The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-11
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

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The Ottawa Chautauqua assembly
opens next Monday.
Monroe street, between Fifth and
| Sixth, will be paved with brick
The summer visit of the hand organ
| and the monk has commenced
The druggists think they have to pay
| about IS per cent of the war tax.
The board of education will meet in
| special session on Monday evening.
A new drinking fountain has been
| put in at Sixth and Kansas avenue.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
been notified that the Blue Rapids bank
has quit business.
Mr.. A. d. Parker, auditor of the
| Union Pacific, Denver e Gulf road, has
returned to Denver.
In a Smoky Row dive is hung on the
wall the following placard: mo swear
ing allowed in here
A party of Oakland young men has
started for eastern Kansas in wagons.
They will work in the harvest fields.
Topeka man thinks he has discov-
cred a means of dOctOring a strawberry
plant so that it will bear fruit all sum-
mer.
Lee WoodalI, a janitor at the court
house, officiates as chief key splitter
when Sheriff Cook destroys Joint par
aphernalia.
A knights of Pythias memorial SER
vice will be held Sunday afternoon at 8
o'clock a t K. of P. hall, corner of Sixth
and Quincy streets.
There will be Children's day exercises
at the Lowman Hill chapel tomorrow
evening at o'clock. A chorus of fifty
voices will take part.
Mr.. John E. Frost, treasurer of the
Kansas Omaha commission, yesterday
received jefferson county's quota to the
fund, amounting to 1927.
Sheriff Cook yesterday destroyed the
liquor seized in the ChileS-LytIe raid.
Lyle was convicted and the court or
dered the liquor Spilled
Another candidate for clerk of the
district court has appeared in the field,
making seven in all. The latest entry
is from Tecumseh township.
Mrs. E. Davidson Worden and Mrs
T E. Bowman of this city will have
charge of the kindergarten department
at the Ottawa Chautauqua.
Police court sessions are now held at
session only cases where a plea of
guilty is entered are disposed of.
Tom FIannelly, who studied law in
Topeka and at the state law school, is
winning laurels in politics in OswegO.
He is a candidate for the legislature
Large numbers of tramps pass
through Topeka every day and night
bound both east and west The police
on an average arrest about four a day
There are II prisoners at work on the
city stone pile. Among them are some
of TOpeka's Smoky Row toughs. There
are plenty more of them not yet ar
rested.
Chancellor Snow of the state univers-
ity has prepared a circular covering his
experiments for ten years on chinch
bug infection. 1t will be distributed
among farmers by the state.
A prize baby show is to be held at
Browns chapel in North Topeka, June
16, in which prizes will be awarded to
the prettiest baby, the finest DEVELOPED
baby, and the noisiest baby, all under
one year.
Clarence NJ. Merriam, who was mar
ried to Miss Florence NJ. Smith at Wa
terbury, Conn, last evening will spend |
the summer in the east as agent of the !
T. E. Bowman firm. He may remain |
permanently at Boston.
The hospital room of the county Jail |
is being plastered. When the Jail was |
built, this room was finished with |
wood. 1t became so infested with bed |
bugs that the wooden ceiling was re- |
moved and plaster applied to the walls. |
Thomas Corwin son of Henry c. Cor |
win, was graduated in law from the |
state university this year. He is rela- |
ted to the Ohio family of Corwin, and |
Mr.. George H. Williams of Chicago,
who has been assisting in the music |
for the state Christian Endeavor meet |
day exercises at the First Baptist |
church tomorrow morning at II o'clock |
A full length likeness of John J. In |
gals in his favOrite attitude when |
speaking. together with an autograph |
copy of his poem Opportunity" occu- |
pies a prominent place on the wall of |
Mr. c. S. Gleed's private office in this |
city.
H. c. Gordonier, who is a Rock Is |
land employee of North Topeka, was the |
main witness in the A ]. Stone and |
Sheep Lytle liquor cases in the dis |
trict court. He is a member of the |
committee and secured a |
conviction in each case.
There is serious trouble in the ranks |
of Topeka's youthful trumpeter corps. |
The Kansas commission has agreed to |
take six of the boys to Omaha for the |
dedication of the Kansas headquarters |
building on June %, and every member |
of the corps wants to be one of the |
six.
The receipts of the benefit entertain |
ment for the cruiser Topeka on Dec
grafton day were divided with Mar |
shalPs band, and the citizens commit
tee did not realize more than 800. The |
committee expects to raise $1,000, but |
so far only about $500 has been secured. |
1t will be some months before the full /
can be gotten together.