The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-06-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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Is this vet enough for you?
There will be a council meeting to-
night
The Y. NJ. c. A ball team has dis
banded
Oskaloosa is now connected with To-
peka by telephone.
1t begins to look as if Topeka might
have suicide club
The bachelors and young married
men are billed to play bali tomorrow
The theater and swimming pool at the
fair grounds is nearly completed.
At Vinewood park yesterday a good
many people were caught in the rain.
Councilman Stephenson says the lower
dam Will be completed in seven months.
There was no band concert at Carrie Id
park yesterday afternoon on account of
the rain.
before the county Farmers Alliance next
Saturday.
The Sunday school of the First NJ. E.
church will picnic at Bismarck grove
Friday.
This is Rock Island pay day on the
road, and Santa Fe pay day in the of
fees
The annual picnic of the Old Settlers
association will be held at Garfield park
Thursday.
A Topeka man who rode to Eudora on
his bicycle yesterday is too stiff to walk
with comfort today
The water had risen twelve feet in
Silver Lake before it commenced rain
ing yesterday noon.
The graduation exercises of the nor
nal kindergarten of Topeka will be held
at Library hall tomorrow afternoon.
The conductor of the Vinewood linn
tied ls proud in the possession of a bran
new blue uniform with brass buttons.
A man who has returned from travel
ling through a dozen Kansas counties
says that he did not see a field of oats
any where.
The weather man said that there was
no possible chance for rain on Sunday
but like other people he is sometimes
mistaken.
There will be base ball game for the
benefit of the Scranton sufferers at Ath-
letlc park tomorrow afternoon if it
doesn't rain.
Irrigated Strawberries from Utah
which fill out the last of the season are
almost due. They are very large but
rather tasteless.
The Topeka Telephone s. Electrical
company has secured the contract for
putting in telephone system at Man
haitian with 100 phones
Topeka people contributed $1148O
with which to pay the expenses of the
Memorial Day celebration and the dedi-
cation of the Gage monument
The social and reunion of the county
q ms MT hot to
the high school building this evening.
has been postponed until tomorrow
night.
Speaking in Mr. jennings language.
Topeka had the slow" yesterday, New
England had the "high" and the weather
map didn't show who had ''jack and
game"
DIR. S. B. Anderson of the First Pres
byterian church will go to Oswego to-
morrow to deliver the address before the
graduating class of the Oswego female
college.
Rev. T. ]. Leaks who is now pastor of
the Methodist churches in Chicago but
who was at one time pastor of the First
NJ. E. church here, preached for Dr. EN-
bree yesterday morning.
Joe Vesper, tramp less than four feet
high, weighing about ninety pounds, and
having a particularly large mustache,
registered at the police station last night
He is from New York and is headed for
Oklahoma
A division of the Daughters of Erin.
an auxiliary to the Ancient order of
Hibernians, has been organized here
Local President Joseph Marshall and
County President J. ]. Lannan conducted
the initiator ceremonies. The division
begins with mem bership of forty ladies.