The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-01
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

AAS5 etl 0dIuelQ pdTK To-Day.
The asphalt repairing force is work
ing on West Tenth street.
The largest melons of the season
have appeared on the market.
Gornly's band will close its summer
season of concerts this evening.
Police Matron Thorpe wants an old
large print Bible for an invalid.
Since figuring up all expenses of the
recent circuit meet the T. A. A. W.
finds that it is out $3.50.
H. w. Mcdaniel of Kansas City and
Al Wick of this city have formed the
Topeka View company.
The Elkhorn dancing club will be re-
organized for the coming season and
officers elected next week.
The old Kansas avenue bridge will be
removed to its new foundation within
ten days, say the contractors.
S. 3. Bradford left yesterday for Be
Vier, Mo, in response to a telegram
stating that his brother was dying.
F. D. COburn is absent in Nebraska
attending the state fair and inspecting
the displays of agricultural products.
A Topeka man whose wife has been
out of town for two weeks has changed
boarding places three times since she
left.
Sheriff Bob Kepley has had an ex-
cellent crayOn portrait of Bryan made
and hung in his Office at the court
house.
Jackson's Military band has received
an entire equipment of new instru-
ments which cost in the neighborhood
Of $500.
A Harrison street woman keeps a
patch of weeds and a scythe ready for
begging tramps. 1t generally scares
them away.
Chairman Gault of the Republican
county central committee is trying to
arrange to have ingalls, speak at Ham
htOn hall September II.
This sea son the oifu xUaoa outline
force burns the weeds after cutting
them. 1t has been customary to let
the weeds lie and rot.
The Sunday school workers will can.
vaSs the city, beginning September 10,
to ascertain the number of children
who attend Sunday schools.
The wife of a we'll known colored
lawyer has made a study of the fin
ancial question and can talk it as glib
~ as a member of congress.
DR.. S. 3. Anderson will leave for In
dianapolis, Ind, this week, where he
will deliver a sermon in the First Pres
byterian church Next Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. A. Austin have been
called to California by the death of Mr..
Austin's brother-in-law. They will re-
main in California several weeks.
There are a large number of people
in this town. said a police officer to-
day, who seem to think it is a police
mans sole duty to suppress Names
President f. WellhouSe of the State
Horticultural society has gone to his
orchard near Wakarusa to superintend
he gathering of his Jonathan apples.
Richard Mansfield's date at the
Grand is October II. This is a stand
ard attraction and cost a big guaran-
tee. It is not known what he will
play.
A couple Of residents in the vicinity
of HuntOOn and Fillmore have been an
noying the neighbors the past few
evenings by burning old rubbish and
dried leaves.
The Ladies' Aid society of the First
Presbyterian church will make paper
flowers for the Fall Festival and with
the money received for them buy a new
carpet for the church.
The Slayton bureau will furnish the
entertainments for the high school lee
ture and concert course this winter.
The contract was closed yesterday.
There will be five entertainments.
Pease, the Colorado gold bug, has lost
a large degree of his popularity as a
street corner orator and he has been
succeeded by Councilman Fred Round
tree.
The Republican central committee
has received large pictures of Mckin-
ley and Hobart which will be suspend
ed across Kansas avenue. This will
make eight pictures of candidates.
Mr.. r. B. Gemmell is still quite i'll
with a severe attack of malaria1 fever.
Reports received in this city from
Las Vegas, N. M, state that there is
practically no change in DR.. GibsOn's
condition.
Owners of business houses are re-
quested to drape them on Floral day
of the Fall Festival with evergreen and
flowers, which can be purchased for
very small sums from the ladies' floral
committee.
Two Of the fast bentovers who rode
in the races here Saturday were arrest
in Lawrence Sunday evening for fast
driving on the quiet streets of the town.
They were "Reddy' Maxwell of Win
field and L. McCauu Of Lincoln.
Thomas Pullen, the old English rag
picker who was a charity charge in To-
peka for so many years and was last
spring sent to well-tO-dO relatives in
London has written OF his safe arrival.
He is rs years old
Today people are allowed by law to
let their chickens run at large. But
they had better not do it, for there is
bound to be trouble and then the pO-
lice court will have to drag the neigh
borhood up and settle the difficulty.
Mrs. Jane Mccullough was tried yes
terday in Justice Growers court for as
saulting a little colored girl named
Laura Wisdom. The jury acquitted
her, as the child's head was cut by her
running against a post with a nail in
it,
The money which Mary Wallace te1e-
graphed for to Kansas City Sunday
night when under arrest arrived and
was yesterday given to her. She is
the woman who robbed the two trav-
cling men at the Crane house on East
Fifth street.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. W. Douglass have
been appointed to go to China as mis-
sionaries by the Presbyterian board of
foreign missions. They will leave in
a few months. Mr.. Douglass will have
charge of the printing of the literature
for the board in China
Secretary William H. Barnes of the
state board of horticulture left today
for Chanute to attend the NeOshO coun-
ty fair that is held there this week He
will also attend the Anderson county