The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-04-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

Garden vegetables of all kinds are on
the markets.
F. w. Jacobs is on trial in the district
court today for embezzlement
Talk is cheap By wire, since the
telephone companies began to cut rates.
The old-fashioned man who always
plants his potatoes Gin the moon," is with
US.
The special policemen at the polling
places yesterday were unnecessary orna-
ments.
The county commissioners have already
paid out $S0.69S62 on the new court
house.
Council No. 1, Knights and Ladies' of
Security, will give a rag carpet social
April Is.
Forty men are now at work on the new
court house and the building is up to the
third story.
The reins of the city government will
be turned over to Mayor Fellows next
Friday evening.
Kansas avenue was swept last night
and this morning wagons went around
and cleaned up
Boys now enjoy themselves fishing
from the island at the center of the Kan
sas avenue bridge
The Hub Clothing company enter
tanned a great crowd of people at their
opening last night
W. B. Swan, who was a member of the
legislature from the city district of To-
peka, is now an N. D.
Mr.. George B Williams entertained
fair sized audience with recitations at
Library hall last night
| A JOURNAL reporter who was practic-
/ ing playing ball last night was not able
to hold lead pencil today.
| There is one candidate who is not sur
/ prised at his defeat, the Democrat nomi
nee for mayor, DR.. Grubbs.
To whom it may concern: When you
try to play ball for the first time in two
years, don't play too hard the first day.
/ Now comes the distribution of city
/ offices. 1t is estimated that there will
be a dozen applicants for every posi-
| ton.
Two takers who have been selling s'gold
/ specs for ST. at Atchison, Leavenworth
and other Kansas towns are under arrest
! here.
Amateur base ballists use the vacant
block at the corner of Kansas avenue and
Eleventh streets every afternoon for
| practice.
E NJ. Stephens has brought suit in the
| district court against the Topeka Land
and Development company for $1,000
and interest
The regular weekly prayer meeting of
the First Baptist church will be held
this evening instead of on Thursday
evening as usual.
It cost Fremont Wells, proprietor of
the road house, $27970 to get out of the
county jail, after serving sixty days.
The fine was $500.
The Topeka Equal Suffrage associa-
ton will hold its regular monthly meet
/ ing tomorrow Thursday afternoon at
the Throop parlors.
Miss Carrie Baum of Pittsburg, who
is to take part in the programme at Lii
| brary hall tonight, formerly lived il
| Topeka and was high school girl
Topeka's Municipal League is the only
bers to run for. city offices. As a cOnse-
quence, its days are probably numbered
If the man who practices hypnotism at
the Bijou theater would put the boys
who occupy the gallery under the Sin
fuence" the rest Of the people could give
their attention to the entertainment.
Cope & Co received the first consign-
ment of strawberries received in Topeka.
A local boarding house bought the first
crate for $40. The berries were large,
fully ripe, and free from sand. They
came from Alvin, Texas.
Messrs. D. r. Hite and E. W. Tatman
have formed law partnership, under
the firm name of Hite s. Tatman. Mr..
Hite is one of the leading insurance law
yers of the west Mr.. Tatman is a grad
uate of the Kansas university law de-
partment and has been with Gleed, Ware
s. GIeed and more recently with Wheeler
6 Switzer, who conduct the legal depart
ment of the City Real Estate company.