The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-10-07
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.


Turnip patches are still green
There will be a council meeting to- |
plight.
The Kansas Medical college has fifty |
two pupils.
The city physician is to move his Office |
to the city building.
The Assembly club proposes to lead in |
Topeka society this winter.
A honrishing laundry in North To-
peka is the wild Western Star"
George Burghart has named his
Patchen Wilkes colt Pat Sherman.
Forty-six people came down from
Rossvilie today to attend the DeBarrows
trial.
A middle-aged man who has a $50
position talks about other people being
failures.
There is a case of diphtheria across
the street from the home of Councilman
Stevens.
Hundreds of bushels of apples are
rotting on the ground in the orchards
around Topeka.
The Copeland hotel cut now in use on
the hotel letter heads shows horse cars
passing the door.
A Jackson street man expects to sell
a wagon by the sign Wagon for Sail"
But it doesn't GO
On one side of Kansas avenue is
NECESSITY" sale. Directly across is
''compulsion" sale.
Mr.. L l. Roby read paper before the
Saturday Night club. at its last meeting,
on "The Civilized Conscience"
In a recent speech at Garden City
Dick Blue said he left Topeka because
he was interested in irrigation.
Flour is on the rise, there being an
advance of ten cents a barrel. This is
due to the short winter wheat crop.
w. II. Coultis, who was nominated by
the Porulists for county commissioner
in the south district. has refused to run.
The Washburn college young men are
allowed TO call on the college girls two
hours every Saturday night, from 6:30 to
$50.
Electric car conductors say that the
fastest time is made on the Lowman Hill
line and the Oakland route has the
most curves.
The probate judge expects the number
of marriage licenses issued this year to
reach 500. This means $3.50 for the
probate judge.
The Shawnee county teachers associa-
ton will hold its first meeting of the
school year next Saturday, at the high
school building
A fire broke out in the basement of
John R. Sergeant's grocery store in
South Topeka early Sunday morning
The damage was small
Some one has named Councilman
Bradford's committee of the council 1.-THE
whitewashing committee" "Us poll
ticians must hang together"
a Saturday evening run of the police
ndtr0t Kansas aaOGS a hHn6 red
persons to the station to await the return
of the wagon and hear the news.
Toads are very numerous this year.
An electric motorneer said he counted
thirty on the track that the car had
killed from Kansas avenue to Potwin.
Chairman Elliott of the Republican
county central committee makes the
official statement that Sheriff Burdga
has refused TO employ ex-Policeman
/ Gaines as a deputy sheriff
The city council committee it can be
/ stated positively, consider diphtheria as
more than ''trifiing." The conversation
was carried with residents of infected
houses at long range.
The Chicago Tribune has offered $4,000
for the best "horseless" buggy to be
shown in competition in the spring of
1895. Two Topeka inventors are work
ing on motors with a view of entering
the list.
Sergeant Tim Donovan touched a
/ prisoner for a roll of bills containing $50
at the station Saturday, and the man
didn't know it in time to object Jailer
| Disbrow had it by that time.
Major George W. Burge was surprised
Saturday evening, it being his sixty
sixth birthday. He was presented with
the flag which decorated the judges
desk in the circuit court while he was
bailiff.
Dick Cooley finished the season in
eighteenth place among the 1856 Ma
tional league batters who have averages
He is tied with Keller, of Baltimore,
for first place in fielding among the IS
left folders.
County Attorney Miller of Wyandotte
county, who argued two cases at the
present sitting of the supreme court, has
two wooden legs and two crutches and
gets around better than lots of people do
on ordinary legs.
Several hundred people were disap-
pointed because there was 70 band CON