The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-26
SNAP SHOTS ar HONE NEWS.

Rising Sun lodge No. 1, K. of P, has
installed its new officers.
The woInan's department Of the city
Jail is in good condition.
Corn on uplands in this county is
suffering from dry weather.
"News about town"-The forty JOUR-
NAL carriers on their routes.
Prof CIeaves of Washburn has an
offer 10 go to Oberlin, Ohio. college
There was a large attendance at the
Populist picnic at Valencia yesterday.
The man who doesn't wear a coat
these days il happier than the man who
does.
Lee Joes has found no takers for his
challenge to the heavy weight bicycle
race.
Sheriff Burdge has presented the pris-
01ers in the county jail with a barrel of
apples.
s. B. Bradford will address a Republic
can meeting at Highland Park Saturday
evening.
Farmers are selling corn now for 80
cents per bushel, aud a great deal is
being marketed.
The cutters on Kansas avenue were
flushed last night while the tOwnspeo-
pie were sleeping.
1t may be some consolation to know
that there have been hotter Julys in To-
peka than this one.
he favorite song of Secretary Coburn
of the board of agriculture ia: "What
shall the harvest bef"
Two car loads of potatoes and one of
apples were shipped to Chicago yester-
day by one Topeka firm
The new sidewalks in front OF the
Bank of Topeka and the city building
are good pieces of work.
Martin Burt of Wichita. the champion
~ f 81 a
peka last evening on his way to Chica-
&c.
Why is it that Topeka young men will
save for six months 10 buy a bicycle and
then work for six more to rattle it of at
a discount
Martin Ward, the clerk in the Valley
Falls bank who killed himself Tuesday,
brother of George Ward Of the
pension Office.
The kindergarten association has not
yet decided whether il Will employ a
trained teacher to instruct teachers in
kindergarten work.
Geo. W. Click let pension office bust
ness go this week long enough to sell
ten short horn cattle with pedigrees as
long as a pension roll.
1t is understood that the state board of
equalization has decided to reduce the
assessed valuation of farm land in twenty
five western counties from $3 TO $1.25 an
acre.
Miss Montgomery a missionary from
the Indian Territory attended a meeting
of the Woman's Missionary society at
the First Presbyterian church this after
noon.
]. NJ. French claims that his treatment
of ]. {. Packer has not been in the least
oppressive or unfair, and that in his suit
he is merely seeking to recover what is
justly due him
The cornerstone Of the wooden mill
will be put in place next Saturday. Mayor
Harrison will preside and speeches will
be made by Judge John Guthrie, Judge
:. B. johnson and others
The state executive council has been
for some time objecting to the price it
electricity and gas, and Will consider the
matter at a special meeting tomorrow.
Adjutant General Davis has adopted a
new system of bookkeeping through
which be expects to keep a record of
every piece of property belonging to the
state even down to tin plates and spoons.
A Topeka young man with barely
enough hair on his upper lip to be visi-
bic, went into barber shop today and
asked to have his musIache curled.
~Don't you want your eyebrows curled,
toof" asked the barber.
Forepaugh's circus will not come 70
Topeka because the advance agent Of
that show thought the city license was
TOO high. The show will 60 through
here on its way to HOltOu and Horton.
How would il do to accommodate Topeka
people by running special trains to those
towns on circus day?
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