The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-15
SNAPSHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

A horse show will be given on Sat
urday night, if the grounds become
dry enough.
Prof. McRae's dancing class for adults
opens at Steinberg's Monday evening,
September Is, Masonic building.
Herbert Van Week of 512 East Third
street, was quarantined by the sanitary
officers yesterday for diphtheria.
A meeting of the board of trustees of
the waterwor1s department will be call
ed for, for some time next week.
Sheriff Lucas and County Attorney
Otis Hungate are expected home to-
night from their trip to the west.
N. j. P. Bolton, president of the
Usage County Fair association and q
famous breeder of good corn, is at the
state fair.
Lieutenant. Norman Ramsey has left
for San Francisco en- route to the Phil
ippines where he joins his regiment, the
Ninth infantry at Manila.
During the heavy rain storm on
Thursday morning a large number of
people were caught in the dome of the
state house Most of them were visit
ors to the city for the fair.
Jake. William. Charles and Walter
Hcllinger, all of Chapman, Kan, are
in Topeka with their families to visit
the state fair, and also the family of
Lewis Geauque. the state house guide.
DR.. H. B. Hogeboom, city physician,
smallpox this winter in Topeka and that
all the preventives that will tend to him
der the spread of the disease should be
adopted.
Last nights rain gave the pave
ments in the west part of town the first
effective cleaning they have had for
long time. Street cleaning does not
seem to be fashionable in Topeka as
it once was
The Bennett flats at Twelfth and
Western avenue are being remodeled by
the present owner, J. w. Gleed. All of
the store rooms on the first floor with the
exception of two, are being turned into
apartments.
The state board of railroad commits
sioners have decided that they will hear
the case of st. Marys against the Union
Pacific on September 81, at 10 a. m. st.
Marys wants the Union Pacific to stop
one of it's fast trains there, and the
company refuses to comply with the re-
quest.
Atchison Globe: An attempt was made
to induce the Topeka school board to
Gust fraterna1 societies from the high
school, to which it replied that parents
must govern their own children; it re-
fused to abolish the societies. This is a
new ruling: That parents govern their
children. What are teachers and police
men for?
When the heavy rain inundated
good many booths at the fair grounds
on Thursday afternoon, the keepers OF
the flooded shops got sore and an
nounced to the management that they
would not pay their rent unless gut
tiers were at once dug, and the surplus
wetness done away with. Picks and
shovels got pretty busy in a hurry
Harry Trovillo, deputy bank commits
sioner, left today for a trip of about
week, during which time he will insti
tute the following new banks: Union
State bank of Lenora, Farmers State
bank at Downs. Farmers and Mer-
chants bank at Plainville, Lacrosse
State bank at Lacrosse, Burdick State
bank at Burdick The Lacrosse bank
is capitalized for $4,000, and is backed
by s. I. Hale, the well known Kansas
politician.
This is the way it is done in Atchi-
son as told by the Globe: The crooks
and fakirs learned three years ago that
Atchison was not very healthy place
to land just previous to a Corn Carni-
val. The day before the opening of the
Carnival three years ago twenty-one
suspicious characters were arrested,
and the frst day the hold-over was