The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-22

Especially the wild delight,
The maddening JOY that youngsters feel
In melons worthy of their steal
Washburn and Z. S. .. both open
September II.
The big Santa Fe hospital will be com
pleted November l.
The big crop of apples has stimulated
the trade in cider mills.
Jake Mohler says he will be too busy
to play foot ball this season.
The French hotel on lower Kansas
avenue has ceased to exist.
Fairly good peaches are selling on the
market at 30 cents per bushel.
The principle sales of hardware stores
now is corn knives and fruit cans.
Three new store fronts are being put
in in one block on Kansas avenue.
A large delegation of Odd Fellows
went to Meriden yesterday picnicing
There will soon be work for every idle
man. Corn cutting time is not far of.
Farmers with wagon loads of peaches
may now be seen on the street any morn
ing.
A new bicycle store is being opened
in which the editor of the "CycI is
interested.
A Topeka mattress company turns out
twenty five day. They are all shipped
out of town.
1t costs about So to prime the chemical
engine at fire department headquarters
ready for use.
Three members of the Topeka L. A.
w. are ladies. They are counted among
the best riders.
The Rock Island railroad is putting in
now plank flooring whore their road
crosses Kansas avenue.
H. V. Scholes says his name is being
used as president of a new printers or
ganization without his consent
Miss Sue Brodt has been notified that
her services, were no longer needed as
dining room girl at the asylum.
Councilman Skinner furnished the
Nebraska excursionists ice yesterday
without money and without price,
The Salvation Army shouted a little
louder than usual last evening owing to
q brass band practicing in room over
head.
A foot ball player, who inadvertently
had his hair clipped for the hot weather,
is corresponding with a wig manufac-
turer.
o. Il. Limpus, the new proprietor OF
the St Nicholas hotel, was married al
St. Joseph yesterday to Miss Matte
Hesse.
I Commissioner Herald says Bob Mem as
tiers is trying to have his case. advanced
on the supreme court docket but that il
is futile effort
Officer Gaines says he can tell a totally
deaf man just by looking at him. He
says deaf people have a peculiar express
sion on their facea
Hop tea tonic is still sold in the s'holef
! in the wall" along Smoky Row. Some
times it is hop tea and sometimes it hal
"white horse" in it.
| At the supper table at the Copeland
| last night J. r. Burton amused the guests
| by sarcastically criticising John ]. In.
! gals eastern interview.
Tom Dignon. proprietor of the second
hand store at Tenth and Jackston streets
is confined to his room from the kick oil
a vicious horse on the hip.
A grocer found undisturbed this morn.
ing two large punches of red peppers he
had left hanging in front of his store
over night Nobody wanted them
The members of Marshall's band ap
psared last night wearing their new
fatigue caps. The caps are handsome
They resemble those worn by Sousa's
men.
Simon Greenspan says "People ough
to know that in this country cows dom
back up TO be MIXED. If you want &c
get milk you have to GO where the cows
are"
Thomas Mason, of the Santa Fe me-
chanicaI department, received Telegram
| yesterday announcing his fathers death
at Nickerson and left for that point a
| once.
J. B. Chapman is meeting with success
| in his real estate venture. He has jus
closed deal for the disposition of TWEEN
| ty-one sections of land in a western
| county.
A Wagner selection was played at the
band concert last night There was i'm
mediately such q rush on the Anhsussr