The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-06-08
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS


Merchants are getting their Fourth
of July stock ready for display.
April showers are coming in June.
The June bugs may come in July.
Druggists are getting their fly paper
ready for the seasons slaughter.
Flies are beginning to arrive, much
to the disgust of the housekeepers-
There will be balloon ascension at
Garfield park on the Fourth of July
Nine men have been recruited by
Lieut.. Parker for service in the Philip
pines.
Garfield park is a great place for pic
MICS since the schools closed-when it
doesn't rain.
The A. o. U. W. members of Topeka
will meet with and be entertained by
lodge No tonight.
The Topeka men who accompanied
the body of L. G. Hastings to Fairfield,
Iowa, have returned
Topeka people who have been attend
ing commencement at the State uni
versity returned home today.
An observing Individual claims that
half the men in Topeka break the anti
splitting ordinance every day.
1t is claimed that the organization OF
labor unions has advanced the price of
labor 80 per cent in Atchison.
People are already planning summer
trips, and the summer resort move
ment may be looked for soon.
The annual recital of the undergrad
yates of Washburn college was held
last night in the college chapel
The Epworth league members Of the
Topeka district held a meeting in the
First Methodist church Wednesday.
John Umpleby left today for the
City of Mexico to take a position as
engineer on the Mexican Central road.
Merchants say that the butter season
began two weeks late this year, because
the cows did not get grass as early as
usual.
r H johnson, of the New York
Mercantile company has returned from
a business trip to Kansas City and St.
Joseph.
The Washburn baseball team left to-
day for a series of three games with
lola Al Mauck went along to pitch
one game.
Weeds are getting a good start in the
corn fields this wet weather, while it
is too muddy for the farmers to get into
the fields.
The Woodmen are waiting to hear
whether the Shawnee or Sunflower
team comes out winner in the contest at
Kansas City.
Judge Foote, the Populist statesman,
has gone into partnership with the octo-
pus. He has gone into the bond broker
age business.
Very few towns in Kansas, or in the
west, have made as great per cent
gain in their population in the past
year as Topeka.
Secretary Coburn hears so many con-
n1cting crop reports that he never be-
lieves any report any more until he has
zorro bOrated it.
The charter board has granted a
charter to mining company which
gives as its name, THE Holy Moses
Mining company"
Even the people who believe that the
prOhibitOry law is a success in Topeka,
will have to admit just at present that
the town is wet"
ed a man named Sam Blain at ROch-
ester. He is wanted in Jackson county
for horse stealing.
Topeka creamery men say that they
are doing big business just now. This
is the time of year when they turn out
the most of their product.
The exhibition drill given by Shawnee
camp, Modern WOOdmen, Wednesday
afternoon called forth considerable
praise from the spectators.
The successful farce of last season
Browns in Town is among the at
fractions already booked for the Craw-
ford theater next season.
The high water which is going down
the Kaw at present comes from the
Smoky. which is trying to get over its
banks up in central Kansas.
Secretary of State Clark has been
given a new fishing pole by Lit Crum as
has told since his last fishing trip.
A Topeka woman says she never
wants ice cream until an ice cream
wagon has just gone too far past to
hail, and then she wants it badly.
Billy DeFord. who is well known in
Topeka, and who was adjutant of the
Twentieth Kansas when it left Topeka,
has left Ottawa and settled in st.
Joseph, Mo.
Topeka people who come down town
on Eighth avenue west before O'Clock
since the county institute began, have
to run the gauntlet of a whole brig
ade of school ma ANS.
Senator Titus, who had the reputa-
ton of being one of the best looking
men on the floor of the senate last win
in the supreme court
Topeka lovers of music are still dis
cussing the Godfrey band concert.
Many of them don't believe it was any
ahead of the product turned out by
MarshalTs band.
The trustees of the First Congrega-
tional church will meet tonight to vote
on the question of calling DR.. Fisk of
st. Louis to the pastOrate of the
church.
Charles H. Morton and Clarence Huff
of Topeka, have been granted COM
missions as notaries public Mr.. Nor
ton is a stenographer in the supreme
court.
Speaking of luxury. the state house
offices have been furnished with cleo
tric fans. They are unnecessary, as the
state house baseball fans furnish all
the wind necessary.
People who have to pass along Hun
toOn street after dark are asking that
the lights along that street be left burn
ing all night while the street is torn up
for paving purposes
w. W. Denison has sent a requisition
to the department Quartermaster gen
eral for Il headstOnes for ex-union SOL
diers who were buried in the Topeka
cemetery during the past year.
A Topeka little girl expresses doubt
about the water just dripping through
the clouds when it rains hard. She ad-
vances the theory that the clouds tip
over and the water spills out.