The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-19
SNAPSHOTS AID HOME NEWS,

MI. ana AlIS. AAluIEN JACK, lU34 Car
field street, are the parents of a boy,
born Thursday night
DR.. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the
state board of health, is expected home
from his vacation trip this week
A marriage license was issued to ].
C. Yeargain of southwestern Missouri
and Grace Thompson of Topeka Fri
day.
Rev. David Thompson and family,
of Toxic, Japan, are visiting with the
family of Joseph Thompson in Aburn-
dale.
According to the records of the state
board of control. there are about 1850
people in the charitable institutions of
the state
Naoma Rebekah lodge No. s5 will
give thimble party Wednesday after
noon at Mrs. L. K. Eakins, 111S Mon
roe street.
The w. C. r. U. will hold the an
nual meeting Monday at O'Clock at
the Washburn college campus and
have a picnic supper.
Bishop Abram Grant of the Fifth
Episcopal district will address the
nue., at O'Clock Sunday afternoon.
e. Montgomery was elected secre-
tary of the Topeka Grocers' association
at their regular meeting last night.
He succeeds P. L. Rush who recently
resigned.
trees in North Topeka during the
storm of Thursday night. No damage
was done to property other than that
done by the wind
The midsummer edition of the Wash
burn Review has appeared. A. c. Ram
say will be editor this year, Clern
Zumwalt local editor and Orley L. Mil
| Ter business manager
Frank Leach, business manager of
Washburn athletics last year, is in Alas
4 i, e.. ~-@11 II T..
companfed by George Anderson, anoth
er former Washburn student.
The streets and walks committee of
the city council will try to get rid from
the sidewalks of chicken cooks. All
over town different merchants have
cages standing in front of their places
of business.
Governor Hoch yesterday granted
paroles to the following penitentiary
prisoners: Albert McKelvey, Jefferson
county; Chas. Tausler, Mcpherson; J.
| L. Blasingame, Cowley; Lee Hartman,
| Sumner.
DR.. H. II. Mclaughlin, formerly of
this city but for the past seven years
a missionary in the Sudan, will talk
on mission work in that country at the
Second United Presbyterian church
Sunday morning at IL o'clock.
Thomas Sheard, president of the
White Sox. has called meeting of the
fans for this evening at the office OF
w. F. Logan in the Columbian build
| ing 1t will take more than one even
| White Sox aggregation.
A delegation from Rossville and Sill
yer Lake called on County Commission
er Haynes and urged him to be candi-
one of the most competent and valua-
BILE commissioners the county has ever
had.
ST have noticed" said one of the
city assessors, that the First National
bank depositors who kick the hardest
about the receiver keeping his business
to himself are those who forgot to tell
all about it when they were making
their statement of personal property"
1t is expected that at least seven mem
| bers of Washburn'S last years football
team will be back in school. The last
year stars who wiz be absent are Caid-
well, Dadisman, Isouthan and the Stew
art. Washburn will therefore need a
quarterback, center and one guard.
There are several good substitute half
backs coming to the school.
City Attorney Dreaming will give a
legal opinion, when he gets home, on
the petition from the people in the
First ward for macadam road from
Gordon street and Topeka avenue to
connect with the county road at the
city limits, as the streets and walks
committee decided to make this re-
quest.
John Bradley, for long time con-
nected with the Barber Asphalt COM
pany, now engaged in building private
asphalt plants for cities, says that To-
peka could pave Kansas avenue for 70
cents per square yard by that method.
Mr.. Bradley is the agent for an as
phalt which comes from Beaumont,
Texas. Tt has been used exclusively
in California and with success. He
offers to make a practical test here to
show it's efficacy.
The county officials of Pawnee coun-
ty have sent to the state auditor for
a complete copy of all the field notes
made by the surveyors of that county.
Pawnee county seems to have been
struggling along without such copy,
but has at last been obliged to get the
| original records made at the time the
state was opened. The county has to
pay the state % cents folio for copy
ing all these records. A folio is 100
words and the total cost of the copy
ing job to Pawnee county will be sew
| eral hundred dollars.