The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-08-27
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

Sunday.
The next thing on the weather pro-
gramme is a. frost.
Congressman Charles Curtis spoke at
RossvilIe last night.
Four weeks from next Monday the
Fall Festival will begin.
The thinnest man in the city is a
clerk in one of the banks.
There is talk of forming a society
for summer bachelors in Topeka.
w. c. Clement has taken a position
with the Hub Clothing company.
Mrs. A. A. PliIey of North Topeka is
seriously i'll with malarial fever.
Work on the new Hall building on
Jackson street has been commenced.
Judge Wood will address the McKin-
ley club at Ottawa tomorrow evening.
The Santa Fe advertising department
is now at work on the Fall Festival fly
ers.
Councilman Roundtree is one of the
instructors in the Sixth street financial
school.
D. P Paxton of the Model Supply
company is confined to his home by
illness.
The piles to be used for foundation
for the old Kansas avenue bridge have
arrived.
Jesse SHAW Will erect du duu1IAOA u
his residence on East Sixth street to
cost $500.
1t is difficult to walk down Kansas
avenue now without being bombarded
by political tracts.
Congressman Curtis is scheduled to
speak at LulI's hall in the Fifth ward
tomorrow evening.
George Younggreen is building a $40
barn on the rear of lot 20 (old MOI,
North Quincy street.
F. W. Swearingen, who is one of
MarshalTs cornetists, is also director of
the Lecompton band.
MarshalPs band will close it's con-
cert season Sunday, after playing a
concert Friday night.
Orlin Crawford has given up the
idea of going to Kansas City and will
manage the Grand here this season.
The committee on health of the city
council visited the proposed sewer dis
trict in North Topeka last evening.
Mr.. Avery Washburn is now entirely
recovered, and removed from the StOr-
mont hospital to his home yesterday.
One of the neatest campaign buttons
to be seen is a pearl button with the
candidates picture photographed in it.
Searching has been diminished upon
the streets considerably since the spec
iaI officers were appointed to look after
it.
For the first time in months two
days got by this week without the fill
ing of a case of any kind in the district
court.
Tom Woody, Dick Mullis and John
Seig engaged in a fight yesterday over
a set of harness and all three were ar
rested.
If you don't shut up III beat your
face was a remark made by a young
west side mother to her 2-year-oId baby
last night.
c. o. Knowles is having two small
dwelling houses moved from 1O32-34
Lawrence street to his lots 115-117
Quincy street
Since the cool weather arrived the
temperature remains in the neighbour
hood of so from midnight to 6 o'clock
in the morning.
Thomas Berry has written a march
called Uniform Rank Knights of Pyth-
las" MarshalFs band will play it as
No. 10, Sunday afternoon.
Topeka has three fourishing mineral
wells. One is located on West Eighth |
street, another on Kansas avenue, and |
the third on Fillmore street.
One of the worst pieces of sidewalk in !
the city on the west side of Jackson |
street from Eleventh street north to |
the alley, has escaped condemnation.
Down by the old Kansas avenue |
bridge is a popular loafing place now. |
Some are there to get work and others |
who wouldn't work anyway are there !
to watch operations.
1t was Henry Jordan and Albert !
Lindsay who were in Mr.. Joe BEERS |
yard on Klein street Tuesday evening.
Jordan owned the revolver and Lind |
fired the af NTT
Warren Anthony of Westmoreland,
came to Topeka today and will take
George Smith home with him. Smith /
is the man who took an overdose of /
cocaine at the Chesterfield hotel Tues
day night.
The following Topeka merchants are /
in the east stocking up for fall and /
winter trade: w. NJ. Crosby, w. W. |
Mills, Dan Clements, Charles Adams,
Abe Steinberg, w. T. and E. H. Crosby, |
J. E. Crockett and A. H. Sharum.
A travelling man named J. NJ. Haw-
thorn got drunk and created a dis
turbance on Smoky Row, and when ar
rested he had SO. 25 in cash in his poclx-
ct. He put that up for his security and !
it was forfeited by the police judge.
It would be an original idea for Band
master Marshall to give a concert OF |
all Topeka compositions. Excepting /
TOT the lack OF variety II would be SOOG. I
Some of the Topeka compositions are |
good enough to be heard anywhere.
Luther Volmar, the minister's son, |
who was sentenced to the reformatory /
by Judge Hazen for forgery this week, |
has written a letter to his home paper, |
the Garrett Eagle, expressing his deep |
sorrow at his waywardness and his /
resolution to reform.
A young society man in this city |
avenue young lady with a pretty book |
entitled. e.rC1ui.-t C1I1nid and C,rnas11s ,, |