The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-04-01
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

! j. +. Myers has sold his black trot-
ting horse
The shower of Tuesday night meas
ured .0S of an inch
We need another heavy rain. The
streets are already dirty.
topeka markets have the third in
staliment of fresh Strawberries.
Charles A Taylor assistant state au-
dltor mas recovered from severe ill
ness.
The carriage makers are busy making
over old buggies so as to look new for
Easter.
County Commissioner Rodgers owns
a rebel nag captured in battle in Ar
kansas.
The Primary Sunday School union
will meet at the First Lutheran church
this evening.
S. M. Scott a promoter for Port Ar
thur is in town for the first time in
several months.
A. T. Bachelor and wife to Mabel c.
Roudebush, 1855, lots IA, Is and 5. hf. 10,
blk. 13, Auburndale
George Depree is building a business
house on lot No. 500 Quincy street.
which will cost $70O.
j. l. Benedict is building a residence
on lots No. 508-1O Buchanan street,
which will cost 81 $780,
Florence E. Hitchcock to Florence w.
Miller, lots 454 and n. hf. 456 Tyler
street, Huntoon'S add.
sonic temple signifies that the Scottish
Rite Masons are in session.
P. w. Griggs & Co, will occupy the
new store room on West Sixth street
being built by Mrs. Kellam.
Henry Beerman will probably move
his violin studio to the northwest cor
ner of Tenth and Topeka avenue.
Sam Radges wears an enormous and
beaut1ful opal in his shirt front in place
of his diamond which was stolen.
he oil
proceed without trepidation. c. II.
Nettels says the bevel gear is a success.
Judge Hazen has refused Mrs. ]. Lu-
ker a divorce from her husband whom
she charged with habitual drunkenness.
One minute after O'Clock in the aft
ernoon, every clerk in the United States
pension office is outside the Columbian
building.
The supply of ice for the asylum is
being hauled from the Moeser Ice COM
pany's factory where it is being manu-
featured.
The Topeka Athletic club wheelmen
will hold their annual meeting at the
rooms of the Athletic club Monday
evening.
Secretary Coburn of the state board
of agriculture read a paper before the
Lincoln County Farmers institute
Thursday
The Eastern Star social which was to
have been given at the home of Mrs.
John Sargent tonight, has been indefi-
nitely postponed.
Myron A Waterman has been en-
gagged to furnish cartoons and drawings
for the Topeka Advocate and News
during the campaign.
A large dog carrying a pocketbook in
his mouth was yelled at by all the small
boys on Kansas avenue yesterday but
he would not stop,
Oscar Swayze is now known as tCo1-
oneI'' about the court house. His friends
say that he is to have a commission in
the event of war.
Major Shreve is thinking of getting
up relay race to be participated in by
Topeka young women, and to be made
a feature of the Fall Festival.
DR.. B. D. Eastman left yesterday for
Cuba on a professional visit. 1t does
not happen to be 140 miles from Florida
but 140 miles from Topeka, in Republic
county.
Archie Barnes, one of the most pop
ular of the Topeka employees of the
Wells Fargo Express company has been
assigned to run on the B. & NJ. in Ne
braSka.
This evening at Hamilton hall Column
bia Council No. so Knights and Ladies
of Security, will give public installa-
ton and entertainment, to which adj
mission is free.
Fred Harrison, formerly stenographe
in the auditors office of the Santa Fe
in this city, and now in the Santa Fe
accounting department in Chicago, is
in this city.
Captain A. M Robinson, of Fire Sta
ton No. 2 spends part of his time doing
fine embroidery work He is an artist
in this line. The ladies' sewing circle
could get pointers at the fire station.
r. E. Town, who was a reporter on
the Journal for several years, has been
placed in charge of the Washington bu-
reau of the Chicago Times-Hera1d, dur
ing the absence of Walter Wellman.
People who move every spring are
finding it difficult to get houses to move
into. The rental list at real estate
agents never was so small. People are
building new houses, too.
John F. McManus and Moses Sarbach.
Of Horton, occupied the same seat in a
railroad car ednesday-Sarbach, who
weighs about 800 pounds, sat down aft |
er McManus had taken the seat.
Topeka musical circles have been ad-
1ed to by the location of Mr.. James |
the cellist, who is connected |
with the Sullivan & Delahoyde art |
store. He came here from Chicago.
The contest in "five,back'' between
the Y. M. c. A. and T. A. A. will be |
held this evening on the Y. M. C. A. |
bowling alleys. The Y. M. c. A won in |
he cooked hat contest several days |
ago.
Weather Observer T. B. Jennings |
air tonight and Saturday with but little |
change in the temperature. The min |
mum temperature for the night was 81
degrees.
Mrs. Olivia McClintock has COM
nenced action in the district court |
against the Covenant Mutual Life In
iurance company for $500. She claims
hat the company altered its method of |
Icing business to her disadvantage.
Napoleon Boneparte Burge, of this
city, is making plans to establish a
,reamery at Winfield with skimming
stations at railroad stations in the
He was interested in the
<nickerbocker creamery which was
tarted in Topeka several months ago.
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