The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-08
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

Houses to rent are decidedly scarce at
present.
Red. white and blue awnings are now
the style.
H. s Montgomery has a collection of
A force of men is at work cleaning the
Grand Opera House.
Bill boards are being put up on about
every vacant corner.
Cap Curtis says that no one is betting
on the election this year
DR.. Agnes Mckee Wallace is recovering
from a severe sickness.
Chief I. A Strauss has sold his interest
in the collection agency.
Postmaster Guthrie is finding a way to
get rid of Democratic appOinteeS-
Major Tom Anderson is selling tickets
for the Modoc excursion to Omaha
G. P. Bolmar now presides over the can
ceiling machine at the pOstofhce.
Hard coal now sells for 50 cents more
per ton than it did the first of the week
From now on the coal wagons will be
more in demand than they were last July
Duplicate whist parties are starting up.
Several were held in Topeka last evening.
J. Willis Gleed is to deliver a temper
ance address at Salina next Sunday even
ing.
Fewer people from Topeka attended the
Kansas City festivities this year than
usual.
Assistant Superintendent Arnis made a
political speech down in Usage county yes
It IS unfortunate that asphalt cannot be
put on all the drives in the state house
grounds now
Major w. F. Brown of the Twenty-first
looks as well in his uniform as any officer
in the army.
Commissioner of Elections Yount reports
the registration as being slower this fan
than usual.
Since Buffalo Bill was here all the small
boys in town have been practicing throw
ing the lasso.
A force of a dozen men and women is
busy in Republican headquarters sending
out literature.
Cy Leland is keeping his eye on the con-
advice is needed.
Workmen are completing the marble
floor in the rotunda on the third floor of
the state house.
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings goes to
Omaha next week to attend the conven-
Eugene Hagan says in self-defense that
many of the most prominent men in the
The T. A. A. board of directors will
tendent for the association
A millinery store and a grocery is the
peculiar combination which exists in the
same store room in Topeka.
The new pavement around the state
house holds water. There are several
patches that need leveling up.
saws he IS highiV gpatifed bT the result Of
the analysis made by the city.
dS fba Is 4Es gpnf b to Be3Pe fhi
How tired they make everybody.
Judge J. l. Guy was asa admitted nit ed to 1t the
to practice in the district court
The annual meeting of the Topeka whist t
the purpose Of e1ecting directors.
Major T. J. Anderson says that politics
in shawnee county has greatly improved
recently in favor of the Republicans.
Secretary COburn of the state board of
agriculture has been carrying his arm in
a sling on account of lame wrist.
The officers Of the Ell Kansas 47 + regiments
home to stay. Most of them have two.
The front door of the Democratic head
/ quarters is kept locked. The only way
in is through the Populist headquarters.
At dance given recently by. small boys
in knee trousers, several members of the
leading grown up club Joined in the fun
Since the weather began to get cool the
state house elevator has run nearly every
day. 1t was needed most IN hot Wea-
Mrs. George H. Parkhurst, Miss Mitch
ell, Mr.. James Moore and Mr. Vim. Carrie
will form the quartette at the First Pres
byterian church on Sunday morning and
evening.
Superintendent Davidson of the city
schools lectures on Edgar Allen Zoe Pc
fore the County Teachers association this
afternoon.
J. s. Carpenter and family of Council
Grove are Visiting friends in the city; Mr..
Carpenter is the editor of the Republican
at that point.
The new picture of Colonel w. F. Cloud
places in the east rooms of the State His
torical society.
Miss Grace Diment returned to Leaven-
worth yesterday. where she will resume
her former position with the firm of Will
One portion of the luggage which went to
Omaha with the Boyd cadet girls was a
valise labeled curling irons. Some humor- |
Gus fellow labeled another powder
Charles S. Elliott of the Savings and !
Loan association says that a pretty cot (
tage costs no more than an uns1ghtly one, |
and still most of those built are not pretty. /
Frank Leslie's and the Illustrated Amer |
lean are among the weekly illustrated pa |
pers that have contained pictures OF Miss
Rose together with accounts of her visit |
here.
One Topeka business man got his store /
painted by allo wing sign painters M rs TO PVT |
their signs on me owner OF the DuilQ- !
ing did not like it and had the signs paint |
ed out.
Gay Rhea and her, company, who re-
Gently played a week at the Crawford, Z
are meeting with frosts at Salina. Frosts /
are to be expected at this time OF year, |
however.
The intelligent voter will vote and vote /
and vote again this fall and be not whit
better off than he was before. The voter (
always thinks his voting is going to do /
Three applications for discharge from !
bankruptcy have already been filed The I
nj. Davidson of Topeka and another To- !
peka man named Lawson
Mort Albaugh. chairman of the Repub- |
lican state central committee, and John |
CLANCY, chairman Of the Republican |
are both built on the same plan.
One of the managers of the Topeka |
Building and Loan association says that /
ing the existence of the association.
Charles Reyes. who has been employed |
in L. S. Woolvertons drug store for sew
eral years. and his brother, ]. n. Keyes of |
drug store at AL Kansas avenue.
The youngest soldier ever sent to the |
front from Topeka is J. D. Leahy, who is a |
member of company A, Twentieth Kansas. |
He was Is years and 4 months old when /
he enlisted and has never been sick day. /
After P. I. Bonebrake visited the Mid /
way at Omaha this week one of the fakirs !
had the following sign painted and placed |
in front of his tent: Mr.. Bonebrake of |
Topeka says this is the best show on the |
Midway"
Sumner school had a flag raising Thurs |
day Colonel Alexander acted as master |
Of ceremonies and on ar+attA of he Mo-