The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-08-28
o. W. Coxen, Elwood, Ind.

L. Beard is quite sick at his home
with lung trouble.
c. Beard and wife who have been
visiting in Ottawa for few days have
returned to their home in this city.
Charles Samson has sold his riding
horse Esmeralda to PaWnee Bill, the
purchase price is said to have been $3.50
Il handle all of the big ones" boast
ed the reporter who was assigned TO
cover Secretary Taft's passage through
the city.
GOOD morning. Have you been
caught yet?" is a common form of
salutation among those who drive on
Kansas avenue.
Teddy r., D. o. Cranes horse which
took the $1,000 purse in the three-year-
old trot a Des Moines Monday, is enter
ed in the Topeka races.
Mrs. S. F. Maline, representing the
colored department of the Crittenden
home in this city is in Ottawa soliciting
funds for her department.
A voice distinctly feminine called
up the State Journal last night and
wanted to know if one had to walk on
the ride side of Kansas avenue.
The condition of Mrs. John Sargent,
who was stricken with apoplexy is
much improved and her friends feel
that no serious effects will result.
The effects of the telegraphers' strike
is being felt by the fans of the city
as it has been next to impossible to
get returns from the games played.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. E. Ashby have return
ed to their home in Hutchinson after
six weeks stay in Topeka during which
Mr.. Ashby was in the Santa Fe hos
pital.
Commencing September l camp
meeting will be held at Garfield park
with services at 10, 2:30 and 1880. The
affair will be in charge of Levi r. Lup-
ton. of Ohio.
With the variety of weather which
has been the lot of this part of the
state for the past month the preva-
lence of colds and sore threats is not to
be wondered at.
Attorney General Fred S. Jackson is
in ottawa attending the second annual
reunion of the Native Kansans' soci-
ETY. of Franklin county and is on the
programme for an address.
The construction work of the Elks'
building at the corner of Seventh and
Jackson streets, IS being delayed by
Fire Marshal Wilmarth who has not
approved the plans submitted.
The new Olympic vaudeville theater
will open September sth. After
week from Sunday the local pleasure
seekers will once again have a chance
to see vaudeville performance.
The police have been so busy of late
caring for the violators of the ordinance
regulating driving that they failed to
bag their accustomed number of Indians
following a circus date in the city.
George Washington Jackson's Twen-
ty-third regiment band entertained
the East Side Improvement associa-
ton last night with a concert on the
steps of the old Parkdale school
house.
The ball games scheduled for the 10th,
18th and 18th between the White Sox
and the Wichita team will be played in
the forenoon so that they will not con-
fiict with the race meeting of the same
dates.
Marshalls band played to the usual
large crowd at City park last night.
As a popular attraction for the sum-
mer months Marshalps band has all
the other attractions in the city dis
counted
THE fact of the matter is that wad-
ing which is said to be so popular
with the girls of the society set of the
city, is popular only with the heavy
weight class gleefully remarked a
close observer.
"Ons of the big guns of east was in
the city for a few minutes this morn
ing" observed a local politician, re-
ferring to the fact that Secretary of
War Taft passed through Topeka on
the Union Pacific.
II wish,'' said a man whose engage
men was recently announced. address,