The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-22
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

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| the high school.
| Topeka horsemen are talking of a
race meet in June.
| Miss Pearl Sample has recovered from
| three weeks sickness.
| Will Hindman and Harry Figg have
| sold the Epicurean to B. Moody.
| The High Rollers again defeated the
| Santa Fes last night at duck pins.
The Topeka Realty Co. has sold No.
| 1902 Harrison street to A. M. Leslie.
| Mr.. Joseph Ost, Santa Fe storekeeper
! at FIT. Madison, Ia, is visiting in To-
| peka.
| A company has been formed to
| prospect for gas in the vicinity of Wa
! karusa.
Mitchell Bundy is acknowledged to
| be the best patrol driver ever on the
| police force.
NJ. P. Gregory, chief clerk in the San
| ia Fee shop office, is visiting his parents
! in New York.
! Speaking of club names. Hiawatha
| has the "Optimostensibles'' and the
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES"
John Purcell, foreman of the Santa
| Fe rOundhouse at Argentine, is visiting
| his parents in this city.
| The Topeka Industrial federation will
meet in the Y. NJ. c. A. parlors at 3
o'clock Monday afternoon.
T. B. Sweet is we'll acquainted with
J. T. Mcfarland, the new minister of
/ the First Methodist church.
This is the time of year when a man
buys s. worth of garden implements to
raise SO cents worth of vegeta bles.
Senator Hanna, of Clay Center, is in
Topeka today to have something to say
about locating the new insane asylum.
There are approximately 1900 men
employed in the mechanical depart
ments in the Santa Fe shops in To-
peka-
Topeka's juvenile population is
anxiously watching for the posters of
| the circus that is scheduled for Topeka
next month.
deliver an address before the "EpWorth
League training Ahool' at Baker uni
versity in May.
The annual convention of the city
Sunday School association will be held
in the First Presbyterian church to-
morrow evening.
Several century plants have been set
out in the court house lawn, but people
need not expect to pick bouquets off
them this summer.
Mrs. ]. ]. Harter has been called to
Waterloo, Iowa, on account of the
death of her sister.
Senator Hugh Farrel,y is UP from
Chanute to talk to the insane asylum
committee about locating the new
asylum at his town.
The Graham Earle company will open
a weeks engagement at popular prices
at the Crawford theater May 1.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Home Missionary society of the First
Methodist church will be held in the
church parlors next Wednesday after
noon.
Major A. P. Shreve has taken up
horse trading as a side line. He made
SO on a single trade of a span of ponies
a few days ago, and never handled the
ponies either.
Marshall's band will soon play John
Philip Sousa's new march Hands
Across the Sea- which was played by
his band for the first time in Philadel-
phia last night.
Levi Henderson who, with Lon Hen
derson, was charged with robbing a
store at RossV1lle, has been discharged
from the county Jail, while Lon goes to
the penitentiary.
One of the pleasures of this time of
year is to have your neighbor build a
fire of old leaves so that the smoke will
blow into your house and drive you off
your own premises.
Harry English, who was seen here
several times with The Paiges" is now
leading man with the Arnold Wolford
stock company, which comes to the
Crawford theater Monday night
Charlie Pinkston, colored, the Swear
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Kirk Pinkston,
was badly burned yesterday while play
ing with fire and the mother was burned
in trying to extinguish the flames.
Atchison sees nothing new in the pro-
posed dramatization of Ben Hur." An
amateur company dramatized and play
ed it there two years ago, and the book
has not been well thought of since.
There will probably be over 100 play
ers at the Topeka Whist club next Mon
day night. A large number of prom
inent people will be in attendance The
game will be a north and south one.
The entertainment to be given by the
Industrial federation to help the poor
of Topeka make garden will be given
next Friday night at the Crawford. 1t
is advertised that fifty society ladies'
will take part.
L. B. Keifer, who represented Neosho
county in the legislature last winter, is
in Topeka today arranging for the visit
of the insane asylum committee to