The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-05
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS

The river is rising again.
The city council meets Monday night
MarshalPs band goes to Atchison Sun
day.
The Arions will picnic at vinewood
Sunday.
Now is the time to register for the
bond election.
The weeds in many parts Of the city
ought to be cut.
There will be a cheap excursion to
Fort Riley soon.
Lincoln Post G. A. r. initiated five
members Friday.
DR.. Charles Lowry will return from
California next week.
W. I. Allen of the Rock Island road
is in town on business.
Charles r. JosIin is trying to purchase
an Atchison drug store.
Auburn boasts a baseball club that
has yet to meet its first defeat.
Sells Bros circus is headed for To-
peka, the date being September 10.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Stewart of
Rossville are the parents Of a son.
Fishing at Lake View is pronounced
by experts to be very good this year.
Representative f. B. Dawes was over
from Leavenworth last evening.
The addition to Ex-Governor Os-
born's house is almost completed.
Since March l. 206 building permits
have been issued by the fire marshal
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Crandan of Va
lencia are the parents of a daughter.
There has been a great deal of sick
ness among the Santa F'e shop men this
year.
The regular meeting of the CONNER
cial club will be held next Wednesday
night.
Mr.. Allen Keck, living southwest of
Topeka, is seriously ill with typhoid
fever.
The Santa Fe pays out over 100000
each month in salaries and wages in
Topeka.
The Ladies' Aid society of the Chris
tan church will give a lawn social this
on the excursion of Cryptic Masons
Sunday.
Mr.. ana Mrs. F. D. Jackson, living
east of the city, are the parents Of a
daughter.
Marshalrs band win be an important
attraction at the Atchison corn carnival
this fall.
John NIcManus is as accomplished a
prestidigitator as many of the stage
magicians
L E. Lambert. United States district
| attorney. has gone to Colorado for
; vacation.
the Klondike is still doing business at
LeavenWOrth.
The knights and Ladies of Security
are planning an excursion to Fort Riley
! on August II.
WinkIers Juvenile Military band
comes to Topeka after an engagement
in Keokuk, Ia
Rev. Mr.. Maggs of Oakland is now
holding tent meeting at Elmont, north
of North Topeka.
The players for the state tennis tourn-
ament will come to Topeka Tuesday
and Wednesday.
Riding a bicycle on Kansas avenue is
very much like riding over the ties in
a railroad track.
There are several colors of paint
prettier than the one now being put on
the city building.
Greeley NcKeever will join his bro
Their, Ed McKeever, in the practice of
law September l.
A sudden rain worries man with
! fresh linen suit more than a "spotter"
worries a. jOintist.
The Kansas River Baptists will COM
mence five days camp meeting at Sill
yer Lake August p.
A. T. Waggoner has new line Of
cigars named in honor Of Gath, the
noted newspaper writer.
Ralph Squires says the Chauncey NJ.
Depew cigar is the freest smoker on the
market, which it leads.
The administrators of the Gage estate
say that the claims against the estate
will be less than $4,000.
E. w. Benedict contributes $3.50 to the
paving improvements now going on in
the west part of town.
Marion county now claims 4 gold field.
! The assays show $16 worth of gold to
the ton-so someone says.
The ice plant whistle does duty for
clock alarm for many families in the
northwestern part of the city.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal is
combining business and politics on a
trip through southern Kansas.
Claret glace has succeeded claret
| lemonade in popularity since the latter
has gone to Is cents per glass.
A Topeka literary man says Richard
| Carvel is a new novel which is repre-
sentative in American literature.
The chorus of the Third Presbyterian
church Of this city gave an entertain
ment at Tecumseh Friday night.
| Dan Fry has been elected and has
] taken charge of the Office of treasurer
| of the Democratic Flambeau club.
| The man who whistles ought to be
| suppressed especially when he enters
| an Office where people are at work.
! David Harum is in the state library
/ and there is a great scramble among
| the state house people for the book.
! The pension vouchers cashed at the
/ pension agency Friday aggregated 1913 =
! S94.12. There were 2,774 vouchers paid.
| The ATOdOcs and a big crowd of To-
| peka, people will go to the Wathena
| Chautauqua Sunday on the Rock Is
| land.
Miss Belle Eagan, assistant matron of
the Santa F'e hospital in this city, has
gone to Burlington, Kan, to visit rela-
! tives.
The colored band played at Lake
| View Friday for the emancipation day
celebration by the Lawrence colored
| people.
The August meeting of the board of
directors of the Y. NJ. c. A will be
held Monday at $3.50 to discuss improve
| ments.
| Rev John d. Knox will read a paper
| Monday morning before the Ministerial
| union on 1.-The Second Coming of
| Christ
Work on the new German Catholic