Grand carnival features charm and hiccups amid crowd
Topeka crowd enjoys a charity carnival with Miss Prescott, Grace Holler, and Myrtle Welch leading a string of acts. A live pig stunt turns chaotic as a dancer’s prop fails, while Miss Edna Crane and others perform seriatim. The event closes with a marching chorus by seventy young performers and a wrap of local business entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Topeka
Henry Dalby
Daily Pro
Guesalvis
Herwlf
Edop Prescott
Wie
Grace Holler
Mabel Horton
Democrat
May Raper
Mise Viola Stewaret
Wiewereuret Mamlo Crawford
J. M. Crawford
Coal Company
Topsy
Alubigom Coon
Mies
Gertrude Wyatt
Homer
Wau
Winuin
Wey
Mies Markley
Abe
Anne Crane
Miss Crane
Ollie Sharum
Werman
Ozford
Beulah Parker
Wight
Bia Orst
May Thomas
Edison Electric Light Company
Perens Dim
Kril Hsotasabe
Nellie Sturfey
Httle Ma
Virgil McGrath
Marjorie Mallen
Irrigation talk rises as drought hits Kanan farmers
Residents of Kanan county push irrigation plans amid water shortages. W. Q. Marr of Melicine Lodge schemes an extensive farm system with a reservoir fed by a sugar mill lake to irrigate up to forty acres, plus waste-water flows to nine other acres. Other items note local medical, political, and social happenings, with farm prospects and a push toward land sales if conditions hold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turk
Graham County
Kavaas
W. Q. Marr
Sats Peea
Melicine ‘Lodge
Morr
Hoe
Mrs Lease Plans Twenty Acre Palm and Olive Farm in California
Mrs Mary E Lease talks with a Kansas reporter after returning from California praising the climate. She bought twenty acres near San Francisco to plant palms and olives and possibly winters there. She comments on California politics, the Populists, and the asylum dispute, plus local notes from Topeka.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary E. Lease
California
Jormnsan
Kansas
Mia Lease
Rausae
Pam
San Francisco
Mra Leasa
Hape
Mra Leuse
Farmers’ Alliance
Sutry
San Princisco
Deason
Wait
Householder
McCusey
Yie
Hald Bees
Kusiverg
Mra Puck
Ten Unfortunate Ones to be Transported to Lansing
A list shows at least ten jail inmates from Shawnee County to Kansas State Penitentiary this week. Wm Walford gets one year for breaking into a Silver Lake farm house. Frank White one year for church burglary. GL Tracy sixteen months for theft. George Furst and Cradey Simpson each one year for room burglary. Guy Pier one year for breaking into Kyle & Co store. John Brentman two years for same plot. John Hogan three years for attempted robbery. George Gordon and John L. Longdon await sentence and will be taken with the group. Longdon plans to marry Mrs Brown after serving term. In Topeka, the Denison event featured Washburn club members and talks on American composers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears
Texas
Ryania
New York
G. A. Wallig
Marion
T. W. Peers
Forbes
Potwin
Toupeka
Hausia Medical College
Ace
Alden S Hnling
Society of Ginica Collurs
Lawrence
Sime Ewins
Shawnee County
Valencia
George Etzel
Brancor
B Ward
M. Thacher
Fred Wallace
David Scott
Jackson School
Willy Campbell
Congresaman Gap
Topeka
New York City
Dover Baptist Church
BF Punkey
Collins Ban
Kansas
Lansing
Kansas State Penitentiary
Wm Walford
aSiver Lake
Frank White
Baptist Church
J. B. Thomas
Tracy
Clover
Meeting of Tax Payers at Court House
A Friday night gathering of about twenty colored men convened at the court house to discuss Our Interests as Tax Payers. Jeff Davie stood to air the record of Rev G D Olden, a colored Baptist preacher, but the crowd refused to hear him and moved to adjourn the meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Reepatel
Poly Ope Cisu
Reallois
Jeff Davie
G. D. Olden
Washburn Notes on Christmas Vacation Plans for Students
WASHBURN NOTES reports students and teachers will spend Christmas vacation as freshmen show symbols of campus life with new crook canes. Misa Brome Pixley will attend the State Teachers Association. M. P. Gould named football captain for next year. Various faculty and students plan visits in Minneapolis, Colorado, Cedar Rapids, and other towns while many debaters stay to study. Reverend Harry Mille leads evangelical services in Strong City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince of Wales Crook
Misa Brome Pixley
State Teachers’ Association
M. P. Gould
Bertha Lovewell
Minneapolis
Kun
Emma KE. Denison
Colorado
Helen Ingalls
Cedar Paris
Lowe
Griffith
Smart
Eaparia
Elis Scott
Edna Poster
Mollie Wilkerson
Ottawa
Faooy
Piossie Moon
Monroe Street
H Adama
Iola
Garnett
Independence
Coffeyville
Cherryvale
Minnie Cotton
Etrick
Kansas City
Joplin
Mou
Speed
Wamega Mowers
Ross, Strong, Axtell and
Polk
Harry Mille
Strong City
Ingalls
TWO CENTS A CAKE sale by grocers list and notices
An advertisement lists multiple local grocers and firms announcing two cents a cake for future sale at various locations. It promotes new silver sowell goods designs and travel items, mentions a wagon call service, and notes business moves to West Eighth Street with contact details and parade of seasonal offers.
