The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-27
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Holton races begin tomorrow.
The man who sells campaign badges
now has a bonanza.
Yesterday was bloody Sunday"
Three men were shot.
A crowd of Topeka cyclers picnicked
at Forbes pond yesterday.
What the Committee of Fifteen needs
is a few more Topeka clubs.
The band concert yesterday by Mar
shalPs, was particularly good.
A Russian was arrested by the police
Saturday night for being drunk.
The Topeka physicians as a class are
the best patronizers of the ball games.
Every woman in town will be a paper
flower expert by the time of the Fail
Festival.
B. B. Smythe, who lives at Ninth and
Harrison, captured a swarm of bees
in his yard.
Richard CLANCY is seriously i'll with
bowel trouble at his home, 1905 West
Sixth street.
Eighteen public school pupils have
entered in the prize contest in natural
history next fall.
Electric fans in Hamilton hall would
have been appreciated at the ratifica-
ton Saturday evening.
Mrs. c. S. Baker is recovering from
the effects of the injuries received in a
runaway last Thursday.
There is a committee meeting of some
kind almost every hour now in connec-
ton with the Fall Festival
Capital Lodge, No. 3, conducted the
funeral services over the remains of
H NJ. Bell yesterday afternoon.
Every man in Topeka who can make
a speech has been engaged for more or
= III he
4 Love You So" by Will Van Ness,
was played by MarshalPs band yester-
day. Mrs. G. S. Baker wrote the words.
A selection from the opera ''Erminie''
was played by MarshalPs band yesber-
day at Garfield park. 1t was delight
full.
There is a woman in Topeka who
will not permit the discussion of poll
ties in her house on Sunday. She's
right.
The patrol wagon was called out
three times in quick succession Satur-
day night, and all three time to go
north.
The Temperance Monitor this month
contains the complete text of J. W.
G1eed's address at the Ottawa Chau-
tauqua.
No band can successfully cope with
other night than Friday during the
Fall Festival.
The Solomon City aremen, who will
have a running team in the Topeka
Fall Festival contest. practice three
nights each week.
The Exchange grocery store, at Sixth
and Quincy streets, was entered Fri
day night and IS in small change stol-
en-. A rear window was broken
A stranger in Topeka who walked
across the Kansas avenue bridge yes
terday was almost frightened to. death
for fear it would go down with him.
Father P. Shields, who was formerly
assistant pastor of the Church of the As
sumption in this city, has been called
from Abilene to Boston, by the death
of his sister.
For the benefit of campaign orators
it is timely to announce that the last
syllable of Rothschild's is pronounced
'sheelds.'' The name in English would
be Redshields.
The old tramp shack on the Ward
farm near the Rock Island railroad is
now being inhabited by a prosperous
farmer, and the tramps camp in the
woods in that vicinity.
A young married man who took his
wife's advise for cleaning his straw hat
yesterday, will buy a new one today.
The old one will be saved for the Fall
Festival carnival night.
Possibly 1000 people attended the
Grange picnic at BerrytOn, Friday. and
had a good time. Major VIM. Sims, J.
W. Stout, F. NJ. Cockrell and Arthur
Capper were there from Topeka.
Edward Stephens of the colored in
dustrial school has been presented with
a handsome chair by the Ladies So
ciety of the institute in appreciation
of his work and that of Miss Riddick.
William Schlegel. the proprietor of
the meat market at the corner of Sixth
and jackson streets, was removed to
Christ hospital Saturday and will be
operated on today for intestinal trou-
BILE.