The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-07
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

CAOSe d week from sunday.
Football at the high school does not |
look very encouraging for this fall.
The state meeting of the federated
clubs viii be held in representative hall
next week.
The White Sox and Joplin Miners
met in a double header today at As
ISOLATION park.
Winter must certainly be here. The
hot water heater in the Elk club rooms
has been started.
w. F. Logan was in Kansas City yes
terday on baseball business. He didn't
get any new players.
The contract has been let for repair
ing the fence of the Washburn foot
ball field, which was blown down last
fall.
Governor Hoch has accepted an in
vitation to deliver an address at the
opening of Southwest college at Win
field on Sept. IS.
Topeka .Aerie No. SIS will play
game of baseball with Kansas City
Aerie No 81 on September 10 at the
Western association park.
Coal is cheaper this year than last.
The operators claim that wide use of
oil and gas for fuel purposes is re-
sponsible for the reduction.
The Sabean club of Mission Center
will hold a social at the Grange hall on
Saturday evening, September 8. A
short programme will be given.
Fred Dumont Smith is accused of
bringing back a monocle with him
from England. This is a terrible mis-
take. Smith has used a monocle for
years.
Charles Morton, one of the supreme
court clerks, is taking a vacation in
Excelsior Springs. Nathan Thomp-
son, another clerk in the same office, is
at Chicago
The band concert which was to have
HpoV1 civ I1xrs-A M "a S1, ho nd at a
state house last night was postponed
on account of the threatening condition
of the weather.
Both the Joplin team and the White
Sox, with about 100 spectators, were
at Association park on Wednesday
the grounds were too wet to play on.
According to the windows along Kan
sas avenue where such things are sold,
it is to be inferred that womens hats
this fall will be of the "tin-can shape"
They must be the Happy Hooligan
STYLE
The Primary Sunday School Teach
ers' union will meet Friday afternoon
at o'clock in the Y. w. c. A. par1ors.
Mr.. J. B. Morrison will give the lesson
exposition. Mrs. D. o. Coe will give
the primary lesson.
Ottawa Herald: Frank Owens, who
has been with Felix & Sons Topeka
branch since it opened and who will be
manager of their Osawatomie store to
be opened up September Is, is here for
a visit with his mother.
Rev. e. o. Raymond of Parkdale M.
E. church is at Council Grove this week.
When he returns his family will accom-
pany him. They have spent the sum-
mer in the country, but Will be at
home" at the parsonage in the future
Raymond Campbell and Arthur Simm
and mother passed through the city yes
their home in Wichita. Notwithstand-
ing the condition of the roads from the
recent rains the trip of 1S0 miles was
made in less than a day.
J. D. Buckalew and F. c. Boltz of the
International Association of Machinists
left for Boston yesterday to attend the
annual meeting of the association. They
will discuss the strike situation on the
Santa Fe system at a session to be held
on the 18th of September.
Some one out of a spirit of mali
ciousness turned in an alarm of fire
from Second and Kansas avenue last
evening at 10 o'clock. When the de-
partment reached the location of the
box they found the door of the box
open and key sticking in the key hole.
The Christian Women's Board of
Missions union of the Christian church
of the city will hold its quarterly
meeting at the First Christian church
Friday, beginning at 10 a. m. Mrs.
Payne, wife of Prof. w. G. Payne of
Lawrence, will address the meeting in
the afternoon.
Judge c. B. Graves, of Emporia,
took the oath of office as justice of
the supreme court Wednesday after
noon. The oath was administered by
Chief Justice w. A Johnston. Justice
Graves will take his place on the
bench at the October session. He will
stay in Emporia until that time.
Secretary Samson of the state fair
has closed a contract with MrashalPs
band for two concerts day during the
week of the fair swinging band
stand is to be suspended in the center
of the grand stand. A private car will
be in waiting for the band in front of
their band rooms and as they ride
through the streets on their trip to the
grounds they will play.
w, L. TAYLOR of the Topeka Com
mercial club will leave for Chicago to
look after several matters relating to
the proposition to finance the Topeka,
Eskridge and Council Grove railroad.
There is some question about the
LEGALITY of transferring the bonds
voted by the different counties along
the proposed line from one company
to another. This point will first have
to be settled before the deal to finance
the new road is completed"
challenge to the Topeka Aerie No.
| So. The challenge comes as the result
of an effort on the part of Kansas City
to regain some of its laurels lost in the
defeat administered to them at the
hands of Topeka on the 10 of July last,
when the former lost by a score of 4
| to to the home team. The lineup
which has been arranged for the To-
peka team follows: Custonborder,
catcher; Smith, pitcher; Blackburn,
first base; Dupple, second base; Dick
| Brown, third base; Gus Alberts, short
stop; Gilbert, left field; Garrard, center
field: Holloway, right field; Dan Lane,
umpire; Bert Gilbert. manager.