The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-15
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


ing. 1t is cheap.
For two weeks the Grand Opera
House will be dark.
There is now colored First Voters
Mckinley club in Topeka.
All the doors and windows that pos
sibly can, stick this weather.
The house numbering system will
soon be extended to Auburndale.
DR.. D. R. Pelton is very low with tu-
berculosis at his home in this city.
The family of J. F. McKibben has
moved into c. J. Cores house in Pot
win.
New brick sidewalks have just been
built about the POtwin school build
ing.
Harry OverhoIt is too sick to be at
his desk in the state treasurer's Of
f4ee.
The Kansas Medical college will open
its seventh year one week from to-
day.
Thrifty people are getting rooms
ready for the Fall Festival visitors to
rent.
Two new members of the Topeka L.
A. W. are Frank Sim and J. A. PIow-
man.
The politicians spent an anxious time
Maine"
A Topeka young lady who is in Mex
leo bought a dozen Opals for twenty
five cents.
Il have had three sick spells in Kan
sas in forty years. said p. P. Elder
yesterday.
The Crane injunction case against the
American Book company will be heard
next Friday.
Pauline station can be seen from the
fifth floor of the Santa Fe general Of
fee building.
Mock marriages are becoming popu-
lar pastimes at young ladies' gather
ings in this city.
AuburndaIe is to be fixed up with
new stone crossings, drains and some
new brick walks.
The Potwin city schools opened yes
terday with a big attendance and Eliza
Maggie as principal
Herbert Parker, late of Rowley's
! drug store, is at Kansas City to attend
| the medical college.
A Topeka man who had a good bust
ness last year has ruined it by neglect
ing it to talk politics.
Politics and baseball form the chief
| topics of conversation at the Rock ISL
and offices in this city.
The person who wears a big cam
paign badge is generally a prospective
candidate or very young.
w. H. Culp denies the report that he
is a silver Republican. He says he has
always been a Democrat.
Judge T. S. Carver of the appellate
court and Republican candidate for
chief justice. is in the city.
The Bryan-Leedy Free Silver Flam-
beau club will wear blue uniforms or
namented with silver braid.
DR.. F. D. Boyle of the First Christian
church is in Fort Scott where he is con-
Quoting a protracted meeting.
The Medical college expects an in
creased attendance this year. Who
says advertising does not pay?
Washburn college students have or
gained a boarding club at which meals
will be furnished for 81 per week.
Topeka lodge No. g, of the National
Reserve, will hold it's annual election
this evening at Lincoln post hall.
Since the holes in the asphalt are be-
ing repaired the holes in the street car
track pavement need repairing also.
Eugene Ware has left town for
week and S. T. Howe will finish the
prelude to the Fail Festival souvenir.
All the Potwin streets have just been
nicely graded for the Fall Festival
with the aid of that new road grader.
A Topeka woman who is fat, and 40
that's an-allowed herself to come
down town today with a campaign cap
on.
The employees of the Daily Co-Opera-
tor, the Populist paper, struck Satur-
day. but were settled with and went to
work.
D pro7far7se TIL 71o4.1 H..
ayes will have a practice drill this eve
ming at the south steps of the state
house.
The greatest invention of the age
will be a telephone that you can hear
through-au the time and not intermit-
tently.
A certain announcement was made
recently about the -"Drettiest girl in
Topeka" and so far 713 girls have de-
MED it.
A. ID. Gray of Edward Wilder's Office
is moving into s. NJ. Gardenhire's house
at the corner of Laurel and Greenwood
avenues.
So far as reported the enrolment of
the city schools is 4,253. This does not
include the Lane and Buchanan
schools.
Little Anna Troutman, the 7-year-oId
daughter of James A. Troutman, has
nearly recovered from her attack of
diphtheria.
It is said to be unusual that fruit
and grain are good yields in the same
year in Kansas. This has been an I'M
usual year.
DR.. NJ. B. Ward, who has been in the
White River country hunting elk and
bear, has returned and his friends are
lodging him.
Chancellor F. H. Snow delivered the
welcoming address at the State unfver-
sity and then came to Topeka at noon
on business.