The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-07-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs


the Santa Fe, is in Denver.
A new brick sidewalk is being laid in
front of the Model Supply store.
Today a car load of Topeka race horses
was shipped to the Illinois racing circuit.
Some of the boys in Topeka who intend
to play foot ball this season have already
begun practicing.
The Populist league will meet in the old
court house tonight to discuss the Shaw
nee county platform.
James Doncyson has written to White
head-Hoag & Co. for prices his de-
sign for a Carnival button.
The third evening of the progressive
tennis tournament will be played this
evening at Tenth and Fillmore streets.
All these elongated necks seen around
town belong to people who attended the
Cinderella performance last week.
The frescoing at the First Congrega-
tional church has been finished and the
church will probably be ready for use next
Sunday.
The worst piece of sidewalk in town
still continues to exist in front of the
Waggoner drug store. Do we have a side
walk inspector?
The Mormon elders from Utah who are
trying to convert the people of Topeka
to their religion, hold services every night
on Kansas avenue.
NJ. D. Henderson will have charge of the
bureau of information during the Fall
Festival. 1t will be in the neighborhood
of the transfer station.
Piles are being driven on the west side
of the Topeka railway trolley bridge to
protect the bridge piling from being in
jured by logs striking it.
When an armature in a trolley car mo-
tor burns out it takes a man four days
of steady winding to repair it. Five thou
sand feet of copper wire are used.
Each young married man who becomes
a father thinks it necessary to announce
that the child weighs 10 pounds. Few ba-
bies really weigh 10 pounds when born.
Congressman Charles Curtis had ar
ranged to arrive in Topeka next Monday
and an ovation was to have been rendered
him. He arrived in Topeka yesterday.
The Salvation Army hospital is now
filed to the limit. The majority of the
cases are of maIarial fever. There is
great deal of malaria prevalent in the
city.
Monday night so many insects flew into
a city electric light globe at Huntoon and
Lane streets that the light was put out.
The globe was two-thirds full of dead
bugs.
the Topeka laundries who gets on noisy
drunk every time he receives his wages.
Last Saturday night he mixed up in
a fight at a fruit stand.
Miss Myrtle Foote, daughter of Judge
c. E. Foote, has gone to Olathe where she
will take course of training preparatory
to entering upon her duties as teacher in
the deaf and dumb school.
Marshal1s band held a practice meeting
last night and there was large crowd of
people standing outside the building al
Third and Kansas avenue to listen to the
music. Many buggies were among them.
Sousa's IN Darkest Africa is one of
the queerest pieces published. 1t is a
piece in which the reed instruments play
important part. Sunday, Marshalls
band will play the piece at Garfield park
Architect H. M. Hadley is at work on
plans for eight-room dwelling to be
built by Mrs. A. A. Hurd at $40 West
Sixth avenue The building will be of
frame and entirely modern. 1t will cost
81, 800.
A new German overture which Mar
shalls band will play at the Sunday con-
cert will be ''Frisch, From, Frohhch U
Fre,'' which. translated means, Fresh,
Holy Happy and Free" 1t was composed
by Kiesler.
Monday, Police Matron Thorpe gave
food to five families who came through
the city in moving wagons. They came
at different times during the day and each
had tale to tell of hard luck, either fire,
flood famine.
Leon Thorpe, son of Police Matron
Thorpe, recently made a bicycle trip west
of Topeka and while in ST. Marys he says
he saw for the first time in his life
open saloon. He is 20 years of age and
l,o IN Of
Mrs Stewart Sheldon was quite serious
ly injured yesterday morning by falling
down the cellar stairs. Her left arm was
broken and she was otherwise badly cut
and bruised by the fall. The Rev. Charles
M Sheldon of the Central Congregational
church is a of Mrs. Sheldon.
Prof. George w. Jackson is consderabl bly,
excited because a concert by "Jackson's
Military band is being advertised. His
name appears as manager and director on
the bills. He says that he has no connec-
ton whatever with the band and that the
name is now the kansas Military band"
Twenty two young men who are MEM
bers of Mr.. Harold T. Chase's Sunday
school class of the First Presbyterian
church, enjoyed a car ride last night.
They invited their young lady friends and
after a two-hours' ride they went to
Batman & Hatfields for ice cream. Mr..
and Mrs. Chase chaperoned the party.
Mrs. Nancy Monroe. who claims to be
Spiritualist medium, had a vision in which
she claimed that her neighbors. Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Milton had murdered Mrs. Mat
son. She told of her vision and was
rested for disturbing the peace. Justice
Chesney heard the case and the jury
found her guilty. She was fined 81 and
of course the costs.
A. NJ. Thomas, the colored attorney,
will be married today in Kansas City.
Kan, to Miss Fannie NJ. Courtney.
teacher in the public schools of that city.