The Topeka state journal., 1897-10-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The city council will meet tonight.
E. c. Little speaks at Stockton today.
John Frey contemplates locating in Chi
cago.
Alonzo Wardan is travelling in the east
| on business.
Allen Lowe and family will spend the
winter in California.
shipment of shell oysters has arrived
in the city from New York.
A sign on a barber shop on Kansas
avenue reads: ''Shine on the inside
George stoker will move into his new
house on West Sixth street next week.
MarshaIPs band may go to Pittsburg
next summer with the knights Templar.
Bishop Vincent preached at the Low
man Hill M. E. Church yesterday morn
ing.
Several hundred people enjoyed the nov
city of walking on the new bridge yes
terday.
More than one man in Topeka broke
the Sabbath by putting up heating stove
yesterday.
Several hammocks still occupy the re-
mote corners of porches. There will be
hot days yet.
large rat makes his home in the
show window of a downtown store. He
watches the people pass.
a witness in justice court testified in
a recent case that he kept the books and
his partner kept the cash.
There has been an increase of 115s in
the number of pensioners paid from the
Topeka office since March 1.
DR.. Buckmaster has purchased the
house near Fifth and Lincoln streets
which belonged to T. E. Pounds.
The jolly Girls club of Phillipsburg,
Kan, has made a quilt and sent it to
the Salvation Army hospital in this city.
The bars which are being put in the
second story windows of the city Jail
massive enough for a Spanish dungeon.
A special request has been sent to the
Sells-Forepaugh show that they do not
allow their bands to play "A Hot Time.
L. B. Pemberton, formerly a well known
Shawnee county school teacher, is now
the editor of Town Talk at Pasadena, Cal
. A. J. Paramore has been convicted of
cruelty to animals in the district court.
He whipped a horse belonging to DR..
Burkett.
The Christian Endeavor chorus will
meet tomorrow evening at the First Pres
byterian church instead of the Y. NJ. c.
A rooms.
Superintendent F. E. Crabtree of the
Scott county schools, came to the Topeka
Fall Festival on his bicycle, a distance
of 800 miles.
J. NJ. Amis, assistant state superintend-
ent, has gone to Kentucky, called by a
telegram announcing that his brother was
not expected to live.
Ralph Mulvane had some trouble with
Captain Shannon of the American Volun-
teers and left th~ : ranks. He will join
the United Brethren church.
The old stone house on the corner of
Eleventh and Quincy streets is being re-
built. Years ago it was a hotel fire.
quented by overland travellers.
Since Bob Semple was officer of the
day and wore a uniform for twelve hours
during the Fall Festival, all of his mail
comes addressed Colonel R. H. Semple.'
Rev. Mr.. Gillespie of New York delfv
cred a lecture last evening at the First
Presbyterian church on his trip to the
Himalaya mountains. He stated that in
India there are $4,000 lepers.
Eph Kepley, who is now in the employ
of the Swift Packing company, will go
to New Orleans to take charge of the
office for the company as soon as the
yellow fever dies out.
Pension Agent Leland has appointed J.
P. Wilcox of jefferson county and J. S.
Morris of Sedgwick in place of A. B.
Thompson. Mr.. Thompson resigned and
his salary of 81, 400 is divided between the
two men.
State Treasurer Hehebower does not
take kindly to a special session of the
legislature. He says: THE members
might have some trouble in getting their
money, and besides, we don't need a spe-
cial session.
The Topeka Daily Blade for october II,
1878. has the following headline: THE
Yellow Fever Not Disappeared From
Ohio The dispatch gives total of Z
deaths al Gallipolis, o., "A in New Or
leans and IL in Memphis
The Arion society Saturday evening
gave a concert in which vocal solos were
sung by Prof. w. Dahlen and 7. B. |
Macarthur, selections by Steinberg's or
chestra and Horacek's either orchestra.
songs by the Arion Singing society and
a violin solo by Harry Steinberg. After