The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-17
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

| Last night was an ideal autumn
| night.
The enrolment at Washburn has
reached 176.
The Arions give social dance to-
| morrow night.
tending college.
Morning glories are becoming fash
| iOnable again, it is said.
No man ever gets hurt riding a bicy-
Gle. It's the falling off.
A. D. Toy is the new physical diree-
tor at Washburn college.
The Topeka undertakes say business
! is getting better with them.
DR.. J. c. McClintock has gone to New
Mexico to spend a short vacation.
Harry Stafford county attorney,is said
to be the best, story teller in town.
The enrolment of young ladies at
1 Bethany this year has reached 1O4.
Mr.. and Mrs. z. Reed of 1928 Kansas
avenue are the parents of g. daughter.
1t is understood that Pick Smith is
back He has been fishing. Dodge
| him.
The smile on the small boys face
means that nutting time will soon be
here.
Work will stop on the state house
walks this week. They will be fin
ished.
Out of Topeka's 5000 or 5000 children
| of school age, 400 are too poor to go to
school.
1t is now correct in these days of car
nivals to refer to a wedding as a rice
carnival.
E. c. Dreaming and Tom Aderhold
go to Ann Arbor to attend school on
Saturday
Richard Mansfield. whose date is Oc-
tober II, is Topeka's biggest attraction
this year.
A new hand organ man appears on
the streets every day. The Fall Festi-
val is coming.
VIII Pierce Of Maple Hill is quite i'll
with malaria1 fever at the Santa Fe
hospital in this city.
Frank Davis and Frank Sheldon will
learn the mysteries of dentistry this
winter at Kansas City.
The registrar of Washburn reports
that the enrolment at the college up
to Monday night last was Al.
People who claim to know say the
new moon is a dry one. If this is true
the Fall Festival is all right.
1t is an unusual week when some new
publication is not sprung in Topeka.
This week sees two new ones.
DR.. s. B. Anderson will probably &C
cept the pastorate of the First Presby-
terrain church at Newcastle, Pa.
A Topeka man who undertook to
smoke one of the new big cigars yes
terday will be buried tomorrow.
The Topeka Y. NJ. c. A gave a re-
ception to the new Washburn students
at the college Tuesday evening.
Armstrong & Kassabaum have 1000
pounds of butter stored in the Moeser
cold storage house on Tyler street.
1t is said the Smiths of Topeka if
strung out in ordinary single file would
make a procession three blocks long.
Victims of a cruel fate in the persons
of blind organ grinders are commenc-
ing to gather for Fall Festival week.
1t is to be hoped good many people
will patch up their asphalt sidewalks
while asphalt patching is fashionable.
The street corner money orators
should emulate the very good exam
pie of the mud. The mud is drying
up.
There are now 675 members of the
Topeka Y. M. c. A. The new member
ships and renewals will begin Octo-
Der l.
Merchants are laying in a supply of
tin horns in anticipation of the demand
for Carnival night of the Festival
week.
Robert Ruble, formerly a favorite in
Topeka society circles, but of late
years of Denver, is in town visiting
friends.
Eugene Ware, Harry Stafford and w.
F. Schoch will address a Republican
meeting at the baseball grounds this
evening.
Ed Ever, an employee of the w. A. L.
Thompson Hardware company, is very
i'll with typhoid fever at his home in
Seabrook.
County Attorney Harry Stafford not
only can play the fiddle as well as
Tom Watson but once sang bass in a
church choir.
Besides the band of 27 pieces, accom-
mOdations have been requested for 100
persons from Lawrence during the FAN
Festival week.
The asphalt sidewalk at the corner
of Eighth street and Kansas avenue is
being torn up and will be replaced by
vitrified brick.
In the sham battle during the Reun-
ion week Generals Lee and Grant will
be represented by men made up to
represent them.
A white woman who is in the city
Jail refuses to let visitors see her face.
She has a conscience and perhaps is
not past saving.
A new laundry has been established
on Van Buren, street near Sixth ave
nue. It makes an even dozen laun-
dries for Topeka.
The very humorous Carnival invita-
ton cards are the product of the COM
bined efforts of Charley Adams and
Paul Torrington.
Charlie Hendricks, who bought out
w w. Webbs ticket office, will attend
the college of Physicians and Sur
geons'' at st. Louis.