The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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tics now.
c. S. Elliott is wearing a new gold
bug badge.
It may not rain on the races but 1t Is
making a great bluff.
A Washburn is seriously i'll at his
home west of the city.
The Bank of Topeka has declared its
usual seni-annual dividend.
VIII it be hot enough in August to
make up for this cool weather?
The county commissioners have va
Gated a part Of Brentwood addition.
County Clerk AIcCabe now has one
of the prettiest little houses in the city.
one by one the jointists fall, and now
there are seven fresh ones in the county
jail.
The hook and ladder truck made
run yesterday without breaking any
thing.
The orphans home refuses to take
any more children during the hot
months.
c. P. Adams of the committee of ff-
teen corresponds with every editor in
the state.
Councilman Nettels has gone to Bur-
lington to take testimony in a water
works case.
number of twenty are having ride
and picnic today.
Councilman Warner has returned
from fishing trip to Maple Hill. He
reports a heavy catch.
The management of the Columbian
building has been transferred from A.
H. Bates to J. H. Hunt.
The Commercial club room is now
pretty place to spend an hour. It is
fitted with reading tables.
There was a union meeting of the
Baptists of the city Tuesday evening
held at 100 West Tenth street.
Rev. J. D. Boyle of the Christian
church of this city, will deliver an adj
dress in Independence, Kan, tomorrow
night.
A scrap book is being kept by the
Commercial club containing everything
published about the Reunion and FAN
Festival
A Topeka piano dealer who makes
speciality of one make Of instrument,
has in his own residence a piano of an
other make.
Since the undertakerss of the city run
free ambulances, the police patrol wag-
on is relieved of a great deal Of emer-
gency work.
Allen Alexander, the young colored
man. ~ AAO was A4GSLGG d Lew I'd GA5O
on the charge of violating the age of
consent law, is now out on bail.
Mckee Rankin, whom Topeka people
saw a year ago when he was playing at
popular prices. is to succeed Frank
Mayo, in "Pudd'nhead Wilson"
The Christian Endeavor society Of
the First Presbyterian church was out
in two special trolley cars last night
decorated with flags and singing Amer
lea.
Nine Of MarshaI1's band furnished
the music for the races yesterday after
noon. They rode along Kansas avenue
at noon and played to drum up
crowd.
Gormley's band will not arrive from
Chicago in time to play g concert Fri
day night, but the following Tuesday
night they will continue their free open
air concerts.
George Hamel, Santa Fe yardmaster
at Wellington, has a letter from a
brother in Hamburg, Germany, in
which he says the best bicycles are sell
ing there for S35.
Il was originally in favor of free sill
YER" said a man today, but I have
been bored so much by the subject that
I think III vote for the gOIdites as
means of retribution.''
The patrol wagon was taken to the
fair grounds yesterday afternoon. Some
people thought that it was there for
an emergency, others that Patrol
Driver Bundy and Sergeant Ellison
wanted to see the races.
Judge J. F. Lee. who was sentenced
to ten days labor on the city stone pile,
was too sick to work yesterday, but
today he is pounding stone like a man.
He says that he will never come to To-
peka again if he ever gets out of the
jail alive.
Two small boys came to the police
station yesterday afternoon and re-
ported to Chief Gardiner that some big
boys had stolen their boat. They
wanted to get a warrant, but the chief
told them to go and demand the boat,
and the youngsters started toward the
river feeling happy.