The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


But none more heartless seem to me
! Than he count among my friends
Who most Implying misery sends
From summer loafing far away
! While at home must roast and stay.
He writes and fondly hopes to cheer:
TT is SO cool and lovely here"
The people who sell badges are reap
ing a harvest.
There is a diphtheria scare at Elmont,
northwest of Topeka.
James J. Corbett passed through the
city Sunday on his way east.
MarshaIrs band is to have fireworks
Friday night after the concert.
The state house walks at the east
side entrance have been completed.
A Mckinley club was organized at
the Nickel Plate school house last
night
On an ordinary day each car on the
city railway receives in fares from Sc
to $40.
Al Mooney has been appointed SER
geant-at-arms of the Republican state
convention.
The streets in front of the hotels
were flushed by the fire department
last night.
It is pleasing to note that ]. A. Trout
man has at last had a cut made that
looks like him.
There is a tree nearly in the middle
of Fillmore street between Huntoon and
Thirteenth streets.
The Volunteers appeared at the
Copeland last night and undertook to
save a few Republicans.
Up in the forests of British America
there is a cold wave which is promised
US by Wednesday evening.
MarshalFs band will have another
fireworks exhibition at Garfield park
with its concert Friday night.
There is one case of diphtheria in To-
peka. 1t is in the family of F. T.
Bushnell, at I'LL Jackson street.
The first thing a visitor in Topeka
asks IS how the arrangements for the
Fall Festival are getting along
Topeka wheelmen say that a cyclist
who attempts to ride down Kansas
avenue takes his life in his hands.
The Republicans have the best of the
street corner arguments. There are
more of them here now who will talk.
E. B. Harvey of the Parkhurst-Davis
Grocery company, is seriously i'll with
nalarial fever at his home on West
street.
The office of the Topeka City rail-
way will be moved from it's present To-
cation to 115 East Eighth street on Au-
gust Is.
team is getting quite old. 1t has been
in the service many years and is about
worn out.
Frank Merriam owns two fox
hounds and a blood hound. They are
thoroughbreds and are being trained
for hunting.
A w. Cantwell, who was operated on
for obstruction of the intestines at
Christ hospital a few days ago, is re-
covering rapidly.
Marc Robbins and Roy Crawford will
give Uncle Toms Cabin" at the
Grand, September and for the bene-
fit of the orphans home.
Rev. J. NJ. Brown, pastor of the c. NJ.
E. church, is the grateful recipient of
a gold watch, presented by the mem
bers and friends of his church.
Abe Fulford says he carried the tape
line down to the bridge the other day
when the measurements were made for
moving it. Il wanted to hurry it up"
he said.
A big watermelon party has been
planned for one of these evenings. and
the farmers had better keep close
watch of their patches, for it is to be a
hunting expedition
The request is made that every man
who rides q horse and wants to be in
the parade report at the corner of
Tenth and Quincy streets tomorrow |
evening at 1880. No uniforms are re-
quired.
An old man who was passing the |
Copeland hotel this morning in a troll |
ley car waved his handkerchief wildly |
at the crowd which was standing in /
front, but the politicians didn't seem to
see him.
A few evenings ago when Jailer Hop |
kins and a trusty were carrying a keg /
of beer into the cellar, which had been |
seized by the police, the pump was !
broken out of the key and the jail was
drenched.
The large number of small boys /
who gather at a fire these days is sur /
prising. They swarm about the place
and it is often difficult for the firemen |
to attend to to their duties on account /
of the interference of the crowd.
The prettiest decorated rig in the |
Floral Parade can be made from an I
open hack covered with canvas, onto /
which floral decorations can be sewed. /
With a canopy of white swiss. ribbons |
and flowers, nothing can equal it. Any
old hack will do.
One of the co1ored prisoners at the /
city prison yesterday tried to send a /
note to a colored woman who was in
the woman's ward. He put the note be-
tween two pieces of bread and sent it /
to her. Police Matron Thorpe discov-
cred it and spoiled the sandwich.