The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-16
SNAPSHOTS Az HOME NEWS.

S. Ihere Is an epidemic of spiders and
spider webs raging.
Rev. P. r. Bresee of Los Angeles,
Cal, will preach at Lowman chapel
Thursday evening.
George Nichols of Topeka has gone to
Chicago where he will become one of
the telegraph editors on the Chronicle.
Two cases of diphtheria in family
named Helget. at 1908 East Fourth
street, were reported to the city san
itary office this morning.
The Boswell memorial hall, formerly
used as the library at Washburn college
is being remodeled and will be used as
an Office by President Plass.
Receiver Bradley. and the clerks un-
der him, will occupy the First National
bank quarters until the new Capital
National is ready to occupy them.
Yesterday was pay day at the Santa
F'e and the stores kept open late. The
streets were not as crowded as usual on
pay day nights. the evening was too
warm.
John Ramsey, the passenger engineer
who was thought to have been fatally
injured in the recent wreck at Kinsley,
Kan, is at the Santa F'e hospital and
is still improving.
The lake to the right of the viaduct
on the way to the ball park is being
drained. Now won't some one please
suppress that nasty hole on the West
Sixth avenue road.
The kitchen wall paper on the walls
of the offices in the city building causes
newcomer, who steps into one of the
rooms, to look around for cook stove
and sink in some corner
e. H. Crosby's principal ideas re-
garding the new Capital National
bank are that deposits are trust funds
and that the depositors must have
confidence in the institution,
Probate Judge Hayden who has re-
Gently returned from Excelsior Springs
says that he got enough of that place
to last him all his life and he will try
to find another summer resort.
A Topeka man suggests that the next
legislature ought to pass law making
the open season on ball players from
the first of June to the last of Septe-n-
Der. The public should have some
rights.
Dr. D. w Fisk. field secretary of
Washburn college, returned yesterday
in the interest of the college, and is
very much gratified at the results of the
trip
The new country club golf links are
almost finished and will probably be
ready for use next week An English
authority in golfing who has visited
them says the course is probably the
best in the west.
The extreme hot weather of the last
few days is causing the leaves to fall
from the elm and cottonwood trees
about town, and If it was not for the
intense heat of the days one might be
convinced that fall is near.
North Topeka is to have new dry
goods store. The store will be under the
management of the Cash Mercantile
company of Kansas City and will occu-
DIV the room on the corner recently &C.
cupied by the Costley Dry Goods COM
pany.
A young lady of Topeka has a friend
who has written her that she has mar
ried a book maker. The young lady is
sure that book maker is not man
| who writes books and she is very anx-
ious to find out the social standing of
| her friends husband in polite society
| Bank Commissioner J. @. Royce at
ktended the ball game yesterday and
spent most of the time in comparing
the good plays of the Topeka team with
the poor plays of the Philipsburg team.
He wants to bring down the Phillipsbure
second team for a game with the White
Sox.
Sanitary Sergeant Pattison thinks
that because the physicians ran TO re-
now required to report, that they
should be required to report cases in
a greater number of diseases, on the
theory probably that if they are re
they will be busy reporting instead OF
practicing.
The committee of the members of the
| First Presbyterian church who were
annointed to look after the expenditure
| Of the 81 900 donated to the church by
Mrs. Jane C. Stormont for the purchase
of an organ, met last night and discuss
ed plans for the purchasing OF the IN
strument 1t Is the intention of the
committee to call for specifications from
a number of musical firms before piac-
ing the order.
e. b. Cowgirl and H. A. Heath have
gone to Chicago as delegates to the ma
fional reciprocity conference which
meets there this week. Before return
/ ing home from Chicago Mr.. Heath will
be the guest of the officials of the Ca
madam government on trip given to
the editors of some of the agricultural
papers of the United States by the Do
minion government The trip Will DC
confined to the agricultural section OF
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