The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-02
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
April has relented.

April has relented.
1t was cold enough last night to form
ice.
Several Topeka sportsmen are out duck
hunting
This mornings frost was little severe
on early vegetables.
A good election day motto, ''Vote
early. but not often"
The fire department has had a busy
time for the past week.
Mayor Harrison will set out 5000 ever
greens on his farm this spring
1t is warmer and fair today just like
Mr.. Jennings said it would be.
The policemen have received their
new assignments for the month
Not all the peach buds have been
killed but the crop will be small.
1t is expected that there will be some
sudden changes in the city offices next
week.
They get drunk over elections in al
most every other town in the world but
Topeka.
Judge Hazen will decide the asylum
injunction case at o'clock tomorrow
morning.
The Immediate supply of treatises on
base ball has been exhausted by the Cap
ital force
The man who can see the hands on the
postoffice clock five blocks distant has
very good eyes.
The sheriff and the chief of police are
both out of town. one in Colorado and the
other in Missouri
Miss Idell Campbell entertained her
Sunday school class at her home on Mon
roe street last night.
The yearly business meeting of the
Westminster Presbyterian church will
be held this evening.
What lot of people will think to-
night how foolish they were to allow
themselves to be candidates.
Students attending the high school
who reside outside of the city are re-
quired to pay $50 year tuition.
James Stuart. an old soldier and a
Mason, is sick at his home, 101 Taylor
street He lately moved to the city.
Fresh strawberries sell for thirty five
cents a box in St. Louis. The first of the
season, and they will soon be with US.
At a business meeting of the North
Topeka Christian church tonight the
building committee will make a report
E. W. Griggs, the druggist at 226 Kan
sas avenue, who has been very sick for
the past ten days, is great deal better.
A paper printed near Topeka starts
its list of police assignments for the
month with the headline Where they
will Beat"
Police court was held out in NJ Dis
brow's reception room again today as
the court room was full of election
judges and booths.
The city clerks Office will be open to-
night to receive returns, and will remain
open until all the returns are in if that
is five o'clock in the morning
B. T. Lewis, of the Santa Fe general
offices, will go to California next Satur-
day with the annual excursion of the
Car Accountants association.
Bob KepIey, aided by his brother
Ephraim, made a house-to- house canvass
for the city clerkship. The returns to-
night will show how much good it did :
The Wichita papers are kicking and
say Mr. Crawford gives Wichita only
"Black Crook" and "UncIe Tom" shows
Perhaps Mr.. Crawford knows Wichita's
taste.
Mr.. r. F. Grogran and Miss Zella 81.
Lane, who were married last week by
Rev. John A Bright, will leave in a few
days for their new home at Paducah,
Kentucky.
Rev. John A. Bright has received
word that his father, who is "a years old
and totally blind, is in very poor health
and is rapidly declining. He lives in
Centre county, Pennsylvania
Mr.. and Mrs. H L Shirer, who have
been visiting Mrs II. L King, have re
turned to Topeka. Dir. Shirer should be
captured on some of his visits hefe and
compelled to sing in public. he has u
voice to rave about Globe.
Will Wheeler, a North Topeka co1ore d
boy who escaped from the county rock
pile at the jail last fall and who has also