The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

H A klauer Is the Iather or a girl
Atchison plays Topeka three games
next week. Independence may finish
out the week
| Perry and Geetman each knocked
the ball over the fence for a home run
at Athletic park yesterday.
A man who registered yesterday at a
| Topeka hotel, wrote opposite his name,
| Kentucky and then, Sab"
Don't let a single nag repose in OBJ
security. Bring out every flag in the
city and fling it to the breeze.
The Excelsior Gas company is putting
/ up two gas lamp posts in front of their
Office on Fifth and Kansas avenue
Mother Bickerdyke will be the guest
of the Grand Army next week. She
will occupy rooms and VeaIe block
! The Harmonic club has enlarged its
| quarters in the Masonic building by
adding the rooms formerly occupied by
the MOdOcs.
P. I. Bonebrake was elected one Of
the vice presidents of the National
Bankers association at the recent
meeting in St. Louis.
A Topeka man wants the Committee
of Fifteen to take down a bill board
that will obstruct the view from his
windows next week
A clover huller which was at work on
the farm of DR.. Minney, east Of Topeka,
burned one night this week. It belong
ed to Swight Rice.
The Committee of Fifteen has re-
ceived the badges that are to be worn
by the members of the Committee and
the press representatives.
Rain doesn't hurt asparagus. Some
body ought to invent celluloid flowers
that were cheap and then the decora-
tors could defy the elements.
At Topeka dry goods house in the
show window there is q. dummy woman
dressed in the latest style cloak, and on
the shoulder is a sign: Il am LORNA
Props have been put under the bal
cOny in front of the city building. The
balcony will be used as a reviewing
stand. The poles under it will be dec
GRATED.
Every building two stories high and
over, in the city should have a Flagstaff
and a flag on it. If you want to see
how fine it looks, go look at d. J.
Greenwald's store.
Frank Long has come from Kansas
City to run the big dining hail at the
state fair grounds. Frank is now run
ming the Dizzy Cafe on West Ninth
street in Kansas City.
Chief Wilmarth will not give any fire
exhibitions except those of quick hitch
ings at the stations. There will be such
large crowds that hose and running
exhibitions would be attended with
danger.
The Labor day parade will be the
shOWiest one in the whole programme
next to the Floral parade. A great
many visitors will miss it by not get
ting to Topeka until Monday afternoon
or Tuesday.
The uniforms of the Bryan-Leedy
F'Iambeau club are quite striking.
They are black duck trimmed in white.
Silver tinseI substituted for the white
would make them much more conspic-
uous at night.
One of Topeka's landmarks has been
torn down. 1t was the small frame
dwelling house at 421 Quincy street
which was built there over forty years
ago. During the civil war it was used
by Jim Lane as army headquarters.
Alice Hartman, a young lady living
in Potwin, was run over last evening
at the corner of Seventh and Quincy by !
two colored boys in a buggy She was
riding her bicycle. Miss Hartman was
dragged 20 feet but miraculously es-
capped serious injury.
Sergeant Ellison and a force of city |
prisoners put the old "NIilliken pie !
house" in shape yesterday for the pur-
pose of a follower for Fall Festival |
week. Persons who are merely drunk |
will be taken there and can be idenI- |
fed by friends as in mOrgue.
When Thos. Haines, the coIOred man |
who nearly murdered his brother last |
night. was put in the city JAIL one of !
the prisoners asked if the brother was |
dead. He was told that it was sup |
posed that he would die, when a pris- !
Oner in the rear of the room sang out: |