The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-27
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS


bicycle track has commenced.
F. L. Brown, clerk of the federal
court. has gone to Chicago.
otis Hungate and W. E. Atchison VIII
speak at Richland on July 4
The weather Monday was pretty near
y hot enough for a sunstroke or two
New potatoes are down to 20 cents
q peck, and good sized pecks at that
w. Y. Morgan will be the principal
speaker on the Fourth at Dodge CITY.
Chief Ramsey's horse still suffers
from burns received at the grand STAND
IRE.
-Four hundred cars of wheat have
been received in Topeka up 10 Date TINS
month.
A small pet coyote is kept chained in
front of a restaurant on East Fourth
street.
When ]. s. Parks leaves the state
printing Office he viii return to his home
IN BeIoit-
The police force is short two men
Officers Mccoy and Williams are on the
sick list.
Roasting ears are getting ripe. Their
arrival is being anXiously awaited py
many people
Fourth of July plans are being made
and the doctors are laying in a supply
Of lint bandages-
In anticipation of the bathing season,
one enterprising firm in town Is adVer-
Using bathing suits
MI. Ii L. Nudge. SenGTdl SupCAAA
tendent of the Santa Fe, is in Oklahoma
on a trip of inspection
NJ. c. Cave, William Shaffer and Fritz
Durein were arrested by the police Mon
cay for running joints
Monday is always an extra busy day
at the Santa Fe offices, due to the work
piling up over Sunday.
The sand dredge in the river near the
bridge has no office hours. 1t was at
work last night at dark.
The people around the Oak Grange
ct Mission Center are preparing for an
elaborate picnic on July Is
The continued wet weather has caused
= great many elm tree sprouts to grow
IN nearly all parts of the city
The teamsters have formed a union
and contractors will not hire men now
who do not belong to the union
Esxaminatio for teachers will be
held for the benefit of those attending
the institute Friday and Saturday
The Chicago Lumber company gener-
ously donated the use of the lumber for
the temporary seats at the horse show
Friends of Dick Blue say that he has
not yet made up his mind to enter the
race for congress in the Third district
The monthly meeting of the WOmen's
Home Missionary society of the Metho
dist church viii be held tomorrow after
noon
The new officers of the Amity club
are: r H Semple. president; Louis
urer
Newt Try of Fort Scott has been
appointed stamp counter in the othce
Of the internal revenue collector in this
city
Grain buyers are expecting new
wheat on the market every day. The
harvesting in southern Kansas is COM
pleted.
State Treasurer Frank Grimes says
he viii raise 500 at the state house for
the support Of a base ball team in To-
peka-
When it is very hot and sticky" peO-
PIE can console themselves with the
thought that it is good growing
weather.
Superintendent T. c. Biddle and
Steward f. L. Shaffer of the Topeka
asylum visited Kansas City on business
Monday
sng for the new Seventh street pave
ment between Harrison street and To-
peka avenue.
From the way some dogs are clipped
for the summer it appears that the ton
serial artists got tired of the job before |
completion.
The teachers who are attending the
county institute say that the session !
this year is one of the best they have |
ever attended.
4 Topeka woman first blondined her |
hair and then attempted to do some |
thing else with it. The color is now a |
chestnut sorreL
Judge Foster was member of the |
St Ananias club. He was the thir- /
teenth member of the club to die since !
ats organization
Cucumbers are plentiful and are do
ing business with their usual vigor, fur !
nishing the old reliable brand of collie |
at a low cost.
The bed of petunias or rather the bed |
where the petunias ought to be, on the |
south side Of the state house, is rich in
q good crop of weeds.
superintendent Nelson has been en-
gaged to write an article on why Do |
We Educate?" for the Normal Instruc-
tor. of Danville, n. Y.
The Cleveland baseball team in the !
National league is now a homeless wan
derer What is the matter with Topeka
adopting the disowned child2
The usual crowd of small boys were
helping the Cooper show to unload their
tents Monday prompted by the promise
OF free tickets to the show.
Colonel J. c. Gordon has so far re-
covered from his recent operation that
he viii be removed from Stormont hos
pital to his home this week.
The enrolment at the Shawnee coun-
~ institute this year reached 206. This
Is the highest it has ever been 1t has |
never gone over the 200 mark before
Quite a large delegation of ToDeka
people viii leave for California next /
week on the Santa Fe excursion to the
educational association.
Mr.. c. NJ. Atwood, auditor of pas
senger receipts, Santa Fe r r.. is in
Montreal attending a meeting of the
National Accounting Officers associa-
ton
The Shawnee county teachers-those
whose certificates expire this year-are
beginning to have the nightmare. The |
June examination comes on Friday and
Saturday,
From the way some Topeka people |
wag their tongues it would seem that |
they believe young men and women
lived only to love, get married and be
unha ppy-
The top floor of the Santa F'e general |
offices would naturally be thought to be
a very warm place to work in hot |
weather, but on the contrary it is very
Comfort a ble