The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-20
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

Chlef WllmarthS wagon Is pelng re-
painted.
Dr. P. NJ. sturgis has entirely recov-
cred from his recent illness.
The regular meeting of the Eastern
Star will be held this evening.
Mr.. c. w. Snyder has been in Clifton,
Kan, this week looking after his bank
ing interests.
Rev NJ. C. Harlan will speak at We'll
Iington May "a before the Endeavor
convention.
Memorial services will be held May 80
at 2 o'clock at Prairie Home cemetery,
near Menoken.
The Athenaems won from the Philo-
Friday night.
Mr.. E. w. Ellis went to Cottonwood
Falls this afternoon to spend Sunday
with his sister.
The Dodoc club is arranging an en-
tertainment to be given at the Grand
OperO House soon.
A large audience heard the last con-
cert of the Arion society last night.
Dancing followed the concert.
Roses are later than usual this year,
The usual supply will not be hand
for the school commandments.
Two boys who escaped from the re-
form school the first of the week have
been recaptured at Armourdale.
Sarah ]. Welder has sued her hus-
band Reuben f. Welder, for a divorce.
They were married in Topeka in 1891.
Judge Guy placed George Klauer's
bond to appeal his liquor case to the
district court at $1,000 He furnished it.
Rev. G. D. Olden has postponed his
comments on ingalls, advice to southern
negroes until Sunday evening, May %.
The application of Charles NJ. Foulks
for the rights of majority has been
granted by Judge Hazen in the district
court.
Judge Hazen has the question of the
Il "a
ment and will render a decision on Mon
day.
Miss Helen Bertram, leading lady of
the Bostonians, is a cousin of Miss
Mary Holm of Bethany and Mrs. G. J.
Mulvane.
Thirteen members of Lincoln post.
G.. A. r., died last year. Mr.. G. G.
Gage made the eleventh member who
has died this year.
A benefit was given at Hudson's hall
Friday night to raise money for the
Orphans home. good sized crowd
was in attendance.
w. A s. Bird contributed to pay the
funeral expenses of a man he found
was alive. AS J. J. Kinney would say,
''he was dead easy"
If a boy Thought that going swim
ming was actually good for him and
was the same as taking a bath he would
vigorously demonstrate against it.
The Shawnee county normal institute
School building under the direction of
County Superintendent j. w. Stout
DR.. c. H. Duvan of Peoria, Ill,
who is visiting IN the city, will give
free lecture at the B Street Baptist
church on Monday evening, in the SUBJ
ject, "Lynching in America"
Mr.. E. ]. Shakeshaft, chief clerk in
the Santa Fe passenger department,
has returned from Chicago, where he
accompanied Mrs. Shakeshaft on her
way to England.
Forty-three years ago Monday Mr.
G. S. Gordon of this city brought the
first buggy into Topeka. The few peo-
pie then in the town lined up along the
streets to see it.
The walls of the new German Catholic
church at the corner of Third and Van
Buren, streets are being erected. When
completed the church will be one of the
handsomest in the city.
A Topeka young man is so bashful
that when he wants to ask a girl to go
with him he has to do SO over a tele-
phone, because he hasn't the nerve to
go through the ordeal in her presence.
The first vegetable freak of the season
is reported by H. o. Austin. who lives
at 703 East Eight avenue. 1t is radish
which tied itself in a knot. The lower
part coiled around the body of the
radish and then grew through the loop
thus formed.
Once a month Miss Nanon L. Herren,
editor of the Legal News, treats each
homemade cream candy. Nobody
wants to go away on a vacation about
the time of month the candy is ex-
pected.
Amateur circuses are all the go in
Topeka now. One crowd of youngsters
has one in back yard just northeast
of the federal building. There is no
canopy over the top and the officers in
the federal building take in all the per-
formances, including the side show and
concert, free of charge.
d. c. Tfllotson has taken a hand in
the Craig habeas corpus case involving
the legality of the city court. He in
tended to bring another habeas corpus
covering the same ground, but Judge
Hazen advised him to join issues with