The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-21
SNAP SHOTS ar HOME NEWS

This is the longest day in the year.
Billy Edwards now wears glasses con-
stantly.
State Auditor Prather looks cool in a
nannel coat and vest
Tom Doran will deliver the Grafton at
Watson on the Fourth.
Monroe street near Tenth is all torn up
with sewer construction
The Harrison telephone company IL
stringing the wires on its poles.
The bell boy in a Topeka hotel is the
manager of comedy company.
The berry wagons have a race every
morning after leaving the trains.
A ''new bow" social was given last
evening at the First Christian church.
The new piano ordered for the First
Congregational church is to cost $3.50.
A photograph of Battery SIP has been
presented to the Kansas war department.
The Republican state head quarters
over Weightman's drug store will be
opened next Monday.
In one block on Topeka avenue there
are 81 small children. Topeka is grow
ing.
The warm weather does not keep peo-
pie from climb ing to the state house
dome.
John A. Murray and party left yester-
day for their new Mexico colony, Nueva
Topeka.
John G. Otis received 20 votes for the
congressional nomination at EmpOria
yesterday.
Topeka has at least twenty ice cream
wagons on her streets. One firm alone
has twelve.
There is a case of scarlet fever in the
family of Rev. B. L. Smith, corner of
Sixth and Clay.
The new trial of Decker Mullins and
Berry sewer case will come up at Law
renee next Monday.
After next Sunday. evening services
will be discontinued at the Central Con-
gregational church.
A party of excursionists from Hia-
watha tried to convert the POpuIist state
officers to Republicanism.
The Vinette 'wealers can't sing little
bit, but they have some good original
PAROLES on popular songs.
S. M. Scott has been nominated for
congress, but his platform omits all men
ton of "the sub-treasury plan"
Stone from the quarries on the fair
grounds is being used in the construction
of the court house foundation.
The interior of the First Congregation
al church is being repaired and the lee
ture room is to have a new carpet.
Ex-Attorney General Ives says
straight Democratic ticket will keep TO-
0oO Democrats from voting the Repu bill
can ticket.
Judge Osborne, who it is reported has
formed a law partnership with Capt. j.
G.. Waters. is strong woman suffragist
and makes speeches for it.
George E. Cole. the Republican candi-
date for state auditor, says the story that
he was a clerk in the auditors office
under McCabe is mistake.
The death of ex-senator Perkins leaves
the candidacy for the Republican sena
torial nomination between Major c.
Hood, j. r. Burton and J. w. Ady.
The wife of prominent Republican
politician when she saw Fred Close for
the first time said: "Why he doesn't
look like such an awfully bad man."
The alumni of the Kansas AgricuI-
tural college have resolved to work for
the election of men adapted to college
work regardless of party faith or afilia-
ton.
Prof. A R. Taylor, of the State Nor
NAL, will arrive in the city this after
noon, and will lecture before the insti-
tute at the high school rooms, at 8 p. N.
Subject: "a Plea for the Graces."
When the commOnwealers marched
down on the county jail with whoop
and yell last night to cheer their fallen
comrades, more than one of the inmates
quaked as he thought he saw rope.