The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-07-22
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

DR.. r. S. Magee is in the east.
The latest negro song is Little Cot
ton Dolly
The price of hay is falling. due to new
hay on the market.
Charles n. Nelson, of the T A. A, is
an expert Oarsman-
WheeImen find the roads to Burnett's
mound very popular
local apple growers say that there
will be no crop this year.
Corn in the bottoms near Oakland is
higher than a mans head.
This year milk wagons are even
more dilapidated than ever.
Judge E. w. Cunningham of EmpOria
is in the city on legal business.
The agitation for a work house in
Topeka has again been revived.
Mr.. w. F Evans of the Rock Island
legal department, is in Chicago
The pillars for the casino in Garfield
park have been placed in position.
There are now four United States
prisoners confined at the county jail
The Topeka Herald.a chiIdren's week
", has been revived by Harry Rigby.
Tim Murphy in his new piece. The
Carpetbagger," will be seen here next
season.
The tracks of the West Side Circle
railroad are still to be seen west of
town.
c. H. Lockwood, who is in California
for his health, writes that he is much
improved
The alleys behind some of the restau-
rants need the attention OF the health
department
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal is
making plans for house which he says
he may build in Topeka.
George W. Jackson is confident that
his band will be taken with the cOIOred
troops as regimental band.
The question of what to do with our
ex-jointists'' has been solved. Start
them in the restaurant business.
The College Hill postofffce, known as
Station B, has done a good business in
the way of stamp sales, money orders,
etc.
The Mormon elders are still in Tope-
ka preaching every evening on the
street corners to audiences of five or
six.
Prof Kinnebrew. the aeronaut, who
mas made a number of very successful
balloon ascensiOns and parachute leaps
his year, lives in Topeka.
The farmers say that sun IS needed in
order to put up hay There is much
nay cut, and considerable will be lost If
the damp weather continues.
Eugene and A. B. Quinton have pur-
chased an interest in zinc mine at
Galena- T E. Pounds of this city is
interested in the same mine.
The trolley car crossing at Sixth and
Jackson streets has been repaired so
that passengers are not now thrown out
of their seats while riding over it.
Rev. David Shields of SaIina, who
has been i'll with typhoid fever at the
StOrmont hospital in this city, left this
week for his old home in Illinois.
Assistant Secretary of State Ross
used to ride a bicycle but has given up
his wheel He says that a man gets TO
his destination too quickly when riding
a wheel.
Clothing merchants say that they
can always tell when married man
wife goes away for the summer. The
husband comes around in a week for a
box of bachelor buttons.
John F. Strickrott of this city has
made set of exhibition photographs of
the state insane asylum grounds and
buildings which will be placed in the
Kansas exhibit at the Omaha exposi-
ton.
Passengers on the Santa Fe plug
returning from Kansas City last night
report that the heaviest rain of the sea-
son in this part of the country occurred
between Kansas City and Lawrence
last evening.
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings has
extended an invitation to the Kansas
voluntary weather observers to attend
the annual convention of Weather
Bureau Officials to be held at Omaha
october 20 and 21
Before man gets married he goes
away every year on a summer vaca-
ton; after he gets married he STAYS at
nome ana works hard to raise money
enough to send his wife away. And yet
they say that men are selfish.
The POttawatomie Indian corn dance
commences at Neddo today. Topeka
people going to the dance take the train
to Hoyt and drive from there eight
miles to NeddO. The roads from HOvt
to NeddO are in excellent shape for BIZ
cycles.
The Missouri & Kansas TeIenhone
company Will put in the Topeka central
Office set of storage batteries which