The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-26
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


D. McKeever is in Junction City.
Washburn and Oklahoma State
university play football at Washburn
field on Saturday afternoon.
Four ladies Of the Scarlet Letter class
of society increased the city's revenue
fund 500 each yesterday.
Country sausage is the latest winter
arrival to find a place on the bill of fair
at the Cremerie restaurant.
J. Smith is working temporarily in
the office of County Clerk Newman this
week,
Frank Newland of the board of
waterWorks commission is i'll at his
home from a severe cold.
The school in district number SO is
closed this week on account of the ILL
ness of the teacher, Eugene Dunlap,
who is suffering from diphtheria.
The few days of muggy weather the
/ first of the week brought in another
flight of ducks and the country seems
alive with them again.
Jack snipe shooting in the bottoms
west of the city is said to be immense.
The birds find fine feeding ground in
the half submerged corn fields.
An extra force of police will be sworn
in for next Tuesday night to protect
property from the iplDs who are sup
posed to be abroad on Halloween.
/ Mr.. Seymour L. Vets of Chicago is
seriously i'll at the home of his mother
/ and sister. Mrs. L. NJ. Viets and Mrs.
/ H. J. WhitcOmb.
/ Employment agencies speak of lack
1 of men to fill the jobs which are on
/ hand. Men are wanted especially for
/ fall work about houses preparatory
/ for winter.
United States Commissioner Will
! liams issued a warrant yesterday for
/ the arrest of Douglass Child for rob-
/ bling the postofice at Bellvue of a
small sum of money last week.
/ There is one business man in the
/ city who sometimes patrOnizes the
/ joints who is so close that he buys two
drinks at a time because they can be
I had two for twenty-five cents.
A big six foot policeman took tickets
J at the door at Steinberg's dance hall
/ last night, and the rough element
which has been starting trouble at
/ these dances failed to score.
The boxing contest at the T. A. A.
drew large crowd. This does not mean
necessarily that boxing is popular, for
there was no admission charged at the
door.
Mrs w. A. McCarter will deliver a
lecture at the Y. w. c. A. rooms Fri
/ day evening. Her subject will be
/ king Lear in Kansas" 1t will be the
/ first of a series of lectures to be given
! by Mrs. McCarter.
The condition of the pavement on
i Kansas avenue has had the effect of
making the people who have to use
/ the West Sixth avenue pavement see
/ that they have not the worst piece OF
1 pavement in existence.
Sam Radges yesterday forwarded a
long letter to the comptroller of the
n currency at Washington, telling him
that any more information about the
First National bank will be accepted
with the utmost thanks and gratitude
The State Bank of Dover organized
last summer has $4,000 on deposit.
This is the bank in which Congressman
Charles Curtis is interested Though
Dover is merely a little village, the
surrounding country is rich and pros
porous.
If Judge Hayden or some one else
would appoint a committee to visit the
drug stores that are running without
licenses he might find the reasons that
these places exist. That is if they
would look for q bar and its trim
mings.
United States Attorney Dean went
to oklahoma City on Wednesday
afternoon in response to a telegram
announcing the serious illness of his
Wife's sister. Mrs. Dean is also very
sick at Joplin with Bright's disease
though at the present she is showing
Improvement.
Fourteen new volumes were added to
the Kansas reports in the district court
/ room this week. This completes the set
and as they all have the Shawnee coun-
| ty brand burned into their covers at
different points it is the hope of those
who use them that they viii stay at
home.
Fifty thousand acres of land have
been purchased in the state of Chi
huahua in Old Mexico on the line Of
the Orient railroad by Albert Parker
| n. B. Burge, c. Z. Foote, John r. Null
vane and Frank Mckinney. The lanC
is almost entirely timber land and wa:
/ / purchased as an investment
/ Edwin James, driver for the Well:
/ Fargo Express company was thrown
and injured Wednesday while in the
/ act of unloading his wagon Jane;
/ was standing on the end gate when tbs
| chain holding the gate broke and pre-
! cipitated him to the ground He wal
/ thrown against the end of the wagon il
/ falling and his back injured.