The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-03
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMER NEWS.


All business houses will close at noon
tomorrow.
Col. c. K. Holiday is remodeling his
home on East Sixth street
The new electric lights make US mad
that we ever endured the others.
There were SO deaths and "a births in
this citv during the month Of June.
The fountain in Huntoon park was in
operation last night for the first time.
There are twenty thousand charters
on file in the secretary of states Of
fee
The McKinley-Hobart caps for small
boys have already made their appear
ance.
The Presbyterian churches will hold
communion services on Sunday morn
ing next.
After this the pension office employees
are to have but a half hour at noon to
take their lunches.
At a recent Topeka funeral all the
pallbearers We're girls. They almost
dropped the coffin.
Charowhas' parrot has been carefully
warned not to say Polly wants a
cracker tomorrow.
A new horse is being tried at fire de-
partment headquarters. It was secur-
ed from the country
Emancipation" day celebrations are
now in order, watermelons have ap-
peared on the market.
Deputy County Attorney A J. Nc
Cabe and L. H. Greenwood have form
ed a, law partnership.
George Sharitt, clerk of the United
States court will spend his vacation
in Yellowstone Park.
About rs members of the Degree of
Honor enjoyed a car ride over the City
railway lines last night.
The strawberries are like Patti.
They seem to never get through play
ing return engagements.
Irl r. Hicks, the weather prophet
says that there will be no severe storms
during the month of July.
The executive council have placed an
incandescent arc light in the lower
corridor Of the state house.
The wearing of suspenders and belts
at the same time is extremely popular
| among young colored swells.
Why does the man who raises cante-
loupes permit them to carry on a
Irritation with the pumpkins?
Judge Foster will not take his vaca-
ton before the middle of this month.
He will go to Battle Creek, Michigan.
'MarshalPs Band March" by w. F.
Roehr of this city, is being arranged
for the band, and it will be played very
soon.
| Sergeant Ellison went to Rossville
| yesterday on some personal business.
| Chief Gardiner kept the officers straight
| during his absence.
It is estimated that at least half of
the entire number of Santa F'e office
employees will spend the Fourth of
| July out of the city.
The contagious diseases in Topeka
| during the month of June consisted Of
! twenty-four cases of measles and one
| case Of scarlet fever.
! The police are looking for a small
colored boy named Eddie Reed. He is
wanted for stealing some shoes from
lower Kansas avenue store.
BARRIERS display signs today saying
! that their shops will be kept open IN
til II o'clock tonight. Some shops will
be open until p. m. tomorrow.
Deputy Collector of Revenue Tom Do
| Ian of Clyde is having trouble over
| fee which Washington man claims to
! have paid him and received no license.
Today closes the series of games Of
/ Topeka and Holton. If the Horton team
could be secured it would make it
| more interesting. Horton has a crack
team.
Miss Caroline Maddox, of Chicago,
| has been elected to fill the position of
matrOn at the Washburn cottages. She
| will also teach English literature in the
| college.
P. J. Donahue. Of 10 Quincy street,
! has a curiosity in his yard in the form
| of a fig tree. The tree is four years old,
! stands seven feet high, and now bears
a crop of IS figs.
A card bearing a likeness of Mrs.
Jane c. Stormont will hereafter be at
! tached to all books purchased for the
! City library from the income Of the
| StormOnt book fund.
Jailer Albert Hopkins says he hopes
| the man won't come after that coat
which was found on the porch on Blu
! chanan street, for it just fits him. 1t
/ is mighty nice coat.
| Justice Furry has set the trial of
Frank Bowman for July 8. Bowman
stole 80 cents worth of oats from a
farmer east Of the city. The farmers
| brought him to the police station.
! A Topeka young man who attended
! military school and was Dragging
about it was made very angry by be
| ing asked what he had done that he
| had to be sent away to such a, school.
One of the largest commission houses
| in the city that will receive as much
| benefit from the Reunion and Festival
/ e1S ally Ol4ACA OhSA4AGSS A4OUSe III the CITY
refuses to contribute a cent to the F'es-
| tivaI fund.
| A sign over a night blooming cereus
| in a Kansas avenue store last night
| said, This night blooming cereus will
| open precisely at $3.50" A passerby
! said, Il suppose it will open, say
| cuckoo twice and close again."
The police officers are having some
| fun with Patrolman Hale over some
| thing Patrolman Carlson said to a
malefactor whom he had arrested.