The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

The Grand Opera House win be dark
this week.
Culver & Bailey are now in their new
store building.
Washburn college will have a foot ball
team this year.
Albert Marshall is no longer in Lee
Zones drug store.
The new fall shirts for men have
green plaid bosoms.
Just two weeks from today-the Fall
Festival and Reunion.
The grocers say that eggs are grow
Bng scarcer and higher.
Was that little touch of Indian sum-
Ener we had yesterday?
The fail term of the federal court
opened today in Wichita
The dust was brushed off many a
school book this morning.
Councilman Nettels expects to again
EaH up mis- garbage ordinance.
The thunder early this morning made
more noise than surface heater.
The zouaves' uniforms have been or
dered and will be here next week.
The Journal predicted Saturday that
Sunday would be a nice day and it was
The new fall neckties for men look
like they were made of rattle snake
skins.
Topeka wheelmen are still working
on their plan to bTuId a bicycle track
in Topeka.
The Modern Woodmen of Kansas will
hold a celebration at Garfield park next
Thursday.
WE Shock will address the Swedish
Republican club at Alb Kansas avenue
this evening.
A Topeka man who bought a shaving
stone yesterday sent it to his bitterest
enemy today.
There is a case of scarlet fever in the
family of Frank Henry. sos East Seven
teenth street.
No matter how bad the weather, the
cemetery cars always do a good bust
ness on Sunday
There was just a little more-in 'Ten-
hessee's Pardner'' than is usual in com
Rdy melodrama-
The wall of the Hall Lithographing
company's building on jackson street
As almost done.
That isn't a very pretty umbrella"
said man today, but it is the only
s0ne can't Iose.7'
The NJ. W. OF A. lodges of the city are
Building a splendid float for the Fall
Festival parade.
Tt looked for a few minutes this morn
sng as if the Kansas cyclone had re-
Aurned from Paris.
The state meeting of the Kansas
Equal Suffrage association will be held
an Topeka in November.
A Allen has completed the work of
putting in the waterworks at the fair
grounds for the Reunion.
The Garaeld park monkeys have been
removed for the winter. They may be
exhibited at the Reunion
The ''gramophone,' which has been
invented in opposition to the phono-
graph, has reached Topeka.
Major A F. Shreve is secretary of the
board of Karnival Knights and Ed
ward Henderson is treasurer.
Bandmaster John Marshall saws there
will be no more farewell concers. That
yesterday was positively the last.
"A good many people, said a cross
man today, should be kept off the
streets on account of their looks"
To show that they are really in earn
est the pavement patchers worked right
On through the rain this morning.
All of the Topeka travelling men say
nearly all their customers expect to at
tend the Fall Festival and Reunion.
The Kansas commercial travellers
will have a special float in the Fall Fes-
tlval parade and it will be a hummer.
G0CA many 4OpGhd democrats are
figuring on hearing Joe Blackburn of
Kentucky, at Leavenworth on the 22nd.
It has been discovered that Mr.. Hor-
ace Boies of Iowa. who wanted to be
president, looks like DR.. Ward of To-
peka-
Gormly's band has offered to play
free during the Fail Festival week, pro
viding the other bands will do the
same
The Fail Festival race meeting was
not a great success on account of the
mud The receipts were only a little
over Sc.
Charles Shields and George CARRIER
son were discharged from the county
Jail Saturday, having completed their
sentences
You can't hurt man more than by
saying something mean about his sing
ing. That is a point that every man is
touchy on.
The hand organ and monkey season
is about over but the parrot and mon
key season will last until the middle of
November.
The wooden pavement on the Sixth
street viaduct is worn to a terrible con
diti0n. Must have brick there in a
year or two.
The First precinct, Fifth ward, Nc
Einley F'lambeau club, ecolored, win or
der uniforms next week. The club
numbers So
A Topeka young woman Is writing a
FAN Festival march and will dedicate
st to whonsoever is chosen queen of the
Floral parade.
1.-The only thing don't like about
these concerts said a woman at the
park lis that they do interrupt the
conversation So"
A banana tree Is feet high with leaves