The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-06
SNAP SHOTS ATHOMENEWS

County Clerk McCabe is away
fishing trip.
Sergeant Tim Donovan has been ill
with rheumatism.
The voice of the lawn mower is now
heard in the land.
The Shawnee mills have made a large
shipment of flour to Amsterdam.
F. o. Popenoe has gone to Colorado
where he will remain week.
Jake Haskell has been appointed as
substitute in the fire department.
George Bates will build a $1,000 brick
residence at 41O Van Buren, street.
The county committee of the silver
clubs has called a conference to be held
! in Topeka May %.
Marshan's band will hold an old-fash>
toned barbecue and cake walk at Gar
field park on July 4.
A. F. Wesson has been issued a IL
| eense to build a barn at 324 Hancock
street which will cost $50.
Work has been commenced on the
brick work of the new store buildings at
Seventh and Jackson streets.
Topeka house painters are busy. There
is more house painting being done this
spring than for several years.
Tomorrow afternoon at Athletic park
the State Journal and State House base
ball teams will struggle for supremacy.
The C. A. R. posts of Topeka will give
the new commander a reception next
Saturday evening at Lincoln Post hall.
Robert Short, the runaway boy taken.
in by the police yesterday lives at Win
field. He says his father has abused
him.
The tops of the Golfer dams are once
more visible above the water and work
will he ont a ne
bridge.
Miss Celeste NelIis, the accomplished
young pianist of this city will give sew
eral concerts at different points in the
state next week.
The annual contest between the Philo-
mathean and Athenaeum societies of the
high school will be held at the high school
auditorium tonight.
Rev. Chas. NJ. Sheldon walked in to the
open saloon in the Jockheck building yes
terday afternoon and made an inventory
of the surroundings.
The annual sermon OF the Ex-Slaves
Pension association will be preached at
the B Street Baptist church next Sun
day by Mrs. Lena Mason.
Probate Judge Dolman last night issued
a marriage license to Frank A Rees. OF
Granville. and Olga Huber, of Meriden-
They are aged respectively % and %
years.
DR.. George McCrury Of Lawrence, who
has been visiting John Tasker in this
city during the meeting of the Kansas
State Dental association, has returned to
his home.
The first issue of the Topeka IndeIsnd-
ent is out. It is made up of editorials
from beginning to end. It is neat
looking paper, published by Frank Root
and Albert Griffin.
Judge T. F. Carver, who now lives in
Topeka, will discuss teaching temperance
in the Sabbath school at the Soldier
township Sunday School association
which meets at Rochester in June.
Ottawa university and ST. Marys col
lege played base ball yesterday at the
latter's grounds and the score stood 10
to Is in St. Marys' favor. Ottawa is play
ing Washburn college this afternoon.
Emporia papers tell about four Topeka
men who are camping and fishing at the
rivers. They are r. H. Faxon. J. S.
Leach, c. P. Manningly and J. P. Col
Vile
The Topeka Railway company will
connect the Topeka avenue and Kansas
avenue termini of their lines soon SO
that in handling large crowds from the
fair grounds a continuous circuit can be
made.
None of the Topeka homeopathic ply
sicians attended the meeting of the state
society at Hutchinson this week-(they
all had cases of very serious illness which
prevented them, but their papers will be
read at the meeting)
The preliminary examination of Eu-