The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-14
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS
'Possum hunts are now in style.

| -POSSum hunts are now IN style.
J. F. McManus is in Kansas City.
! DR.. NJ b Ward is visiting in the city.
Next Wednesday the circus will be
/ here.
/ A E. Hickerson is in Leavenworth on
/ business.
H. c. Root, the attorney. always carries
| an umbrella.
]. P. Howe has been employed in the
pension office for thirty years.
Dave Leahy wrote the ''recapitulation
chapter" of the Populist handbook.
c. Q. Trimmer has moved to the Hack
! ney summer residence near Highland
| Park.
| Judge o. L. Moore of Abilene was a Wis
itor at the Republican state headquarters
| today.
! The high school foot ball team is ar
ranging for game with the Ottawa high
school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Hull of 21s West
Eighth street have gone to Chicago for
a visit.
SiIas Rain claims to be the oldest Odd
Fellow in Kansas. He has been mem
Der for 49 years.
The fall visit of the Italian statue ped
dlers is due and they are coming out of
their summer trance.
Little George w. Click, Jr., was found
at Eighth and Topeka avenue yesterday
! afternoon by his mother.
Lincoln Post hall has been almost de-
serted this week on account of the state
reunion at Leavenworth.
Ex-Attorney General S. B. Bradford
has been appointed United States COM
missioner al Ardmore 1. 7.
The Populists have designated the Re
publican state headquarters at Copeland
as "Cy LeIand's branch office"
If there is a special session of the legis-
lature the people of Topeka should see
that the justice courts are shackled.
Judge Hazen has no sympathy for the
people who bring petty lawsuits in the
justice courts and then appeal them.
James Wick says there is little doubt
that Topeka will have a base ball team
in the Western association next year.
A Topeka man says he is going to quit
calling women angels until they quit
wearing poor slaughtered birds in their
hats.
October 20 is the time set for the de-
struction and test of the diseased cattle
at the state agricultural farm for tuber-
culosis.
The freshmen and sOphomores of Wash
burn college are planning a cane rush to
take place in the near future. The one
last year was fierce and furious.
W. A. Germany, press representative of
the l. o. o. F., was called away yester-
day on business and his place was taken
by Geo. w. Martin of Kansas City.
One justice of the peace keeps a small
library in his court room for the enter
tainment of any who may be waiting.
Eugene Fields works are in the major
ity.
Euclid school has no grades above the
sixth. Students of College Hill and
Martin & Dennis addition have to at
tend Polk school if advanced above the
sixth.
The burning of dried leaves is now oc-
cupying the attention of many residents.
and their neighbors suffer. Leaves should
be hauled away just the same as barn
refuse.
BY giving out without the sanction of
the state committee his treatise the
railroad question, r. W. Turner was de-
prived of having a piece in the Populist
campaign handbook
The postoffce elevator is not yet run
ming. The government is working hard
on a contract for electricity and it is
probable that this difficult problem will
be closed up before next year.
The Populists of Lane county are max