The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-29
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS
Congressman Curtis is growing heshy.

completed to Lincoln street.
The hot wind in Kansas this year struck
below the belt-the corn belt.
The regular meeting of the Committee
of Fifteen will be held tonight.
Ice cream wagons do a land office bust
ness at the wooden mill dances.
Alaskan mosquitoes can have no terrors
after reading about those in New Jersey.
Sheriff KepIey drove to Valencia yes
terday looking after his political fences.
Miss Kate Adams is holding services
this week at the Episcopal church in Au-
gusta-
Mr.. w. Won Dahlen will begin in Sep
TENDER giving pupils recitalS twice a
month.
L. Blackman personally superintends
the work on the sewers for which he has
the contract.
Are there any Havana cigars when no
tobacco has come from Cuba since the
war broke out?
The tower at the north end of the bridge
is being raised twelve feet. 1t will then
be 100 feet high.
Two men are in the county jail awaiting
trials for insanity. The probate judge is
in Colorado Springs.
EVIL associations corrupt good cante-
ioupes. Too many of them have been
flirting with pumpkins.
The sun looked like a large bite had
been taken out of it when you looked
through a smoked glass.
A Topeka woman who is afraid of burg
lars found this morning that window
had been left open all night.
Mr.. A. D. Gray, assistant cashier in the
treasurer's office of the Santa Fe, left to-
day for Colorado on a short vacation.
Mr.. c. w. Kouns, car service superin-
tendent of the Santa Fe, is in Ell Paso on
business connected with his department.
Mr.. ]. H. Brinsmaid of the car service
department of the Santa Fee, has return
ed from ten days outing at Wakarusa.
The most violent partisan in the city
council represents a ward where a coun-
Gilman can not be elected on a partisan
issue.
Mr.. w. ]. Black, general passenger
agent of the Santa Fe, will return this
week from the east after a three weeks
absence.
Why couldn't arrangements have been
made by Mr.. Jennings to keep the eclipse
on all day and thus hold down the tenn
perature?
The Fall Festival parades won't be
complete without one float representing
1.-The KIondike." 1t ought to be gilt from
top to bottom.
1t is not surprising that there was an
effort on the part of the sun today to
cover up it's face; after the kind of
weather it has been giving US.
c. D. Skinner kindly sent of his
large picnic wagons to the orphans home
Tuesday night and gave the children
two hours ride around the city.
A woman went into a Topeka butcher
shop yesterday and said she would like
to try a slice of ''grubstake'' that she had
been hearing a good deal about lately.
A man was seen on the streets yester-
day who has already discovered a crack
in the cement in the new bridge. That
bridge will be watched close enough, de-
pend on it.
J. c. Waters says that Andree's trip in
search of the north pole is not perilous
as that of Blondin, who walked across
Niagara Falls on a tight rope, carrying
man on his back.
The women who are selling lace, claim
ing it is for the benefit of the Fall Fes-
tival fund, have paid no attention to the
resolution passed by the Committee of
Fifteen declaring them frauds.
No wonder Superintendent Hart of the
reform school was anxious to find a
base ball team to play with his team.
They have already defeated two or three
1IudlSuA AOpSheI CCehAAio'
The free use of the fair grounds has
been rendered by the Committee of Fiji
teen for the proposed ball game between
a nine from the Santa Fe general offices
and the Santa Fe shops.
The Modocs last evening gave two
porch concerts at the residences of DR..
U. B. McCurdy, 615 Tyler street, and
Mayor Chas. A. Fellows on Lincoln, be-
tween Seventh and Eighth streets.
Incidental to the Kansas state circuit
meet in this city August and Z, the T.
A. A. w. will give a bicycle parade on the
evening of August 5. Suitable prizes will
be given for the best decorated lady's and
gentlemans wheels.
Shirley Lewis, the Topeka tenor singer
who took first prize at the Hutchinson
jubilee last season has been offered
scholarship in the Chicago conservatory
of Music. Mr.. w. Won Dahlen, whose pu-
pill Mr.. Lewis was, secured the scholar
ship for him.
A Topeka woman who went to a coun-
try boarding house in the hope of getting
all the spring chicken and fresh eggs she
could eat has returned and the first thing
she did to lay in a supply of those
very things.
The meeting of the T. A. A. w. and L.
A. w. members in this city has been call
ed at the T. A. A rooms next Monday
night for the purpose of discussing the
candidates for the position of chief con-
sui of the L. A. w. in Kansas The chief
consul will be chosen at the state meet in
Lawrence August 3. and 5.
The official button for Carnival night
of the Fall Festival will be the picture of
some pretty Topeka girl with a small
mask over her eyes. Guessing tickets
will be placed in the stores where anyone
desiring to enter the guessing contest can
pay small sum and be given a chance to
earn prize for the proper guess.
A Topeka tenor singer recently bought
the song After the Ball" He is known