The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-27
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

SNAF Sf7O - Al HUME NEWS
Tin TOPPER declares there is little of rhyme.
And much less OF reason two-thirds of the
In these Prohibition exhorters;
L or even the moon takes two horns" at pull,
And stays out of nights till she's ''gloriousIy
And it costs her a couple Of quarters"
There are twenty-five children in the
Orphans home.
There are nineteen bridges within the
corporate limits of Topeka.
Mayor Fellows has a new suit of
clothes. That's two since spring. What
luxury!
Homes have been found for fifteen
children since June by the matron of the
orphans home.
A wagon load of cooking apples was
sold for ten cents q bushels today by a
Menoken farmer.
The carpenters of Topeka are to meet
at Trades and Labor assembly hall to-
morrow evening.
o. P. Updegraf went to Girard yes
terday TO start horses at the Girard race
meeting this week.
DR.. Brownfeld says he will start four
travelling men on the road selling patent
medicines the first of next month.
J. B. Whitaker, who has lived in one
house at 408 Harrison street, for twenty
seven years, is going to rebuild his house.
One spectator offered -four to one Doc
Bailey gets killed. with no takers. at
the ModOcs' boxing match last evening.
Prot. F. P. Cleaves contemplates a trip
to Colorado. He Will give several elo-
cutionary entertainments during the trip.
Secretary of State Edwards left today
with the Larned Coyote cub for Baxter
Springs, where they are to sing at the
G. A K. reunion.
Beauchamp who played left field for
the Giants until their demise. was in
town yesterday on his way home TO
Atchison. The Independence team has
disbanded.
Dick Wilmington, the man who is
pushing wheelbarrow around the
world, has been heard from at Smith
Center, and is scheduled to reach Topeka
September 4.
A street car crashed into Secretary of
State W. c. Edwards carriage in front
of the Garfield park entrance last night
No damage was done but Mr. Edwards
was mighty mad.
Eugene Ware says that during the
| trial OF the HillmOn case last spring he
did not read the newspaper and he
knows nothing of the general LOWS dur
ing that period
! If the diving picture exhibit" given
! every evening about 9 o'clock from the
rear windows of a leading Topeka hotel
continues, there are likely to be new faces
in the dining room,
A member of the Topeka Z. NJ. C. A
is going to be a missionary in India.
What we need is missionaries in SMOKY
Row; but that isn't so much fun as going
abroad at other peoples expense.
The members of the state live stock
| sanitary commission are still fighting
Texas fever. The hired inspectors at
TWO cents head have not succeeded in
keeping infected cattle out of the state.
There are no extra charges for chill
dren who are lefE at the creche depart
ment of the orphans home A child
| will be taken care of by the day or for
| three months if the mother is poor and
! deserving.
Lieutenant Governor James A. Trout
man has been invited by the state real
| estate association to accompany the train
| load of Kansas products which is to be
taken through the east, and make
| speeches.
| Mr.. R, B. Gemmell, superintendent of
| telegraph of the Santa Fe, has receive
| an Invitation to attend a meeting of the
| Old Time Telegraphers' association,
which is to be held in New ! rk Sep
TENDER II to 1S.
Win White is cruel enough to say
about Roy Evans, once the pet pitcher
for the Emporia Maroons: Troy Evans
was there and threw his big drop which
creates sensation in the grand stand
but doesn't buy the club anything"
The young people of the First Baptist
church will give a farewell rece ption to
MI T. J. Lerrigo Friday evening at the
home of Dr. Ida C. Barnes at Thirteenth
and Clay streets. Mr. Lerrigo is soon to
go to New York city TO prepare for mis-
] sionary work.
Judge ". A Johnson of the appellate
court st Garnett, has written that he
never wrote Capt Hornaday the letter
attributed to him on the silver question.
Capt. Hornsday made the mistake. The
w. A johnson who is the author of his
letter is at the head of the live stock
commission and lives at Girard.