The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-05-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.
A lengthy young fellow named Switzer
Was cracked up to be quite pitcher,
But he proved such a frost
nat his first game he lost,
And now he may be asked to quitzer
The river is rising
A G. Stacey is here from Parsons.
This rain is good for the straw berries.
The travelling men will be here Fri
day.
There is a meeting of the city council
tonight.
Wild flowers are not SO plentiful as
usual this season.
The public schools will close four
weeks from Friday.
MarshaIPs band says it will not have
to repeata piece this summer
The Y. III, c. A. ball club can do bet
ter at foot ball than base ball.
Garfield park swarmed with stylish
girls and pretty boys yesterday.
The dome of the Rock Island depot
building is being repaired and painted
George T. Nicholson and w. II. Simp-
son have been written up in the 'Chicago
400"
The ladies of Grace cathedral have
paid their debt TO the Bishop Thomas
estate
Topeka will have had a meeting of
ministers and of travelling men all within
a week.
]. B. Bailey read paper on Ballads"
before the Saturday Night club at its last
meeting.
A Topeka woman recently wrote $500
checks in one day at the United States
pension office.
John, Macdonald lectured on Robert
Burns before the teachers institute at
Ottawa Saturday.
Folks who slept soundly last night
were surprised to find the ground all
muddy this morning.
Harry Lyman is at Valley Falls, and
will go to New York and Boston before
| he returns to Topeka
C. O. Wilcox of Phillipsburg wants to
be assistant bank commissioner when
Mr.. Jobes gets his Office.
| There is a case of scarlatina in the
| family of Rev. j. r. Thomas, and the
house has been quarantined.
The Potwin city council will hold its
first regular meeting this evening. A
street commissioner will be appointed
Mr.. C. ]. Brown, clerk of the supreme
court, has returned from a ten days
southern trip through Texas and Okla
| homa
The Jobes- Breidenthal case for pos
session of the bank commissioner of
| flee will be heard in the supreme court
Friday.
A man called at the JOURNAL office
today, and asked for the exchange editor.
He had wagon he wanted to exchange
for COW.
The funeral of Mrs D. T. Long took
place yesterday afternoon from the fam
lily residence, corner of Tenth and Nor
ris avenue.
The regular summer meeting of the
| Shawnee county teachers institute will
open at the high school building Mon
day, June 3.
The supreme court will convene to-
morrow morning, with the new chief
justice, David Martin, on the bench for
the first time.
Bank Commissioner Breidenth al has
gone to Oswego where he is a witness in
bank case which is on trial in the district
court there this week.
The funeral of Mrs Susan Halterman
| who died Saturday evening of dropsy
took place this afternoon from her late
residence 1915 Fillmore street.
The new library which the teachers Of
Shawnee county we're awarded at the
Kansas City convention, will be kept in
the grade room of the high school build
ing.
A horse that evidently knew a good
thing when he saw it, bit a curl out of
girls hair at Garfield park yesterday
afternoon. Perhaps the horse took hel
for grass widow.
The Topeka postoffice is the third bes
paying office in the United States, in pro
portion to the business done. The two
which are better are Springfield, Ohio
and Worcester, Mass.
Marshalrs band played the idyI
Observation-Disclosures by eEilenberg
yesterday with telling effect, for the ben
eft of those who couldn't attend tn,
grand opera at Kansas City.
An old settler attended the band con
cert at Garfield park yesterday and oh
served, .sHow time does fly. l can re
member when Garfield park was nothing
but an ordinary forest"
The Topeka pension Office is now max
ing its regular quarterly payment Tire
and three-Quarters million dollars ar
being distributed over Kansas, Missouri
Oklahoma and New Mexico
The net cost to the city for the polio
/ force last month was $i,561.55. The pa
roll amounted to $1,648 81 and the re
ceipts were $470.75. Other expenses in
Guiding repairs amounted to $34809
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