The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-11
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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The Topeka G. A. R. encampment
pilgrims nearly all returned Sunday.
One of the attractions of fair week is
Christian Science lecture at the Au-
ditorium.
Governor Hoch has returned from his
trip TO the national q. A. r.. eneamp-
ment at Denver.
City Engineer McCabe spent Satur-
day inspecting the work being done on
the Fifth ward sewer.
| A steel entrance is being built in front
of the Sixth avenue hotel leading from
the curb line to the door way.
| Nearly all the business houses have
agreed to close during the afternoons
| OF Wednesday and Thursday Of this
week
Sunday is the big day of the week
for the various vaudeville theaters in
! Topeka. They do an immense BUSH
ness.
| The Mutual Real Estate company
was granted a permit Saturday to erect
a $4,000 building on lots 1855 and 167 West
Tenth avenue.
John Dawson. assistant attorney gem
eral. has gone to Stanton county to fin
| ish up his work of refunding defaulted
| school bonds.
! The new Star vaudeville theater at
AIS Kansas avenue was opened Sunday
with big crowd. The theater is a
| gem in appearance.
|
that about 1,50o members of the Kan
sas National Guard will attend the
Wellington encampment.
| The White Sex played an errorless
game with the Wichita Jobbers SatuT-
day. 1t was only a five inning game,
| however, and they lost at that.
Secretary Charles Samson of the fair
has moved his Office to the fair grounds
where he may be found at the little Of
| fee just north of the grandstand.
| City Treasurer M. NJ. Hale returned
| from Excelsior Springs Saturday a few
| days earlier than he had expected to on
account of the illness of Mrs. Hale.
Herman Crow. manager of the Topeka
| Athletic association is making prepara-
tions to pull off number of boxing
contests during the first week in Octo-
| Der.
Miss Agnes F'airchild of Alma has
| moved to Topeka to keep house for
| some of her nephews and nieceS who
will attend Washburn and the Topeka
high school this winter.
| An old hatchet dug out of the river
/ bed and supposed to have been used in
| the construction of the first bridge
| across the Kansas river, has been given
| to the State Historical society.
DR.. s. G. Stewart. who has just re-
turned from hunting trip in northern
California, brought home a black bear
hide and three deer skins. He will adj
NIT if pressed that he bought them.
Councilman Joseph Griley of the
| Second ward, who has been spending
| greater portion of the summer in the
east, is expected to return from Ohio
this week.
Judge j. S. West, assistant attorney
general, is now putting in most of his
time examining Kansas bonds which
are being sent in to the state treasury
to be deposited as security under the
state depository law.
| ToIn NauroI for 1a11f71h of
years connected with the law firm of
Rossington, Smith & West, has opened
up law office of his own in the old
| Ferry & Doran quarters in the Column
bian building.
County Attorney Hungate, who is on
the Pacific coast on legal business con-
nected with the Culps suit for the pos
session of little Villa Culp, will be honae
next Friday and it is expected that bus
mess among the jointiSts will pick up
Will Burgess, who has been connect
ed with the signal corps of the United
States army for the past three years
| is home on a furlough. Mr.. Burgess
has Just arrived in Topeka after sew
eral years of service in the Philip
pines.
A two weeks series of revivals will
commence on September %. The city is
to be divided into four districts and each
of these districts will hold meetings.
The main meeting will be held at the
Auditorium under the direction of J.
; Wilbur Chapman.
At meeting of the bankers helC
Saturday afternoon it was decided tina
the banks Of the city shall not open OF
Thursday of this week so that employees
may have the benefit of the full after
moons at the fair.
young colored man by the name O
William S. Morris, who claimed that h
: was sergeant in the Ninth cavalry a
the battle of San Juan hill, enlisted a
the recruiting station in this city Sat
urday and assigned to Fort Leaven
: worth for duty.
G. w. Shook of Jennings. Kansas
who was in Topeka Saturday, hold
the record for railroad wreck expert
ences during the past year. He was il
the Rock Island wreck at Williams
burg Friday night which was tn
! fourth within a year.
Business is picking up around tn
, Missouri Pacific railroad yards. T. j
Coughlin of the Coughlin Hardwar'
company, will erect a warehouse b
by 100 feet and one story high, and tn
, | Paola Oil company of Paola is figuring
also on erecting a warehouse. Boil
, | buildings will be in South Topeka nea
F the old Missouri Pacific depot.
: Washburn college opens for the yea
| Tuesday. The city schools will alst
open the morning of the same day.
large number of out of town studentl
of Washburn have already arrived or
] the ground. Rooms are getting to be {
) Escarce article in the immediate vicinit,
: of the college campus and it pays t6
arrive on the grounds early.
Wichita Eagle: c.. G. Ridgley ant
Miss Media M. Bunting of Topeka wer
!; quietly married at the parsonage of tn
: South Emporia Avenue Methods
, church last night. The ceremony wa
performed by Rev. Mr.. Pollard in tn
presence of a few friends. Mr.. Ridgle,
: has lived in Wichita a number of year
and is engaged in business here.
Ottawa Herald: The concert by tht
Gormly band to raise money for ths
new uniforms will be given about tn