The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

This is initiation night at the Elks.
profusion.
-Four new houses are being built along /
the Vinewood line.
Captain MITCHELL mayor of Beloit, /
was IN the city Tuesday.
f. H. Roberts, of the Oskaloosa In /
Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Bower of 7O6 |
Monroe street. are the parents OF a son.
born April "a
The Washburn baseball team meets I
the Haskell Indians at Washburn park /
next Saturday.
Uncle jake Smith will give his an
nual May dinner at the Topeka club |
Saturday evening.
G. H. Searle. S. J. Bear and W. f. I
Rightmire of Topeka were in Kansas
City yesterday.
]. G. Jennings, superintendent CT
telegraph of the Rock Island, was in |
Topeka yesterday.
An effort is being made to sell the
Popenoe home in Highland Park to the
new Country club.
The district meeting of the Free
Methodist church viii be held Thursday
evening at 726 Lake street.
Harry Perkins has received the rec
/ ommendation for postmaster at Dover
/ by Congressman Charles Curtis.
/ Sumner county wheat is in frst-class
/ condition according to A. A. Richards
/ of Wellington, who is in Topeka.
There will be an athletic tourna-
ment at the T. A. A. tonight. It will
include several boxing matches.
Judge Charles F. johnson of Oska-
Ioosa was in Topeka Tuesday to visit
ais daughter who is at Bethany col
/ lege.
DR.. J. c: NcClintoek is a member Of
! a party of investors on a trip to Old
/ Mexico with Gtilypel1 If the Orient
/ railway.
E. F. Strain, division freight agent
! of the Kansas division Of the Rock
Island, returned today from trip TO
| Colorado Springs
A Lawrence paper says: A mar
riage license was issued today to David
H. Warner of Topeka and Luetta Z.
Tucker of Douglas county.
The Tanning of the Shrew" will go
on the boards at the high school audi
| forum Friday evening. The senior
class members are producing it.
Actual work on construction of a plat
4 form to get on and off the street cars
at the ball park has commenced. It
will be built of heavy bridge timber.
| The district meeting of the Free
Methodist church will be held at 723
Lake street beginning Thursday even
I ing. Rev. S. F. Wilson is the presiding
elder of the district.
The state board of railroad commits
SlUllETS mas IGQuCeQ the IdLe on coal
from southern Kansas mines to Cotton
wood Falls. The old rate was $3.50:
the new rate will be s1.30.
The Musical Harris are attracting
attention at the Star theatre this
week. This act is one of the best the
Star management has secured since
the new theatre was opened.
Governor Hoch denies the report that
he is planning to pardon Willie Sell,
the Neosho county murderer. The gov
he hoe -,1x
arguments on the case on May l.
W. w. Truman, of st. Louis, wants
to establish a coffee roasting plant in
Topeka He has written to the Com
mercial club about it, and will be
given encoura cement to come here.
Seven members of the city council are
members of the local Elks lodge in ad-
ditiOn to Mayor Davis. Members of the
W. G. T. U. are raising a fuss" about
Elks holding office in the city govern
ment.
John Strickrott caught some excellent
pictures of Barney Oldfield while he
was driving his Green Dragon at the
rate OF a mile a minute. He set his
camera at one-eight hundredths of a
second.
Shelton II. Wentworth of Salina Is
sick at the home of his parents, 207
East Tenth. Mr.. Wentworth left Sa-
lima Saturday morning intending to go
to Excelsior Springs for a few days,
Topeka.
W. L. Taylor has organized a base
ball team in North Topeka to be called
1.-THE Gyrators." They are willing to
this club will be member of the new
city league which is now in process of
organization.
The drum major of the Ninth u S.
infantry band, which passed through
Topeka Tuesday, IS an old friend OF
Captain Clad Hamilton. Hamilton met
him at the train, and the Ninth infan-
try band got out on the platform and
played a few good tune.
A. B. Hoffmeister, of Muskogee, I. T,
; has invented a stove for the purpose of
burning crude oil He has had the stove
on exhibition in a Topeka cigar store
for some time, and it works we'll There
are still some details of construction to
be planned out in order to make II
wholly practical.
Probate Judge Hayden says that he
will hereafter enforce the law IN the
probate court that executors and adj
ministrators of estates must make an
annual report concerning the prop
erty they have in charge. If they
don't" he said today, some bonds viii
be forfeited
The secretary of states report viii
show that the state used 300 tons of
coal during the past winter al the heat
ing plant instead of BAT tons the year
before The AZ tons is just about what
was stolen from the state between the
cars and the heating plant. Now the
coal is delivered to the plant directly
from the cars.
L. NJ Penwell returned on Monday
night from Memphis where he at
tended the annual meeting Of the
Tennessee Funeral Directors assocla-
ton He says he had the best time Of
his life While there he met Charles
McCabe, formerly of this city, who he
says is making a great success Of HIM
self.
Herbert Clark has been appointed
official scorer for Topeka for this year.
He is a student at the Washburn Med
zeal school. By agreement a man not
connected with any Of the newspapers
was to be appointed. Last year the