The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-18
SNAP SHOTS At HOME NEWS

I'm His Steps," by Chas. NJ. Sheldon,
/ is on the market.
| The KarnivaI knights meet tonight at
the Elks' lodge room.
Steam heating pipes are being laid to
the City Library building.
The RaIston Health club is picnicking at
| Garfield park this afternoon.
The Karniva1 Knights banner is again
in place at Sixth and Kansas avenue.
w. w. Poindexter is considered the
luckiest bowler the T. A a. alleys
Secretary swayze collected $500 yester-
day afternoon on Fall Festival subscrip-
lions.
The Grocers' and Butchers picnic is
free to all There is no charge at the
gate.
''Matty'' Evans. the late catcher of the
Topeka base ball team has gone TO New
ton.
Col ]. w. F. Hughes is a stamp coilec-
tor and has one of the largest collections
in the city.
D. o. McCray's new residence at Four
the finishing touches.
Captain Charles Shannon of Kansas
City has taken charge of the Topeka COM
pany of American Volunteers.
The society base ball game has been
postponed for week on account of the
! sickness of several of the players.
Joe Vance came up from Hutchinson q
few days ago and entered Stormont hos
pital to receive treatment for his eye.
Prof. ]. T. Lovewen of Washburn COL
1ege. will have charge of the chair of
chemistry in the Kansas Medical college.
The Flower committee today received
order for 5000 flowers for the decora-
ton of the Rock Island building in this
city.
The Santa Fe general offices and shops
will send teams to Athletic park Septem-
Der 4, for a championship game of base
ball.
VIII H Kent, the newspaper man, is in
the city spending a two weeks vacation.
He is now connected with the st. Joseph
Gazette.
The grand stand at Athletic park is
a favorite place for crap games among
the eolored element in the western part
of the city.
Lieut. Harmon Ryus will return to
Wentworth Military academy in q few
days where he holds the position OF post
adjutant.
Last winter when the Psiges were in
Topeka they gave 81 of an evenings re-
ceipts to Mrs. Thorpe to be used in char
ity work.
During heavy rains the crossings at
Sixth and Van Buren, are almost impas-
sible without a boat The water runs
from curb to curb.
Mrs. Thorpe says that for the first time
in eighteen months she is entirely out of
magazines and newspapers to give to
prisoners and invaiids.
A souvenir button will be gotten out by
the Knights of Pythias lodge in this city
to be distributed among the visiting
Knights in the city Festival week.
Maj. T. ]. Anderson left last night for
the Indian Territory to make final ar
engagements to bring the 800 Arapahoe In
dams to Topeka during the Fall Festival
Years ago Attorney J. S. Ensminger
used to hold the record for the large
number of cases he had in police court.
but now W. I. Jamison can lay claim to
it.
/ What is the use of bucking slot ma
| chimes when you can have just as much
| excitement and uncertainty buying canta-
/ loupes? You get one fit to eat about every
| fifth one.
a suburban church says that the uptown
| churches have an easy time of it fighting
| sin compared with the churches on the
edges of the city
Clarence ChiIson went to the Crawford
/ Opera House and became boisterous Mon
day evening and was arrested. Janitor
| Giles, who is a special policeman, took
him to police station.
Mr.. Charles Pollock of Stafford, Kan.
who was operated on for appendicitis at
/ the Stormont hospital a week ago, is
rapidly recovering and will be able to re-
! turn to his home in few days.
The police have picked up Joseph
Reisinger. a runaway boy, Is years of age,
who was beating his way on the railroad.
He says he lives in San Francisco and
was on his way home from New York.
The state board of charities has APP
| pointed Mrs Matte Smith of Burlington
| as cook at the Topeka asylum. Jesse Al
| len of ThompsonviIIe was appointed team
| ster and Frank West of Alma, attendant
i at the same institution.
! The Karnival banner pulled down big
chimney on the Jewell building yester-
day afternoon. The Knights will be to
the expense of rebuilding the chimney.
| This is part of the hot time.
| The proprietors of the new canning fac
| tory have had applications of fully three
| times that of the number which will be
I employed And yet some people say the
| reason there are many unemployed is
because they don't want work"
The present condition of the weather
| will probably be responsible for large
l attendance al the wooden mill dance to-
| night. This Will be the last dance but one
at the wooden mill for the benefit of the
/ Floral parade fund
! Every year now brings an international
| exposition in some part of the United
/ States. This year it is Nashville; next
| year it is Omaha Topeka gives fail
| warning that she wants the year 1894. She
will be fifty years old that year
The first rehearsal of the children fol-
! the FAN Festival exercises to be given
/ Saturday. October 2. was held yesterday
| at Hamilton hall Nearly 200 children
| were present. They will bid farewell &c
| the Festival Queen at the east steps OF
} the state eapitol