The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-12
SNAP SHOTS AT HoMENEws

| John Macdonald went to Harper last
| night.
w. ]. Jones of Emporia is in the city on
business.
DR.. T. W. Scott of Stafford, Kan, is
visiting in the city.
Mrs. Thorpe says she is in great need
of sheets, for the sick.
E. c. Little has returned from a visit
with his mother in Abilene.
The Populist county central committee
will meet Saturday at p. m.
The single tax lectures at Sixth and
Kansas avenue are still drawing crowds.
The Karnival banner is the most at
tractive banner that has been seen in To-
peka.
Two thousand and ninety-seven baths
were given at the R. R. Y. NJ. c. A. in
July.
Mr.. George w. Smith, master mechanic
of the Santa Fe, is spending vacation in
California.
The Topeka base ball management has
been notified that the Harrington team
has disbanded
The Wear Coal company was admitted
to membership in the Topeka Commercial
club last night.
Perry, who has been playing shortstop
with the Atchison base ball team, has
gone to Indianapolis.
Mr.. w. Littlefeld of the legal depart
ment of the Santa Fe left today to spend
several weeks in Michigan.
1t has been suggested that the Karni-
val Knights banner would look better
were it dropped about ten feet.
The furniture in the rooms of the To-
peka Commercial club was ordered in
nos los
The police should arrest all globe
trotters' as tramps. The rest of us have
to work while these loafers 'fglobe trot."
John Embree of Hiawatha has been APP
pointed weigher in the grain insp- ction
department of the state by Governor
Leedy.
The Topeka base ball management is
already planning for next years team.
They propose to have the best in the
country.
The first Methodist church social at the
home of James A. Troutman in Potwin
last night was the largest gathering of
the season.
Chairman Greenwald of the finance
committee of the Committee of Fifteen,
says the camp expenses this year will be
not less than $500.
Governor Leedy has appointed F. A.
fill the vacancy caused by the removal of
Nelson Ward from the county.
The Rock Island crossing at Kansas
avenue needs repairing. The wooden
planks are sprung out of place until it is
a very rough place to cross with a We
hicle.
If the Odd Fellows want to dim the
splendor of all the other societies in the
Fraternal day parade they ought to wear
their gorgeous costumes of the lodge
rooms.
Undersheriff Lucas left one of his
horses at Mayetta yesterday. The animal
was exhausted with the long drive in
pursuit of two boys who escaped from
the reform school.
When the patrol wagon was sent to Ben
Jordans joint to haul away the beer and
joint fixtures, not a drop of liquor could
be found. 1t was spirited away just after
Jordans arrest.
The Washburn college trustees deny
that the reason two of their teachers
have resigned is because a reduction of
10 per cent was made in instructors SAL
aries for this year.
The Fraternal Aid association will give
an ice cream social tonight at the resi-
dence of Mrs. H. J. Winn, 307 Harrison
street. The proceeds will be devoted to
the Fraternal day celebra ton.
There will be meeting of the enter
tainment and programme committees of
the grocers and butchers picnic, at
Adams Bros printing office, Friday
night at o'clock. All members are re-
quested to be present.
President Fred welIhouse and William
H. Barnes, secretary of the State Horti-
cultural society, went yesterday on the
Rock Island to Mcpherson to attend an
all-day meeting and picnic of the horti-
culturists of that county.
Topeka took the best things at the
state tennis tournament at Emporia this
week. Lew Bronson won the singles
and Frank Sheldon and Lew Bronson won
the doubles" They now hold the state
championship in both classes.
Mr. and Mrs Ilahi Baksh, natives of
Bombay, India, will arrive in Topeka the
latter part of the week to remain over
Sunday. Mr.. Ilahi Baksh is a convert
from Mohammedism and has been pursu-
ing a course in theology at the Denver
university. He expects to return to his
own people a missionary. His wife,
who is a convert from the Jewish religion,
is also at the same school taking medi-
cal missionary course. She will address
the women of this city at the Y. w. c.
A rooms, 610 Kansas avenue, next Sum
day at Ais p. m.
If every one of the amusing features
that are to be given by the Karnival
knights in their procession are to be
given away in the morning paper, it
will be useless to get up the burlesQues-
Paul Torrington's humorous suggestion as
to chariot races will have all the fun
taken out of it by being 'diagramed" weeks
beforehand. 1t may be necessary to eau
ton newspaper reporters very par
ticularly at each meeting. A bur-