The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-22
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


Referring to literary Topeka. The
Authors club will meet on October IL.
Willard Hall is wearing a coat of
tan that would make an Indian
envious.
The state printing Office is now
working on the new catalogue for the
State Normal school.
The first fall meeting of the Com
mefcial club will be held at the club
quarters this evening.
1t is not all over yet. The White
Sox lost two games out of three to
local MANHATTAN team this week.
Elmer Martin and Carrie Hargisboth
of Topeka were married by the probate
Judge at his office Thursday afternoon.
A permit was granted yesterday to A.
H. Marshall for the erection of a $500
addition to his residence at 1874 Harrison
street.
Ernest Mckenzie of Emporia was
brought to Topeka yesterday and oper-
ated upon for appendicitis at Christ
hospital.
Two new cases of diphtheria are re-
ported this morning. This makes 16
cases in all that are under quarantine
at this time.
A $4,000 block of Topeka railroad
bonds sold in Boston this week part of
them at par and the balance at a
slight advance.
City Clerk J. H. squires is expected
from COLORADO Ile I1SI OF tne
week, where he has been for some
time on his summer vacation.
Now that the moonlights are thing
of the past FOR a while, Councilman
sSimms is agitating his pet scheme of
having the Melan arch bridge lighted.
City Attorney Dreaming announces
that he counted 50 holes in one block of
Kansas avenue. He must have poor
eye sight or else can't count higher
than SO.
G. F. Gustafson, who has been in
the plumbing business in this city for
several years. has assumed charge of
the waterworks and electric light
plant at Harrington.
Johnnie Waters admits that he is
suffering from another jilt and. an
nounces positively that he is a woman
hater, now and Cor all time to come,
but the spell won't last
The market is flooded with big
juicy appearing chestnuts. They are
deIusion and snare, they are not
what they seem, they are the winter
home of a little white juicy worm.
The family washing was left on the
back porch of the home of f. A. Baker
of 1905 Western avenue. In the morn
ing it was gone. 1t is said to have
been good clean job, and no clews
were left.
A Topeka man who hasn't had a va
cation for ten years decided to take
one this year. He had hardly reached
the northern lakes before he was re-
called by the news that there was a
strike in his establishment
Professor F. H. Snow has Just
returned from Arizona and announces
that he has collec-ed several thousand
bugs. An early morning walk through
the tall grass any where around Topeka
would have given almost as good re-
suits as that
Is it Governor Hoch and his new as
sistant attorney general who are re-
Sponsible for the story that the lid is
on; is 1t Chief Goodwin and his braves;
or is it the fact that protracted meet
ings are about to be held all over the
CITY, Who? Which? or What?
Lincoln Post Veteran Flambeau
club lately covered itself all over with
glory and sparks at Denver. 1t pro-
poses now to meet Saturday evening
at its headquarters for the purpose CT
shaking off the dust of travel and set
thing up its affairs. Every member is
expected to be present.
The Kansas City Outer Belt railroads.
which is the name of the Orient ter
Tnina1 at Kansas City, has applied to
the state board of railroad commits
sioners for an order permitting it to
cross the tracks at the Kansas City &
Ieavenworth electric line. The Outer
Belt and the K. c. & L. have been I'M
able to agree on terms.
The H. L. Strong Grain company of
Kansas City complains to the state
board of railroad commissioners that
the freight cars nowadays are SO large
that there ought to be a minimum
weight rule established. They say the
cars are all $4,000 pounds capacity,
and that if a dealer has only $4,000
pounds to ship, he can't get a small
car, but is charged for the big car the
same as though he used it to it's full
capacity.