The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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Prairie fires are now seen nightly.
The city council will meet tonight
Summer kitchens are being put up.
This would have been a nice day for
Easter.
Mrs. Lease now wears a red silk dress
on the street.
The street sweeper comes out and stirs
things up nights now.
Chief Wilmarth is trying new horse
on the chemical engine. i
Receiver ]. G. Wilson of the Santa Fe
is at Excelsior Springs, Mo.
DR.. U. B. McCurdy wants to be N eat
inspector Under the new city administra-
ton.
The Easter concert of the First NJ. E.
Sunday school will be held next Sunday
evening.
The participants in the JOURNAL Capt.
tai base ball game have gone into active
training.
At least forty Topeka people go to
Kansas City on the Santa Fe plug almost
every day.
A Leavenworth woman who moved to
Topeka goes to Leavenworth to have her
dresses made.
The annual meeting of the Shawnee
Building aud Loan association was held
last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Cramer, who live
at 1909 East Sixth street, are the parents
of twin babies.
DR.. c. s. McClintock now the county
physician is going to be a candidate for
coroner this fall.
The new stars for the police force have
arrived. They are summer weight,
slightly smaller than the old ones
W. w. Phelps, private secretary to
Receiver Wilson of the Santa Fe, is an
excellent amateur base ball player.
The Topeka Christian Endeavor union
will send twenty five delegates to the
annual convention at Boston in June.
Two men who had forgotten that Lent
was not quite over were fined $5 each
by Judge Ferry today for being drunk.
When Weather Observer Jennings is
consulting his instruments on top of the
Columbian building, he is right in his
elements.
The "In Old Tennessee" company has
gone to Kansas City to do its reorgan-
izing aud will reopen at the Auditorium
there next week.
John Macdonald and Judge NJ. B.
Nicholson are the two citizens of Kan
sas who can speak and read the language
of the Scottish Highlanders
Rev. J. B. Thomas returned last night
from Atchison, where he attended the
meeting of the executive committee of
the State Baptist association.
John Jones the we'll known colored
politician says he is going to be sanitary
policeman for the Third ward or make
trouble for lot of ''fellows."
House movers who are moving two
story house west on Polk street have al
lowed the house to stand in the street
near Tenth for the past several days.
All these people you see limping
around town with their hands and eyes
tied up are newspaper workers who have
been practicing for the ball game a week
from Friday.
The patrol wagon answered a need
less call to North Topeka last night 1t
answered two of the same kind of calls
the night before, and Patrol Driver Aye
doesn't like it.
There will be a meeting of Republi-
cans tonight at Frank Fosters law office
to talk about ways and means of prevent
ing repeating and getting fair voteat
primary election.
Sam Radges says he is not going to
issue a directory this year. He isn't
''broke" yet " hen he is, he'll think
about it Topeka needs directory at
| least every two years. 1t is to be hoped
somebody will get up one.
The salaries of the Topeka police force
except sergeants, captain and chief, have
been cut to $50 month. In Kansas CITY
the patrolmen get $50. One Topeka DO
liceman said to his wife last night, "You
try to earn enough to clothe and feed
yourself and the children and pay the
rent, and I'll try to make enough to
clothe myself this summer"