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

House cleaning has commenced.
]. G.. Holland is in Junction City.
The board of education will meet this
evening.
Many cellars were flooded by the rain
| Sunday night.
The gymnasium classes in the A. A
A. have stopped.
Ex-senator John Martin has resided
IN kansas 43 years.
This is the first day of the April term
OF the district court.
The Imperial quartette is now known
as the Troubadours.
The EIks will not give a benefit per-
formance this spring.
Topeka horsemen expect to, have a
| three days racing meet in June.
Mrs. F. A. Burgess and daughter have
returned from a visit in Emporia.
+ The large hole in the pavement of the
Dfloge is growing larger day by day
Governor Leedy returned to his Office
to-day, after an absence of ten days
A Topeka firm has put in its front win
dow recently some fine Spanish station
cry.
The Hancocks defeated the nine from
the boiler shops Saturday by score of
to g..
Marshan's band has advertised for
bids on the privileges for Garfield park
this summer.
William Green, of North Topeka. is
recovering from an attack of sciatic
rheumatism.
g. A. Hancock, D: Q: Crane, F. c.
Squires and G. D. Reil are the new
members in the T. A. A.
H. G. Larimer will speak Thursday at
the Congregational church in North
Topeka on temperance.
Mr.. Jennings official government
weather report for the month of March
will be issued next week.
The Kansas university students who
have been making vacation, will re-
sumo their work tomorrow.
The E.xD0sifior comma nv will
hold racing meeting at the fair
grounds June %. %, and "a.
Francis, the only son of Prof. and
Mrs. S. F. Cravens, formerly of this
city, died in Ottawa last week.
The Topeka Whist club was defeated
by the Kansas City Whist club Satur-
day by score of 1 ,541 to 1879.
The annual meeting of the Topeka
Athletic Association wheelmen will be
held tonight in the rooms of the T.
A. A.
Two men have been employed by
MarshalPs band to have charge of Gar
field park and to keep it in good con-
dition.
On Mondays the mail is collected
from the Kansas avenue boxes in a
bag. On other days it takes a wagon
to carry it.
The Crawford theater will be stocked
with new scenery and settings this
summer. This is what the Grand Opera
House needs.
Company M, K. N. G.. was out drilling
yesterday on Kansas avenue in the
rain. Some who saw them thought war
| had been declared.
| The WaShburn base ball team will go
| to Winchester next Saturday, weather
permitting, to play the first out of town
| game of the season.
! N. G.. Rodgers, editor of the Republi-
! can at Trenton, Mo-. was in Topeka Sat
| urday on business connected with a
| western investment.
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings will
issue the first of the 1898 crop bulletins
one week from today. They will be is
sued weekly until next October.
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Shawnee County Teachers association
held Saturday, papers were read by ].
H. Mcbride and Miss Kate B. Hukil1.
w. c. Edwards, Jr., who has been
spending his vacation at home in this
city, has returned to Marmaduke mil
itary academy at Sweet Springs, Mo.
Judge L. S. Ferry will build resi-
dence this summer on his lots near
Thirteenth and Topeka avenue. Work
will be begun on the structure in a few
weeks.
Police Judge Atchison reduced the
fine of So to 81 which imposed on
L. F. Day for riding his bicycle on the
sidewalk near Huntoon and Clay
streets.
Ed Little is a personal friend of Pres
! ident Steyn of the Orange Free State,
and recently received a letter from him
| expressing his thanks for some Kansas
country.
The buttons to be sold to raise money
for the bicycle track have arrived. The
| old question will soon have to be turned
| around. Button, button, who hasn't
got the button
Thursday evening at Hamilton hall
free A. o. U. w. entertainment will be
given at which addresses will be made
by Supreme Past Master Workman ]. G.
TAFT, and Grand Master Workman John
H. Crider
City Engineer Barnes has a piece of
galvanized gas pipe that is almost en-
tirely destroyed by electrolysis. 1t was
in the ground only two years at Second
and Quincy streets.
An eastern novelist has written Bank
Commissioner Breidenthal asking for a
description of Kansas prairie fire. The
description is to be used in a story.
Commissioner Breidenthal has turned
the letter over to Dave Leahy, who viii
satisfy the novelist.
The bell of the Church of the As
sumption will not be heard after the
mass tomorrow morning until the
the church prescribes that no bells shall
be rung from Tuesday to Saturday of
holy week.
The Graham-Earle company opens a
weeks engagement at the Crawford
theater in this city tonight. presenting
the sensational drama THE Inside
Track" The prices for the engage
ment are 10, 20, and 80 cents, and to-
night any lady accompanied by a per-
son holding a 80 cent paid ticket will
be admitted free. The company has
been seen in this city before. Vaude-
vile features are introduced between