The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-12
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

United States Attorney Dean went
to Marion on Friday.
The Old Abe camp Sons of Veterans
have received their equipment of new
Mr. and Mrs. William Rickenbacher
have removed to their new home at 1925
Polk street.
George H. Smith is erecting an addi-
ton to his residence at No. Park Place
to cost 500.
Naomi Rebekah lodge No. s5 I. o.
Q. F. will hold special meeting on
August IL.
The big A. o. U W. picnic viii be
given on Labor day, instead of on
August "a, as intended.
There will be a regular drill of Lin
coin Post Flambeau club this evening.
A. M. Fuller is captain.
The midsummer edition of the Wash
burn Review will soon be off the press
and ready for distribution.
Rev. ]. F. Sloan will supply the pull
pit of the First Christian church during
the absence of Rev. c. A. Finch.
Mrs. Luling. wife of the state super
| intendent of insurance, is convalescing
after q very serious spell of illness.
The mind of James White Frierson
! Hughes ought to be easier tonight.
The battleship Kansas is no longer
on it.
Some of the grocery stores are de-
handing 40 cents per dozen for lemons
because of the quarantine restrictions
against them in the south.
J. F. Cole, who has been travelling
| IN the southern part of the state for
the past week in the interest of his
patent corn cutter. returned last even
! ing.
There is one thing you can say
are varying the monotony of the man
ner in which they have been losing
games.
Judging from the elegant equip
| joints every thing must be fixed once
more or at least they are selling the
right brand of beer.
Department Commander Coney is a
very busy man just now. 1t takes
about all his time filling his dates at
the Grand Army reunions. He will be
at Hutchinson all next week.
Great improvements are noticeable
| in Topeka every day. Today the old
hand-cart used by the state printer to
transport printed matter to the state
house appeared in a new coat of
paint.
If Kansas university is to have a
squad of fifty men for its football team
this fall. and Washburn is to have all
of it's old men back, how are you
| betting as to who will win the annual
game this year?
The White Sex seem determined to
get in the last hole. If they can't do it
one way they will another. Yester-
days game was forfeited to Joplin be-
cause one of the players lost control
of his mouth.
The building recently occupied by
the Oxford hotel is being remodeled
and the archway between the two
rooms on the lower floor has been
bricked up. The downstairs rooms are
| to be rented for store rooms.
| Assistant Labor Commissioner w.
D. Robinson has returned from Caney,
where he required a firm of contract
ors from outside the state to obey the
Kansas eight-hour law in the erection
of a new school building at that place
| In Governor Hoch's absenc. an in
vitation has been received for him 10
join the Shipping Society of America,
an organization to promote the re-
Mobilization of the American marine.
| Governor Hoch is getting considerably
involved with marine affairs.
State Treasurer Kelly's speech be-
fore the horsethief association. at
Eudora will be next Wednesday, A
good many people think this an
Kelly says he vii enjoy addressing
the constituents of Speaker Stubbs.
The only reliable baseball news the
morning paper prints is pllfered from
the State Journal. The conscience of
the editor must be troubling him for
|
to personal abuse of his benefactor--or
| it may be that is the method he takes
to try to fool his readers.
Revival services will begin at the
Central Park Christian church Sunday
morning at II a. M, followed by
preaching at o'clock In the evening.
Song service at 7:45. The services will
be conducted by State Evangelist d. Y.
Donaldson, assisted by Bert I. Bently,
a singer.
| rrba-a ;s q e,,,ear combination at A06
Kansas avenue. On the first floor of
this number there is a billiard hall, on
the second floor are the rooms OF the
NEGRO Y. M. C. A., while the third
floor is occupied by the notorious Met
ropolitan hall in which so much trou-
BILE has occurred.
Thomas Lawson of Boston has been
asked to deliver an address here Labor
Day by the Topeka labor unions Frank
Duffy of Philadelphia, general secretary
of the carpenters union and Thomas
Hughes of the stone cutters union have
also been invited to appear on the pro-
gramme.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Jewell, Mr.. and
Mrs. George Knauer, Mr.. Robert
Garrard, Chester Cusenborder, r. r.
Robinson, o. E. Kennedy. Archie KEEL
| lam, Frank G. Covell and Will Horde
will leave Sunday evening for Denver
to attend the convention OF the Fra
| ternal Order of Eagles
Thirty-two appealed city cases will
have a hearing in the September session
of the district court. These are all
cases which have been tried in the po-
! lice court and have been appealed by
the defendants to the higher court
There are a few liquor cases in the
bunch hut the great majority are for
misdemeanors.
Mayor w. H. Davis does not believe
that the fees which will result from the
inspection of the electrical wiring Will
he s.,,fFicianf t0 nav for the cost of en-
aging the services of an electrical in
spector The mayor still clings to the
belief that Plumbing Inspector CLANCY
can take care of the position in addition
to his own duties and that the electric
wiring inspection will not suffer as a
consequence.
M. w. Gilmore, member of sewer con-
tracing firm of Brooks & Gilmore. is