The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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four meals day.
Gala division knights of Pythias went
| to LeavenwOrth today.
DIR. Frank Swallow of Valley Falls, is
the orator of the Kansas physicians.
Aaron Jetmore has painted his no use
red and he is candidate for county at
| torney
| j. B. Bartholomew says work will be
| commenced the wooden IA i'll within
two weeks.
Superintendent Gaines is attending the
commencement exercises of the Emporia
| schools today.
j. M. Knight owns 81 per cent of the
stock of big undertaking ESTABLISHING Mt
at Kansas City
The base ball clubs at the state house
are arranging a game of base ball for
next Saturday.
ALI T. Ringing says Topeka is one of
the finest towns of its size in the country
to do business in.
c. P. Bolmar still carries his arIu in
sling but he is able to open his penk nife
with his left hand.
If the straw hats are any wider next
season than they this, the umbrella
trust will be busted.
Straw hats, flies. ice cream wagons and
parasols are no longer needed to prove
that hot weather is here.
Judge Frank Doster has been out of
Kansas for over a month. He was in
Mexico most of the time.
The street grader has been doing good
work around the twenty, acre tract occu-
pied by Bethany college.
Police Captain Gish has commenced
wearing his summer coat; a long, black,
thin, ministerial looking robe.
An old resident of the city said today,
81 have never seen such hot weather in
Kansas at this time of the year."
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hotter than POpulist investigation and
drier than medical convention"
Labor Commissioner Todd is investi-
eating the oil and gas business at Neo-
desha lie is a high authority on gas.
Rev. John A Bright says this climate
doesn't agree with him. He intends
going away on trip for his health, soon
The police patrol wagon will be in the
decoration day parade, covered with
flowers and filed with pretty little chill
dren.
The president OF the Kansas Humane
society, Rev. G. II. St. John will preach
to the Santa Fe shop men tomorrow
noon.
A party of young men and women
serenaded residents of Van Buren, street
last night with mandolin accompani-
ments.
Two hundred and fifty children attend
the Fotwin schools and there has not
two years.
The court house janitor wishes it was
always summer because he does not have
to keep fourteen stoves full of coal this
kind of weather.
DR. Agnes Haviland reports that Mrs.
Mary E. Lease will be ill for at least
four weeks. Infiammatory rheumatism
is her ailment.
The Washburn glee club is practicing
for a concert in the near future People
living in the vicinity of the college are
thinking of moving.
There will be two congressional con-
ventions tomorrow; the Second district
convention meets at Olathe and the
Fifth at Junction City.
The fifth annual tournament of the
State Sportman's association will be held
on the grounds of the West End Gun
club June 10, IA and 10.
On Elmwood avenue in Potwin Place,
there are thirteen houses and during the
last year there have been eight deaths
and no births on the street
What would circus band be, anyway,
without those good old marches, the
Gladiator the "High School Cadets"
and the washington Post?"
A hack was driven about town yester-
day with four horses girded with sleigh
bells attached to it. 1t is needless to say
that it belonged to street fakir.
A Topeka amateur who had figured
some on becoming a great concert singer
heard Miss Yaw last night, and now says
she will never sing another note.
81 find" said Lee Jones today, "that 1
viii be compelled to punch a new hole
in my last summers belt. Since I last
wore it seem to have grown sylph-like
and willowy."
A farmer by the name of George
Ausherman was kicked by a colt some
time ago, driving knife into his leg.
He is in the city now. The doctors will
try to save his leg.
The Second Adventists will meet at
the residence of Mrs. Welty at the north
west corner of Washburn and Twelfth
street at s o'clock this evening for con-
ference and prayer.
There was well dressed man on the
street yesterday with a long beard, which
he had tied together with a string in
three places and tucked between the
last two buttons of his vest. That was a
mean way to treat the wind, wasn't it.
Harry Lyman, the champion wrestler,
last one with heavier man than he is;
and if he can't find anybody of his own
size to compete with he will quit wrest-
ling.
There may be boys ten years old in
Topeka who never saw a saloon, but we
have it on the authority of a reliable
doctor that there are several children
here two three months old who are
addicted to the use of the bottle