The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-30
SNAP SHOTS At HOMENEWs


Mayor Fellows has ordered all the
| dogs in the city muzzled.
| Several drops of rain fell on Topeka
| at o'clock this morning
The Topeka Typographical union gave
$25 to the Fail Festival fund
Capt. A. J. Arnold has posted signs
to keep hunters off his farm.
The girls are now wearing their cam
paign button in their back hair.
Even the members of the Salvation
Army are hstless these hot nights.
The crowds at Cages lake do not stay
longer than o'clock in the evening.
J. J. Frey, Jr, little son of General
Manager Frey, is quite i'll at Colorado
Springs.
The Topeka club members and their
families will take trolley ride tomor-
row evening.
Marshalrs band will give its concert
tonight as the band will go to HoIton
tomorrow.
James Ruth and Annie Swain of Hol-
ton have been granted marriage Ii
cense here.
Max Wardall, Ray WardalI, and Frank
Smith have returned from 1900 mile
bicycle trip.
The Redden Mission Sunday school
picnicked Saturday at the reform
school farm.
The First National bank of this city,
has an adding machine which is opera
ted by q crank.
E. D. McKeever went to Jefferson
county today in the interests of Trout
mans candidacy.
A Topeka man who is making col
lection now has % different kinds of
Mckinley buttons.
The L. A. W. circuit bicycle races will
be given at the state fair grounds in
this city August Is.
There is this advantage about BIZ
cycle: Its rider can have a good
breeze whenever he wants it.
The Turner baseball club of this city
will go to Eudora Sunday to play the
Champion Blues of that place.
Nothing has been heard of the Bar
Der Asphalt company and their prOpO-
sition to repair the pavements.
The Topeka co1ored people will cele-
bra g. August 1st at Garfield park. Cur
It's, Eudson, Fellows and Watkins will
SPEAK.
The pension Office employees have on
ly half an hour off at noon for lunch.
1t requires some hustling to make con-
nections.
There are now over 800 Topeka wo-
men making artificial flowers several
hours day for the Fall Festival flow
er parade.
Since the Kansas avenue pavement
has become so badly broken up it has
lost its popularity as a driving place in
the evening.
A Topeka man has fly fan which he
purchased at the Centennial exposi-
ton. 1t is an odd looking affair opera
ted by clock work.
ATopelza young man has adopted the
Arizona custom and now sleeps on the
porch at night; but they have no mos
quitOes in Arizona.
VIII Van Orsdal of Silver Lake. who
was once q candidate for county sup
erintendent will be married TODAY to
Minnie Vandemark
The patrOlmen are required to keep
their coats buttOned while on their
peat RMS weather is pretty rough on
them. The regulation is really cruel
The police were called upon yesterday
to prevent a woman on West Eleventh
street from beating her child. The hus-
band is employed at the state ca pitol.
Claude Stanley, son of Prof. E. Stan
ley, state superintendent of public in
struction- is Quaker He is grad
uate of the Quaker school at Erlham,
Indiana.
Deputy County Clerk John Wright
and number of other Topeka colored
men are attending the meeting OF the
grand lodge of the coIOred X of P at
Wichita.
The floral decorations on Floral day
are not to be confined to carriages.
Many OF the business fronts viii be
hung with garlands of flowers and
evergreen a foot thick.
Edwart Stewart asks for a divorce
from his wife Hattie, who he says
niTts till late at night with other men
They have one child named Lovey and
have been married ten years.
A letter addressed to Chief of Detec-
tives, Topeka" was received at the DO
lice station yesterday, and immediately
turned over to Detective Zeller. 1t
turned out to be an advertisement
Robert Stone, the lawyer, secured q
writ of mandamus yesterday from
Judge Hazen to compel Justice Grover
to transfer the papers in d case which
Stone is conducting, to Justice Guys
court.
If $4,000 people visit Topeka, Fail Fes-
tival week. they will spend not less
than So apiece or $3.50 600. This is put
that is one way in which it must be
looked at.
Chicago young man, who is stop
ping in this city, is making himself IN
popular at an east side boarding house
by continually roasting Kansas Kan
sas is also roasting him at a tempera-
ture of 9S.