The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-09
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS

Two parades in one day are bound to
bring rain
City Attorney Bird went to lola today
on business
The vegetable peddIers are commencing
to make their rounds
This Is the thirtfeth annual couclaye of
Kansas Knights TempIar-
There were four beggars within sight Of
one corner on Kansas avenue
Ont of the Is graduates OF the Topeka
high school this year p were born in kan
There are IS students in the high school
graduating class this year. Most of them
are girls
The city council will meet tonight to
consider the opening of Garfield street and
other things
The commission men eornered, the rad
fsh market today and they sold FOR hVe
cents bunch
There is no more grass in Garfield park
this year than there was last season and
perhaps less
E NJ sheldon. of Topeka. has pur-
chased promising colt of O. NJ White,
OF En- pOria- for 800
The Knights Templar parade last year
5000 nsi bv C6 5YI anu
The friends OF General Funston claim
that he should come in for share OF the
5000 600 that has been given Cuba
Conductor James Donahue. OF the Santa
Fe. who had his right arm ampuLated
on account Of an injury received at Holt
day. is reported TO be improving
W. Y. Morgan. state printer-elect, has
secured a lease on the Thacher building
where it is for al least two years longer.
One year ago tomorrow Kansas eele-
pie came to join the people of Topeka in
celebrating the greir victory in Manila
bay
The Jail office and the rooms used as
the sherifs residence in the county jail
f 4Sgd prson n1y e es savS 6een wh fRa
washed
The iron fence which has been placed
M hue il 4I has been Straigttened out ana
painted until IL looks ike new
Strawberries became cheap in a hurry
this year Il generally takes them several
EMS but That is the common price now,
and sometimes they are cheaper
Twentieth Kansas boys * the holding up
of two fingers in " shape. and yet the
the boys here in kansas-'Let's 90 swim
ming.
There will be no federal court business
Judge Hook is in Fort Scott this week I'm
ishing up the session OF court there. ana
the first Two days of next week ne goes
Bishop vincent in his baccAlaureate ser
mon bewailed the fact that none Of ne
high school graduating class had express
ed the determination 70 be farmers. This
is not surprising when it IS noted that
nearly all OF the class are girls
The Industrial federation will come out
FAMILIES of Topeka 70 raise their oRn gar
dens- It's receipts have been 81 and lis
expenditures S53- The balance VIII be s1-
pended in garden seeds.
Arthur Sflvernail. who has bean en-
pIoyed for the past two years by Louis
VanDorD in the hardware business in To-
peka. has taken a position as travelling
salesman for the TOwnley Hardware COM
pany. with headquarters at Terre Haute.
Indiana
why is it, asks Topeka man. that
all the letters from Manila speak Of all
distances in yards2 Instead of saying 200
yards why don't the boys say half a mile
and then would know more about the
distance7 Most people don't know how to
reckon distances by yards
I i
/ Theological school. VIII come to Tobeka
this week to take charge OF the work Of
the Central Congregational church in
| TennesSeetown- Mr.. Herbert expects to