The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-02
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

AEShU1O IA L AVaAG 4NA4 " Os
The banks and stores will close Mon
day, Labor Day.
DR.. J. H. Soleckf leaves tomorrow Win
the Modocs for Denver.
You didn't have to be in Colorado
this morning to get whfff OF fresh
air.
First NJ. E. church at O'Clock Monday
afternoon.
Chief of Police Goodwin has chris
tened with water) his automobile
The Shamrock.
The Topeka Gun club will hold
shoot Labor day, at 3 O'Clock, on EAST
Sixth street grounds
District court will begin Tuesday
September 5, when the trial and mo-
ton dockets will be called.
It took sedalia twelve hard fought
innings to beat the White Sox yester-
day, but they beat them just the same.
All of the Topeka railroad freight
depots and the barber shops will be
closed all day Monday on account OF
Labor day.
VIM. Francis Ireland. D. D. M. d. of
New York, will address the colored I.
NJ. c. A, 406 Kansas avenue, sunday,
at o'clock.
The case of A. A. Hurd VS.. the To.
peka Daily Herald, for nonpayment of
rent, was called in the city court FRI
day and again postponed.
Mr.. Hugh Taylor of the santa Fe
store house. and wife and daughter
have returned from Pennsylvania
where they spent the summer.
Charles Wood. who was operated on
by Kansas City specialists two weeks
ago, was able to sit up for snort
time yesterday for the first time since
his return.
Mrs. Clarence Scott left for Fort
Scott this morning in response to
telegram announcing the serious ill
ness of her brother, who is very low
with typhoid fever.
There are about so, 1000 old soldiers
in the state of Kansas. Commander
Pat Coney expects that fully one-half
of this number will attend the reunion
to be held in Denver next week.
P. A. hartman. private secretary of
]. Wilbur Chapman, who will direct
series of revival meetings IN topeka
this fall for about four weeks, will be
in Topeka Monday to make the ar
engagements.
Mother Florence used to sell $50
War Crys in Topeka every week. Her
husband Dad" sold that number on
Monday and Tuesday of this week.
Lots of people gave me a quarter fer
til en-" was his comment.
The oath of office will be admins
tered to Judge G. r. Graves Wednes-
day and then he will be a full f1edged
of the state of Kansas and will be en-
titled to write it all after his name.
Councilman Simms, of the First ward
is in favor of voting bonds to secure the
necessary extensions of water mains in
the dry districts of the city. Simms will
have to lock horns with the board of
trustees; they don't believe in bond is
sues.
Arthur Griggs, the Topeka athlete
viii go to Western Pennsylvania Uni
versity this fall. That is where Fan
ME" Mehl made the natives open their
eyes last year by his football playing.
With the addition of Griggs, there
ought TO be some excitement around
that school this fall.
Sunday afternoon the White Sox and
Sedalia will play a double-header at
Association park. The first game will
be called at 2:30 o'clock. On Mon
day Springfield is here for morning
and an afternoon game. The morning
game will be called at 10 o'clock and
the afternoon game at 3 o'clock.
Il want you to send a policeman out
here to Pine street" phoned an excited
woman to Mayor w. H. Davis. There's
a gang of colored people who gather
here every evening to eat watermelons
and they stay up so late at night I be-
lieve they must be selling something
else, probably liquor" The mayor
promised.
John Dadisman, former captain and
tackle on the Washburn football team,
and we'll known in local athletic circles,
has returned from South Dakota where
he has been working in the harvest
fields. Dadisman graduated from Wash
g.. burn this year and has been appointed
field secretary of the 7. NJ. C. A. for the
state of Kansas. He will enter upon his
new duties Immediately.
z. D. Maxwell, owner of the Topeka
Omnibus company says that it is not
the fault of his company that the side
walk in front of his barn is in such a
deplorable condition. During the
street fair the drivers of the heavy
wagons used by the show company
were given permission to cross the
walk at this point. The walk has not
been repaired and the same crossing
point is being used by a telephone
company to reach their pole yard
Mayor Findlay Ross of Wichita was
in Topeka yesterday with a bunch of
$4,000 worth of Wichita refunding
bonds, which he desired to have regis
tered by the state auditor. The bonds
bear per cent interest, and are issued
to take up 5 per cent bonds. Wichita is
having good deal of difficulty in To-
issue is to replace, and owing to certain
complications, the auditor was unable
to register the issue without further in
formation
City Attorney Togo Dreaming is go
ing to forsake the lecture platform
He made the official announcement
that he had decided to forego his usual
pastime of taking to the lecture plat
FORM during the winter months and
viii only fill occasional dates Of