The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-25
SNAPS SHOTS AT HOME NEW

SNAPS SHOTS AT HOME NEW
Neither band concert had its usual
crowd last night.
The Populist county convention is to
be held a week from today.
1t has been discovered what o. M B.
stands for-Order More Beer.
A Topeka florist supplies the prison
sick with cut flowers every day.
The new walks at the state house
will prove a bonanza for wheelmen.
The State Historical society is gath
-ering criminal statistics of Kansas.
Weather Observer Jennings always
carries a pocket barometer with him.
All buildings at the county poor farm
We're thoroughly fumigated this week
Topeka merchants say they sell more
Bryan and Sewan caps than any others
A cOlored barbecue was held last
night at the corner of Monroe and
c. K. Holiday. ST., will write the To-
peka history in the Fail Festival souve-
mir.
The Westminster Presbyterian church
people are picnicking at Knox's grove
today.
The Big Wakarusa camping party
returned yesterday in the Prairie Pull
man"
Kansas people are doing something
unusual just housekeeping under cover
in July.
Frank Herald has returned from St.
Louis where he attended the POpulist
convention.
There are a few people in town who
think that their friends think of moth
ing else but politics.
Brigadier General Sully bade farewell
to the Topeka members of the Saliva
ton Army last night.
Another Cuban insurgent' called
upon the county health officer yester-
day for aid to go east.
Yesterday was ladies' free day at the
base ball game and there was good
attendance of the fair sex.
The best campaign button that has
yet appeared is of a man in coffin
labeled '"TOO much politics"
If some enterprising man would build
a good enclosed bathing pond near To-
pelza he might make money out of it.
Joe Waters has returned from Good
land where he defended NJ. B. TOmblin
who was charged with banking frauds.
Elias Pierson and John McNown who
live northwest of town, have donated a
large supply of vegetables to the To-
peka poor.
Councilman Roundtree says that some
one should trim the high hedge on
Washington street between Thirteenth
and Fifteenth.
The funeral services over the re-
mains of H. NJ. Bell will be held tomor-
row afternoon at the late residence, no
Buchanan street.
w w. Mills and his Sunday school
class of fifteen boys have returned
from Vera where they have been fish
ing for a few days.
A horse hitched to one of Whittaker's
delivery wagons yesterday broke loose
and ran onto the sidewalk near Wool
verton's drug store.
IWthur L. Hyde of Connecticut, has
been elected to the chair Of history and
political economy at Washburn college.
He is a graduate of Yale college.
Lille Pier has sued her husband Guy.
for divorce He has been in the peni-
| tertiary and the woman is well known
to the police. Her name was Tack
The crushed rock which is being
| hauled from South Topeka to the state
| house grounds drops along the paved
| streets and makes bicyling dangerous.
| A remarkable woman has been dis
| covered in North Topeka. She brought
| Fourteenth streets. A large tent was
| erected on a vacant lot for the pur-
pose.
| note for publication in an evening pa
! per to the Office at s o'clock this morn
| ing. Most people wait until o'clock in
| the afternoon and then wonder why it
| isn't in.
Kansas will be represented at the re-
union of the Loyal Home Workers al
St Paul in September by Mr. Chas
BeIcher of Enterprise. He will make
! an address upon the subject, 'Inspira'
| ton of Patriotism"
Florence Michel, a little orphan CIR
| years old, was sent TO Ration, N. NJ.
| yesterday afternoon by the Children'E
Home society OF this city. She viii be
! adopted by c. o. AGadOulet, a Santa Ft
| employee who formerly resided in To
| peza.
Word has been received in Topeka
| that the Denver bicycle riders who vii
attend the race meet here next month
will bring with them a quint. The
Kansas City riders viii have with then
a quad. An effort viii be made to have
/ a race between the two.