The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
Tomorrow is pension day.

The roads are now in a. very proper
condition for another rain.
The regular monthly city council
meeting will be held tonight.
The Railroad Y. M. G. A. had an in
crease of nine members last week.
The money taken in at te city jail
from fines last month was $398-25.
Westminster Presbyterian church
will take a trolley ride tomorrow even
ing.
Judge Hazen's district court closed
today for the month of August and he
will rest.
The coIored employees of the Santa
Fe in this city have organized Nc
KinIey club.
w. E. Brubaker will execute pension
vouchers at Lincoln Post hall tomorrow
without charge.
Cinder walks are being put in the
Huntoon park around the fountain, and
from either extremity.
Farmers say the peach crop will be
much smaller than promised. Worms
are doing much damage.
The Sundays of this summer seem to
be cooler and pleasanter than the
other days of the week.
Shawnee county has sold the state
S67698 worth of stone for the state
house walks this summer.
Ex-Policeman Crosby, who used to
drill the patrolmen, is now mOtorneer
on the Topeka railway.
The Republican Silver league is pub
fishing a bulletin answering objections
to the free coinage of silver.
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh McGivern, cor
ner of Second and Adams streets, are
the parents of a daughter.
Dogs are used as subjects by several
Topeka surgeons in performing expert
mental surgical operations.
No one has been arrested for scorch-
ing since the T. A. A. W. members were
sworn in as special police.
Three brick sidewalks are being put
down on Ninth street between Harri-
son street and Topeka avenue
A. NJ. Harvey went to Abilene today
to look after his campaign for the nom
ination of lieutenant governor
Pick Smith, who is in Oregon, has al
ready begun telling fish stories to his
Topeka friends by postal card.
The hose reel at the North Topeka
fire station has been newly painted by
a local firm, and it is handsome.
Mrs Elizabeth Walden has sued her
husband, Alfred L. Walden, for divorce
charging cruelty and abandonment.
A number of people living in the
west part of the city attend the asylum
band concerts at the asylum grounds.
Undersheriff Bert Lucas went to
Sheffield, No, today after Brady, the
chicken thief who was caught there
Saturday.
The Accounting Trust company is to
move into the rooms vacated by the
Commercial Security company at s07
Kansas avenue.
The colored people of this city were
unable to gather a. sufficient crowd to
run the excursion over the Santa F'e to
Alma Saturday
During the month of July there were
81 deaths and % births reported in this
city. The deaths are all reported, and
more than half the births are not.
Fred Close and Philip Myers were in
Atchison yesterday to play with the
Atchison ball club against Hfawatha
Hiawatha won and the score was to
10.
During his illness in this city, ex-
Governor George T. Anthony has re-
ceived hundreds of letters from friends,
among them one from Major William
Mckinley.
A new sandbar has been formed on
the south side of the river by the drift
wood which collected against the troll
ley car bridge. The water in the river
is now shallow.
A Topeka blOomer girl who rode her
wheel too close to the heels of a young
horse on Kansas avenue last evening
is having the wheel rebuilt today and
narrowly escaped with her life.
The hot sun is pretty severe on the
patrolmen who have been on night duty
for the past month. and have just been
changed to day duty The day men
who are now on night duty will lose
lots of sleep for a few days
Tomorrow evening GormIy's band
gives another free concert 1t might
be well to keep the patrol wagon at the
concert with a load Of policemen, and