The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-19
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Not peach blossom is to be seen.
The lawn mower season has arrived.
North Topeka has a full hedged ath-
letic club.
The bank clerks are agitating Satur-
day half holiday.
The cash in the state treasury was
found to balance.
One Topeka lady says she hates the
word "Mesdames.'
Judge Hazen is fixing up his old home
on Monroe street, handsomely.
Miss Blanche Williams will enter the
piano solo contest at Hutchinson
Labor Commissioner Todd has a great
deal of confidence in the Kansas oil
fields.
Jesse Shaw has been made chairman
of the finance committee of the board of
education.
Ennis lodge, Degree of Honor, gave an
enjoyable dance at 7O4 Kansas avenue
last evening.
Ex-County Superintendent Jordon
doesn't say much, but he is politician
nevertheless
James H. Reeder, of Hays City, con-
gressional candidate in the Sixth dis
trict, is in Topeka today.
Mrs. Lease says Laird & Lee are to
publish her book, and the first edition is
TO be half million copies.
Mrs. Mary E. Lease speaks at La Fa-
yette, Ind, April 2S, after which she will
return to her home in Wichita.
Boys in the western part of town have
invented gO-carts with handles. on which
they ride by working the handles.
The Shawnee county district court is
in session every week in the year, and
is rushed with business every day.
The students Of the Hahneman school
of medicine were entertained Tuesday
evening at DR.. Eva Harding's office.
The Topeka club house and the ad-
joining barn, recently damaged by fire,
are being given fresh coat of paint.
A boy who lives near Topeka, made
$3.50 selling young squirrels last year,
and this year he hopes to do much bet
ter.
Scott Rice, the chief clerk in the Sec
rotary of states office, is IN Kansas City
today putting herd of his cattle on the
market
There is something about brick side
walk in the suburbs three feet below
the grade, that is suggestive of a deep
laid plot
A good looking girl whose hat escaped
from her on Kansas avenue yesterday,
was heard TO swear. What man will cast
the first stoneS
The ladies of the English Lutheran
church followed the example of the Bap-
fist ladies and gave an experience social
last evening.
1t is said that W. III. Bennington was
compelled to apologize for his attack on
Frank Herald. at the EmpOria confer
ence Monday night.
Prof Clarence Greeley, Of Washburn
college, sprung a straw hat on the streets
yesterday, and he is agent for the inter-
national law and order society, too.
The advertisement of a prominent
druggist of Topeka on a fence near the
city, reads: Save 10 per cent on your
punches by buying your drugs of -
Topeka young men of the period are
cultivating large lump of hair on the
back of the head 1t gives peculiarly
repulsive appearance to a back view of
! them
| O. ]. Burwell. who was pardoned from
/ the penitentiary, came to Topeka last
evening and met his daughter, who is re-
| sponsible for his release. Words cannot
/ describe the meeting.
George Gross one of the popular pris-
oners at the county Jail, has been releas-
| ed by Judge Riner. He was charged
with embezzlement. Gross was the Jail
| barber and nurse, and Jailer Burdge
doesn't know how to get along without
him.