The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-05
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

oh. it's a good thing anyway. It's
good football weather
District court opened this morning
for the September term.
On Wednesday the White Sox open
series of three games with Joplin here
in Topeka.
J. G. Slonecker, who has been in New
York attending the meeting Of the
American Bar association, has returned.
The Y. NJ. c. A. is planning its winter
course of night classes, and will issue
| pamphlet about them within a few
weeks.
Tom sheard. owner of the White Sox,
is getting applications every day from
amateurs who want try-out next
spring.
Between the Labor day crowd and
| the circus day crowd the capacity of
the street car system was taxed to it's
utmost.
Glenn Haughey and Will Rice, two OF
/ the crack players on the Washburn
| football team, are back in town and will
re-enter school.
Labor day was a busy one in To-
peka. There was something doing all
the time and most of the time in sew
eral places.
L. S. Stebbins, formerly Topeka
| lawyer and now the attorney for a big
Chicago insurance company, was in To-
| peka this week for a visit.
The unexpected has happened again
! The White Sox won two games in sue
cession yesterday, but then they were
from the Springfield team.
With Labor day and circus day all
/ one and the crowds that thronged the
streets yesterday about the noon hour
made travel almost impossible.
Belle c. Harris, prominent worker
| in the Kansas w. r. c. is a prominent
ident of that organization at Denver.
| Robert Pond, former Topeka boy,
| now teaching at Marietta college, Ohio,
stopped off in Topeka yesterday on his
way back from Portland to Marietta.
N. F. Jensen, of Omaha, Neb., the
man who breaches in sign language to
deaf mutes, addressed a congregation
in this manner at the German Lutheran
| church Sunday evening.
N F. Jensen of Omaha will preach
in the sign language to the deaf and
dumb at the German Lutheran church
at the corner of Second and Van
Buren, streets this evening.
Governor Hoch has accepted an invi-
tation to address the county teachers
at Newton, Kan, on December 16- A
number of other prominent educators of
the state will be in attendance.
From the Atchison Globe: Here's
the real reason Atchison selected the
18th and 14th for the Corn Carnival:
it is banking on Topeka's luck. These
days will be the big days" of the state
fair at Topeka. Topeka has such luck
that Atchison will try to sneak in on 1t.
8 The usual objection was made by
those who found it necessary to pay
fifty cents for reserved seat to see
the circus, and then found the plush
covered seat to a piece of lumber just
a little harder than the corresponding
seats if any different but it is the same
old story.
Fannie Mehl is trying to take both
of the Griggs boys. Arthur and Frank.
back to Western Pennsylvania universi-
| ty this faH.He is also trying to influence
| Billy Rice to return with him. That
ought to make back field of the first
variety Western Pennsylvania univer-
sity has games with Penn State and
Cornell this year.
Sam Harry Eagles bull terrier,
went to the circus last night and had
the time of his life running wildly
about the rings barking at the per-
formers There are two bull terriers
with the circus who do a clever bag
punching act and although Sam ran
at them and tried to start something,
they were so interested in their turn
that they never noticed him, somewhat
to the disappointment of the audience
which was looking for an exciting mill.