The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-24
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

The Woodmen band went to st.
| Marys today.
John McBee is the veteran hackman
Japanese tomatoes are being put up
| for preserves.
Genuine old fashioned red peppers are
| on the market.
The bay horse on the patrol wagon
! is 20 years old.
silk handkerchiefs can now be had
| for eight cents.
Hardware stores now handle watches.
| The dollar kind.
The Republican hambeau club met
| Wednesday night
Coon hunts will be in order after the
! 4th of September
There are three bakeries in one block
on Kansas avenue
Sam Radges left today for Colorado
| to enjoy vacation.
The druggists have been having a
| great run on phosphates.
The first trip the Modocs made was
/ to the Centennial in 1876.
A small, fuzzy wuzzy worm is playing
] havoc with foliage plants.
A sprinkling wagon was kept busy on
| Topeka avenue Wednesday.
Topeka back yards are well occupied
| by tomato plants just now.
/ The Kansas Medical college open for
! the fall term September u.
Ex-poIicemen admit that it makes a
man lazy to be a patrolman-
| A Topeka mechanic is talking of
! building an automobile this winter.
The fence around Athletic park has
| been sold, and is being torn down.
| Police Matron Thorpe viii soon take
! a two weeks vacation in Colorado.
| 1t is said that there are more black
! dogs in the city than of any other color.
/ The harvesting machine dealers have
| sold a great many reapers this sum
| mer.
! A crowd gathers at the fire stations
every night at o'clock to see the prac-
! tice.
The cover to Buffalo" Jones book
was designed by NJ. H. Client of To-
| peka.
Next to the city library, the T. A. A.
reading room is the most popular in
! town.
To have the family cat taken to a
| gallery and photographed is now quite
a fad.
People who study bugology. secure
| their specimens around the street
! lamps.
Lumber men have had a run on shin
| giles. About time for school to COM
! mence.
Country bicycle riders say that farm
1 ers turn out for them more than city
! drivers.
The rain accomplished some. good. It
gave the pavements fairly good
washing.
A Kansas avenue drug store that
sells stamps buys them at the postof1ce
/ in SO lots.
The city railway track on East
Eighth street is the least used Of any
] in the city.
]. w. GIeed and c. H. NetteIs will
leave soon for Scotland to take some
| dispositions
The grass on the edges of the de-
| pressed court house lawn is badly dried
| and burned
| Postal cards with the reverse side
| sensitized for printing photographs is
| the latest fad.
! A travelling man for an extract house
/ carries with him a dried vanilla bean
as a curiosity.
DR.. J. B. Freeman, physician in
! charge of the Santa Fe hospital is east
| on a vacation.
Hubbard squashes are displayed by
| the grocerymen and a guarantee goes
| with everyone.
The police say that as soon as the
schools open the petty thieving by
! boys will cease.
The equfnoctial storms are scheduled
! to commence September 20, according
| to the a1manacs.
Patrol Driver Bundy knows the pedi-
| gree of nearly every race horse In
| Shawnee county.
Mrs Fred Rooster was operated on
| for appendicitis at the Stormont hos
| pitaI Wednesday,.
Colonel Sam Radges always takes
| his Sunday evening dinner with friends
in North Topeka.
I'VE will soon see the passing of the
! white trousers" said a Iaundryman
| today with a sigh.
Bishop Millspaugh, of the Episcopal
! church, will return from Minnesota the
| first of next week
People with offices on Kansas ave-
| nue. say the dust has not been as bad
| as usual this summer.
Liverymen hope that the golf play
| ers will play all winter and hire traps
| to go to the links in.
| The grass and weeds are being cut
| on some of the vacant lots in the diff
| ferent parts of town.
John Rhodes is now captain of fire
station No. vice Richard Brown who
| is still on the sick list.
Everett Dallas, of the Santa Fe pas
| senger department, has gone to Macki-
| nae to spend a vacation.
Topeka people commenced going to
! St. Marys on Wednesday, but the main
| guard left this morning.
The Topeka club has arranged for
| a concert by MarShallS band at the
| club house Friday night
A team on a Topeka ice wagon hauls
| $4,000 pounds of ice up the Quincy
| street hill every morning.
Crane & Co. have a large book made
! and bound by them expressly for ex-
| hibftion at the Centennial.
Dick Hodgins is still spoken of as the
| man who drove President Harrison s
| carriage when he was here.
The police have been doing good work
| lately at fires in keeping the crowds
| from annoying the firemen.
Window dressers refuse to work this
| hot weather unless they can have an
| electric fan in the windows.
A movement should be started to
| save as many of the trees around the
new city hall site as possible
/ Sign painters have to be able to paint
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