The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-06-09
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWs
". ". webb is on the sick list.

The policemen were paid yesterday for
the month of May.
The attendance at the Shawnee county
institute has reached $50.
Mrs. N. J. Burdick of 1928 Harrison
street is seriously i'll with heart failure.
Friday will be ladies' day at the base
ball park and Atchison will be there.
Probate Judge Dolman says that some
people try to get trusted for a marriage
license.
Weather Observer Jennings crop bul1e-
tin for the past week continues the prom
ises for good crops.
A Topeka confectioner says that his
Slot machine takes in over $500 worth of
nickels every month.
Paul Torrington is a valuable acquisi-
ton to the city engineers force. He is an
excellent draughtsman.
H. w. Farnsworth has been reelected
as clerk of the board of education at a
salary of $500 per year.
G. c. Baker will build second story on
his West Sixth street business house if
he is assured of a tenant.
L. e. Baldwin, who has been in the
Rock Island telegraph office in this city
has returned to Kansas City.
North Topeka claims a resident who
on its march to Washington.
One of the largest and handsomest rose
bushes in full bloom is in the yard at 1877
Morris avenue, Lowman Hill.
Benjamin schnierle, treasurer of
Wyandotte county. was one of the visit
ors at the state house yesterday.
Supt. VIM. Davidson of the city schools,
has purchased a geological collection for
the high school laboratory at a cost of
$40.
The choir of the Church of the Assump,
ton, assisted by local talent will give an
entertainment at the Reform school to-
night.
Henry L. Call has been heard from in
Kansas. He appeared in Manhattan a
day or two ago and registered from New
York.
The Catholic parochiaI schools in this
city will close one week from today. The
school children will picnic on the fol-
lowing day.
Sheriff Kepley has been notified that
there is a crazy man at large in the
neighborhood of Watson, Is miles south
east of Topeka.
Ernest May, colored tough of Smoky
Row, was fined $50 by Police Judge Atchi-
son for flourishing a revolver on lower
Kansas avenue.
Jas. Cuthbert, the Topeka contractor, is
now in Dodge City experimenting the
work of excavating for the new Santa Fe
depot at that place.
The Railroad Y. NJ. c. A. will give a
banquet tonight. The invitations are "to
the 800 members and 800 other railroad
men and their families
The board of managers of the Dodge
City soldiers home will meet in this city
June IA to award $40 900 in contracts for
supplies to the institution.
To the inquiry as to the origin of base
ball fan the following answer has been
submitted: Fan is an abreviation of
fanatic for base ball enthusiasts
A Topeka man says that when he gets
married he will have some distinguishing
feature of the service so that people will
not speak of it as quiet wedding"
DR.. F. w. PIenn of Blue Rapids, has
been appointed as a member of the state
board of health by Governor Leedy. One
member of the board is yet to be appoint
ed.
The Cedarvale Reunion association has
been chartered. The directors are W. A.
Webb, w. P. Lynch. w. Kinds, A. Waters.
A. J. Childers. J. H. Moody and C. c.
Cleveland.
President Herrick of washburn college
will deliver the address to the graduates
of the kindergarten training school at
Library hall at $3.50 tomorrow afternoon.
The public is invited.
Miss Edith Davis, who will graduate
from the state university this week, will
teach in Sumner school next fall. She
taught two years in the city schools be-
fore entering the university.
Manager Chas. McCabe of the Topeka
T2o Roll mr.
suggested for the Topeka base ball team.
He says it should be something different
from Blues, Colts, Giants, etc.
A party made up of w. c. Edwards, Jr..
Frank Smith, Ray and Max Warda1l start
ed long cycling jaunt yesterday.
They expect to be gone three months and
visit in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Wisconsin and Iowa.
The following notarial commissions
have been signed by Governor Leedy:
Martin Sayers, McCune; L. r. White.
Scandal; d. W. Jackson, Langton; H.
Rizer, Eureka; P. c. Crawford, Hugoton.
Representative Tapscott of Hamilton
A charter has been issued to the Afro
American Athletic association of Atchi-
son; capital stock $500. The directors are
Eugene Mcdaniel, c. E. Lett. H. A. Lett,
Henry Truehart, Willis Johnson, Geo.
McAIlister. H. c. LyIes and Senator
Brown.
Thieves have stolen nearly all the prop
erty off the West Side Gun club grounds.
Fences and parts of sheds have been torn
down and taken away. The grounds are
in the Metsker tract west of the city and
are separated from any residences by con-
siderable distance.
The following weIl-known politicians
have been secured to speak for the State
Les in this citV
next week J. R. Burton, John J. Ingalls,,
R w. Blue w. A. Calderhead, Chester
I. Long, s. S. Kirkpatrick, A. H. Ellis
and Jack Harris.
county. one of the Democratic or fusion
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