The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-10-29
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS


Major Tom Anderson speaks at Ross
There IS very little betting on the result
of the election.
J.. 5. Coe owns the smallest team Of
Fishermen who have returned from Cot
tonwOOd Falls report good luck
The Western Pigeon Fanciers will hold
show in Topeka November u to Is
A grand concert and ball will be given
by the Turner society Sunday evening.
l. B1ackman says there is an fncreas-
ing demand for Topeka vftrified brick
The largest Touring mill in Topeka is
managed by a man under 30 years old
NJ McKenna of the secretary of states
office went home to Plainville today.
The pet stock show will open in the
Curry building on Monday, November 21-
Fourteen men were heard to remark to-
day that they wished they had registered
Prescott & Co. are heating the store oc-
cupied by TrOup's Enterprise with steam.
Carriages were kept busy by the candi-
dates yesterday taking the delinquents to
The youngsters are getting ready for
their Halloween pranks next Monday
Sheriff Cook was in Lawrence yester-
day serving subpOenas in the Collins muir
Assistant State Auditor Taylor has re-
turned from a campaigning trip in the
Since the sharp frosts have set in the
leaves are beginning to drop from the
The Commercial club needs larger quar-
tiers and viii move as soon as II finds
The petunfa beds at the state house con-
tain the only semblances Of flowers left
Dressed turkeys have made their ap-
pearanCe in the meat market windows
Topeka fishermen who have gone to Cot
tonwoOd Falls have made good catches of
crOppIeS and bass
The grand stand at the fair grounds has
been repaired by replacing the hail pierced
roof with new one
The improver9lents in Ghesney, park have
a commissioner of parks
Part of the old Ninth street viaduct
still stands It VIII fan down of its own
accord some of these days.
The returned soldier boy who wears the
largest and loudest Insignias Of rank is
generally the lowest officer.
A Topeka girl observes that there are no
pretty leaves on the trees this fall She
says the snow spoiled them
Miss Emma Kelly has refused the offer
IS a girl OF rare good sense
Myron A Waterman has returned from
trip out into the Arkansas valley, where
he has been examining banks
Yesterday was the first day of Indian
summer We may have another winter
and summer before Thanksgiving.
Engineer Frank McKeOn of the Santa
Fe, who has been i'll for several weeks
will resume work in a few days.
O. P Updegran will leave tomorrow for
st Louis to attend the horse show there
He is one of the judges of the show
The foundation for the new German
GathoIc church at the corner Of Third and
Van Buren, streets is nearly completed
The Commercial club will soon take up
the question of parks. It is high time
that Topeka do something along this line
The sod being used for the court house
grounds is being taken from the fair
grounds on the south side of the race
John NJ. Mccarthy is performing the du-
JeS OF chlef clerk in the general man
ayers office during the absence Of Mr..
Henry Shindler of Ieavenworth. who is
in Topeka has been the Leaveuworth cor
respondent Of the Kansas City Times for
Secretary Upton Of the PopuIist state
central committee seldom gives out news
for publication, but he knows his business
Someone ought to volunteer to remove
the hulk Of the burned peanut stand which
still stands at the corner of the state
Frank Elliott, Governor Leedy's execu-
tive clerk is a plutOcrat to the extent OF
wearing fresh flower in his buttonhOle
one Topeka man heard that prohibition
was talked of in Hawaii and he is pre-
pared if il becomes law TO go there and
The statement that postage rates to
States was a mistake. The letter rate is
Mr.. D. E Cain. chief clerk in the office
of. the general manager Of the Santa Fe,
went to Omaha yesterday afternoon to
Major Shreve has a little dog which is
trained to bring messages from home to
the major at the state house, but he will
never go back home alone.
Judge J. G. Wood says he believes the
visit Of Miss Rose to. Topeka is the best
compliment ever paid a foreign country
by citizens of the United States.
James r. Wick of this city took the
proceedings of the annual meeting of the
state Bankers association at Leavenworth
this week for the official report
Miss Emma Kelly has been rendered a
box at the Crawford theater for the per
IorTnance of The Heart OF the KlOndize''
on Monday evening, November Z
Sheriff Cook purchased a fine driving
team at a public sale a few days ago He
claims that he can strike a gait of fifteen
miles an hour with his new outfit.
chairman Clancy of the Republican
Gonln1IJee says: The two Toms are the
1erred 70 Tom McNeal and Tom Doran.
The clerks in the state auditors office
are p0rlng over long columns of figures
nowadays preparatory to issuing the BIZ
eEnla4 report OF the office next month
Topeka is not the only town that has
an egg famine The hens down in Sedg-
Wlck county nave gone on strike, and
IN wichita eggs have gone up to II cents.
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