The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-05-08
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS.

The federal court officers viii return
from Fort Scott today.
The appellate court viii not be in ses-
sion in Topeka again until June 2.
Big Rock" about a mile south Of
town, is becoming a picnic resort.
The Topeka Academy of Medicine
and Surgery meets Monday night.
Dr. NJ. 3. Ward has gone to Atlanta
to attend medical society meeting
a new cement block walk has been
laid in front of the First National bank.
It's worth a mans life to ride bicy-
Gle off of Kansas avenue late at night.
now.
The Democratic primary at Oakland
is to be held tomorrow at the post
Office.
Mrs. D. Atwood is quite i'll at her
home, corner of Tenth and Tyler
streets.
NEarshaITs band will go to Lawrence
next Tuesday to play at a Masonic
meeting.
Prof o. c. Hill of the governors office
viii deliver the Memorial day Grafton
at Coneyville.
Commander w. G. Whitney of the
G. A r.. is physical giant He is 6
feet inches tall.
William Bradbury has not yet re-
covered the mare supposed to have
been stolen by Bill West.
Chief Wilmarth Of the fire depart
ment wants 1000 feet OF new hose for
the use of the department
The police business is duh again.
People are too lazy to steal or even
drink this sort Of weather.
Dick Cooley had one of his fingers
broken in a game between St. Louis
and New York at st. Louis.
Pm all at sea" exclaimed a man
who was driving over some Of the worst
Of our asphalt pavement today.
The corridors in the new wing of the
state house viii not be completed IN
til next year for want Of funds.
President A. K. Rodgers of the board
of police commissioners is a better re
vivalist than half the preachers.
Eugene Ware was in Wichita yester-
day and dropped into the newspaper
offices long enough to get a personal
A piece Of court plaster still adorns
the right cheek of Fire Marshal Will
marth, a souvenir of his recent acct
dent
A Junior Epworth league in Topeka
has refused to admit a little boy to
membership because he had pulled his
sisters hair.
The hortieulturalists talked about
the progress Of the web worm on apple
trees at their meeting in the appellate
court room.
The warm weather causes great
deal more going out between the acts
at the Crawford, where repertoire holds
the boards
A Topeka man has bought a new
suit of clothes and shaved off his
"a sr41-s
recognize him.
Miss Florence E. Humphrey was de-
clared insane in the probate court and
taken to the asylum. She is suffering
from melancholia.
A new use has been found for old
love letters. A Topeka woman cooked
four meals over hers this week. They
made a good hot fire.
A Mrs. Marques of CarrOllton, No,
has written to Mrs. Thorpe that she
would like to adopt a 7-year-old girl
for a term of ten years.
Competition in the barber business
is so brisk at Perry, in Jefferson coun-
ty that one man offers to give a cigar
or a piece of pie with every shave.
Weather Observer Jennings thinks
nothing Of riding on his wheel from
Topeka. to his home in Coffey county,
a distance of sixty miles, in four hours.
There viii be all kinds of beauty at
the Washburn vs.. T. A. A. ball game
at Athletic park tomorrow afternoon.
The Washburn girls are going out in a
bunch.
Mike EtzeTs relatives are circulating
a petition to the governor to release
Etzel from the county jail, where he
has begun serving time for three sales
of liquor.
A number OF people who didn't get di-
vorces during the recent field days in
the district court have cOnddentially
told the reporters that Judge Hazen de-
cided their cases through prejudice
W. I. Hamilton Of Kansas City, a
railway postal clerk, is the extra man
at the postof1ce allowed by the de-
partment to help during the mailing
of the pension checks. He is working
on Missouri and viii be here in ten
days
When the $4,000 people come here
Mckinley day. every effort will be
made to keep every one of them away
from the hotel whose proprietor wanted