The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-07
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS


The state board of charities is at the
asylum.
Wheat is worth 65 cents a bushel in
Topeka
New bicycles at s15.s5 are on the local
markets.
WIN johnson has gone to New Mexico
on business.
The hose wagon from station No. IS
being Tepa1nted-
Tom McNeaI says it is watermelon
threshtng time"
Several handsome new traps are prom
1sed for next spring.
General Passenger Agent Black has re-
turned from Chicago.
d. R Hite spent yesterday in Kansas
City on legal business.
Already a few enthusiasts are talking
of baseball for next year.
The sizz of the soda fountain will soon
Join the ice man in repOSe.
At last watermelons have disappeared
from the restaurant counters
The lumber has begun to arrive for the
repairs on the Sixth street viaduct-
quarters at the fair grounds stables.
The picture exhibit at Unity chapel will
close this evening The exhibit is free
These pretty evenings attract many
drivers Of fancy horses to the speedway.
Judge F. G. Adams, secretary of the
state historical society IS dangerously III
Topeka is now in the midst of a coal
trade.
The. annual meeting Of the Topeka
Whist club will be held next Monday
night at 7:30.
The Republican fiambeau quartette will
furnish music for the Republican rally
at Rossville tonight.
The noted Hillmonl case is set for its
sixth trial in the federal court at LeaV-
enWorth next week.
Grading for the new pavement between
Tyler and Iopeka avenue on HWelftn
street has commenced
The state officers are planning decora-
IIOns for their departments for the re-
ception of the Twentieth.
S. Maple, the man who same near being
asphyxiated at the Nickum hotel Thurs
day night, has recovered.
sodt l eosll has gone up 50 cents per ton;
with more to follow soon.
The. organizations interested in the
Twentieth Kansas banquet will meet
Monday night at Weber's hall.
crowd of people who came to the re-
on the north side, are stil here
The football season for Topeka people
Washburn and the state University.
The merry -gO-round which has remain
ed i9 the fair grounds, since the reunion
Is at last being shipped out of town.
A large audience saw the second per-
formance of The Hottest Coon in Dixie
at the Crawford theater Friday night.
Eugenia Blair will give a matinee and
evening performance OF "A Lady of Quail
fly at the Crawford theater next Sat
urday.
Peter Eberhart. a Monmouth township
farmer, has painted all the mail boxes on
the Tecumseh rural delivery route at his
own expense
Girls play soldier but they never play
4OOlDdlls remarked a man To-Day VINO
doesn't believe in female soldering as
he expressed it.
There are lots of men in Topeka who
don't know what a Persimmon is, and
who wouldn't recognize one if they
should meet in in the road.
The Degree of Honor lodges of the city
will hold union meeting at the A. O. L.
w. hall this evening, at the corner of
Kansas avenue and Gordon street.
A petition to pave Tyler street from
Fifth to Ninth streets. is proposed. One
TO pave between Fifth and Sixth has
1lTea0V been handed
Congressman Curtis will open the fall
campaign in Shawnee county tonight with
a speech at ROssville. A large number of
Republicans expect to go up from Topeka.
The Sunday dinners at the National no
tel are becoming very popular and it is
surprising how many Topeka people take
their meals regelarly there on the Sab
bath
The Wichita Eagle doesn't believe
George R Peck will run for governor Of
Illinois because the office of governor in
that state is as common a. target as it is
In Kansas
The Topeka Academy of Medicine and
Surgery will meet Monday evening at the
office of Drs. Minney and Magee. DR.. A