The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-18
SNAP SHOTS AT HOME NEWS

country roads.
The fair grounds are to be fixed up
for the reunion.
One clothing house advertises shirts
with silk busums.''
The Catholic parochial schools Yill
open on September f.
An alIuring sign read $50 pounds Of
watermelon for 20 cents"
The mail from Manila arrived in To-
peka Thursday afternoon.
Harmon Ryus is now in the cigar
business in Los Angeles, Cal.
The anniversary celebration Of the
Arion society occurs tonight.
A Topeka man who ought to know
better spells it corn stocks
Eugene Hagan is contemplating
building a handsome residence.
John Clancy knows half the country
folk in Shawnee county by name.
Councilman John Elliott and family
are spending the day at Lakeview.
It is difficult for any organizations to
secure quorums during the hot season
Mayor Drew has been fndisposed for
several days and has not been at his
Office.
The school house janitors are com
mencing to clean up for the coming
term
One soda water hend has decided
that the nectar flavor comes from nee
tarines.
The Office of register Of deeds will in
OsOQ
evening.
Will Hopkins has returned from Ok
lahoma where he went with a survey
ing party.
The htdeous signs still obtrude them
selves at the entrances to the state
house grounds.
A force of men are at work tearing
up one of the fair grounds track on
Harrison street.
Those who get up early in the morn
til
growing shorter.
Mrs. E. Flood has filed suit for di-
vorce in the district court against her
husband, B. Flood.
The August payment of pensions has
| been practically completed by the To-
peka pension office.
It is prophesied that coon songs and
cake walk pieces will be as popular as
ever this winter.
Speaking about peculiar happenings.
the latest Irish character song is en-
titled 'Rouss Nit I'm"
Secretary Barnes report on the con-
ditiOn of grapes contains no report con-
corning Shawnee county.
Ed Timon was fined 5000 in police
court Thursday for maintaining a
nuisance in North Topeka
Soon after the new liquor ordinance
was passed a Topeka druggist display
ed a window full of milk bottles.
Capt, Joseph Waters will speak at
the old settlers and old soldiers reun-
ion at Cottonwood Falls. Sept. Is.
Tennis is not quite so popular now
since most of the Topeka players were
defeated in the state tournament.
RossvilIe claims to be the greatest
corn center in Kansas, and it seems to
have good grounds for the claim.
A meeting of the American Labor
Union viii be held tonight at Topeka
Post hall on East Seventh street
Some who have large coal bins and
flf lrot ire 1Gx 1r,ra1xv
of hard coal before the price goes up.
Jesse Cook has returned from Colo
RADIO, where he has been spending a
month in tramping over the mountains.
The people living near the Edison
plant now listen Ito the hammer ham,
mer, hammer on the big smoke stack
Bob KepIey combines the laundry
business with paving and curbing, and
does it so that both are profitable to
him.
Hotel porters say that politicians are
the cheapest men that stop at the no
tells and tips hardly ever come from
them.
Frank sheIlabarger, the Oklahoma
correspondent of the Kansas City Jour
nal, is at home in Topeka for a few
days.
Two new cottages have been built on
Twelfth street near Jackson and both
have been rented to prospective bridal
couples.
The NTodoes will wear white trousers,
blue coats and white caps as their I'M
form on their trip to Philadelphia Sep
TENDER l.
Several of the state officials are pre-
pairing to move their families to To-
peka this fall, Governor Stanley among
the rest.
H. S. Lawrence left Thursday after
noon for New York to commence re-
hearsals with Frank Daniels Opera
company.
The good little boy is looking forward
anxiously to the opening of school. The
rest, who are in the great majority, are
dreading it.
Superintendent Frank Nelson did not
speak at the corn train reception last
night for the reason that he was not
in the city.
Fred Austin, who lives at 703 East
Eighth street, and who is employed in
the Bromich boiler factory, is not the
prize fighter.
The three most popular places for
ptcnics around Topeka are Garfield |
park, the reform school and the campus
at Washburn.
The season is nearly over and no fe-
male base ball aggregation has struck
town. Does this signal the decline Of
the mannish woman?
There are eighteen pension agencies |
in the United States, but the Topeka
agency sends out One-ninth of all the
money paid to pensioners.
A Topeka man writes that it costs
only five cents to secure a frst-class
jag on the island of Negros. Better
send the topers over there.
A Topeka physician says that he
never fails to be called out on nights
when there is a real bad storm That
is the fun of being a Doctor
Claude Fairchild has gone for an out
ing at La Junta and other Colorado |
points. He was accompanied by his
mother, Mrs. D. S. Fairchild.
There is an elevator boy in Topeka |
who runs his elevator to the top floor
sometimes and plays in the halls while |
people are ringing for him below.
Attorney General GODDARD is prepar-