The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

Sheriff Kepley has been endorsed by the
| Democratic Flambeau club.
! One Topeka firm has reduced the price
! of soda water to three cents.
This can't last" say the people about
the heated spell; but can't it?
Patrolman Whitaker has purchased a
| new revolver. of which he is proud.
Don't walk much while the tempera-
ture is so high. Patronize the street cars.
The Republican primary which will nom
| mate g county ticket will be held tomor-
| row.
| Work was commenced today on the
| third FAN Festival float, a submarine
! scene.
Governor Leedy betook himself to Law
| renee yesterday to enjoy the rural.
breezes.
The meeting of the Committee of Fiji
| teen last night adjourned on account of
| the heat.
| The work of putting the concrete in the
first arch of the new bridge has been
commenced.
Don't drink too much ice WATERPROOF it
on your wrists-thats where it will do
the most good.
The First Presbyterian church picnic
will be held at Garfield park Wednesday
afternoon, July IA.
Topeka will play three games of base
ball with Atchison at the latter place,
beginning Monday.
The contract for the Lincoln and Blu
chanan street sewer is to be awarded
next Monday evening.
The officers of the sanitary department
say that this weater is just right to start
an epidemic of diphtheria.
The Sunday school rally being held at
the First Christian church has been
tended and will close Sunday.
There is hole in the beautiful new
flag on the state house already. Mrs.
Leedy ought to darn it at once.
Thermometers on Kansas avenue yes
terday afternoon at 3 O'Clock registered
the temperature at 1O4 degrees.
Prof. Geo. w. Jackson's chorus re-
hearsed last evening. The Soldiers
Chorus" from Faust, was given.
The reduction of the price of high grade
bicycles from 500 to $75 has had no per-
ceptible effect on the trade in Topeka.
Owing to the repairs which are now be-
ing made the First Congregational church
will be closed for two or three Sundays.
Every candidate in the field can tell
stories about how his opponents are US
ing underhand methods to secure votes.
The biggest crowd seen in Topeka since
the Food Show will be in Garfield Part
at the spectacular play of Cinderella
DR.. J. P. Raster, chief surgeon of the
Santa Fee, will move his family to this
city from Albuquerque, N. M, this fall
The dates for the state tennis tourna-
ment as fixed by the managers of the
event at Emporia, are August g. 10 and IL |
CIoyd R. TroxeI of Abilene, law partner
of Private Secretary Ed c. Little, was in
jured in runaway at Abilene few days
ago.
Garfield park is now frequented by doz-
ems of picnic parties every evening. It
ought to be "frequented" by five more arc
ligb.s.
Are you going out to ''revel'' with |
Lorina's Revelers on the night of the |
Carnival? Better begin thinking of your |
costume.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. E. Bradfeld of Verdi |
girls, Lyon county, visiting friends in |
this city. They will return home to En- |
poria today.
Topeka fisherman returned yesterday |
from a trip and reported that he had |
caught $50 fish but the weather was too |
warm to bring them home.
The Topeka base ball management has
secured the services of Gettman, who |
made such a brilliant record on first base |
last year. He will play at second.
Miss Lottie Bowes was to have taken
the part of the Godmother in the spec
tacular opera of Cinderella" but as she
will go east next week she cannot parti-
cipate.
Tom Pounds of the Bank of Topeka, |
who is a candidate for county clerk, has
made a thorough canvass of the county
and politicians say that he will be very
strong.
Fred Lyman, who used to live in To-
peka, but now is connected with the sta
tionery department of the Mexican Cen
trail, is visiting friends and relatives in !
the city.
DIR. Hamilton's office is the coolest place
in town, with the possible exception of
the cold storage plant. The temperature
never reaches a greater height than 45 or
so degrees
about the "heat ray by which the Mar
tians destroyed everything. The story is
beginning to be comprehensive in the |
last few days.
The North Kansas Holiness camp meet
ing a the fair grounds is an old-fashioned |
Methodist camp meeting. Meetings are
held from 6 o'clock in the morning until
10 o'clock at night.
When there are sunstrokes in Topeka
then the weather is hot, sure enough. The
atmosphere is lighter here than in east
ern states. Then Topeka people don't |
drink much liquor.
Suppose the police arrest all the young /
men who wear both suspenders and belts
and make them show cause why they do |
it. The practice is sort of slam on |
the towns intelligence.
Under socialism we should all have
electric FANS said Topeka socialist to-
day. Arrant demagoguery was never bet
ter calculated to convert everybody to |
socialism in five minutes.
The Commercial bank of St John and