Thursday, May 10.
G. w. Graves. Ben Barnum and Geo
Heron, representatives to the Grand
lodge, Knights of Pythias. which meets
at Hutchinson May II to 10, leave at
midnight over the Santa Fe.
Kansas editor suggests that if
Russia wants some really high explo-
I
/ get Morton Albaugh and Secretary of
/ State Burrow to write some political
! letters.
/ W. R. Stubs is one of the leading
members of the Lawrence Y. NJ. c. A.
/ He was elected a delegate to the ma
/ tiOnal convention of that organization
at Buffalo this week, but found it i'm
/ possible to attend
The Concordia Blade says: Mrs E.
B. Sewell and children, who have been
living at the Exchange hotel for the
past few months, left for st. Louis to
attend the fair, after which they will
make their home in Topeka.
You get all the titles coming to you
! fact is reported in the morning paper
| there, as in this case: A. NJ. Harvey,
ex-leutenant governor of Kansas, and
/ now the Democratic candidate for
| congress in the First district, was here
from Topeka yesterday
The Clay school baseball team
i played the, tenth and last game
/ against the LoWman Hill team Satur-
/ day and Won by the score of q to 9.
! o. Weed, stepsOn of Governor Bailey,
! and H. Gill made up the battery for
/ the Clay school team. Bair and Ora
! ham We're the battery of the Lowman
| Hill team.
/ The Chanute sun says: A contract
/ the first wells for the Old Abe Oil and
Gas company on the Joseph Stamper
farm in Big Greek township The Old
4 Abe company is one recently organized
I by Senator J. B. Belts and J. H. Den
mis-. The present contract with Braden
calls for only two wells. but it is like
| ~ that he VIII stay on that lease, L