The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-07-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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Early potatoes are CONNIE ncing to rot
in the ground.
| The cigarmakers and printers will play
ball on Labor day.
| The fire department has not been out
OF its buildings for five days.
Two organ grinders with monkeys are
working the town for pennies
Not many Topeka people spend Sun
days in Kansas City this summer.
There has only been one case of insan-
/ ity in probate court in three weeks.
Kansas City viii have race meeting
| and stock show. but no fair, this fall
The Santa Fe hospital is one of the
most conspicuous buildings in the city.
| a student of the Bible has nick named
| the city dog pound the Land of Cam
| inc"
Out of town papers mention it now
when day passes without suicide in
Topeka
| This Is just the incest kind of weather
| for July with the mercury not higher
| than IS.
ltis said that Topeka's $4,000, 900 valu-
alton doesn't include Simon Green
| spans diamond.
A new slang expression has originat-
| "Very much Atchison-"
| The county commissioners have paid
| W. H. Trump 500 for bossing the wosk
on the new court house.
Last years hot winds, which did terri
bic damage to the crops, began July %,
! 1894, year ago yesterday.
| The earnings of the Santa Fe, so far
| this month, have been $1,316,724. an in
crease over last year of 1915, 300
General Sully, of the Salvation Army,
is managing a very successful 'fresh air"
| fund for the benefit of the waits.
| Scott Kelsey is being shown around by
the county commissioners. They take il
for granted that he will be elected
| The new mountaineering beer will be
| handled at several soda fountains and
will be delivered in gular beer wagons.
The labor day committee of the Trades
| Assembly has selected Garfield park as
the place for holding the afternoons
| sports.
/ The county commissioners have dis
charged Martin Young. superintendent
| of the county stone quarry at the fair
| grounds.
The degree team of Capital lodge, A.
| O. 9. W., was entertained last evening at
the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. II. W. McAfee,
west of the city.
| The young men of the Santa Fe pas
senger department have postponed their
road race Indefinitely. They are not
| prepared to die
A society note says that mohair will
| be popular for fall dresses; it will also
be popular with the foot bail young man
during the winter.
A band that will play in Atchison soon
is to play Sousa's washington Post
March," and the people there are very
much excited about it.
The new Brush electric light plant
proposes to rebuild 1t is too small to
fill orders. The capacity of the plant
Will be Increased fourfold.
There are a great many pretty girls in
! Oakland, it is SAID, and from six TO ten
Topeka young men come in from that
place on the last car every evening.
R .. Farnsworth Inns been appointed
! speciai bridge commissioner to superin-
| tend the construction of the new bridge
across the Wakarusa near Richland.
The Trades Assembly will have l. Dor
Day souvenir this year. and c. n. Bald
win, of the Painters and Decorators
union, has been made the manager of it.
It is said a Topeka society girl is go
ing into convent in order to escape baby
| pictures of herself in the altogether
that are shown her everywhere she
calls.
Wichita's police force is said to be SO
efficient it is driving all the criminals
out of town. If Wichita isn't careful she
will soon cease to be a city of the first
class.
Florence Wickes, daughter of the vice
president of the Pullman Car company,
has become a member of the Gladys
Wallace company and will probably play
here this year.
William F. Roehr's ballad, ''Tis All
For You" has been published in Leip-
zig. Germany. It gives both the German
and English words and the cover design
is very pretty.
Topeka Gruhn is the name of little
girl baby born recently to a poor family
on Taylor street Police Aatron Thorpe
has been looking after the family since
they came to Topeka from western Ne
! braska
a question that is rending asunder the
intellectual circles of Topeka and may
whether or not it would be strictly proper
to refer to John Wafer of the Santa Fe
as a Cracker Jack.
The county auditor is being criticised
because he allows witnesses and jurors
from RossviIle pay for travelling twenty
two miles when they come to Topeka.
The objectors say the railroad charges
for but sixteen miles.
4 number of placards are being print
ed and will be hung around in business
houses and Offices They read "Please
do not discuss the silver question here.
It disturbs the employees aud may result
in disturbance of the peace"
The burlesque ball game which was to
be played next Saturday by the T. A A.
team and the Giants, will be played then
by the Athletic association nine and d
team from the Santa Fe shops, and the
proceeds given to the railroad 7. Ii,
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