The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-06
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS.

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The earnings of the Santa Fe during
last year were $39, 100000.
Home grown grapes are on the market.
The crop will be large one.
Captain Wintrode is out after a three
weeks siege of rheumatism.
These mornings are just cool enough
to make the flies real industrious.
Weather Observer Jennings says corn
in Shawnee county is practically made.
Just now it keeps the average man
busy denying that he is going to the
Dallas fight
Topeka real estate agents have COM
menced to advertise. This is considered
a good sign.
Fire Marshal and Mrs. G. o. Wilmarth
have returned from a months visit in
Massachusetts,
The members of the Baptist church
and Sunday school will picnic at Vine
wood, tomorrow.
DIR. ]. M. Frankenberger has been
elected physician Of Topeka Topographic
cal union No. 121.
The Grand opera house is going to look
better this coming winter than it has
looked before for years.
Nearly all the old members of the To-
peka base ball team are now playing
with the Independence team.
Judge Peters of Newton, accompanied
Governor Morrill, to the depot last even
ing to see him off for Ohio.
E. A. WAGNER, as re ceiver of the E
b. Purcell Mercantile company, handled
over $l,OOO,0OO worth of property.
There will be no more hot weather;
the Topeka hoodoo has just purchased
aFan y tn, E Il
Rev. o. H. Call of Oakland, baptized
six persons at Granville. Sunday. He
Immersed three and sprinkled three.
Bill Delk, porter of the Chesterfield
hotel, hit friend with beer bottle last
night, and was fined So for assault to-
day.
The enthusiasts charge that the state
administration gave the encampment to
Emporia because they were mad at To-
peka.
1t is matter of some curiosity to know
whether Governor Morrill,, who is off on
his vacation, will register from Kansas
or not.
r. B. WEIGH not only retired to private
life last night, but is not candidate for
anything except counsel in good, fat
cases.
Capt II. II. Brown, who was one of
the leading writer's on the Ottawa Jour-
nal, is devoting his time now to Soul
culture"
People were happy last spring when
the Kansas avenue bridge was put in
good condition but their happiness was
short lived.
The first official at work in the Santa
Fe general offices is Superintendent of
Telegraph R. B. GemmelL He gets to
work at 1880.
Willis Marshall, who graduated from
Washburn college in 1890, has been
elected president of the Buena Vista
Iowa, college.
Bob Agora is one of the students at the
Haskell Indian institute at Lawrence,
but he isn't nearly so literary as George
W. Cranes Agora.
"Red'' Laird is now a news agent on
| the D. 81 R G., with headquarters at
Salt Lake City. He is wearing good
| clothes and diamonds
DR.. Peter McVicar, president of Wash
burn college, left today for PASSPORT,
Me-, his native town. He will spend
several weeks on the bay of Fundy.
Rev. J. r. Madison, pastor of the
Kansas Avenue III. E church, started
this morning for visit to his boyhood
home at Stanton. Va. He will be gone
about four weeks.
A Topeka society young lady says that
she will not go to Colorado Springs be-
cause there are SO many Topeka young
ladies there. She wants to escape them
| for little while at least
Proctor HIT, who was formerly en-
! ployed in the Santa Fe offices, is having
| success at farming. He has several
stalks of enormous corn on exhibition in
a Topeka real estate window
The Capitals wind cave has broken
loose again. One of the reporters has
| found the abode of the puddamuck or
| jabberwock or something in a Shiny
green pool in Deer creek. He takes a
column and half to describe it. The
morning fake factory is doing pretty
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