The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS

The Festival chorus will give concert
this evening at the First Presbyterian
church.
David Overmyer left yesterday after
noon for Lyndon, Kan, to try suit for
damages.
Senator Hugh Farrelly of Chanute
turned home today after business visit
in this city.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. Baird, 1912 Madison
street, are the parents of a daughter,
born yesterday.
streets south of Seventh which is a ter
to passersby.
F. E. Keith will leave Topeka for Port
Arthur on July 1, where he will estab-
lish drug store.
Miss Zena Freeman of the car service
department of the Santa Fe, has return
ed from visit in Atchison.
Harry Steinberg was the victim of a
surprise party last night in celebration OF
his twentieth birthday anniversary.
Jackson street will soon be the oldest
street in the world with its one-story
buildings. Every corner is getting one.
G. s. Gordon has returned from Gal
weston, Tex, where he spent the past
ten days visiting relatives and friends.
E. V. Lants, a young attorney and poll
weeks business and pleasure combined.
Mr.. Thos. s. Lyon has received word
from Pittsburg, Pa, that Mrs. Anna Lyon
the wife of his brother James B. Lyon,
is dead.
The 7. NJ. c. A. boys are fixing up an
open air gymnasium on the vacant lots at
the southeast corner of Sixth and Monroe
streets.
H c. Kapp, clerk in the office of the
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iting in Wellington, Kan, formerly his
home.
Chairman J. NJ. Simpson of the state
Republican committee has returned home
to Mcpherson after three days visit in
Topeka.
The Y. NJ. c. A. will hold large recep-
ton on June IA to members and their
friends. Eight hundred invitations have
been issued.
Work is being pushed on the T. E.
Bowman Memorial kindergarten build
ing near the Central Congregational
church.
DR.. Ida c. Barnes will attend the ban
quet of the Alumni association of the
state university in Lawrence tomorrow
afternoon.
Charles A. McGaw, who attended
Washburn college, will be graduated
from the law department of the Kansas
State university at Lawrence.
c. NJ Roquet has been appointed to
position in the office of the chief engi-
neer of the Santa Fe, assisting Mr.. VIII
liam Archer, supervisor of buildings.
A Topeka young man asked a lady to
accompany him to lei Captain and oc-
cupy a seat in the balcony. She said:
ct makes me dizzy to sit in the ball
cony''
Frank Curry of this city who is attend
been elected captain of the base ball |
team for next season. He plays behind |
the bat
Hockey Jim, the colored man who
used to infest Topeka streets is now in
Jail at Wichita working out fine for at
tempting to use the hook which is
strapped on his arm.
The diocese of west Missouri of the
Episcopal church, from the fact that it
has no girls school has recommended |
Bishop Millspaugh's school bethany coll |
lege) of this city, for patronage.
Parties who have had tickets reserved
for Eel Captain" and have not yet taken |
them will have to do so before 10 O'Clock |
tomorrow morning. All reserved tickets |
not taken by that time will be put back |
in the chart.
Mr.. Edward Wilder, treasurer of the !
Santa Fe, left yesterday afternoon for |
New York city, where he will remain for /
ten days or two weeks. While in New |
York city Mr.. Wilder will attend the
wedding of his niece, Miss Mary Wilder.
Mr.. John Player. superintendent of ma
chinery, and Mr.. John Hodge, master car
builder, of the Santa Fe, have gone to
Old Point Comfort, Va, to attend the
annual meeting of the Master Car Build
ers' association.
One of the white wings street clean
ers left sack of refuse near the curb-
stone in front of Kansas avenue cons
mission house, and one of the clerks car
ried it into the store thinking it a
sack of potatoes which had been over
looked.
Rt. Rev. F. K. Brooke, the bishop of
Oklahoma and Indian Territory, has been
i'll for a month at Christ hospital in this
city. His many friends are glad to learn
that he has sufficiently recovered to go
to Bethany college for convalescing.
Sheriff Kepley today sold under judg-
ment in favor of Senator John Martin,
2O4 acres of land three miles west of To-
peka to the First National bank for 81
900. This is one of the boom additions to
Topeka and the judgment against the
property alone amounted to $40 900.
The Young Peoples society of the First
Christian church has elected the follow
ing officers: President, eco. w. Symmes;
vice president, Mrs. F. E. Mallory;
secretary, Miss Nina Wilson; treasurer.
William Stewart financial secretary,
Miss Victoria Scott
The notorious Ben Jordan, who has
served time in both city and county jails
for selling liquor, was arrested yesterday
by the police on the charge of maintain
ing nuisance. His place was on Rail-
road street west of Kansas avenue in
North Topeka. A quantity of liquor and
the usual joint fixtures were seized.
The Geo. w. Crane homestead at Ninth
and Harrison streets was yesterday sold
under foreclosure nroceediners for 81 200