The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
Welcome wheelmeni Glad to see you.
Lords and ladies of the ''Dikei"
Take the freedom of the city
Ask for anything you like!

over hundred men have already been
entered for the bicycle races.
The examinations for state certificates
are to commence August 20.
Artist George Stone is painting pic
ture of the late Il. J. Dennis.
DR.. s. McLallin, editor of the Advo-
cate, has gone to Colorado to recuperate.
A Topeka undertaken says he has
buried 800 people In the last TWO years.
Miss Susie Sharitt, daughter of Geo.
ShariLt is quite sick with malaria fe-
yer.
There ia a case of scarlet fever in the
family OF K. B. Gathers at 5O1 Lake
street.
Fred Deneka of 6l9 West First street,
who was badly hurt last Saturday, is i'm
proving.
MarshalPs band is to give their fire.
works display at Garfield park Friday
evening
Herman Lescher had a slight sun
stroke while working at the fair grounds
yesterday.
Attorney General Dawes and General
j. g. Caldwell are attending the Cofey-
vile reunion.
People who ate their breakfasts before
o'clock this morning we're compelled to
s
A Kansas avenue hop ale vendor has
the temerity to charge 10 cents 4 glass
for the beverage.
William II. Barnes is making an effort
to revive the horticultural societies in
the various counties.
Sergeant Ellison of the Topeka police
force is the most metropolitan looking
''Met" of all of them.
Of tho seesiou Of
the diamond hunters convention will be
held at the fair grounds.
The lunch counters are making big
preparations for the Entertainment" OF
the visiting wheelmen.
The Edison electric light has reached
College Hill and several of the residents
have wired their houses.
A small boy who visits on East Ninth
street calls the East Side Circle railway
engine, the "dinky foot"
A North Topeka lady who is the proud
recipient of "Trilby heart" wears it
pinned to her left sleeve.
The little daughter of Secretary of
State Edwards, who broke her collar
bone by fall. is much better.
Joe Cawthorn, whom Topeka theater
goers saw in Patti Rosa's company,
opened the season in Kansas City this
week.
The street is said to be almost impas-
sable between Thirteenth and Four
teepth on Tyler, caused by break in a
water pipe.
A Topeka young man who has just
gone into business is proud of the fact
that he has learned the com bination to
the safe.
George Stone has received commits
sion from George Thomas of New York
for another life size portrait of Bishop
Thomas.
w. s. Belden, who is Sergeant Jen-
nings' assistant at the weather bureau
office, will teach school this winter at
Baker, Kansas.
Murphy hasn't won a race at Kansas
City since Art Massey sold him three
weeks ago. He has started six times
and ran second once.
o. A. Kropf, who graduated at Wash
burn college this last spring, will teach
Latin and mathematics in the high school
at Holton this winter
The promoters of the Topeka, Silver
Lake and RossviIle electric road say that
as soon as the upper dam is built the
road will be commenced.
From present indications the attend
ance at the state university at Lawrence
Will reach the thousand mark Last year
the enrolment was 937.
Sam C. Garrard wants an ordinance
passed to prevent business men from
having their sidewalks swept off as late
as o'clock in the morning.
@. Il. Nettles has returned from Chi
cago, where he attended the bicycle
racef He said it did his heart good to
| see a Kansas man take second place in
the mile open.
Word was received here that Susan B,
Anthony is still confined to her bed at
the home of her sister in Rochester,
N. Y. She had an attack of heart fail
ure short time ago.
One of the new hop ale vendors has
cancelled the words ''non- intoxicating
on his sign. In this way he gets the
trade of those who know what the bever-
age is, and those who don't also.
The members of the Stedman club
were much disturbed by the noise of the
cars at their last meeting. Mr.. Pnenis
asked "what picture is most distur bin e
to the club?" Answer-''the cartoon"
The two young ladies who wore snow
white dresses and held the dog on their
/ laps in the street Car few evenings ago
can sympathize with the young men who
| got too near muddy buggy wheel this
morning.
Real early on pleasant mornings a
number of lady cyclists may be seen
spinning around the bicycle track at
Garfield park. They take advantage of
the low temperature and the absence of
men riders.
The Palace clothing house has series
of pictures of the Japanese Chinese war
by Japanese artist posted in the show
window. They are brilliant in coloring
and up to the standard of American
Autographs.
The prettiest sight on Soldier creek
for some time was a large boat with a
canopy top decorated with Chinese Ian
terms and flags on the stream last even
| ing. A young man was giving eleven
| lady friends a boat ride,
1t seems that the patrol horses were
! clipped before Driver Bundy took