The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-05-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Cherries are turning red.

cherries are turning red.
This is Corpus Christi day.
The ice king and the coal baron are
taking turns about this month.
Superintendent of Insurance S. II.
Snider went to Chicago yesterday.
A good dialect poem on our Senator
PETER appears in Judge this week.
The Fifth Avenue has the largest
quota of c. E. delegates of the hotels.
Fred S. Rodgers of Enid, nephew of
Judge Foster, is. in Topeka for a few
days.
Smoky Row is said to be the toughest
part of Topeka. G. E. delegates will
take notice.
Poor Commissioner Hale is having his
office at 116 Kansas avenue papered and
cleaned up.
G. C. Clemens bloomed out in a new
broad brimmed straw hat with a blue
band yesterday.
Rev. F. NJ. Porch of the Lutheran
church is the teacher of a very flourish
ing normal class.
A class of about fifteen members is be-
ing "put through" the mysteries Of Scot
fish Rite Masonry.
Fl. Won Langen has taken his position
as register of the Topeka land office, ].
E. Fleming retiring.
City Clerk B. L. Short of Kansas City
registered $2,700 worth of city bonds
with the state auditor today
Secretary of State Osborn has written
a campaign song which will be sung at
the Populist state convention.
Secretary L. L. Roby says that he has
written over $4,000 letters in regard to
the Christian Endeavor, convention.
Pugilist John Van Heest, who is now
in Topeka, says the best way to become
a Feather weight" is to eat chicken.
DIR. d. B. Colcord was the leader of a
military band during the war, and has
also composed several pieces of music.
T. J. FIannelly, formerly of Topeka, is
now member of the law firm of Boards
ley, Gregory & Flannelly in Kansas
City, Mo.
According to chronologists the locust
pest appears periodically from II to 20
years, and they say that they are due
this year.
John Hovenden, who works in the
pension office, is not a delegate to the
state convention as reported. He is still
a Democrat
Willis Gleed will make an address be-
fore an equal suffrage meeting at the
North Congreg atiOnal church next Sun
day afternoon.
It is now suggested that all the candi-
dates for governor who fail to get the
nomination shall be nominated for lieu
tenant governor.
II L
graph, has assumed his duties as regis
ter of the United States land Office, sue
ceeding J. l. Fleming.
A Topeka man who harvested sixty
five crates of Strawberries last year, says
he will not get over eight crates off the
same ground this reason.
A man who was intoxicated broke
bottle of liquor on the pavement near the
pavement near the transfer station. Ev-
erybody took long sniff.
A Topeka woman who does not give
her name has written a long poem en-
titled ssAmerica's Poor" 1t is as bad as
the average periodical effusion.
On empty chicken-coo on Kansas
avenue, between Ninth and Tenth, has
been placed one of the red sanitary signs:
Measles Here" The chickens have
broken out.
Rev. c. B. Mitchell of Kansas City.
who is TO address the Endeavor cOnven-
ton Friday night, delivered an address
before the Topeka district Epworth
league last wee K.
A young man was sitting near pneu-
matte tire bicycle yesterday when the
tire broke with a report like revolver.
1t took the young man several minutes
to- find out whether or not he had been
shot.
Mr. R. Fl. c. Searle is a candidate be-
fore the Republican primaries for the
position of probate judge of Shawnee
county He is fitted for the position
from a long course of training in judicial
places. He is an earnest and active
worker in whatever he undertakes, and
his record for thirtv-five years in this
county is an honorable one. Hir friends
should remember him at the primaries.
The programme of choruses, sexlette,
quintette, Duets and solos, is one that
every person who loves music can enjoy.
June 14th.
Make no other engagements for June
14th, but attend the Amphion club con-
cert at the Grand opera house.