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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1897
Page
6
Recent Topeka society items recount visitors in town and social gatherings. Mrs. Lindell and a Swedish Lutheran gathering are noted along with weddings, parties, and civic club activities. Dozens of Topeka residents and neighboring guests are shown attending concerts, receptions, and church events over several days.
Samuer T Howe ex treasurer of Topeka and former Kansas railway commissioner visits Denver and speaks on improving Kansas business. He credits the state railway board with adjusted rates and lower freight costs, aiding producers as conditions begin to improve.
Report from San Antonio Texas May 1 describes discovery of a superior quality natural gas at 500 to 600 feet depth on the premises of FF Collins Manufacturing Company. Gas produced via an artesian well connected to a small reservoir, thought inexhaustible, expected to be used as fuel. Police comment notes a peculiar visitor traveling through eastern Kansas cities.
Three anarchists have been condemned to death for complicity in a Corpus Christi riot last June when a bomb was hurled into a procession toward Santa Maria del Mar. A man was killed and several others were injured, some later dying from their injuries.
Rednesd Rater to St Louis announces the National Turnfest at St Caule on May 69 with travel by Union Pacific. Tickets go on sale May 4 from Kansas, Nebraska and Colorado points. Union Pacific promises fastest routes and best accommodations. In local news, Frank McAvoy commends Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy for bowel disorders and family use.
Topeka youths are urged to form a permanent organization for the upcoming Carnival of Queen Lorina and Her Royal Revelers on Friday night. A chariot procession with a masked escort and bonfire burners is proposed, with strict policing of disruptive behavior and stronger plans than last year to attract visitors and boost celebrations. Local figures recall last year’s success and insist on improved costumes, street decor, and crowd management to ensure a memorable festival.
The Committee of Fifteen advanced plans for five floats at the Fall carnival with Dudley & Joslin contracted to supply sails and components. One float will be built for committee review before the rest, with thirteen beats approved. Major Anderson urged cautious support for the tyin machine, and reform minded talks on a non-partisan soldiers reunion in Topeka dominated the discourse.
Charles T. O'Ferrall declares in a Virginia dispatch that no Virginian would support moving Washington's remains from Mount Vernon to New York or another site. He argues Virginians own the bones and should control their resting place, warning opposition could spark armed resistance and stressing Washington's rightful place in Virginia.
Elliott, who left Washburn College for Kansas State University amid plagiarism charges, won the spring oratorical contest at Lawrenc e last evening. The Washburn contest tradition was noted, with Elliott praised as a lead speaker, while commentary on his prior troubles and future prospects circulated among attendees and students.
The matter was then dropped and unless something happens to change the plans every provision will be made to entertain the old soldiers just as they were entertained last year. Topeka refers sent on a rival reunion to the Leavenworth reunion, but invitation is extended to all soldiers to camp here just the same, we want them just as much as we want everybody else.
Local items from North Topeka cover garden damage from a trest incident, visits by F C Cox and H H Merrick from Kansas City, Dolman returning from Virginia, and W G Brooks speaking on temperance at Asbury chapel. Notes include Soldiers Creek bridges usable, church services changed to 8 pm, crutch aided walk for Ralph Camphel, Miss Lena and Carrie Mize visiting grandparents, Dolman leaving mid month for Phillipsburg, kindergarten ladies visiting Mrs Paramore, Orpheus Mandolin Club at a social, Dell Parker visiting his sister near Kansas City, Mabel King ill with typhoid fever improving, Old Folks High Five Club gathering, Theodore Forbess buying a new survey, Ewart selling a pacing horse to Frank Walker, evening prayers at the Church of the Good Shepherd, bicyclists planning a trip to Horton, and various local shop and meat ad offerings. Also notes on Mrs Dearborn and son from Silver Lake, Hey Chandler preaching at Kansas Avenue M E B church, North Congregational sermons, and Baptist church communion and sermons.
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