The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The mud In the suburbs Is drying up
Joseph g. Wilson. jr.. has entered
Washburn-
The trolley road IS being repaired on
Kansas avenue.
P. L Bonebrake is confined to his
home by illness.
Fred Lundquist Of the Hub, is the
father of a new boy.
w. f. Rightmire and his new cane
are back from Chase county.
Sidewalks in the side streets are COW
cred with dead fallen leaves.
The state house grounds have been
raked and the small stones taken off.
Prof. J. H. Wetheren viii give his
opening ball next Monday evening.
The Topeka railway company is hav-
ing its poles in Auburndale painted.
Almost all the babies born in Topeka
this summer and fail have been boys
DR.. J. B. Hibben and Geo. W. Reed are
in Wichita attending a n. ". A. meet
ing.
good part Of the business of the
sherin's Office now IS outside of the
city.
The Arion society will give a BAN at
their hall on lower Kansas avenue to-
night.
The asphalt on North Kansas ave
nue. is now being patched up and iron
ed out.
The twice-a-week dances at the state
insane asylum have commenced for the
winter.
c. 2. Davis Of South Harrison street
has organized a glee club of nineteen
members.
Ice cream is now lingering in the lap
Of the oyster. but Indian summer win
soon be over.
The biggest political banner display
ed on Kansas avenue belongs to the
smallest party.
Judge r. T.. Head Of Springfield, Ill,
has arrived in Kansas to make Repub-
hcan speeches
Judge G. A. Huron attended the
grand lodge of odd Fellows in Leaven-
worth this week
c. G. Malm, late Of the Crosby store,
has gone to Harrington to take a place
in a store there.
G. A. HIagaw Of Ferry & Doran's
office left today for Ann Arbor to I'm
ish his law course.
One Of the fiat boats at the Kansas
river bridge is named Mckinley" ana
the other Bryan"
Judge Hazen has granted Polly Bar
ker q divorce from Caleb Barker on the
grounds Of cruelty.
The family Of J. D. Small who re-
Gently moved to Topeka, viii spend the
winter in Atchison.
Fred Gordon, Ed KeHam and Dave
Lal1in viii so on a hunting trip to Mis-
sion Ridge, Sunday
Mrs. Fred Scanned of Atchison Is
in Topeka this week having a surgical
operation performed.
Apples are said to be cheaper in kan
sas this year than they were ever
known to be before.
A man appeared on the streets of
Topeka yesterday with a beard he
could have sat on
There IS a movement on foot to have
the business houses close on the after
noon Of election day.
A Harrison street lady today do
mated 116 good articles Of clothing to
Mrs. Thorpe's poor.
W. T Crosby, the dry goods man, is
in Louisiana at his plantation. He left
for there yesterday
Instructor Worth of the T. A. A is
preparing for a public athletic exhibi-
ton to be given soon.
1T is the ". wv. @. a., not the Y. M. @.
a., that is helping MRS. Thorpe ia her
charity work this year.
The Republican state central com
mittee viii not send out campaign lit
erature after this week
A gray haired man is now confined in
the county Jail on the charge. it is said,
Of stealing rs ears Of corn.
No, dear, Vanity Fair which win
be at the theater next week is not a
dramatization from Thackeray
T. J. Graham of Topeka and Miss
.-1r,
riel in Kansas City, No. today.
D. j. Greenwald has not missed a
meeting of the Committee of Fifteen
since that body was organized.
Crosby Brothers have just secured the
contract for furnishing the Topeka pen
sion office with brussels carpet
c. H. Petty. a Santa Fe switchman
had his thumb mashed yesterday in
making a coupling in the yards
The south wall of the east wing OF
the state house is crumbling and sew
eraI large pieces have fallen out.
VIM. schIegel. who was operated up
on Tuesday at Christ hospital, stood
the shock well, and viii recover.
Secretary Barnes of the State His
toricaI society is in western Kansas
making speeches for fruit raising.
One Of the largest classes at the To-
peka Athletic association is composed
of Santa F'e officials and employees.
I'm tell you" says a Topeka police
officer, Its not always the best police
man that makes the most arrests
A number of lodges of secret orders
in this city are arranging for masque-
rade balls to be given Halloween night.
A company is to be organized soon
for the manufacture of the wire fasten-
er invented by Topeka man recently.
w. Lewis, OF the Toronto Globe, Can
ada, is in Topeka this week looking
over the political situation for his pa
per.