The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-13
SNAP SHOTS HOME NEWS


noon for New York city.
w. c. Edwards and Lit Crum are To-
| peka politicians who are in Kansas
City.
Eugene Hagan has gone to Wellington
on business.
The wind and rain last night pre-
vented frost.
Decoration Day comes two weeks
from next Tuesday.
George B. Harrison has returned from
trip to Pittsburg. Kan.
The w. c. T. U. meets Monday in
the parlor of the First NJ. E. church
New potatoes are now shipped in,
washed and boxed in crates like choice
fruit.
B. F. Golden's bay team ran away
Friday afternoon, smashing up his
buggy.
The heavy rains further west during
the past week are causing the Kaw to
Cyrus Leland has returned from Chi
cago where he marketed two cars of
horses.
John Sargent has gone to Yates Cen
ter to bid on the new court house build
ing at that place.
The police have let the contract for
blue summer uniforms to the Hub
Clothing company.
Hunters are going after plover now.
Plover come soon after the water fowl
Uncle Sam is going to indulge in some
brand new awnings for the Topeka
federal building this year.
I. E. Lambert, United States district
attorney, has returned from attending
federal court at Fort Scott.
Governor Stanley will address the
meeting of the Methodist church Ep
worth League tomorrow night.
The street cleaners have no regard
for merchants who throw banana peel
ings and stems into the cutters.
A culvert has been made on Van
put in at Sixth it would be an improve
ment.
''Uncle Jimmy Phillips, the old col
ored man who supplies the state house
offices with spring water, is dangerous
ly i'll.
Nelson Mcconnell has been added to
the forces of men working under the
superintendent of the state house
grounds
The Washburn boys seem to be play
ing ball this year in way that re-
ceives the commentator of every
''roOter."
The Ministerial union will meet Mon
day. Rev. l.. r. Smith will read a
paper on Federation of Topeka
Churches"
Woodmen, has been invited to exemplify
the work before the grand lodge at
Kansas City.
New cement walks are to be laid in
old board ones. Work was begun on
them Friday.
Miss Nellie Van S1ylze of Newton has
been elected by the state board Of
charities as an attendant at the Osa-
watomie asylum
why, when she cleans house, she can't
get back into a closet all the things
that she took out of it.
The street railway track was charac-
and high center rails. Now it has high
er centers and lower joints.
Look at that young lady loaded down
with hardware said a Topeka man as
a young woman with a collection of
chatelaines dangling at her belt passed.
Bids for repairing the plumbing of
the federal building were opened Fri
day afternoon and the contract was Sc
cured by the Mood Plumbing company.
AS a result of Judge Hazen's recent
slot machine decision, the city authori-
ties of Mcpherson have shut down on
the machines there and 10 dealers have
put them away.
Strawberries are so cheap now that
people can afford to take two at one
bite. Two weeks ago a man felt COM
PEELED to cut every berry In two, and
make two bites out of it.
A number of Topeka people are pre-
pairing to drive into the country Sun
day if it is pleasant. The poison ivy
in the timber is about ready to well
come picnic parties.
The county clerks and treasurer's Of
fees will hereafter do their arithmetic
by machinery. The county commits
sioners have purchased comptographs
for these two offices.
This is the time of year when your
wife puts away the family's winter
clothing, and you have to go out and
sit on the back porch to get away from
the odor of moth balls.
Moth balls have appeared in the win
dows of the drug stores, which is a sign
that it is time to put away your winter
clothing. Moth balls follow sassafras
bark in drug store windows.
A Topeka man who has just bought
himself a new lawn mower, is afraid to
get it out and use it in the day time
for fear his neighbors will see it and
want to borrow it the first thing.
This is the time of year when the
man who is trying to keep his lawn in
good condition himself, spends all his
spare time in sharpening somebody
else's lawn mower SO that he can use
it.
The Rock Island will run an excursion
from Horton to Topeka next Wednes-
day for the Ringing Bros. exhibition
The train will arrive in Topeka at $40
a. m. and returning will leave at 11:40
at night.
ms IS the KlnO Oh d morning, re-
marked a man on street car bound for
town, when a man feels that a fire
would be comfortable but makes up his
mind he would as soon stand the cold
as build it,
Visitors from outside of Topeka say
that many people are coming to Topeka
from other towns to the circus next
Wednesday. They will come from En-
poria on the south and Horton on the
north, and all the towns between.
During the recent trip of the Santa
Fe officials to Chicago Mr.. J. J. Kinney,
chief of the secret service, accidentally
fell in one of the small lakes and had to
prove that he is an old time associate