The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-21
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME EWs

The river is going down.
The bridge bonds have not yet been
delivered.
The Salvation Army has gone to
ROssville.
The first grapes of the season are on
the market.
Foreman Brown Of fire station No. 3,
is at home sick.
VIII Webb smokes an ornamented
Turkish pipe in his Office.
The Republican state convention will
be held at Hamilton hall.
O.P. Updegraf will be the starter at
the AtchisOn and Holton races.
Ben Jordan is still begging the coun-
ty commissioners for release from Jail.
The Capital elevator has purchased
$50 cars of corn for shipment to New
York.
An Iowa man has written to a To-
pel1a man that Mckinley will carry
Iowa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Moll of 412 Liber-
ty street, are the parents of daugh-
ter.
Farmers are now bringing wagon
loads of last years corn into town
daily.
The Epworth league of the First
Methodist church will enjoy a car ride
this evening.
The young people of the First MethO-
dist church will have a trolley car ride
this evening.
A wall group of the pictures of the
most prominent Topeka attorneys has
been published.
A Topeka young lady, who is an en-
thusiastic bicycIist, has four different
suits of boomers.
There are at present nine patients at
the StOrmOnt hospital, the largest num-
Der since opening.
A dog went mad and caused quite a
scare in POtwin yesterday afternoon.
The dog was killed.
It is to be regretted but the suspend
ers the women wore some time ago are
coming back again.
A call has been issued for a state
meeting of the ex-Slaves association in
this city September q.
J. Harnsworth, of "a and Sc (old NOD
Tyler street, has been issued a building
permit for barn to cost 800.
George NJ. Noble bought the Booge
home at Sixth and Buchanan streets
for $500 at a foreclosure sale.
The latest Bryan button is a silver
beetle which on being touched, lifts his
wings and shows Bryan's picture.
Miss Julia Hedderstron of Burlin-
game was operated on for appendicitis
al the StOrmont hospital yesterday.
Ed Holman will build an addition to
his residence, 112 Evelyn street. It will
be frame, 13x21 feet, and will cost 5000.
James McNIuuen, the 19-year-old boy
who was operated on at the Santa Fe
hospital last week, is reported to be i'm
proving daily.
The G. A. r. room in the court house
has been secured for the meeting of the
ladies' Floral Festival committee, Tues
day afternoon at 3 o'clock.
The East Ninth street car line, hav-
ing been reduced to the level of the
street, the street is now bling reduced
to the level of the car line.
when are you going to preach an
other political sermon?" was asked by
a reporter of Rev. A. S. Embree. Every
Sunday" replied the minister.
The rivalry is between the river and
the money question just now regarding
which can draw the larger crowd. The
river was ahead all day yesterday.
Fred Smith came in from his farm
at PerryviIle yesterday to have a good
time. He drank beer and cider, and
the police judge fined him IS for his
fun.
Manager Ruff. of the Topeka Base
ball company, has received an offer
team to play an exhibition game in To-
peka.
Will Brown, the colored man who cut
W. S. Grover a few days ago in North
Topeka, was bound over to the district
court for trial yesterday afternoon by
Justice Furry.
The First Methodist church people
will probably give the annual picnic at
Garfield park the first part of the
month. Last year there was an excur-
sion to Bismarck Grove at Lawrence.
It was decided last night to employ
MarshalPs band to play at the Repub-
lican state convention. Jackson's band
will be employed for the second day
and the Quenemo quartette will sing
during the convention.
N. Yoder, the man arrested for vag-
rancy by the police Sunday night was
released yesterday afternoon by the pO-
lice judge. He was given "A hours to
get out of town, and he said that it
would not take him near that long.