The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-09
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

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Cafe.''
scarce.
Klondike
ready been sold.
State Auditor Morris heard Bryan at
Burlingame yesterday.
The Bee Hive stock was shipped to
Kansas City yesterday.
F. o. Popenoe has gone to New York on
business for three weeks.
The T. A. A. will have a pool tourna-
ment commencing September %.
State Superintendent Stryker is at
Great Bend on personal business.
A number of Topeka people are attend
ing the horse show at Kansas City.
Representative 1. N. Ury of Fort Scott,
was in the city today on private business.
There will be a Salvation Army ha1le1u-
jah wedding at Hamilton Hall September
20.
Congressman Charles Curtis has made
subscription of $50 to the Fail Festival
fund.
A Topeka shoe firm gives away a Kar-
nival Knights button with every 50 pur-
chase.
w. E. Dom now lives in Kansas City,
where he has been working in a packing
house.
Capt. A. NJ. Fuller has been selected as
marshal Soldiers day during the Fall
Festival.
The Santa Fe shop and office base ball
teams will play game at Athletic park
Saturday.
A new sidewalk is being laid in front of
son street.
At the Rock Island depot in this city a
new fiagstaff has been placed over the
tower dome.
The stone in the old sugar mill is to
be used in the new buildings at the in
sane asylum.
Dick Rodgers, son of A. K. Rodgers,
went to Lawrence yesterday to attend
the state university.
Prof. and Mrs. L. D. Whittemore of 1915
College avenue, are the parents of a
daughter, born Tuesday.
Sloan Lodge No. 225, A. F. & A. NJ,
will hold a special meeting tonight. A
large attendance is urged.
The high school laboratory will be sup
piled this fall with five new microscopes
and $4O0 worth of supplies.
The Karnival buttons are on sale at
most of the business houses. Get the
genuine and not the bogus button.
J. Mack Love of Arkansas City, chair
man of the Democratic state central COM
mittee. is in the city on legal business.
Company NJ of Topeka is drilling early
and often to be in shape for the Fall Fes-
tival encampment. They are learning
rapidly.
Il. s. T. NJ. A. stands for Iowa State
Travelling Mems Association but is
sometimes read 81 Still Take My An
heuser.'
Although this is the hottest season of
the year from twelve to twenty-five peo-
pie climb to the top of the state house
dome every day.
The executive council is having the
Goss collection of birds cleaned and put
in shape for the inspection of visitors
during the Fall Festival.
D. T. Etter of Kansas City, the express
messenger injured in the Santa Fe wreck
last night, is cousin to Dave Etter, the
day clerk at the Throop.
Ed Carter was arrested yesterday on a
warrant sworn out in Justice McClin-
tock's court charging him with disturbing
the peace of Minnie Brown.
Physical instructors say that jumping
a rope 1000 times is equal to running a
mile. Less than this number is some
times equal to heart failure.
1t is said that A. G. Carruth's knee
joint will be stiff permanently as result
of the fracture of the leg bone in the
riot at Garfield park on Labor day.
Some persons do not buy Karnival
Knights buttons because they think they
will be sold cheaper during Festival week.
They will not and none will be given
away.
Small boys should not be allowed to
roll large iron hoops on the streets The
noise made Dy the iron has frightened
many horses and caused a few rum
aways.
A farm team with a load of watermel-
ons ran away on lower Kansas avenue
yesterday. The endgate came out of the
wagon and there was a general diffusion
of sweetness among a large crowd of
boys.
c. L. Wood, who will manage the pub
lie comfort station during the Fall Fes-
tival, says that people are slow to report
how many people they can take care of.
He can be found at Seventh and Jackson
streets.
Some time during October the Topeka
Turn verein will give a free calisthenic
exhibition in some park at which Mar
shalls band will play. A resolution to
this effect was passed by the Turn Verein
September Z.
The public schools of the city will this
year have a different schedule of hours.
The sessions will begin at 9 a. n. and ex-
tend to II a. m. The afternoon session
will begin at p. and end at p. m,
emitting the usual recess. The schools
open next Monday.
Josiah Jordan's residence at 1884 Van
Buren stret was damaged by fire yester-
day afternoon to the extent of $3.50 The
fire started from burning leaves south of
the house being blown into the parlor
window. The fire was extinguished with