The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

AS usual Sunday was comparatively
cool.
There are now eleven Mckinley clubs
in Topeka.
The Naptha launch is no longer at
Garfield park.
Gormlys band has quit it's Friday
night concerts.
The trolley tracks on Huntoon street
are being repaired.
The State university at Lawrence
opens September 9.
Judge Hazen will take his vacation
at Colorado Springs.
The officers of the federal court are
enjoying their vacations.
The interior of the Rock Island office
building is being renovated.
DR.. G. A. Wall left Sunday for Mani
tou to spend a short vacation.
The politicians will own Topeka for
at least three days this week.
F. C. Hentig wants the Populist NOM
ination for judge of the district court.
The unpaved streets have become so
dusty that they are little used for driv-
ing.
L. NJ. Crawford has closed a f1ve-year
lease of the Boyd Opera, House at Oma-
ha
The hot winds have not yet ruined
the corn in the neighborhood of To-
pe6a.
o. P. Updegraf will act as starter
at the Cottonwood Falls races this
week.
The gasoline launch has been remov-
ed from Garfield park to the Kansas
river.
The hot weather has much to do with
the small attendance at the band con-
certs.
The woman's Republican club will
have a benefit car ride in about two
weeks.
The national headquarters for the
Silver Party will be at AIS Kansas
avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Sampson. of
1S1 Taylor street, are the parents of a
daughter.
water for each prisoner confined in the
county Jail.
Mckinley and Hobart are to appear
in the Republican parade on Wednes>
day, by proxy.
VIII Wadsworth has gone to New
York to begin rehearsals with the "Ala-
bama'' company.
Topeka man who has just return
ed says there are three wide open sa-
looms at Abilene.
Gormlys band will not go to Kansas
City until after the Topeka Reunion
and Fall Festival
The date of the Atchison corn carni-
vat is September "a and NarshalPs
band will play there.
For the first time in a year Mar
Shall's band played Sousa's Washing
ton POST march yesterday.
Tanufa TJar77b11rcr i1vaafa Of
city prison, has a love for birds. and
keeps her pets with her in jail.
On account of the hot weather. the
Topeka Academy of Medicine and
Surgery will not meet tonight.
Scranton has at last caught on. The
young ladies of that town will give a
leap year party tomorrow night.
MarshalPs band played new thing
and a good thing yesterday afternoon.
1t was the Salvation Army patrol
Elias Pierson and John McNoun
brought Mrs. Thorpe another load of
vegetables for the poor from Rochester.
The grass in the outfeld at the base
ball grounds has been cut and the
grounds are now in excellent condition.
The hot weather is having more to
do with putting a stop to street corner
political discussions than anything
else.
Detective Zener tried to light a CT
gar in the breeze Saturday night, and
now he hasn't got that fine large NOUS
tache.
Almost every man that took an lad"
in the band concert programme this
season wanted to begin it, Music Hath
Charms"
Since big buttons are the proper
thing for shirt front a Topeka man
III
as studs.
A Topeka Populist has taken his
little boy out of Sunday school because
his teacher insisted on his learning the
golden rule.
A state officer who gets s.. 600 a year
is expected to give at least 50. 600 of it
away to colored churches or lose the
colored vote.
William Dexter, a Rock Island
switchman, had two fingers painfully
mashed while making a coupling Sat
urday afternoon.
The theatrical season in Topeka will
open with Pringle's Ministries August
"a, to be followed by THE Bowery
Girl on the 28th.
Topeka contractors have learned
more about ''eliminations' under the
present state administration than they
ever knew before.
The Holton people, who are quick
judges of a good thing, are trying to
employ Marshalls band for their fair
September II and Is.
The leader of the gang of chicken
thieves, James Brady, was fined $50
and costs, amounting to s119 Justice
Grover tried the case.
The police officers are targets for
every beggar and every petition This
gets tiresome and the men are talking
of getting out a remonstrance.
The flower committee of the FaIl