The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-05-28
SNAP SHOTS AT HOMENEWS


This is ladies' free day at the base ball
game.
The fountain in Huntoon park is paint
ed a bright green.
The Topeka base ball team is stopping
at the st. Nicholas hotel
President Ripley of the Santa Fe is a
Sound money Democrat.
Emporia bicyclists are preparing to
give big road race July 4
Harry f. White is dangerously i'll at
his home on Fillmore street.
One Topeka drug store sold $500 pack
ages of chewing gum last week.
Harry Whiting and family will occupy
the residence at 1884 College avenue.
Tom King has the score card privilege
at Athletic park for the base ball season.
Mark Putnam, proprietor of the Union
Pacific hotel, has gone to Omaha on BUSH
ness.
A man with a scythe actually cut some
weeds on the state house grounds yester-
day.
There have been 81 fire alarms since
January 1. None of the losses were over
$3.50
Captain Hawk says that the Salvation
Army hospital is in need of a gasoline
stove.
P. I. Bonebrake is learning to bowl He
was practicing on the T. A. A. alleys last
night.
The family of J. T. Kirk at 1884 College
avenue, will go east to live in few
weeks
c. P. Adams and DR.. A. S. Embree are
planning tour of Europe for next
month.
The commencement exercises of the To
peka high school will take place this
evening.
On account of the rain yesterday, rain
checks were given out to the crowd at
Athletic park.
L. P. Wilson of 1867 Mulvane street, who
was dangerously ill with pneumonia, is
now able to sit up.
The Weekly Wandering Weary Wab-
blers of Lawrence will manage the
Fourth of July celebration.
One hundred new benches are being
made for Garfield park. 1t is to be hoped
they will be done by next Sunday.
Frank Leslie Cain of Hutchinson is Wis
iting his father, NJ. f. Cain, chief clerk
in the office of the secretary of state.
The Turner and Arion societies accom-
panied by the Mid Continent band win
go to Alma next Sunday on an excursion.
There was a small fire at II o'clock last
night in a carpenter shop at 80 North
Kansas avenue. About 500 will cover the
loss.
W. A. Morton is the most persistent
bowler at the T. A. A. alleys. He has
more records to his credit than any other
member.
Hutchinson bicyclists are beginning
work on a new bicycle track which will
have a cinder top and be one of the fast
est in the state.
The evening devotions at the Church of
the Assumption, which have continued
during the present month, will close next
Monday evening.
'.WilI you show US where the fire has
been" inquired rural couple of a clerk
at Crosby's after having carefully read
the fire sale banners.
John Clements and Green Craiger, two
colored men, have been appointed deputy
constables by Constable J. T. Wintrode
of Justice Chesney's court.
Janitor Sprague of the City building
says he has no end of trouble with loaf
ers who hang around the corridor and
stairway of the City building.
Westminster Presbyterian church will
select a pastor soon. A congregational
meeting will be held Sunday morning to
make arrangements for call.
The Catholic parochiaI school in this
city will close for the summer vacation
on June It. The school children will pic
mic on the afternoon of that day.
H. c. Bowen has sold to John Phillips
for $3.50, the east half of the southwest
quarter and the east half of the north
west quarter of section p, township 10,
range II.
Miss Maggie Mitchell. formerly of To-
peka but now of Galveston, Tex, who is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Clifford Smith, at
1878 Lane street. is seriously i'll with
throat trouble.
Susan A Blatherwick has been granted
a divorce from Louis w. Blatherwick by
Judge Hazen. The defendant, Blather-
wick was given the custody of the two
minor children.
The game of base ball which was to
have been played between the teams of
the Hall Lithographing Co. and Crane &
Co., will take place in Lowman Hill to-
morrow afternoon.
The base ball management should cover
the cracks in the roof of the grand stand
at Athletic park. for when a shower Oc-
ours during games, the crowd has no pro-
lection from the rain.
A number of the visiting railroad men
called on Secretary F. D. Coburn of the
SldIS OO1Au u agriculture SC9NOAueiS anu
procured copies of his report on THE
Helpful Hem and Cow Culture
w. H Culp says that arrangements are
being made by the A o. u W. to have
700 or 1000 Select Knights in Topeka dur
ing Fall Festival week. What We want
most is 10000 other members of the A. o.
[. W.
On the police docket in the column in
which the names of officers making ar
rests are put, was placed the name
'Chcobf' last night. 1t was intended to