The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS
Charles Trainer is home from Colorado
Springs to visit his mother.
The Rossville schools closed with an
entertainment Saturday evening.
Col. A B. Jetmore will deliver the Me.
mortal day address at Rochester.
Tomorrow evening at the ST. Johns A.
NJ. E. chuch, the fair will be opened.
The president and secretary of the To-
peka Academy of Medicine are women.
The rain Saturday night settled the
dust and made Sunday driving delight
ful
The Smoky Row mission has a sign on
the door which reads. Gospel Meet
ings."
Ex-Sanitary Officer ". E. Stewart is
now deputy constable in Justice Guys
court.
A number Of fishing parties from this
city enjoyed the usual degree of success
yesterday.
Constable Fred Stonestreet. of Justice
Guys court has appointed viii Stewart
as his deputy.
There was large attendance at the
band concert yesterday. Nearly all the
music was new.
Harry Hull will go to the City of Mex
leo where he has secured a position with
the Mexican Central.
David Overmyer says that he may adj
dress the anti-temperance meeting to-
morrow night if he has time.
The Swedish Temperance union will
meet tonight at the church at the corner
of Fourth and Tyler streets.
Marshalrs band will give its first Fri
day night concert at Garfield park on
Friday evening of this week
DR.. w. S. Lindsay will discuss "Cele-
bral Hyperaemia'' before the Topeka
Academy of Medicine tonight.
The annual meeting of the Kansas Med
ical society will open in this city at Ham
ilton hall next Wednesday morning.
Dick Cooley is regafning his reputation
on the Philadelphia base ball team, al
though they are playing a losing game.
The smallest locomotive in the west is
operated on the Union Pacific. 1t weighs
two tons and is used for testing pumps.
The Wyandotte Electric Light COM
pany of Kansas City, Kan, with a cap1>
tai stock of $4,000 has been incorporat-
ed.
David Overmyer has purchased two
more lots in the Ritchie tract just south
of the stone house he bought some time
ago
Mary J. Rodgers has sold to John NJ
Whitehead for 81, 900. lots 100, Ill 113 and
the east 10 feet of lot 49, West Tenth
streets.
up at Olathe tomorrow and Sheriff KEEP
ley and several other Topeka people will
attend.
The Phoenix Brick company of Atchi-
son has been Incorporated by J. W. Hal
sey. J. W. Waggener A. NJ. and F. P.
Halsey.
Edward Strong and VIM. Letson OF
Washburn college will enter to tenor and
bass contests at the Hutchinson musf-
cal jubilee
Miss Celeste Nellis will give con-
cert in Olathe tomorrow night. After
the concert Mrs. John P. St. John will
hold a reception in her honor.
Sam Campbell and George Dupree, two
of the jointists arrested last week, Sc
cured bond and We're released from the
county jail Saturday night
Drs. H. W. Roby, c. F. AIenninger and
L. A Ryder have returned from Hutch
inson where they attended the meeting
of the State Homeopathic society.
The Santa Fe general office base ball
team has accepted the challenge of the
shop team, the game to be played next
Saturday afternoon at Athletic park.
The Westminster Presbyterian church
has been built over seven years and in
that time there has never been a wedding
solemnized in it nor a funeral service held
there.
Mrs. Ursula Hartner, whose death was
announced Saturday evening in The
Journal upon authority of information
brought to this office, was not the mother
of Mrs. L. T. Yount, as therein stated.
One of the plate glass windows of the
Swift & Holiday Drug company's store
was broken yesterday afternoon by the
explosion of bottle of carbonate of
lithia.
Amanda E. Stewart secured a divorce
from Bert J. Stewart and $500 alimony in
the district court Saturday afternoon. A
divorce was also granted to Nellie Dean
from w E. Dean.
A theatrical company, made up princi-
pally of the members of the stranded
Thurston-Cashman company. has left
Topeka to play in the smaller Kansas
towns at popular prices.
Mr.. L. W. Wilson of 1851 Mulvane