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

Judge Foster now spends the entire
day at his chambers.
The old Kansas avenue bridge is
growing shabbier every day.
The big assessment ordinance viii be |
passed next Monday evening.
The decision on the bridge bond case |
will be made next Saturday.
There is a case of scarlet fever in the |
family of S. McFarren at Shorey.
The county commissioners have been
asked to vacate Idlewild addition.
More Topeka people are taking their
vacations at home this year than usual.
Weather Observer Jennings has a
barometer which he purchased in 1878.
Referee Spencer's report on the Hub
bard receivership will not be ready for
several days.
Noble & Merriam will move into their
new quarters in Frank Merriam's build
ing next week.
In Lawrence there is an undertaking
firm and an insurance agency in the
same store loom.
What is the matter with each town
in the county having a showing in the
fall festival parade
The committees engaged in collecting
funds for the fall festival has reached
a point where it is up hill work
1nefe IS one JnlnS certain dDOul LuG
management of the base ball team now
It cannot decamp with the funds.
''I like hiking" said a Topeka new
rider today. 1T brings one in such
close contact with SO many people"
Justice Grover yesterday discharged
Waitsel Hardy, who was charged with
disturbance of the peace. Hardy is
| colOred.
The Twelfth street line of the electric
railway is in bad shape. The worst
place is between Harrison and Jackson
streets.
Many people telephoned to the police
| station yesterday afternoon to inquire
whether DR.. Brownfeld had arrived for
! his trial.
Justice Furry is now doing double
duty at his office and at the police
court. Police Judge Ferry is out of
the city.
Harry Whitaker, son of Fred Whit
aker, had his arm fractured at the ell
bow yesterday afternoon by falling
| from a tree.
The collection of coin at the Walnut
! Grove Junior league meeting Sunday
night was so large that it actually
! broke the basket.
James Z. Hughes has asked Judge
Hazen that the divorce granted Mary
| present at the trial.
Sidney s. Toler, who is the star in
| the attraction at the Crawford, is a
son Of H. C. Toler, the well known
! Wichita horseman.
Something should be done to the dis
trict court room so that a conversation
could be carried on and understood.
1t needs some wiring.
Now that the fountain in the Hun
| tOOn park is finished, an anxious neigh
borhood would like to know when that
band concert will be given there.
The Criterion company played La
| Belle Marie at the Crawford last night
| to a full house. This evening a spe>
| cialty performance will be given.
Maud McMurtrie. the 15-year-old
| daughter of B. McMurtrie of 1866 Lane
street, had her foot severely mashed
| by a horse stepping upon it yesterday.
Sidney Toler, the comedian at the
! Crawford this week, is the first man in
! Topeka to give an original and humOr-
| Gus announcement of the next nights
bill.
Senator Martin, in speaking of the
new woman, says: 1.-The new woman is
all right. 1 like her pretty we'll. The
old women are mighty fine, though. and
| hard to beat
Prof L. S. Greeley, a nephew of
! Horace Greeley, who has been teaching
in Washburn college for three years,
will not return to Topeka. President
Herrick will conduct the classes.
Charles Howard johnson, the Truth
| artist who died in New York Saturday
was a Kansas boy and passed his boy
| hood in Atchison- He was enga ged to
marry Elita Proctor Otis, the actress.
The police would do we'll to bestow
| some attention on the people who
| lounge on West Eighth street near the
| transfer station in the evenings and
throw melon rinds at passing pedes-
| trians bicyclists and buggies.
| The woman's flower committee of the
| fall festival will meet at the CONNER
ciaI club rooms at 625 Kansas avenue
! Thursday afternoon at 3 o'clock. All
women interested are invited. This is
| something that every woman in town
should be glad to lend her efforts to.