The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-06-10
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Stahrs picnic was dampened yester-
day by rain.
The Santa F'e annual. excursion goes
to Leavenworth June Is.
Mr.. E. F. Burnett, New York agent
of the Santa Fe, is in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving w Harr 318
Jefferson street, are the parents Of a
son.
Topeka post c. A. r. has endorsed
Major A. P. Shreve for army paymas-
ter.
A two horse lawn mower is used to
cut the grass on the state house
ground.
1t is expected that the new ball team
being organized will have red, white
and blue uniforms.
The railroads have not brought as
many G. E. delegates to Topeka as they
expected they would
Mrs. George Henry, who has been
seriously ill at the Stormont hospital,
is now cOnvalescing.
Governor Leedy is suffering with a
cold in the head, which affects his eyes
and almost blinds him.
Dr. Morgan of Clay Center has re-
signed as professor Of pathology in the
Kansas Medical college.
The national convention of the Chris
tan Endeavor society will be held at
Nashville, Tenn, July 5-12.
Everett Dallas has returned from the
Indian Territory where he has been in
d government surveying party.
The Edison company has secured the
contract for wiring the new Santa Fe
depot at Las Vegas. N. NJ.
Brigadier General Hudson's reception
VIII be given tonight in the senate
chamber and representative hall.
A marriage license has been issued to
George L. SWartz, aged 26 years, and
Ida M. Stanfield, both of Topeka.
Mrs. j. E. Benedict, wife of a prom
inent grain dealer of Chanute, is ill at
the Santa Fe hospital in this city.
The Topeka Turner society will send
a class of thirty members to the inter-
state funniest in Omaha this month.
Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Player are the
parents of a daughter. Mr. Player is
foreman at the Santa F'e roundhouse in
this city.
Fifth street has been swept by the
street force from Kansas avenue to
Van Buren, street.-the first time in many
months.
Call have presented the Twentieth KAN
sas regiment with case of surgical in
strumentS.
The state officers had hoped to have
the scaffOlding out of the state house
dome before the state convention but it
can not be done.
A tournament in singles will be play
ed Saturday afternoon at o'clock on
the courts of the Topeka tennis club,
Tenth and Fillmore streets.
The plans for the new German Cath
Ole church were prepared by an archi-
tect in Rock Island, ILL.,, who makes
a speciality of church work.
The delegates to the Kansas Chris
tan Endeavor convention We're pre-
scented with souvenir convention badges
by the Topeka EndeavOr local union.
Louis Bradford, son of ex-Attorney
General S. B. Bradford, is in the city
on a visit. He has been employed in
a glucose factory in Chicago as chemist.
Topeka. people who have returned
from the Omaha exposition say the
most noticeable difference between that
and the Worlds fair is that western
cordiality reigns supreme at Omaha.
The class that will go from the To-
peka Turner society to the Interstate
funniest at Omaha the latter part of
this month will give an athletic exhi-
bftion at the Turner gardens on Sun
day afternoon, June 10.
The Turner society has elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President, H. Fritz; vice president H.
Schwering; recording secretary, M.
Tfmyon; financial secretary, Chas.
Miller; corresponding secretary, F.
Schrieber; trustees, J. Boltz VIM.
Mosher and John PetZel.
Mrs. Elizabeth Samson, one of the
teachers in the Parkdale school, left
Thursday for the east with the re-
mains of her sister, Miss Mary Samson
who died this week in Kansas City
Miss Mary Samson was for several
years a teacher in the Kansas City
high school,and was well known in this
city.