The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-01
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Grapes are selling at 10 cents a basket.
DR.. Mary White of Sterling was visiting
in town yesterday.
Councilman NetteIs owns the only
aeolian in Topeka.
Chicken thieves are operating in the
west part of the city.
Patrolman Davis once attended the
Kansas Medical college.
J. E. Junkin, editor of the Sterling Bull
letin, is in the city on business.
Railroad Commissioner billiard has re-
turned from a visit at Fort Scott.
Mayor Fellows has gone to Paola to
bid on the Miami county court house.
The Ralston Health club will hold a
basket picnic at Garfield park, September
18th.
All hope of the new bridge being ready
for travel for Festival week has van
ished.
The Sunfower team of Woodmen will
confer the degrees at Eastman camp to-
night.
a vacation with IA pounds added to his
frame.
jerry Black will visit Chicago this week
and go to New York on official business
Saturday.
Lincoln post is arranging to have
float in the Fraternal day parade at the
Fail Festival
A Topeka water spaniel follows in the
wake of the sprinkling wagons and gets a
free shower bath.
The Karnival Knights souvenir buttons
will be shipped from the factory in Jer-
sey City tomorrow.
Today DR.. d. B. Eastman took Mrs.
Celeste Coulter of Tecumseh to the insane
asylum at Osawatomie.
Small tables which could be used as
bedside stands are very much needed at
the Salvation Army hospital.
A cutaway coat and bicycle trousers
adorned man who was riding a bicycle
on Kansas avenue last night.
Westminster Presbyterian church is
holding a Sunday school picnic today on
the Sells farm east of Topeka.
Chief of Police Henry NJ. Steele,was for
seven months an attendant in the Illinois
state insane asylum at Jacksonville.
Cheops Council, Ancient Order of the
Pyramids, will give a social tonight for
the benefit of their Fraternal day float.
There has been perceptible settling
in the piers of the new bridge. Engineer
Waters made an investigation yesterday.
While in Topeka yesterday, J. L. Bris-
tow and Chester 1. Long arranged to ap-
punt e. M AhdrSAd1l pOSI1ndSL0T at Chase
Kan.
Ware & billiards. MINISTRIES, a local coll
ored aggregation, will give performance
at the Grand Opera House on September
b.
c. G. Sholes, superintendent of tele.
graph of the Santa Fe, has returned to
Topeka after a visit with his family in
Chicago.
Mr.. R j. Parker, superintendent of the
middle division of the Santa Fe, has re-
turned to Newton after short visit in
this city.
Mr.. Avery Turner, assistant generel sup
erintendent of the Santa Fe. has moved
from 1015 Quincy street to the residence
at 1901 Tyler street.
City Dog Tax Collector Nels Mcconnell
has collected this month $3.50 in dog tax.
This is the largest dog tax collected in
Topeka in one single month.
1t is probable that an homeopathic ply
stefan will be added to the staff of the
Santa Fe hospital. DR.. Chas. Lowry is
said to be mentioned as a likely appointee.
John Waters has way of. catching
large fish with raw egg fastened
the hook. He says that on his vacation
this summer he caught 14-pound fish this
way.
Mrs. Imogene Emmons, wife of Samuel
Emmons, has been taken from the Saliva
ton Army hospital to the Topeka insane
asylum. Her case is one of incurable in
sanity.
The Triple Tie and Lincoln Post, C. A.
r., were neither represented at the Fra
ternal day meeting last night but they
will both have float and join in the pa
rade.
Ernest Baker has resigned his position