The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-09-02
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

The city council will meet tonight.
The state offices are all closed today.
Policeman Washburn plays the banjo.
The side walk men did not stop work
this morning.
City Clerk McFadden will go to house
keeping this week.
Nine men out Of every ten do not know
how to pronounce dynamite"
Sam Radges says that he does not be-
lieve Pick Smiths big fish story.
Judge Guthrie has life-sized photo
graph of ex- Senator John j. ingalls,.
Governor Morrill, is one of the Labor
Day orators at Kansas City, Kansas, to.
day
Ringing Bros circus will be at Kan
sas City september IS. 1t will not come
to Topeka.
Lincoln post has decided to go in
BODY to the national encampment at
Louisville.
Il work today because this is labor
day" was the excuse given by workman
this morning.
Rev. c. E. Holcomb conducted the Ep-
worth league meeting at the First NJ. E.
church last evening
Some of the Z. N. G.'s left town with
their knapsacks full of cigarettes. They
can't buy them in Emporia.
It would be interesting to know bow
many quarts of peaches have been put up
in Shawnee county this season.
The canteIoupe crop this year has
been a success as to numbers, but a la
inevitable failure as to quality.
w. Il. Harvey, Coin" has written to
J. NJ. Hart. president of the Populist
league, that he will be unable to stop in
Topeka.
Receiver A. D. Hubbard, of the H am
ilton Printing company, has started out
on a tour of the state to make collec-
tions.
The most thrilling thing in process
sion is long procession of delivery
wagons adorned with wilted sunfowers,
isn't ii?
The postofice employees have punch
ing bag in the upper part of the build
ing, and work up their muscle on it dur
ing the noon hour.
JOURNAL reporters say that about one
man in ten makes any excuses for Officer
Gaines The other nine denounce him
unqualifiedly.
he kind of sentiment that would en-
dorse Policeman Gaines in killing people
for the sake of a buggy tongue isn't the
kind that exists in Topeka.
Gormley's band played to a small audi
ence at Garfield park yesterday. The
young men show improvement, but they
need practice for concert work.
Misses Emma F. Burgess, formerly
general secretary of the Topeka Y. w.
c. A, has assumed similar position with
the association at Kansas City, Mo.
Rev. c. F. Graebner, pastor of the Ger
man Evangelical Lutheran church, de-
I'D in E1rT1uh hot
big church meeting at Alma, Mo-, yes
terday.
Topeka will have no policeman on the
force who strikes a woman with a club.
The women of Topeka should see to it
that Gaines suspension be made perma-
nent.
A we'll known Topeka lawyer who does
not always have all the business he can
attend to, gets shaved every day. The
same barber has shaved him every day
except Sundays for ten years.
Conductors on the East Sixth street
electric car line say Sundays, are their
best days. The cars are filed with pas
sengers bound for the cemetery with
flowers to decorate the graves of friends.
A Topeka woman has received word
from a friend who went east on the
Knights TempIar excursion that "small
sleeves are the go now with shirt waists
But beruffied and befrllled as they are
the departure is not so noticeable"
Rev. G. Minear, who is now pastor OF
the Methodist church at Pomona, Frank
lin county, preached at the Parkdale d.
E church, his former charge yesterday
morning. Dir. Minear was pastor of the
| Parkdale Methodist church five years.
In the Darlington clubs tennis tourney
at Kansas City today Lou Bronson and
George Stoker had the misfortune to be
drawn against Rus Whitman and Jane.
| Cravens, the champions of Kansas anC
Missouri, for the first rour5