The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-12
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

F.. J. Shubert has returned from a trip
to Denver.
The state board of charities is in session
at the asylum.
Farmers who have alfalfa are cutting
their first crop now.
The Topeka Academy of Medicine and
Surgery will meet tonight.
The crowd at the band concert yester-
day was not as large usual.
Congressman Charles Curtis has re-
turned from his trip to Washington.
DR.. G.. J. Mulvane left today for Min
nesota to rest for two or three weeks.
DR.. c. A. Mcclure has returned from
Delphos, Kan, where he was called last
week.
w. V. Church of the insurance depart
horses.
It is claimed that the hard winter used
up the potato bugs and that they are not
nearly SO bad this year as usual
Congressman Curtis has been asked to
deliver an address at the, meeting Of the
hambeau club on Wednesday evening.
Rev. A Dornseifer has succeeded Rev.
German Catholic church in this city
The state auditors office is being re-
prove the convenience of the department.
Episcopal church has been issued. It con
tains the names of 1,094 members of the
church.
AS soon as the contract for the brick
sidewalks in Parkdale is completed, work
on the walks let on the wesA side will be
It is reported that a meat market and
grocery store will soon be erected at the
Southeast corner of Huntoon street and
Topeka avenue.
DR.. J. E. Minney will return this week
from columbus, q. where ne has been at
lcal association.
1t is a. wonder that more horses and
sas avenue, Considering how careless some
people are with them.
p: o. McCray has gone to YelIville, Ark.
When Judge Ferry'S new home on South
Topeka avenue is completed he will i've
The next suicide in Topeka will start a
new trio. People who keep account of
such things say that the suicide of Jo-
9 5TlRo. ~urFS last week completed the last
:. Kansas papers suggest, from time to
time that MarShalPs band make a tour
of the state. Director Marshall may de-
eide to take the band on a short tour next
F. ]. Kellogg has Instituted a suit in
the district court against the La Veta
Jersey Cattle company for the possession
lege.
According to the report Of the appraisers
owned MORTGAGES aggregating nearly $40
Of SIS 600 ''e- '''''e7 D--07 - '-' anu --1'
Mrs. F. ]. Mather of Seabrook who had
her face frightfully scalded by the
ploSion of u can of coffee last week, had
suit of the accident.
:. Merchants are getting the Fourth of
S9y boY 70 n Tbe o3 c be tH TEMPT the
bunch of frecrackers as soon as they ap-
pear in the store windows.
The wheelmen and owners of buggies
are discussing the advisability of asking
the city council to pass an ordinance
diminishing the size of the orifice in the
street sprinkler to prevent a flooding Of
the streets.
Some Topeka men are looking forward
to the liberty which they think they will
enjoy when their wives go away on their
summer trips. But after the first week
they will be ready to have them come
back.
Mr.. E. S. Brigham. manager of the
Crawford theater in st. Joe, has been in
Topeka visiting relatives; He will leave
shortly for New York city to secure the
bookings for the Crawford circuit next
season.
Many school teachers are getting ready
to go to California to the National Edu-
catfonal association meeting next month.
Walter Reid. bookkeeper in the state
treasurer's Office, has moved his family
to Topeka from Concordia.
A Topeka man who has just returned
from the extreme southern portion of the
state says it rained five times a day while
he was there. and the residents claimed
that it had been doing the same thing all