The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-26
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

The city schools will close Friday.
This is election week among the I. o. O.
F. lodges.
Emporia's base ball team comes to To-
peka next week.
-Ex-Councilman I. T. Lockard is one of
the candidates for register of deeds.
The Topeka Camera club will have a
lantern slide exhibition this evening.
Four piers of the new bridge have now
been completed above the water line.
E. P. Ewart will close up his north side
lumber yard and consolidate the business.
Topeka and Atchison meet tomorrow
afternoon at Athletic park to play base
ball.
The pavement on the new bridge will be
of brick. Teams can be driven over it on
a trot.
George Bradshaw will build $500 adj
dition to his dwelling at SO Chandler
street.
Charles K. Holiday says that the re-
port that he intended to go on a fishing
trip is a mistake.
Cuthbert & Sargent have secured the
sub-contract for the stone work the
Dodge City depot.
Lee Jones has made an addition to his
menagerie consisting of an old OpOssum
and eight young ones.
Rev. V. P. WEIGH, a Divine Healer
will hold services in the Friends church
on Topeka avenue next week.
E. f. Pierson of Kansas City, repre-
senting the Rex Milling company, visited
the Santa Fe offices yesterday.
The jury impaneled for the April term
of the district court will not be discharged
until the middle of next month.
C. C. Gage pays the heaviest personal
personal property is assessed at 1855.
The ladies' auxiliary to the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers will give a bah
at the Knights of Pythias hall tomorrow
night.
o. D. Weatherel and family of Chicago.
are visiting Mrs. WeatherePs parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. F. Senour, on Dillon
street.
While pavements are being repaired
why is it that the cutters caused by the
old car tracks on Ninth street are not
filled?
The Salvation Army baby has been
agency of the Kansas Childrens Home
society.
Rev. D. D. Boyle preached to a large
congregation at the First Christian
church last night. There were three con-
versions.
J. f. Shafer says that the reason the
Topeka asphalt pavements give out so
quickly is because there is binder
under the asphalt.
The first cantaIoupes of the season
made their appearance in the Topeka
market yesterday afternoon. They are
from Rocky Ford. Col.
Governor Leedy went to MankatO yes
terday and will deliver an address before
the Populists of Jewell county at an old
fashioned picnic today.
The Dunkards of northwestern Kansas
will hold a two days Sunday school con-
vention in the church at Oakland, COM
mencing Saturday, May 29.
F. M. Tuckerman, a member of the To-
peka Camera club, is in Mexico on
business trip. He will take a number of
photographs during his absence.
Police Matron Thorpe says there are
number of woman tramps roaming about
the country. When they strike the city
they usually go to Mrs Thorpe for help.
The Rock Island special car which has
been used by the Topeka officials has just
returned from the Horton shops resplend-
ent in new paint and general overhaul
ing.
A. R. Lingafelt. superintendent of the
Rock Island. has purchased a fine horse
dust for some of Topeka's speed mer-
chants.
Bruner, the sensational left hand pitch
er who was with the Topeka team a
short time year before last has arrived
from Virginia and will play with Topeka
this week.
Rossville wants to buy the old Kansas
avenue bridge, and Granville also wants
it North Topeka people want it placed
across the river to connect North Topeka
and Oakland.
DR.. NJ. B. Ward is in Philadelphia at
tending the meeting of the American Sur
gical and genealogical association. DR..
Ward is chairman of the section on d.
seases of women.
William c. Norris of Los Angeles, Cal,
has sold to Anna z. Thompson, of To-
peka, for s., 500, the undivided one-half or
the north 80 feet of lot SO on Kansas ave-
nue.. North Topeka.
Almeda Mahan, who was married to
W. T. Mahan in Alma in 1888, has filed
suit for divorce in the district court. The
usual charges of cruelty and non-support
are set forth in her petition.
It is reported in Topeka that Congress-
man Curtis has recommended and trans
mitted to the department, the papers and
documents requesting the appointment of
Judge John Guthrie as postmaster in this
city.
The executive committee of the state
Republican league has selected June II
for the annual convention which will be
held in Topeka. Delegates will be elected
to the national league convention at De-
troit which will be held August 19 and a.
Topeka lodge No. of the Triple Tie
Benefit association gave a successful lit
erary entertainment and ice cream social
at Lincoln Pest hall last night The en-
tertainment ended with cake walk, in
which a number of young people parti-
cipated-
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