The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-16
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The rain came too late to do the peach
crop much good.
Work on the new state library rooms is
being pushed rapidly.
Joab Mulvane is visiting with Mrs. Null
vane in Des Moines Ia.
People are complaining of the condition
of the alleys in Topeka.
Willard Scott and John c. Frey have re-
turned from Chicago visit.
The Festival Queen was serenaded by
the Amphion Mandolin club last night
Ernest Simon has taken a position in
the car service department of the Santa
Fe.
There are 5000 American birds in the
Goss pathological collection at the state
house.
The Cremerie restaurant will occupy
the new Jewell building after the Fall
Festival.
The state house and newspaper men
will play ball at Athletic park Saturday
afternoon.
The Spiritualists do not seem to mind
the rain. Their spirits do not seem to be
dampened.
Fire station No. now has two fire
wagons brilliantly painted in honor of
the Fall Festival.
The commissioners have given up the
plan for building retaining wall around
the new court house.
The office of the secretary of state is
a general headquarters for the newspaper
men at the state house.
A new sidewalk is being laid in front
of the Crawford Opera House. More are
needed on Kansas avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. C. BlakeIy are the pa
rents of a son, born yesterday, who has
been named Victor Kennedy.
bill Mckinley" Art Massey's well
known bulldog, has returned from Ohio
with new kink in his tail.
Mrs Jas Wells of 1895 Pine street cele-
brated her Goth birthday yesterday by
making two aprons unaided.
The Elks will hold special session to-
morrow evening at which an elaborate
musical programme will be given.
Miss Sadie Stickney of the Santa Fe
general offices has been called to Chicago
by the serious illness of her mother.
Marshalrs band will give it's last con-
cert for the season on Sunday afternoon.
The grass is fresh and green again.
Mr. Robert Black of the car service de-
partment of the Santa Fe is spending a
three weeks vacation in Ell Paso, Tex.
H. A. Uterman was thrown from a
horse near Seventh and Kansas avenue
yesterday. He was not seriously injured.
The false work has been taken from one
of the arches of the new bridge. Let the
skeptfcs go to the river and watch for it
to fall.
Charles A. Taylor. assistant state au-
ditor, goes to Pratt tomorrow night to
attend the Populist county convention
Saturday.
Ora Hubbard, of the office of car serv-
rec superintendent of the Santa Fe, left
this week for Greencastle, Ind, to spend
a vacation.
NJ. E. Stoker has been given the con-
tract for furnishing collins for the county
paupers. The price is 50 for coffin six
feet in length.
George Tincher of the state printing Of
flee has donated to the Chesney park
ISOLATION so cedar trees, besides several
varieties of shrubs.
Atchison tried to secure Will Haskell
as official boomer for the Corn Carnival,
but he had already signed the contract
for the Topeka Karniva1 Knights.
The ladies of the Degree of Honor will
keep open house at Topeka Post hall. z20
Kansas avenue, Fraternal day for the
entertainment of d. of H. visitors.
The Santa Fe passenger department
will get out neat programmes advertis-
Fall Festival in general next week
A tent will be erected by a church So
ciety for a Fall Festival dining room in
the vacant lot on Kansas avenue between
the new Hogeboom and Jewell buildings.
The lower floor of the state house is
so dark in daytime that people frequently
collide with each other in passing through
the building. Why not burn a little gas?
Several vacant store rooms on Kansas
avenue have been rented for the festival
and will be filled with cots to be used for
the overflow in the hotels cannot accom-
modate all.
Frank Keith, who went to Port Arthur
from this city some months ago and es-
tablished a rug store in that town, has
written his parents that he lost nothing
in the recent storm.
At a building near the transfer station
certain young men are in the habit of
leaning out of the second story windows
and making insulting remarks to ladies
who pass along Kansas avenue.
Will Davis was yesterday bound over
in Justice Chesney's court to stand trial
in the district court on the charge of as
sault with intent to kill. He was COM
mftted to jail in oe default of bond.
Do not buy private carnival buttons.