The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-08-19
SNAP SHOTS ATHOME NEWS


Harry Williams expects to go to
Nanitou tonight.
Grapes are the principal fruit in the
maket at present.
Mr. R. K. Smith of Leavenworth is
visiting in the city.
Austin Neal, city editor of the Wich-
tia Eagle, is in Topeka.
The season nearly over and not a first
class baseball game yet.
Hunters are anXiously waiting for
the quail season to open.
There are two restaurants waiting
for some one to open them.
Bank Commissioner Breidentha1 went
down to Emporia Thursday.
City Physician Peers predicts an cpl
demic of chickenpox for Topeka.
Tom King of Topeka and Tom King
of Holton get mixed occasionally.
Clarence Dennis left Friday for
lake trip from Chicago to Buffalo
Mr. and Mrs J. Z. Hartley are the
parents of a son, born August II.
1t is predicted that bowling will be
more popular than ever this winter
One Topeka joint used to serve
chicken salad. 1t does not any more
It is reported that some of the holes
in the paVementS will soon be repaired.
Charles Schreck, the missing Wash
burn student. has not been heard from
A policeman now makes the rounds
every night in Auburndale and Potwin-
Another drug store is being opened on
Kansas avenue north of Fourth street.
Fishermen say that fish caught at
this season of the year are not good TO
cook.
Two bicycles have been stolen from
in front of the Y. NJ. @. A. building this
week.
Mr. Fred Houghten of Emporia, is
spending the week with friends in To-
peka.
The Topeka bicycle riders are train
ing hard for the races, September
and 2.
Mai T. w. Scudder raises some very
fine Egyptian lotus on his place west
of town.
DR.. P. RASTER, chief surgeon of the
Santa Fe, is confined to his home by
illness.
improvements and repairs are being
made to some of the stables at the fair
grounds.
General Passenger Agent Black of
the Santa Fe will return from Chicago
next week.
Mr. Tom Whitmer will leave Sunday
for Chicago, Milwaukee and other east
ern points.
John Sargent leaves the first of the
week for a ten days business trip to
Las Vegas.
George B. Palmer is moving his I'M
dertaking rooms to the first floor of the
Masonic building.
The Western Star Wheelmen, a col
ored organization, will make run to
Lawrence Sunday.
Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon probably re-
ceives more mail than any other in
dividual in Topeka.
State Superintendent Frank Nelson
went to EmpOria Friday to decide
school district case.
Mr.. c. S. Sutton, auditor of freight
receipts of the Santa Fe, is spending
vacation in Wisconsin.
James B. Hayden has gone to New
York to meet his family, who are re-
turning from Europe.
T. T. Kelly, assistant state treasurer,
has gone to Miami county to attend the
county convention today.
The county commissioners met for a
short time Thursday and then adjourn
ed till Tuesday morning.
The Topeka labor organizations are
making preparations to celebrate Labor
day, Monday, September 4.
Governor Stanley has returned to the
city. He delivered speeches at Norton
and Blue Rapids this week
Judge w. A. Johnston of the supreme
court has returned from a visit to his
old home Minneapolis, Kan.
John and Dennis Madden, the Empor-
ia attorneys, were in Topeka Thursday
working on the Yeoman case
Mr. J. w. Beade has returned from
wyoming where he has been for some
time with party of biologists.
Weather Observer Jennings has re-
ceived reports from weather observing
stations in Cuba and Porto Rico.
The receipts for the Topeka postof-
fee for this year are estimated to ex-
coed those of last year by $4,000.
A number of young horses at the fair
grounds give promise of becoming
speedy in another season or two.
Brakeman Dingman, who has been i'll
at the Santa Fe hospital in this city
for some time, has returned to work.
Congressman Charles Curtis has been
on a trip over the First district this
week. He was in Horton Wednesday.
People who now drive across the
river are very careful about crossing
the railroad tracks on the side streets.
A letter mailed in Topeka Thursday
reached the number on Kansas avenue
to which it was plainly addressed to-
day.
Washburn expects to have a larger
attendance than ever this year. The
Freshman class will be unusually
large.
The excavations made for the paw
ing now authorized have furnished dirt
to fill up numerous low places in
streets.
George Burdett, who had his hand
mashed while coupling cars at Flor
ence, is in the Santa F'e hospital in
this city.
Bank Commissioner Breidenthal has
returned to the city from an official
business trip in the northern part of
A Topeka restaurant man says oyster
sandwiches viii have two oysters this
winter instead of three, as they had
last winter.
Misses Irene and Lizzie McNeal,
daughters of Engineer McNeal of the
Santa Fe, have returned after a visit
in EmpOria-
W. F. Firth, representing the Rock
Island at Denver, was in the city
Thursday on business. and returned
home last night.
General Superintendent w H. Still
well of the Rock Island left for Denver
last night on business. expecting to be
gone several days.