The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-04
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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| yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Demuth are the par
ents of a son, born Friday.
Born, June 1, to Mr.. and Mrs. E. w.
Durham, of Potwin, a son.
The Y NJ c. A. bath rooms have
| been thoroughly repaired and improved.
| The state university at Lawrence
closes with the exercises this evening.
Allen Love has sold to oliver Merritt
for $1,100, lots 800 and 322 East Eighth
| street.
The finest Strawberries on the mar
ket are grown by Shawnee county
| farmers.
The board of county commissioners
will meet Monday as board of
! equalization.
| The advance sheets of Insurance
| Commissioner McNalrs report are be-
ing mailed.
The w. c: T. U. will meet at the
First NJ. E. church at o'clock Monday
/ afternoon
| The Emporias telephone line is now
| in working shape and is being made
| good use of.
Miss Egan, who was i'll some time
/ ago, is now we'll, and she has moved to
| lip Van Buren, street.
The criminal docket in the district
! court will be begun next Tuesday.
| There are but fourteen.
| Elaborate literary exercises were held
| yesterday morning at Harrison school,
it being the closing day.
Lon Townsend. king of the jointists.
has returned to the city after a sojourn
of several weeks somewhere.
The graduating exercises of Wash
burn college will be held Wednesday
morning, June Is, at 10 o'clock
The farce presented by the Topeka
Dramatic club at Holton last night,
will be repeated at Horton tonight.
Walter Groom, one of the privates
who fell off the state house portico, has
gone to Chickamauga to join his reg
iment.
Rev. NJ. c. Harlan of the First Chris
tian church will address the territorial
union Endeavor convention at Oklaho-
ma City, June z.
Jackson's band will accompany the
shawnee county delegation to the Re
publican state convention at Hutchin-
son next Wednesday.
A telephone line is being built east
from Salina which will be extended to
Topeka. 1t is a branch of the Missouri
& Kansas Telephone company.
'Aunt Lucinda" Thompson is prepar-
ing to erect comfortable home in
Pleasant Valley, to take the place OF
the tumble down frame shanty.
Rev.: a. Swaney, pastor of the Low
man Hill chapel, will preach the bac-
calaureate sermon at the Kansas nor
NAL college at FIT. Scott tomorrow.
One official at the Santa Fe offices
will not allow the employees in his de-
partment to answer telephone messages.
1t would keep the phone going continu-
ousiy.
Roland Evans, of J. B. FIayden's, suf-
fered an injury to his eye at Lake
View by the premature discharge of a
shotgun. Powder burned it, making a
painful wound.
The Shawnee county delegation to the
Republican state convention will sleep
an tourist cars. That is the advantage
of going to a small town to hold a
state convention.
The county commissioners have SUBJ
mitted a proposition to the Topeka Ex-
position company for the use of the fair
grounds during the summer. The COM |
pany Will give race meets
Manager Bishop Of the Washburn
day saying that the Baker university !
base ball team had disbanded and that |
there would be no game today.
Train No. 5 that left Topeka yester- |
day at 1905 over the Santa Fe met |
with a slight accident at Wakarusa. |
The eccentric strap broke and the train !
was delayed some time for necessary !
repairs.
tan church has inaugurated a novel |
service. Carriages are sent out for all |
the old people who care to attend and |
they are furnished easy chairs to hear |
the service.
Ten young men and two young wo- (
men will be graduated from the COL /
1egiate department of Washburn col |
lege this year. Three young women I
will be graduated from the music de-
partment.
The Salvation army has abandoned !
its barracks and has erected a tent on
the corner of Sixth and Quincy streets
where meetings are held every evening
and all day Sunday. Today and Sun
day special children's services will be
held.
The Tenth street and Quincy street
youthful military companies had a
pitched battle one night this week, and
as a result several of the coming sold
iers have badly SCARED faces and bruis-
ed limbs. 1t is not known which were
the "Spaniards."
An improved asphaltum roofing is be-
ing put on the Topeka Railway COM
pany's new shed at Twelfth and Jack
son streets The shed is nearly COM
pleted and it will give sheltered accom-
mediation for all the cars.
The special committee of the board
of education appointed to investigate
the Laptad case from Harrison school |
report will be made to the board of
education at the regular meeting next
Monday.
Miss Lottie Bowes Charlotte Crane)
has engaged with the Herald Square
Theater Stock company for the sum-
mer. The New York papers were gen
erous in their praise of her work at the
initial performance of the company |
Miss Rowes takes no rest, like many of
her sister actors.
An entertainment was given last
evening at the Central Congregational
church for the benefit of the Tennessee
town kindergarten. Governor Leedy
made address, as did also General
J. K. Hudson, ex-Mayor T. w. Harri-
son and Col. Fred Miller. The Modocs
sang.
had almost any day at the state house
grounds. The grounds are so extern
sive and the man with the mower SO
leisurely in his operations that by the
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