The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-01
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

/ El6Q Lara mas returned TO 1OQeka.
| He has been with a, circus
! VIII and Mute Carr will ride to Eu-
| dora tomorrow on their wheels.
| Probate Judge Wood made a Repub-
| Hcan speech at Oakland last night
| A Topeka clothing store is supplying
the popular demand for bathing suits.
Last night was not as hot as the
night before. There was a better
| breeze.
VIM. Henderson of Potwin has been
reelected treasurer of school district
No. 81.
Tess Wilson of Topeka has been ar
rested at Holton for selling liquor at
the races.
Gormly's band has been engaged to
play at the Priests of Pallas parade in
Kansas City.
Holton has prettier park than To-
peka has, but she doesn't allow any
teams on it.
James Hayes. the florist, was elected
treasurer of the Seabrook school dis
trict Thursday.
The L. A w has donated the To-
peka public library L. A. w. road books
of several states.
Santa Fe shop men, who take their
dinners at the shop, talk politics dur
ing the noon hour.
The State Journal March was loudly
applauded at Marshalrs bands concert
at Holton last evening.
A Topeka man has rugged his ham
mock with mosquito netting and now
sleeps out of doors at night.
The street force of the city washes
the pavement on Kansas avenue from
the hydrants these hot nights.
East Fourth street has now, in ad-
dition to the only woman barber, the
only woman jOintist in town.
The employees of the Santa Fe gen
eral offices were paid in bills and silver
yesterday. No gold was paid out.
The city teamsters use the city Jail
lot every noon for a feeding place much
to the annoyance of Waterman Boyd.
Fred Scott of Holton is the exact i'm
age of TOpeka's Lee Jones, size and all.
This is pretty hard on both of them.
Judge F. G. Adams. of the state his
torical society, is sending out his an
nual report. 1t is handsomely bound.
Holton is a delightfully."- unconven-
tiOnaI town. You may sit in the opera
house parquet there with your coat off.
Holtons kite shape track may be a
little better for speed than our track,
but it is not nearly so good for specta-
tors.
A Topeka man who took his summer
vacation yesterday afternoon is tireder
today than he would have been had he
worked.
E. G. Sausman. who has been head
bookkeeper of the Topeka City Railway
company for the past six years, has re-
signed.
After the races last evening Is of
Marsha1l's band delighted a large aud
fence in the EIolton public square with
a concert.
An old man tried to hold up a re-
porter last night near Potwin Place,
but he recognized his mistake before it
was too late.
H. K. Winans, who visited ex-Sheriff
Bush at Auburn yesterday, says that
Mr.. Bush is failing fast and can last
but a short time.
The Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. has taken
in ten new members and several more
railroad men have signif1ed their in
tention of joining.
Third Baseman Outland of the Min
neapOlis ball team will play on the
football team of the University of
Pennsylvania next winter.
The Topeka Volunteers are preparing
for special meetings on Monday and
Tuesday evenings. Captain McFadden
of St. Louis is to be present.
Some of the ice cream wagon drivers
are too airy to prosper. One of them
wouldn't drive half block yesterday
to sell three dishes of ice cream.
Bert Williams, the coIored boy who
was run over by an electric car Tues
day night is improving. It will not be
necessary to ampUtate the other leg as
at first thought.
Two young men who have figured
prominently in society circles in the
city, have gone wrong, and have left
town. They were living faster than
their incomes allowed.
Hardly a day passes that some
plank on the floor of the old Kansas
avenue bridge does not break. Traffic
was stopped there Thursday evening
for an hour by a broken plank.
Marshal1s band will play all week of
the Fall Festival for nothing When
the city gets able to, it should appro-
pirate 81, 500 a year for MarshalPs band;
then its concerts can be made free.
The police officials and sheriff's as
sistants have been busily engaged the
past two days in working on the Con-
stantine case. No conclusive evidence
has yet been secured. Clean out Smoky
Row anyway.
Many say men are selfish, but there
are a thousand Topeka men who are
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their wives are summering at lake and
mountain resorts Talk about the
emancipation of women!
Justin BOwersock of Lawrence, who
is visiting in the city, owns one of the
finest private law libraries in the state
Tt formerly belonged to Scion o.
Thatcher of Lawrence. Mr.. Bowersock
graduated this year from the Harvard
law school.
Jeff Davis made another speech last
night at Sixth and Kansas avenue
This is a fight between labor and cap
ital" said he with a flourish, but if
Won want to fight capitaI Won should