The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-04-23
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs

Mayor Fellows is in Kansas City to-
day.
Ice cream soda is in demand once
more.
Three new tennis clubs have been or
ganized this spring.
The court house Oat crop has profited
by the recent rains.
Five foundations of the new bridge
have been completed.
This evening a social will be given at
the First Methodist church.
A gasoline stove is badly needed at
the Salvation Army hospital.
Executive clerk Fleharty was lawyer
before he became a preacher.
Julius Wedding of the Kimban Piano
company is in Wamego on business.
1t is about time that something was
done on the new state house walks.
The man who has his blue grass
sOwn may be assured of a good sod.
The last lecture of the Washburn
college lecture course Will be held
May 4.
Janitor Laptad of the county court
house is recovering from an attack Of
lumbago.
Topeka will have an infantry COM
a, few days.
Poor Commissioner Hale says that he
has very little to do now that warm
weather has come.
shawnee county requests are 4AAelN
because several Populist policemen
have been dismissed.
Guy Adams will wear a sixteenth
century costume at the Methodist
church social tonight.
County Treasurer stah1 had his
hands disfgured playing first base for
the Auburn base ball team.
Ball playing is easy enough for the
man who enjoys the luxury of a cush-
Toned seat in the grand stand.
Doc" Browns says that he intends
to take a few lessons in cake walking
before he comes back to Topeka.
According to T. b Jennings weather
report the past week has been g, dry
one in the northeastern portion OF the
state.
Ed Little used to be considered the
best first baseman in the Sixth district
He will play with the state house team
tomorrow.
The finest tennis courts in the city
are at the corner of Tenth and F1llmore
streets, where the Topeka Tennis club
holds forth.
The Festival chorus will sing five
concert numbers at its concert at Ham
ilton hall next Thursday for the bene-
fit of the Auditorium.
Charles Joslyn holds the medal in
Topeka as a soda water artist. He
has also invented more soda fountain
drinks than any man in Kansas
Sidewalk Inspector Withers is work
ing on the list of condemned walks and
you will know whether you have drawn
a lucky" number at the next council
meeting.
The work of demolishing the old state
arsenal has again been discontinued:
There may be some very young child
in Topeka who will live long enough to
see the last trace of the building dis
appear.
One of the ex-state officials who lives
in the western part of the city has
broken the sidewalk in front of his res
idence by driving his buggy over II
without having protected the poardS
with extra bracing.
Atchison has a baseball team and re-
ports come of other teams being organ
lied in the state. Why can't topeka
have a team this year? With the ex-
ception of the last month of the season
last year the team made good money
here.
This evening under the auspices OF
the local unions of Christian EndeaVor,
a Missionary Extension lecture VIII
be given in the First Presbyterian
church by Miss Frances Patterson or
Chicago, a very interesting and eIo-
uuent speaker Admission free.
Police Matron Thorpe has had charge
of a serious case in Smoky Row 1t Is
that of Mrs. Failer, the aged mother |
Of Jointist Ed Failer. The old lady IS
very i'll and the son is serving
hundred days sentence in the city jail
for selling liquor. Failer has kept
Joint for two years almost without in
Permission and it seems queer that he