The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-08-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

The governor is enjoying visit from
Mrs. Leedy.
w. w. Webb is attending the bicycle
races at Salina.
Probate Judge Dolman uses lengthy
marriage ceremony.
DR.. S. E. Martin is now able to be
about after ten days illness.
Adjutant General Allen has bought a
new hat. The militia is coming.
Mr.. L. M. Crawford is now able to be
at his office after a serious illness.
Chemical engine No. is being paint
ed at fire department headquarters
Batman &, Hatfield purchased a new
piano yesterday for their ice cream par
lor.
The reform school band played for
the Bethany college lawn fete last
night.
The Karnival knights meet tonight.
Forty-siX days only until the Fall
Festival.
speeches at the Santa Fe shops at noon
each day.
Leavenworth now has a double
deck trolley car which is used for troll
ley parties, etc
The Topeka base ball team will re-
turn today to prepare for the benefit
game tomorrow.
Mr. Edward Wilder, treasurer of the
Santa Fe, has returned after short
stay in Colorado.
c. c. Baker owns an Italian grey
hound which is but 13 inches in height
and is years old.
The father of Jailer Frank Leech of
the county Jail is seriously sick at his
home in Pennsylvania.
The sanitary policemen would do well
to investigate the condition of affairs
around Buchanan school.
The present manager and ex-manager
of the Kansas Military band have made
up and buried the Ratchet.
The Greenwood divorce case will be
tried in Riley county. Judge Hazen
granted change of venue.
B. F. Panl<ey, the stocknan, is seri-
ously sick with malarial fever at his
home, 1905 West Sixth street.
Will Stanley, the new pitcher of the
Topeka base ball team, is a son of ex-
State Superintendent Stanley.
Topeka is now experiencing a servant
girl famine" Cooks and housekeep-
ers are said to be hard to obtain.
The island in the Kansas river near
the bridge is fast disappearing through
the efforts of Abe Fulford and his men.
Mr.. A. D. Gray, cashier in the treas
urer's office of the Santa Fes has re-
turned after a ten days stay in Colo
RADIO.
Rev. Mr.. Perdue, a minister of Scran-
ton, Kan, was operate ted on for appen-
dicitis at the Stormont hospital this
morning.
A tramp who was arrested by the po-
lice declared that his name was I'm
glaub." He had a large revolver in his
hip pocket.
Miss Anna McCabe is now the assist
ant of her sister, Miss Mary McCabe.
in the exchange department of the
Kansas City Star.
Mrs. George Stone, wife of Switch
man Stone of the Santa Fe, was oper-
ated on for appendicitis at the Stormont
hospital yesterday.
The First Baptist church choir is now
minus tenor. Mr.. Polk is out of the
city and the church is trying to get the
place filled for a few weeks.
The whistle on the Moeser ice plant
has been christened 1.-The Tom Cat" 1t
wakes up thousands of people at
o'clock who don't want to be walked
at that hour.
The suits which were ordered for the
Topeka policemen some time ago, and
which they have to wear in the hot
weather, are made of thick, winter
weight cloth.
Governor Leedy has honored the requi-
sition from the governor of Missouri for
Joseph White, now under arrest at
Mound City and wanted in CasS county
for stealing horses.
The police have been given instruc-
tons to see that the bicycle ordinance
requiring all bicycles to have on them
a bell which shall be rung at the
proper time, is observed.
The members of the T. A. A. w. will
make up the deficit caused by losses on
the race meet last week by an assess
meDT- topeka ought TO nave the state
meet every year or none at all.
H A. Uterman, who is now engaged
in training horses for the tournament
to be given during the Fall Festival,
was thrown by a vicious horse yeSter-
day and his arm painfully bruised.
Lloyd GarretSon of 1101 Harrison
street, who went to Mexico to reside
few months ago, will return to Topeka
in two weeks. He has been ill while
away and will return home to recuper-
ate.
The Young Peoples society of the
First Presbyterian church will give a
picnic at Garfield park tonight in honor
of Misses Bessie and Helen Schenck,
formerly of Topeka but now of Dem
yer.
Arthur Kane, several years on the
One of the Topeka secret societies
might build an arch of golden rod
across Kansas avenue. Golden rod is
a carnival color, and could be decorat-
ed in red and white, the other two car
nival scolors.
State Journal, now a special writer on
the Kansas City Star, was in the city
yesterday on his way to Kansas City
from Colorado, where he has had two
weeks vacation.
A Topeka man whose horse won a
race in Iowa telegraphed the Journal
an extended advertisement of the fact
and had the nerve to send the tele-
gram COLLECT; but something Of this
kind happens every day.
CoryeH Faulkner, son of c. E. Faux
ner, who was until recently superin-
fe0depf of The SoIdiagSs OfnhanS' home