The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-08-09
SNAP SHOTS At Ho.Az NEWS.

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The street grader is working in the
Bethany college precinct
A beef will be barbecued at the Meri-
den Republican ratification
The new Christian church in North
Topeka has been painted blue.
The grocers who sell watermeIons give
a handle with the melon TO carry it by.
The five co ored churches in Tonnes
seetown were all in full blast last night.
A Topeka lawyer is taking his vaca-
ton by leaving his Office al 4:3O instead
of 6.
The new catalogue of the public
library is now ready for free distribu-
ton.
Grapes which are coming in now are
shrlveIed and tasteless The dry weather
did il
lee cream wagons sell more cream fla
vored with vanilla than all other favors
together.
Even a drouth has its bright side.
When it doesn't rain the waiermelons
are better.
The discovery of coal west or north of
the city would bring the price down TO
$2.5J per ton.
The city building is one of the coolest
places in the city, but City Clerk McFad-
den doesn't think so.
Albert Parker thinks that at least one
worlds record will be broken at the O.
peka races next month.
Sam Small will lecture at En-
poria Friday night on Nv nat is the Mat
ter With Our Uncle sam"
Nearly all Of Topekas fast horses are
entered in the races at HoltOn next
week. except DR.. Hibbens.
The brass chand eliers at the postoffice
are being polished up for the first time
since the building was bullt.
Topeka man who has just returned
from Usage couaty says it is dry enough
there, but not 50 dry as reported
The new brick sidewalk inspector is a
Populist, and his wife reads original
poems at the Populist league meetings.
State Superintendent Gaines can't pass
a hand organ without dropping d nickel.
especially if the operator is a sad-eyed
woman.
Frank Brooks of Topeka. is register of
deeds in shawnee county and Frank
Books Of Lawrence, is clerk of Douglas
county.
The Epworth league of the First VI. E.
church will conduct the evening service
at the Kansas avenue N. E. church next
Sunday evening.
A farmer who watched the machine
for caneelling stamps at the postofice
yesterday said that it worked like a
threshing machine.
1t is true that person can live on milk
alone. A Topeka man has taken moth
ing else for more than a year and is
healthy and even fat
The west end of town is thick with
rumors that the old cOttOn-mil is
haunted. There is nothing left TO haunt
but the tower and one wing.
The three Topeka young men who re-
Gently started for Denver on their wheels
reached the state line today. They eX-
pect to get to Denver by Sunday.
Four Topeka boys went to Maple Hill
onday on weeks fishing excursion and
came home last night tired and hungry.
Their commissary supplies gave out
The new postal money orders are not
popular; one man describes them as
acoarse, clumsy, awkward, unhandy, ir-
regular, iIlshaped and poorly design
ed"
Rev r. Wake, who was nominated by
the Prohibifionists for the legislature in
the south district, says he reserves the
rig ut to scratch his ticket when the nom
inees don't suit him.
Electric car m0torneers do not like TO
have 4 woman board the front end of a
car aud will run by to make her walk TO
catch the rear end. They believe there !
is some sort of bad luck in it.
Harry Overholt's grandparents, Rev. /
DR.. and Mrs Samuel Wakefield of West /
Newton, Pa, recently celebrated their /
wedding. DR.. Wakefield is SO /
and Mrs Wakefield is 81 years old
The "correct7 costume for a woman /
bicyclist is a dark blue or a gray skirt |
six inches above the high dust line.
boomers, white CATERS, blouse waist and /
specs-always specs. They prevent dip /
pant men from guyin&