The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-22
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The regular soldiers and Indians will
arrive next Sunday.
The reform school boys are building
float for the floral parade.
Mrs. Sutton will have charge of the
decoration of the city building.
T. c. Richey, publisher of the Wichita
Times, visited Topeka yesterday.
The plans for lighting the A. Q. U. w.
arch nave not yet been perfected.
An important meeting of the Karnival
knights will be held this evening.
The force has been enlarged to
clean up the city before the festival.
The Shawnee Fire Insurance company
will buy the new Topeka sewer bonds.
The new flag pole for the top of the
state house dome will be put in place
today
silas Roney of Troy, O., is visiting his
nephew, Silas Rain, and will remain for
the festival.
VIII Eberle is doing considerable
rustling for the bicycle feature of the
floral parade.
The prizes for the floral parade are now
on exhibition in the window of Geo. w.
Chase's shoe store
J. F. Kirkpatrick is building a frame
dwelling to cost $1,400 at (old number)
A Kansas City paper last evening print
ed an excellent picture of Mr. C. S. Sut-
ton as king of Kansas
''Matty' Evans, Topeka's popular base
ball catcher, has gone to Albuquerque,
N. NJ, to spend the winter
Several of the musical organizations of
the city will establish headquarters in
Topeka during Festival week.
The Kansas City Live Stock Exchange
has given notice of appeal of the case re-
Gently decided by Judge Foster.
Two men and a bass drum constitute q
parade, according to Hoyle, and that is
enough for the small boy to follow.
George w. Parkhurst has been elected
temporary chairman and H. E. Overholt
temporary secretary of the Apollo club.
The work of preparing Representative
hall and the Senate chamber for the Fes-
tivaI Queens ball has been commenced.
The men in charge of the public COM
fort department of the Fall Festival say
they have accommodate for 1000 peo-
pie.
General Superintendent Nudge of the
Santa Fe left yesterday on an inspection
trip over the southern division of the
road.
All who dance at the Karnival Knights
ball will have to be masked. A space
will be reserved for those who wish to
look on.
E. Hughes has been granted a building
permit to build a frame dwelling and
barn at (old number) 4S7-491 Clay street,
to cost 81, SIS.
A medical journal gives the following
advice: Grapes should never be given
to children under years of age, and very
sparingly then.
The Karnival Knights buttons are pat
ented and also copyrighted and anyone
Infringing on either right will be dealt
with accordingly.
Mr.. H. B. Fleharty will deliver an ad-
dress on ''State and National Prosperity"
at the Populist league rooms in the old
court house tonight.
Mr. c. T. Mcclellan, division superin-
tendent of the Santa Fe, has gone to
Chicago to spend a short vacation with
view of benef1ting his health.
Governor Leedy got up at $3.50 this
morning and went to Emporia on the
fast mail, going from there to Parsons,
where he speaks this afternoon.
The Homeopathic night school will
open week after next. Drs. H. w. Roby
and Chas Lowry have been elected as
members of the faculty of the school.
Some of the state house young men
carry their personal cards, in the lower
corner of which appear two lines of dis
play type indicating the position they
occupy.
Yesterday the sun crossed the equator
and the night and day were equal. This
calls for an eQuinoctia1 storm. Let it