The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-01
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

ter Springs today at the G. A. R. re-
union.
The trains bearing the Forepaugh-
Sells show will reach the city early |
Sunday morning.
Today is the day that the Santa Fre
distributes it's pay checks to it's en-
ployes in the Office building.
w. A S. Bird will deliver Labor !
day address before the Red Men at /
Kansas City on next Monday evening. |
Fred Bullene of the Kansas City |
Star went to Baxter Springs Thursday |
to hear Major William Warmers |
speech.
Secretary S. ]. Crumbine of the |
of four cases of diphtheria at Mound |
City yesterday.
Beginning with tonight men are sup
posed to no longer wear straw hats
rules of fashion plates.
Edward T. Goodwin, cover 81" of
Topeka, and Edna. A Smith, "over 49,"
were granted marriage license in
Kansas City, MO, Thursday.
Major Harry C. Root, travelling rep
resentative of the State Journal, will
attend the national G. A. R. encamp-
ment at Denver as a delegate.
The paved streets in the west part
of the city are in need of cleaning.
Dust and filth have collected upon
them for several inches in depth.
William Arnel, who has been in the
! employ of Crosby Brothers for the
past two years, leaves tonight for
| Denver, where he will accept a posi-
| ton with Daniels and Fisher.
With the heavy clouds overhanging
| the city and a show billed for Monday,
| it is fair to presume that the rainy sea-
son will be with US inside of the next
| "a hours.
President E. B. schermerhorn, of the
board of control, left last night for
short inspection trip. While he is away
he will visit the school for feeble mind
ed youth at Winfield and the state hos
pital at Parsons.
Great Senior Sycamore of the Red
| Men, w. A. S. Bird, will install the
| largest class of the degree of POGO
hontas ever installed in the United
| States at meeting to be held at
Hiawatha this evening.
The state board of control say that
they feel that Superintendent Charles of
the Reform school has reformed and
should be retained. Four years in the
reform school should be enough to re-
| form the most hardened.
Father Stephen Wise, a Topeka
young man who has just returned from
Rome where he was ordained two
years ago, will celebrate solemn high
mass at the Church of the Assumption
on Sunday at 1920 o'clock.
A report from Wichita says the
meeting of the board of directors of
the Kansas Masonic home, which was
to have been held there Wednesday,
| has been called for September at the
new Masonic offices in Topeka.
Assistant Adjutant General J. NJ. Mil
| Ter and Assistant Quartermaster Gen
eral H. x. Devendorf left for Denver
yesterday where they will make prepar-
alton of opening of headquarters for the
Kansas department of the G. A. r.
After an intense quiet lasting over
several days, business picked up with
a rush in the Office of the city physi-
| clan this morning. One smallpox case
and two cases of diphtheria were re-
ported within the brief space of a few
| hours
The Topeka Omnibus company has
been permitting it's drivers to drive
across the sidewalk to the barns at
sequence the sidewalk has been broken
| and is dangerous to walk on after
| dark.
At a special meeting of the Elks this
week 800 was donated to the G. A. r.
posts in the city to be used in assist
ing in defraying the expenses of sons of
the members who are financially unable
to attend the reunion in Denver next
week.
justice of the peace living near
Esbon, Jewell county, sent in his
resignation yesterday, and addressed
the communication to Governor
Folk" The resignation was accepted
without question as to the mans men
tai condition.
Robert Dunlap of Chicago was in
Topeka yesterday. Dunlap is attorney
for the Title Guaranty & Trust COM
pany, which is on Treasurer Kelly's
bond. Mr.. Dunlap called on the attor-
ney general, but did not offer to pay
the 100000 and end the suit.
The White Sox returned home today
and opened a series of games with Sc
| dalia at Association park this after
noon. Springfield comes on Monday
and then Joplin is here for three days.
| Two games will be played Monday
Labor day. One will be in the morn
ing and the other in the afternoon.
D. w. Fleming, of PIP Hancock
street, was removed to the city hos
pital last evening at o'clock, suffer-
ing from smallpox. A family by the
name of Scherer at 1918 North West
name of Voight at 119 East Sixth ave-
nue., were quarantined for diphtheria.
The East Sixth avenue viaduct, the
great white elephant which the street
commissioner has continually on his
| hands, is undergoing repairs. Not a
year passes but what the city expends
a lot of money in trying to repair this
viaduct and keep it open for traffic
Now it is the sidewalks that have to
be refioored.
Additional improvements in the
fire escapes at the Throop hotel are
limprovem ents were made at the sug-
gestion of Fire Marshal Wilmarth.
The Kansas laws provide that iron
balconies must be attached to the fire
escapes and the improvements are be-
ing made along this line.
According to a new provision which
has been introduced into the electrical
inspection ordinance, now pending
] before the city council, the meter in
spector will be required to furnish