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Rown & GO
Kansas Avenue
Brown & CO
Pretty Girls
Heimer
He Pont
Mia Welch
Palace Clothing Co
Ennion Dannis
Swift & Holliday
Myrtle Callahan
4. Thompson
Basaie Eldar
Barnum & C4
Minnie White
Topeka Daily Press
Tf Bf. Mills & Son
the Past
Aline Detalier
Motiy Lille
Mertie Barry
Bird & Rodikes
Lucia Wyatt
AC. Studs
Dentiet
Maggie Murkiey
Topeka Steam Laundry
Jessie King
Loam van Dorg
Nellie Dignen
J. Snyder
Jotta Bower
D. Forbes
Pearlburdge
Toeka Spiog Milis
Tiny Gilpatrick
W. 3
Marinus
Lillie Hinseon
Py F Ziemwertun
Annie Lillia
J. S Syeoat
Della Evans
Vesper
Jo. Lotts Steinberg
W. W. Kiroball Co
Kosamen
Loveland
Heed
Topeka Trusk
Laura Reed
J. al Focehs
Grace Manning
A. W. Lacey
Lena Sheldon
Etliot, Wall & Co
Fre Insurance
Yard
Benedict & Co, Real Estate
Fae
Viekat” Breniie
Freeman
Pac Mekers
James Kelly
Tee Ratsiaeus Ac
Wiliam Braissell
Harry Porter
John P. Carroll
Alice Curta
Hantie Waters
Maria Bach
Jeanette Bageard
Mra Louie Heck
Tts
Columbia
Garfield
Awe J. W. Paineworth
Kansan Avenue
Grand Truck
Grand Trunk
Lehigh Valley Railways
Chicago
Piladelphia
Farous St Clair Tunnel
Niagara Falls
Susquesana
Wyoming
Switzerland of America
Dearborn Station
Snow
Ling
J. W. Farsaworth
Ban-ans Avenue
Tozeka & Vicinity
Thomas H. Bain
Steadman
Hancock Street
Harry Bradshaw
East Fifth Street
Albert Blue
Charley Turner
Santa Fe Hospital
Salvalion Army
East Seventh Street
Rane
Wr Flattery
John Tames
Polices
Bing
Allingherque
MN. M
Thaa
Kees R. Price
Brazier
Salvation Army
St Jacoh
Mieria
Kan
Hogebaum
Santa Fe
Chivaso
George Ti Peck
Peek
Weebington County
J. W. Dodd
Comse Pene Salvation Beyiss
Ee Awag
Riga
Jesse Shaw
The
Water Company
Harrison
Shaw
Ciies
Morrison
Electric Light- Works
O. RC
Mr. Myera
Mo Peterson
May
W. W. Proctor
Peerless Steam
Holmes Drug Store
Orna
Wilton Hays
Nextsino
Wil Wees
Axminster
H.H. Mills & Son
Kansas Ave
Denison
Washburn Elieb
Mite
America
Miss Denison
Aoe
Miss Pond
Miss Harler
Mise Denison
Jeff
Washburn
Ropewie Reading Grocers
Geo
Yungigress
Sproat
Pitzgerald& Lucnus
Weber & Co
Dransfield & Dick
A SM. Angiers
GR Heiss
E French
Green & Kyle
D. D. Knox
Geo ¢. Beach
E. Ln
J. & Grice
BP. Broderson
Whittelsey Mercantile Co
Storma
W. W. Munspeaker Mercantile Co
A. A Buck
Korth Topaka
Green & Kale
Berry Bros, Johnson & Adams
Cuyllm & Co
Molliday's
Peascott & Co
Toreka
Exberg’s
Kanaus Avenas
West Eighth Street
Prescott & Co
Eighth Street
Swift & Hallidsy
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