The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-03
sNAP SHOTS HOLE NEWS


/ few days business trip.
/ Vinewood park next Sunday.
! A party of Topeka people is planning to
visit the state penitenttary soon-
The theatrical season in Topeka will
! open the latter part of this month
The TAYLOR brothers of Lyons will be
/ here for the tennis tournament next week.
Mr.. A. A. Robinson, president of the
I Mexican Central railway is in the city.
Roland Aedlicott is still very i'll with
! typhoid fever at the Stormont hospital.
Miss Josephine Shields has resigned her
I position as matron of StOrmont hospital.
Marshalfs band will give a concert at
J Garfield park tonight instead of Friday
night.
The primary union will meet Friday af-
ternoon at AIS O'Clock in the Y. W. c. A.
other FemoFs display dE Pea at Gared 0r park
next week.
Topeka is a great place for doctors and
| lawyers. There are 122 doctors in the city
| and 1856 attorneys.
| The grand lodge of the. A: o. L. W,
! will probably meet here the last Tuesday
/ in February, 1900.
[ The state tennis tournament will be held
next week, beginning on Thursday, a
week from today.
The Modern woodmen band gave a con-
cert at the corner of Sixth and Topeka
avenues last night.
The hambeau club will take part in the
country circus when it is held The club
This is busy time for Topeka physi-
clans There is an unusual amount OF
sickness in the city.
above Swift & Holidays drug store for
his chemical laboratory.
Street beggars are not SO numerous now
as they generally are. The hot weather
must keep them in the shade.
Work on the vestibules and tower of
commenced within few days.
Oscar Swayze. wants a poll tax estab-
lished to be collected from those who fail
to register and vote at elections.
The members of the Amity club and the
Democratic hambeau club will play their
annual ball game Sunday afternoon.
Rocky Ford melons are not yet on the
market. The melons now being sold are
Texas grown from Rocky Ford seed.
A large number of Topeka people are
take IN the corn carnival this year.
There is a suspicion in the minds of the
people in this meek o woods that Aug
ust is making quite a record as to heat
People who want to play golf viii hold
a meeting in the parlors of the National
| this evening for the purpose of organizing
/ a club.
Dr. c. A. Mcclure has been confined to
his home for the past ten days by illness.
H will be able to resume practice in
The mails are now well filled with cata-
logues calling attention to the various ad-
vantages offered by colleges throughout
the country.
There vas on an tayeTEagss, Of 50 members p,ssTs
rarD al fha VVa1xar11Sa y1rbicn closel q
few days ago.
The ice cream social of the Catholic
Quincy streets Wednesday night was
successful affair
There are IL children in the family of
man who recently applied for a divorce
| in the district court. Most Of them are
The man who takes his vacation this
month should be happy because the heat
now is worse than it has been at any
time this summer.
The next mEefe4ting Of the c9mmerGial
of next week 1t will be the regular
August meeting.
A full blooded bucking broncho belong
day from Horton and viii be used BY him
in the society circus
It is announced that the Cottage Pray
proportions, will hold tent revival services
at S22 Jefferson street
A Topeka man has a great head. It is
also bald and it is told that he has had
scare the pesky flies off.
Mr.. J. H McCleary, an employe Of the
United states pension onice, who was
time ago. is recovering.
The painters are almost through with
eral OFFICES and only a few finishing
touches are needed to complete the job.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon is now at
Mortified, Mass, where D. l. Moodys
summer Bible school is in progress. Mr..
Sheldon will deliver a number of addresses
there.
The farmers living along the rural de-
livery routes are repairing the roads over
say that there is still room for great
Improvement
Assistant Superintendent Avery Turner
of the Santa F'e has received from the
| Santa Fe agent at Strong. City three corn
stalks IA feet in length. They We're grown
near Strong City.
Dinner Bros of Topeka are making quite
extensive improvements in their eating
house at Belleville which will -yhen fin
| ished be double the present capacity and
modern in every way.
People who run bills have been kept
busy with bill collectors during the past
three days. Some men make it point to
n IF m
the first of the month.
Dolman have been appointed by the coun-
ty commissioners to make the next guar
ances of the county treasury.
Rev. Francis Henry, OF st. Joseph's Ger
man Catholic church in this city, who was
! time ago, because of poor health viii re-
sumo the pastorate in the fall
1t is difficult to make people understand
that they must De reg1s6ered to vote Tor
election in cities of the frst-cIass.
City Clerk Squires is in receipt of the
street:-Dog in the chicken house Don't
know how he got in THAR Come and get
Topeka theater patrons will be disap-
pointed to know that practically none of
the Dig fo ms opera 98PPa4 4i are book
| factory.
Cavalry recruits will here after be re-
ceived at the recruiting station in Topeka,
orders to that erect having just been re-
ceived. Recruits for this branch of the
service will be sent to San Francisco to
/ be drilled there.
There is a larger percent of Judges in
Topeka than in any other town in the
state. 1t makes no difference whether a
man has been on the supreme bench, or
has only decided horse race, he is called
Judge" just the same.
It IS likely that arrangements will be
made for weeks engagement of the
Merrie Bell Opera company AZ Garfield
park this month The company is one
Of the smaller light opera companies and