The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-04-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


sisters.
Odd Fellowship is seventy-fve years
old today.
The Potwin schools are raising money
to buy new library.
The Potwin Sunday school will have
new song books next Sunday.
Spring chickens are on the market
They are about the size of blackbird
Smallpox is coming. All who are able
to "bare arms" should be vaccinated.
Miss Belle Bennett has resigned her
position principal of Euclid school.
Shawnee county will have ten dele
gates in the Populist state convention.
A man dropped a bundle of old cloth
| ing at the old street car barn this morn
ing.
John Moody, painter, was fined So
in police court this morning, for being
drunk.
be short in the vicinity of Topeka this
season.
H. l. Taylor, of Wichita, state coal oil
inspector, has patent device for flushing
sewers.
The state house officials are not pre-
pairing for the advent of the new savior
next Sunday.
There will be one thousand delegates
at the state Sunday school convention at
Wichita next week.
Bob Furman is editor of the Williams
College Weekly and is president of the
college press club.
A pleasant entertainment was given
last evening by the young men of the
Third Presbyterian church.
Topeka has a great many Edead" or
abandoned electric wires that are meu-
ace and should be looked after.
General Manager Frey, of the Santa
Fe, says Coxevites can travel over the
Santa Fe by paying regular fare
The revival meeting at Lowman nj. E.
Chapel is still in progress. Services are
held every afternoon and evening.
The periodical home talent minstrel
show for the benefit of the Orphans
home or something else, is pretty nearly
due.
The Republican county central COM
mittee will not hold another meeting I'M
til about the time of the state conven-
ton.
The two Epworth leagues in Walnut
Grove NJ. Z. church are entitled to eleven
delegates to the E. L. anniversary, May
1913.
Department Commander w. P. Camp
bell, of the Grand Army, will be tender
ed a reception on Saturday evening by
Lincoln Post.
The taste for Ceylon tea is like that
for tomatoes, one which is readily requir-
after you get used to it
Joseph H. Borden was taken to Kansas
City today to be tried in the United
States court of the western district of
Missouri, for forging a pension affidavit
Officer Capron exhibits bullet hole
through the leg of his trousers which
was put there by the tramps he encoun-
tered in south Topeka a few nights ago.
Grand Secretary John A. Bright of the
Kansas Odd Fellows will make an adj
dress at Wamego this afternoon and at
Manhattan tonight at the anniversary
celebrations.
A number of unprofessional base ball
teams are being organized in different
parts of the city. They will play in
vacant lots and use the brick sidewalks
for the grand stand.
last evening at Lincoln Post hall. and
adopted constitution and bylaws. Meet
ings will be held the second and foII4th
Saturdays of each month.
Prof. Blake, of the State University,
was in town yesterday and missed his
Dentists meeting and talked about cleo
tricity in dental practice.
Paul Shirk, the boy who was arrested
for swearing at the police, was dismissed
this morning with a severe reprimand,
by Judge Ensminger. The dignity of
the police must be preserved.
There is man living on West Sixth
street who saves five cents every day by
| walking TO Eighth street, two blocks
| away. when he wants to go up town. He
| gets a transfer to the West Sixth street
| line that is good for 20 minutes, and by
| rushing around and colliding with peo-
| pie he is able to do his business in that
| time.
To make the hair grow a natural color,